Craig Benedict Valentine Badynee: I've Been In Trouble Before

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.

Jim White: UK tour dates

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.

Live dates:

• 05/04 Komedia, Brighton
• 05/05 St Pancras Old Church, London
• 05/06 St Pancras Old Church, London
• 05/07 Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle
• 05/08 Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
• 05/09 The Greystones, Sheffield
• 05/10 The Hen & Chicken, Bristol
• 05/11 Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
• 05/12 The Strines Nightingale, Strines
• 05/13 Future Yard, Birkenhead

» jimwhitemusic.net

hubris.: White Shores

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.

Go Public: Craps Tempo

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.

Lemongrab: Another Kind Of Freedom

photo: Ingrid Sofia Hedenström

Garage post-punkers Lemongrab have a not so secret weapon on their new Another Kind Of Freedom u EP: the shared vocals of Gaëlle Cordeau and Léonie Dishaw. They can do really fucking fast (Pay To Play) and detached without a care in the world as well (Necessary Condition). It makes the four tracks on their new EP unpredictable in a good way.

It is fuzzy, decidedly lo-fi music, wherein separation and careful balancing of the instruments is laughed at. Lead single Yoko serves as a well-deserved reappraisal for an artist who has been dragged through the mud for decades. The unrelenting Jaki Liebezeit-inspired backbeat of the final track No Receipt brings a bit of Krautrock to a band who obviously were inspired by X-ray Spex and the Au Pairs.