SINGLE REVIEW: Safe in my Arms – Qfish ft. Robin Vane
Qfish and Robin Vane’s “Safe In My Arms” is a stunning EDM single that combines powerful vocals with evocative melodies to produce a track that is both danceable and touching. The song starts with a pulsating beat that quickly gives way to Vane’s emotive vocals. As the song progresses, the beat builds in intensity, complementing …
Empathy Test set to release debut album following rave reviews
If, like us, you loved electro pop band Empathy Test’s new single, Monsters, then you’ll love the news that they are preparing to release their new album this year. And if not, listen to the single here and you’ll soon be counting down the days until the album is released – https://soundcloud.com/empathytest/monsters-radio-edit/s-AEnqYzWm4Ye And if that’s …
You Wait Ages for One Cosmic Bus…
Modiwo are a Romanian band, though are more like a solo project with lots of musical helpers. Their figurehead, singer Oxana Gherghel, is eminently likeable, just like the band’s music – it’s traditional europop on one very basic level but clings to your brain far more than flotsam you might watch on Eurovision. Perhaps it’s …
Steampunk Records Roadshow Tour
Steampunk Record Label tour is now fully underway and there’s still chance to catch a huge array of cyber Victorian talent near you. Drawing on influences as varied as cabaret, classical, punk and, most especially, the exploding Steampunk scene, their live shows are a maelstrom of sonic and visual drama, with audiences as likely to …
1 of Us releases new EP CIRCLES
What to drink with this EP? I’m feeling a Red Bull with Hennesey and a spot of Rose’s lime Juice. Something fun and bubbly, and equally sophisticated. That is after all how I would sum up this new EP from Italian artist 1Of Us. The instrumentation is fun and bubbly, a backdrop of glossy electro …
Retro rockers Big Zero drop new EP ‘Mainstream Propaganda’
Rustle yourself up a Harvey Wallbanger or some other fancy cocktail that all those perm-loving partygoers used to drink – we’re going back to the eighties! Punky New Wave revivalists, Big Zero, are into retro in a big way. Not only is their new EP recorded entirely on an 8-track cassette, their music videos are all …
AMBIENT-EXPERIMENTAL-POP: GRAWL!X SHARES NEW TRACK ‘PANDO’ AND ANNOUNCES BRAND NEW ALBUM AYE!
Feat. Haiku Salut For this track I would suggest a nice fruity cider (preferably cold with a summer breeze and the heat of a BBQ) https://soundcloud.com/grawl-x/grawlx-pando The brainchild and alter-ego of James Machin, Derbyshire-based Grawl!x has announced the forthcoming release of his brand new album, Aye! (out May 28th) and shared mesmerising new single, ‘Pando’. ‘Pando‘ …
Belgian duo GoldFFinch release new three track EP, ‘Unworthy’
Having already released a 12” on Ambivalent’s new Valence imprint and featured on the latest Innervisions ‘Secret Weapons’ compilation this year, GoldFFinch now return to Tiga’s Turbo Recordings with their new EP, ‘Unworthy’. Three tracks of tight, lean Techno that ranges from the ominous title track, all pulsing tones and drones and swirling arpeggios, through to …
Vanbot due to release new album “Perfect Storm” 15th May
“Why are Swedish female pop stars always so brilliant?…” – The Guardian “Thrilling” – NYLON Magazine “Massive, pumped full of space-age electronica & soaring synthesizers…” – MTV Buzzworthy Stockholm melody master Vanbot has announced her return with upcoming albumPerfect Storm, the electro-pop purist’s follow-up album to her 2011 debut. Riding on the acclaim from the likes of Nylon, …