Working Men’s Club Working Men’s Club Heavenly Recordings The eponymous debut album from Working Men’s Club is addictive upon arrival, love at first sight. Emerging from England’s Yorkshire countryside near Manchester, the band is lead by the [...]
40 YEARS OF BAUHAUS AND COUNTING A CONVERSATION WITH PETER MURPHY “It’s like a beautiful, fast, black jaguar…not the car, the animal.” The veracity of Peter Murphy’s report on the 40 Years of Bauhaus Ruby Celebration Tour—we spoke one week after [...]
Equador Tribal War Pegdoll Records London-based Equador is producer Henry Binns of Zero 7 and vocalist Bo Bruce of The Voice UK fame. Equador’s new EP Tribal War follows up their 2016 debut Bones of Man with warm, downtempo electronica that’s [...]
Anchorsong Cohesion Tru Thoughts Recordings Operating in the role of a producer, Anchorsong builds tracks as a DJ would live. He starts with a rhythm track, augments it with percussive elements, and introduces melodic counterparts, layer by [...]
Big Bliss At Middle Distance Exit Stencil Recordings If there ever were to be a second post-punk revival, Big Bliss would be its standard-bearer. Anyone looking for a primer on post-punk have it all here on the Brooklyn band’s debut At Middle [...]
Primal Scream Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings Sony Music Recasting their 1994 album Give Out But Don’t Give Up as a rock traditionalist’s record, Primal Scream has unearthed The Original Memphis Recordings. These are [...]
Ex-poets Too Much Future Text Me Records Adeptly fusing rock, soul, jazz, and R&B on Too Much Future, the debut album from Ex-poets sounds like nothing else. The studied eclecticism of the duo, who met as music students at The New School in [...]
Sluff On Debris Siluh Records Drowsily miming in a deserted natatorium for the video to “Deep Blue,” Sluff may want you to think they’re not trying very hard, but there’s nothing lackadaisical about debut album On Debris. Production-wise, the [...]
