Steven Wilson announced the release of his new album Requiem for a Village with a video for the title track, played in the studio with Randy McStine (guitars, backing vocals) and Russell Holzman (drums, percussion), a prog rocker that brings back the sound of his Grace For Drowing and Hand.Cannot.Erase albums.
Craig Benedict Valentine Badynee sticks to what he does best on his new single I've Been In Trouble Before, another melanchiolic, slow paced art rocker that comes close to a crooner ballad. He blames himsef for making the same mistakes all over again - mostly lying - causing another relationship to fall apart. His daughter Viv lend a hand, providing an extra layer of jazzy "La-La-Las" backing vocals.
Country noir musician Jim White will be on tour in the UK in May next year. Top shelf storytelling songs, plus a healthy dose of humouristic banter.
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Swiss instrumental post-rockers hubris. used immortality as personified by Tolkien's elves as the starting point for their new album White Shores. Living forever is no picknick, according to these mythical creatures who refer to death as "the gift of men". That outlook on life (no pun intended) offered some solace for the band's songwriter Jonathan Hohl, who was quite shaken by his grandfather’s passing. The album goes through six seamless movements>.They are lined up as a continuation: Death. Is. Just. Another. Path (the latter in two parts).
Going through the various stages of grief, Hohl leads the band through the fond memories and the stories his grandfather told him, keeping him alive within his mind's eye, using tinkling ambient textures, shards of metal and gentle electronic elements. The music does all the talking, because sometimes words fail, but carefully constructed sounds will take over to get the message across.
Atlanta mutant disco quartet Go Public wrote a track about the grippling anxiety of a gambler. Craps Tempo is pushed forward by simple but highly effective drum beat, before the guitar, bass and sax join in for a punk-flavoured floor filler. Sean Rawls, Adrian Finch, Sam Gunn and Jay Domingo have been part of the underground scene for decades, before getting together to play a spicy mix of leftfield indie.
