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Anish Kumar is staying true to an ‘authentic, organic and raw house’ ethos on this latest cut Steamroller.
The track is out ahead of appearances at Lincoln’s Lost Village and the Four Tet All-Dayer at Finsbury Park, both in August, after playing the BBC Music Introducing Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Coventry last month.
Kumar is releasing the ‘Postcards’ debut on July 29th.
After Say You Love Me, Wynona are streaming their second song of 2022; My Mind Is Melting (Cool Like You) starting life as a, ‘little Casio keyboard riff idea using auto chords’.
“I shared a story on Instagram of me messing around with the chords and singing a melody over the top and our producer, Lachlan West messaged us immediately saying ‘PLEASE demo this’ – inspired by the energy building around this short idea, we formed an entire song the following day,” vocalist Natalie explains.
“Lyrically we didn’t overthink it, but we found ourselves writing with a little more disdain and sarcasm than anything else we had written or released before.”
Cool Sounds have picked Hello, Alright, You Got That? as the first taste of their Like That album, which is due out on October 7th.
“My dad was a fan of that brief period in the early 80s where British punks embraced disco,” Dainis Lacey says. “His uni soccer team sang Ian Dury’s Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll after a win.”
“I searched for a parallel in my own timeline and arrived at 2010-ish indie dance, which holds an equal amount of nostalgia but still stings with the aftertaste of being able to remember too many details from ‘indie club nights’. I think Hello, Alright borrows from both of these memories.”
With the ink just dried on a new deal at Dais Records, High Vis have set their next album Blending for release on September 9th.
A video for Fever Dream has arrived with the announcement, guitarist Martin Macnamara explaining that the track – written in the height of summer – is about, ‘a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year’:
“When it’s easy to feel more alive, but the longer, empty days can do bad things to overactive minds. Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasises the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound.”
Moor Mother has shared ‘RAP JASM’ from her upcoming Jazz Codes album which is due for release on July 1st.
The guest-laden affair sees Camae Ayewa use free-form jazz as the base for a collection of songs which cover hip-hop, soul, blues and more, this the second record for ANTI- after work started back in 2016 with the debut release Fetish Bones.
Meanwhile, appearances at European festivals including End Of The Road this summer will also find time for an album release show at Los Angeles’s Resident venue on July 8th.
Moreish Idols are the latest to roll off the Speedy Wunderground conveyor belt, with their debut EP Float recorded in the presence of the label’s producer Dan Carey.
“The most exciting thing for us as a band is capturing our performances live, which something Speedy is renowned for,” Jude Lilley says. “Everything you hear in the EP is us in the room working together as unit – apart from Dyl who recorded his take across the whole EP in one!”
“There’s something really cool about listening back to the takes and realising ‘this is what the room sounded like 5 minutes ago…and that’s us making the noise’.”
