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BLACK COUNTRY, ON THE ROAD Is there any better, more hopeful feeling than seeing a brand, sparkling new tour announced these days? Almost certainly no especially when said tour is helmed by one of 2020’s most exciting new prospects. Jazz-loving Londoners Black Country, New Road will be hitting the, er, road starting next January for a massive, two-month UK and European jaunt. Beginning in Belgium, it’ll see them arrive back on home shores mid-Feb, winding up at London’s Electric Ballroom on 3rd March.
TASMANIAN ANGELS Tasmanian punks A. Swayze and the Ghosts have revealed plans for debut album ‘Paid Salvation’. Set to land 18th September via Ivy League Records, it’ll see them follow up urgent, exciting early singles ‘Suddenly’ and ‘Connect to Consume’ with a full-length that aims to hit even harder. “It really shits me off when bands have this pedestal and they have the ability to influence so much around them and they waste it by singing about stupid shit. If you’re given this audience, I think you have to have something to say. And I definitely intend on abusing that right,” says Andrew Swayze of the release. Be prepared.
FULL SPEED AHEAD Speedy Wunderground have been responsible for early releases from some of the last few years’ best new artists (Squid, black midi and Sinead O’Brien to name but a few), so it’s with no small degree of delight that news of their first album release has finally arrived. That honour goes to London’s pinkloving, psych-tinged eccentrics Tiña, who’ll be releasing ‘Positive Mental Health Music’ on 6th November following their suitably excellent, Brian Jonestown Massacreesque single ‘I Feel Fine’ on the label last year.
PLAY LIST Every week on Spotify, we update DIY’s Neu Discoveries playlist with the buzziest, freshest faces. Here’s our pick of the best new tracks:
DRUG STORE ROMEOS ‘Quotations for Locations’ Pairing vocalist Sarah Downie’s light, airy vocal over nimble, plinking synth rhythms, ‘Quotations for Locations’ sounds like it should have a colourful bouncing ball dancing across its lyric video. Which is to say it’s a bright, airy thing with one foot in the sounds of the ‘80s. POZI ‘The Nightmare’ A disorientating post-punkinfused newie that aims to evoke the same feeling as its title might suggest, London trio Pozi’s latest employs a call and response delivery to create the perfect, slightly chaotic, ode to the daily stresses of These Weird and Unprecedented Times. SPRINTS ‘The Cheek’ A wry eyeball-roll to the prowlers and predators that roam any given All Bar One on a Wednesday night, ‘The Cheek’ takes four minutes of scuzzy, Amyl and the Sniffers-style riffs, pummelling basslines and singer Karla Chubb’s throaty, sarcastic vocal and turns it into a mic-drop anthem to live by. OSCAR WELSH ‘Sixteen’ Suffolk-based Oscar Welsh makes sun-bleached pop bops reminiscent of the likes of Tom Misch, Yellow Days or Alfie Templeman. Check out latest track ‘Sixteen’ for proof: an effortlessly chill, groove-filled slice of bedroompop, blending elements of soul and soaring synths.
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