Blending elements of dream pop and synth pop, California’s I Us & We create a fairly spacious, yet melancholy sound on their debut EP ‘Mono’. Like Australia’s MNTNS, their core sound is heavy on electronic drones and synths, but thankfully like the more melodic elements of Moby or the very best parts of Depeche Mode’s expansive catalogue, somehow manages to eschew most of the coldness that such humanly detached sounds might conjure if left in the hands of the lesser talented.
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Adelphia March live dates & new video
Nottingham rockers Adelphia have four live dates upcoming in March 2015, as follows:
19th – The Lomax, Liverpool
20th – The Bodega, Nottingham
21st – Metric Bar, London
22nd – The Scene, Swansea
This week also sees the release of their new single ‘If I Fall’, the video of which has been seen on both Kerrang TV & Scuzz and can also be seen below.
New Model Army, Neville Staple & Police Dog Hogan confirmed for Chagstock ’15
The full Friday line-up for the 2015 Chagstock Festival is now in place. Acts set to appear include the legendary New Model Army, Specials man Neville Staple and cult folk/bluegrass act Police Dog Hogan.
The Chagstock Festival has previously been headlined by The Waterboys, The Boomtown Rats and The Selecter.
The full press release can be read below.
New video from Hawk Eyes
As part of the promotion for their 2015 album ‘Everything Is Fine’ (released 9th February), Hawk Eyes have issued a new video for ‘The Ballad of Michael McGlue’, embedded below.
A run of live dates throughout the rest of the month begins in Liverpool tomorrow night and you can also catch the band at the Takedown Fest in March.
JENNIE VEE – Die Alone EP
On this five track EP Toronto born, New York based singer-songwriter Jennie Vee is set to melt the hearts and heads of those whose musical tastes hark back to the early-mid nineties. Maybe not those who reminisce about plaid shirts and muddy fields and blonde unshaven men with a glassy stare, but those who hold fond memories of seeing the faces of Tanya Donelly and Miki Berenyi gazing blankly and unobtainably from the pages of NME. Vee’s recordings hark back to a time when Frank Black and Kim Deal liked each other (okay, so maybe there was never such a time); a time when you got excited about that next 12” single from Chapterhouse; when Ride were kings of their own UK kingdom and The Jesus and Mary Chain wanted you to venture under ‘April Skies’.