Mason Summit’s third album, 2016’s ‘Gunpowder Tracks’ was the dictionary definition of surprising. An album chock full of great songs and retro influences, the singer-songwriter showed off an ability to turn his hand to many styles with equal charm, ranging from pop, country, folk and jazz, resulting in one of the year’s most appealing recordings.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Tim Buckley ‘Complete Album Collection’ box set to be released in October
On 13th October 2017, Rhino will release ‘Tim Buckley: The Complete Album Collection’, an 8CD set spanning 1966-1972.
HECTOR AND THE LEAVES – (interiors)
At the very beginning of 2016, Hector and The Leaves released ‘Little Bee’, a self-financed EP of material drawing influence from The Beach Boys and The Beatles, redressed in singer-songwriter threads, mixing 60s pop with strains of folk from across many decades. While the EP didn’t necessarily gain country-wide recognition, it showed Tom Hector to be a songwriter more than able to take different influences and recycle them with style, while still allowing his own personality to inform the result. Eighteen months on – and after posting a selection of musical sketches and unfinished ideas online – ‘(interiors’), the first proper follow-up, takes more of a lo-fi singer-songwriter path, but the many things that made ‘Little Bee’ worthy of an ear are still very much in evidence.
New Arch Enemy video: The Eagle Flies Alone
Everyone’s favourite Swedish extreme metal band Arch Enemy are back with a new album on September 8th. ‘Will To Power’ is the band’s first new studio album in three years and the second to feature Alissa White-Gluz. Ahead of the album, you can take a trip to the beach with the band in their new video ‘The Eagle Flies Alone’, streaming in full below.
DEVIL ELECTRIC – Devil Electric
There have been some great stoner and doom bands surface over the first part of the twenty first century. Whether recycling straight up Sabbath-isms, or channelling Fu Manchu-esque dusty grooves that sound like they’ve been borne from a sweaty, clapped out van, this unashamedly retro sub genre of metal rarely disappoints. It’s so often predictable, but that doesn’t diminish from it’s overall power.
Every once in a while, a band appears on the scene that – although still treading a very familiar path – also seems to raise the bar. Such is the case with Devil Electric, a four piece stoner metal outfit from Melbourne whose riffs are so big, they could cause a tremor somewhere in the outback. Their 2016 EP, was hugely enjoyable, but their first full length exceeds expectations.