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Singles That Mingle 20220128

 

 

 

Happy new year everyone!

Hopefully 2022 will be an improvement on what has preceded it.

Captain Stavros is back with a roundup of the best new tunes to guide our tired brains through the rest of January.

 

 

Daniel Rossen - ‘Shadow in the Frame’

 

 

 

An energetic and masterful piece in a hurry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bodega – ‘Thrown’

 

 

 

A punchy and fiercely scrappy track.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VR Sex - ‘Victim or Vixen’

 

 

 

Hard to describe, their blurb says ‘deathrock acid punks’. It’s fucking cool whatever it is. It’s like an acid trip from the perspective of a whammy bar. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ibibio Sound Machine

 

 

 

Huge sound, seductively produced and surprisingly isn’t crushed under the weight of its own grandness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason Lytle- 'Drop that Hero'

 

 

 

Here at Muso’s Guide, we don’t condone the use of heroin, but if we did, this would be playing in the shooting gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tindersticks - ‘Both Sides of the Blade’

 

 

 

Planning a funeral? Want to clear a house party? Slide this bad-boy on. It’s beautiful but really sucks the air out of the room. Great tune for the backdrop of a lost baby duckling looking for its mother after a massive snow dump.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vero – ‘Beg!’

 

 

 

Guitar centred grungey power music, great for what it is and straight outta Stockholm. Like the syndrome!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barrie – ‘Quarry’

 

 

 

Dreamy shoegaze blurs the lines between genres but the video to Quarry will blur the lines between reality. This one cuts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hate Moss – ‘Fog’

 

 

 

Italo-Brazilian industrial / post-punk duo release an electrifying cut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Laura May Carter – ‘Blue’s Not My Colour’ 

Mini Album Out Now 

  

We once threw back a few shots of tequila with Laura May Carter at the Lexington and then proceeded to destroy Steven (BRS Bandmate) and his partner at a savage game of Foosball. Do not mess with her, do listen to her tunes. 

  

Drug Couple – ‘Our December’ 

Stoned Weekend – Out January 28th 

 

Honestly, the name got us, then we released it was December, kismet. We stuck around for the stripped back tones though. 

  

Boy Harsher – ‘Give Me a Reason’ 

January 21st Album Release 

 

If after all this time we haven’t given you enough reasons to listen to Boy Harsher, ‘Give Me a Reason’ you shouldn’t be? 

  

SPINN – ‘People Should Know Better’ 

 

Album out February 14th 

Flexin’ political chops without clubbing you over the head with them, resonates. 

  

Blood Red Shoes – ‘Morbid Fascination’ 

New Album January 14th 

 

BRS, like sharks, continue to move forward testing the bloody waters of new darker and harder sounds and thus ensure their survival. 

  

Hand Habits – ‘The Answer’ 

‘Fun House’ Out Now 

 

Elements of Elliott Smith hooked us. 

  

Vero - ‘Beg!’ 

Out Jan 14th 

 

Nostalgic and Grungy Hole vibe, hooked the second I heard the guitar intro 

  

  

Solis – ‘Sunday’ 

 

Hypnotic and easy to connect with. 

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Ist Ist - ‘The Art of Lying’

 

 

Playing at the Camden Assembly Dec 2nd, a Socialist's wet dream anthem meets a post truth world, stop me if you've heard this one before.

 



 

Sweeping Promises - ‘Pain Without a Touch’

 

 

This sounds so raw and gritty we thought it was a reissue a late 70s 100 Club session, a real live wire.

 

 

 

Love Object - ‘The Kill’

 

 

Got a translator handy? Have you enjoyed our coverage on Boy Harsher, Odonis Odonis, Doma and Oh Baby? Then 'Love Object' might be for you.

 

 

 

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Greta – ‘Nicht Allein’

 

 

This track is fucking dirty, that is all.

 

 

 

Sea Change – ‘Night Eyes’

 

 

This song absolutely drips.

 

 

 

Le Junk – ‘America’

 

 

One country’s trash is another’s Le Junk. A single? More like a slice of freedom pie! Pop on this proper poppy popper.

 

 

 

Why Bonnie – ‘Galveston’

 

 

Listen to this track for no other reason (but also because it’s great) than Blair singing howling at the moon carrying the note like a wolf cub.

 

 

 

Scott C. Park — ‘Slide’

 

 

Slack guitar a-la-Vile with British powered vocal tones, Pretty Pimpin’.

 

 

 

Blue Violet – ‘Asylum’

 

 

Sit back, kick back, listen and watch while your head and shoulders have a game of table tennis with each other.  

 

 

 

Jake Wakeman and the Dreamstriders – ‘Cosmic Fear’

 

 

A tongue in cheek giggle revolving around mundane anxiety, giver a whirl and shake off those mon-fri too much rice again fears

 

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Halloween Singles That Mingle

 

Halloween Kills OST - ‘Hallway madness’

Synonymous with all things supernatural, the godfather of fright John Carpenter returns for another instalment of Halloween. Breathing a fresh breath into a seasoned masterpiece ‘ Hallway Madness’ lumbers in, distorted, dreadful, and full of panic, with all the right spooky tones.

 

Boy Harsher - ‘Tower’

We never thought we’d utter the words, move over John Carpenter because boy, they’re harsh... but synth you’re already here, this new single from the electro duo’s upcoming film The Runner, is our new reigning Halloween anthem. Suspenseful as it is thrilling, it’ll give you a fright.

 

Dlina Volny - ‘Tomorrow’

If you managed to escape the creeps and ghouls and made it to the party with candy in tow, here’s one that’ll work as a dancefloor buster. Shake off tomorrow’s worries with the Belarussian trio’s dark and boastingly brutish disco-pop tunes.

 

The Sprints – ‘A Modern Job’

 

If you’ve slept clear through the weekend after binging on all those Halloween vices, candy and otherwise, and you need a song to match your franctic pace back to your modern job, this single by the Sprints ought to do the trick.

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This is being written on the last day of May, practically two months before it will be published, so who knows what may happen between now and then regards the Flying Vinyl singles I'm trying to offload? The Blinders' 'Rat In A Cage' went off to its new home this lunchtime and I'm fitting in the final five discs of this less than rewarding experiment at helping new acts, in before dinner.
 
Firstly, with one of the better bits of cover art the series has had in the past 18 months, are the duo Black Futures. Sigue Sigue Sputnik come to mind at the start of 'Tunnel Vision' but their pounding industrial sound has elements of NIN etc. as you'd expect at the mention of the i word. It bowls along at a good pace and, although a bit repetitive by the end, is definitely one of the better tunes I've heard whilst writing these pieces. The B side's just a remix of the A side and a boringly slow one at that. Facebook shows the duo to be currently very active.
 
Annabel Allum has a decent line in rocky singer-songwriter stuff on 'Be Mine'. Think Hazel O'Connor meets Joan Armatrading, or Courtney Barnett aping PJ Harvey for younger readers. 'Peachy Keen' (the second time in two months a song with that title has appeared) is a moodier piece of work but still has a pleasing weight and punch at times. A very accomplished double sider. Annabel's site shows she has a few gigs coming up.
 
Do Nothing look like young farmers at leisure in their booklet photo but apparently they inspire mosh-pits. 'Gangs' doesn't seem to be in any danger of doing that, sounding as it does like Gene or a similar second tier indie act from a couple of decades ago. 'Handshakes' displays some funky bass runs during it's couple of minutes and this is obviously where the LCD Soundsystem/Talking Heads mentions in the booklet are targeted. It's not bad but danceable rather than moshable, if a bit overlong. Facebook shows them to be doing gigs over the coming months.
 
Lacuna Common are also apparently in the mosh-pit business. A gruff-voiced Libertines is roughly what they sound like on 'Not The Same'. I expect they're fun live in a small venue. 'Under The Lamplight' pounds along in a similar jaunty manner to the A side. Resorting to Facebook again we see that the band round of a short tour at Truck Festival later this week.
 
Lastly, Chloe Bodur is who you're looking for if you're a Sade fan. 'Billie' features warped sounds but unfortunately it's also one of those discs which sound wonky to the extent that I have to check whether the turntable's suddenly decided to go slow. 'Glory' sounds perfectly normal, however, but it's in no way my sort of thing. Social media shows Chloe's still promoting 'Billie'.
 
And there you have it, 22 months of tunes written up over 22 weeks, with the overall conclusion that the £440 shelled out could have been better spent elsewhere. Ah well.
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