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There’s never a bad time to revisit The Sound but a recent feature piece in Uncut is the reasoning for my current listening session. Using the recent uptick in interest in the late Adrian Borland’s outfit – specifically the 2016 documentary Walking In The Opposite Direction, the 2023 biography Destiny Stopped Screaming: The Life and […]
Swedish dream-post-punks Makthaverskan are back with their first new record in four years, and if 2021’s For Alting seemed like they were taking their foot off the gas a little bit get a little more contemplative, new single “Pity Party” certainly implies they’ve had their little think and are ready to go full tilt again. […]
A little research revealed that The Cure’s “Lullaby”, off of 1989’s Disintegration, is considered by many to be the band’s spookiest – or most Hallowe’enie – track. Not what I would have expected, but considering I’ve already posted the other usual suspects – “Burn” and “A Forest” – we’ll go with this for today’s holiday […]
Of all the names I expect to show up in my news feed, Life Without Buildings is damn well near the bottom. To call the Glaswegian quartet a cult band is to give them too much profile; they had a lifespan of three years around the turn of the century, released one album – 2001’s […]
It wasn’t a surprise that London’s Dry Cleaning had a new record in the hopper – they’ve been respectably prolific since coming on the scene in 2021 and it’s been three years since their last full-length Stumpwork – and just wrapped a short North American tour ahead of more European dates this Fall. This is […]
Joy Division never made it to America, but in September 1980, just four months after Ian Curtis’ death, the remaining members crossed the Atlantic to play shows under their new guise of New Order, showcasing almost all-new material. The New York show went down September 26 at Hurrah’s, in the Upper West Side, and remarkably […]
Despite the fact that their DNA is purely post-punk, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have not yet graced these pages for a few reasons. One, there’s the fact that they’re already one of biggest ascendent young bands in the world right now, and hardly need more ink from a barely-read blog. Two, I’ve only become a proper […]
English trio Pale Blue Eyes having been honing their balance post-punk asceticism, indie jangle, New Wave synthesis, krautrock propulsiveness, and dreampop lushness over three records, most lately on New Place, released back in March. It’s a recipe that’s immediately familiar to those of a certain age or streaming service algorithm, but nudges on each genre […]
As mentioned in today’s mothership ‘gram, Gang Of Four wrapped up their “Long Goodbye” tour this past weekend in Amsterdam, closing the book for good on the legendary post-punk band in all it’s incarnations. At the end of things was original singer Jon King and drummer Hugo Burnham, along with all-star ringers Gail Greenwood and […]
You’ve no idea my excitement when I saw the announcement of a new Blood Orange single a few weeks ago. Not just because I’m a fan – while Dev Hynes doesn’t really fall under the remit of this site, I’ve been a fan since his Lightspeed Champion days – but because listed at the top […]
