expect delay
Quite an eventful week last week for fans of My Bloody Valentine, particularly those who sling guitars themselves. No, they didn’t finally release the new music they’ve been promising since… fuck, who even remembers. At least not in the conventional sense… So to begin with, Kevin Shields finally announced he and the legendary guitar manufacturer […]
For a non-single, Lush’s “Sunbathing” has had a few more versions than one might expect. Well, two. Which is two more than the zero I would have thought. An Emma Anderson composition, the song featured Miki Berenyi on lead vocals and originally appeared on Sweetness & Light, their second EP of 1990, and was compiled […]
Too busy to do up some “proper” content right now, so I’ll settle for a, “hey remember these guys?” from a blog-era band that’s vanished into the ether. Blouse came out of Portland, Oregon with an icy, skeletal sound that I certainly dug for their 2011 self-titled debut, at least. This song, in particular – […]
Because I’ve never passed up some low-hanging fruit, here’s the second part of the big Catherine Wheel news for 2023, which delighted and disappointed their fans in equal part earlier this year by being remasters and digital reissues of some of the band’s earliest material. Coming 22 years to the day from its original 12″ […]
It’s been a hot minute – or three years – since Sweeping Promises dropped their terrific debut Hunger For A Way Out, but they’ve been busy in that time, signing to SubPop internationally, relocating their home base from Boston to Lawrence, Kansas, and crafting their follow-up record which they’ve now announced to the world: Good […]
Reams have been written about New Order’s iconic “Blue Monday” – I did my best to collect a lot of them a couple years ago – but in honour of the song’s 40th anniversary, podcast Song Exploder has devoted an episode to the genesis of the song. There’s interviews with all the original members of […]
I didn’t realize it’d been so long since we’d heard from Sweden’s Echo Ladies – pandemics do things to one’s perception of time – but it has been five years since their 2018 debut Pink Noise and saying it out loud, well that’s far too long. So it’s great to hear them back with a […]
Beach House participated in the just-passed Spring 2023 edition of Record Store Day with Become, an EP of new material drawn from the sessions that begat last year’s Once Twice Melody. Of the five songs, the duo said: The Become EP is a collection of 5 songs from the Once Twice Melody sessions. We didn’t think they fit in […]
On one hand, Catherine Wheel fans have only themselves to blame for thinking the band were finally reuniting – frontman Rob Dickinson has given no signs he’s interested in giving up the world of custom luxury automobiles for the life of a touring rock band – but whoever they’ve got managing their social media accounts […]
It’s probably overstating things to call “Elegia” one of New Order’s signature tracks – it’s too much of a stylistic outlier for that – but it is one of their most notable and memorable. Opening up side two of 1985’s Low-Life, it’s an elegiac instrumental that bridges the far poppier halves of the album with […]
