CONCHÚR WHITE SWIRLING VIOLETS BELLA UNION There’s always some sort of giveaway with artists, as far as their experience and background. With Northern Irish singer songwriter Conchúr White, it is his lyrics on his latest and second album [...]
The Natural Lines The Natural Lines Bella Union Sooner or later, most of us decide to take stock of our lives and make decisions that allow us to move forward. Matt Pond (formerly of band Matt Pond PA) has done exactly that, and the result is [...]
Nell & The Flaming Lips Where The Viaduct Looms Bella Union This collaboration of Nick Cave covers between 16-y-orld singer Nell Smith and seasoned veterans The Flaming Lips has quite an interesting story. Smith met Wayne Coyne when she [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith The Perfect Vision: Reworkings Bella Union In 2019, Soundwalk Collective began working with Patti Smith, and over the next two years, the band and Smith would release three brilliant albums. Each of the [...]
Tim Burgess Typical Music Bella Union Imaginative music made as an antidote for typical days, Typical Music is the sixth solo album from Tim Burgess, frontman of English band The Charlatans. This one is a double set of 22 progressive indie pop [...]
TALLIES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM PATINA AND SHARE NEW SINGLE “HEARTS UNDERGROUND” | TOUR DATES BELLA UNION/KANINE RECORDS/HAND DRAWN DRACULA The Toronto-based band, Tallies have shared their new single, “Hearts [...]
FATHER JOHN MISTY TO RELEASE FIFTH ALBUM CHLOË AND THE NEXT 20th CENTURY ON APRIL 8 SUB POP/BELLA UNION Father John Misty returns with Chloë and the Next 20th Century, his fifth long-player and first new material since the release of God’s [...]
Piroshka Love Drips And Gathers Bella Union Bob Mould now-famously excused himself in 1993 from producing London shoegaze/dream pop band Lush’s album Split because he “kept picking the wrong girl’s songs.” The novel template of Shangri-Las/ABBA [...]
PIROSHKA (MEMBERS OF LUSH, MODERN ENGLISH, MOOSE & ELASTICA) SHARE NEW TRACK “SCRATCHING AT THE LID” ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM LOVE DRIPS AND GATHERS DUE JULY 23 ON BELLA UNION Bella Union are thrilled to announce the release [...]
TIM BURGESS SHARES NEW TRACK “THE ASCENT OF THE ASCENDED” NEW EP DUE OUT NOVEMBER 27 VIA BELLA UNION Having last month announced news of his new 6-track EP, Ascent Of The Ascended (out 11/27 via Bella Union), and shared the [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith Peradam Bella Union Peradam is the fourth release from Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith. In 2019, this collaboration explored the works of poets Antonin Artaud on The Peyote Dance, and Arthur Rimbaud [...]
TIM BURGESS ANNOUNCES NEW SOLO ALBUM I LOVE THE NEW SKY WITH A MAY 22 RELEASE VIA BELLA UNION SHARES VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE “EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL” + UK + US LIVE SHOWS ANNOUNCED Tim Burgess has announced his upcoming new solo [...]
Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes Bella Union I will be honest and say that I was totally unprepared for this singular fact – that on the day that Tool finally introduced us to their first album in 13 years, theirs would not be the most urgent, [...]
The Soft Cavalry The Soft Cavalry Bella Union It’s not very often that a debut album comes along that upon first listen, you know it is destined for greatness. Meet The Soft Cavalry. This is one album that has such an effect upon the first [...]
LOWLY SHARE VIDEO FOR “12:36” NEW ALBUM HIFALUTIN OUT NOW ON BELLA UNION Last month saw Danish quintet Lowly release their brilliant sophomore album Hifalutin through Bella Union, a wildly impressive and intricate collection of 14 [...]
DOOMSQUAD Let Yourself Be Seen Bella Union The sibling trio, DOOMSQUAD, brings spirituality and political change to the forefront on their new album Let Yourself Be Seen. Layered with influences of jazz, acid house, and NY disco, Let Yourself Be [...]
Lowly Hifalutin Bella Union Danish pop band Lowly initially garnered attention with their dreamy debut Heba, and in their sophomore album on Bella Union, Hifalutin. They further define their sound with all the ethereal textures, vocal overlays, [...]
Father John Misty God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop/Bella Union Father John Misty is releasing another studio album, God’s Favorite Customer under the labels of Sub Pop/Bella Union. Father John Misty’s new album is great too. His sound is [...]
FATHER JOHN MISTY TO RELEASE GOD’S FAVORITE CUSTOMER, HIS FOURTH ALBUM, ON JUNE 1ST, 2018 Hear New Tracks “Disappointing Diamonds Are The Rarest Of Them All” + “Just Dumb Enough To Try” GOD’S FAVORITE CUSTOMER WILL BE AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE FROM [...]
Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus Bella Union I can think of no better way to start this review than with a simple statement of fact: This album is exhausting. It may also be absolutely bloody brilliant. I have spent the past two days scouring my [...]
Holly Macve Golden Eagle Bella Union It’s hard to believe Holly Macve’s Golden Eagle is a debut album. Originally from Galway, Ireland, the 21-year-old singer songwriter exudes the confidence and control you’d expect from a veteran performer. [...]
Lowly Heba Bella Union Heba is the debut album for Danish quintet, Lowly. Their previously released singles and EP teased us to their complex and blissfully ethereal nature. Composed of lead vocalists Nanna Schannong and Soffie Viemose, [...]
FATHER JOHN MISTY TO RELEASE PURE COMEDY ON APRIL 7TH SHARES TITLE TRACK AND SHORT FILM TODAY Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy is the highly anticipated follow-up to his internationally acclaimed album, I Love You, Honeybear. The album will be [...]
Arc Iris w/ Qais And The Qosmonauts & Lone Kodiak @ The Satellite, Los Angeles December 1, 2016 Last night The Satellite hosted Arc Iris, a band whose new record Moon Saloon was released earlier this year on Bella Union (Europe) and ANTI- [...]
