Tracks Of The Week: Emmeline, Girls In Synthesis and more


Emmeline by Antonio Perrecone

Emmeline by Antonio Perrecone




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London-based artist Emmeline has released her debut single Stay With Me.

The single is out on Stormzy, Adele and Dave cohort Fraser T. Smith’s 70Hz Recordings label, who also produced the track.

“We wanted that to sound like the opening of a film, as though I was narrating you through the contents of my head,” she says. “It’s my introduction to the music and me and how I’m bridging the gap between speech and song.”

Warpaint’s latest video has been directed by Jim Hoskins.

“Hips has a scuttling intensity to it,” Hosking responds. “It sounds like someone desperately trying to find something. Or at least that’s what it seemed to me.”

“I listened to it repeatedly and kept seeing women desperately searching for each other in a seaside town. Ideas present themselves and it’s not about logic or reason, it’s about emotion.”

Self Esteem has posted a new single edit of Fucking Wizardry, taken from the 2022 album Prioritise Pleasure.

“It’s a song about trusting and believing in what you already know,” Rebecca Lucy Taylor says.

“If it feels like someone is taking the piss, they usually are. Not to be all ‘you deserve better’ about it but it’s very likely you do, indeed deserve better.”

Working Men’s Club have premiered the official video for Cut following the recent summer release of their second studio album.

The band can be seen live at London’s Social venue in the promo, on tour in support of an album which Live4ever awarded a solid 7/10:

“Cut owes a huge debt to Kraftwerk in its motorik beat and sprightly, elegant synths, with added rhythmic bass which may clock in at nearly 7 minutes but is hugely engrossing and time well spent,” our review reads.

Supergrass’ 1999 self-titled album arrived packed with more of the band’s instantly memorable pop singles, but one of them has been conspicuous by its absence until now.

Out Of The Blue had been earmarked as the lead single from their third studio album as Supergrass introduced it on the festival circuit in 1998, but come the September of the following year the track was nowhere to be seen.

With the LP now set for an expanded reissue on September 16th however, the long-lost single is a part of the bonus disc of studio out-takes, demos, B-sides, live tracks and 2022 remixes, and has had its new official video premiered.

The Beths have shared their latest Expert In A Dying Field track ahead of the album’s release on September 16th.

“I’m the kind of person who wants to go swimming, but takes like ten minutes to get all the way into the cold water, slowly and painfully,” Liz Stokes said of Knees Deep.

“I hate this about myself, and am kind of envious of people who can just jump straight in the deep end. In a shocking twist, this is also a metaphor?! For how I wish I was the kind of person who was brave and decisive instead of cautious and scared.”

Courting have unveiled the latest single from their upcoming Guitar Music LP.

“Jumper is an outlier on the album,” Murphy-O’Neill said. “It is a gentle story of true unrequited love, meant to playout like a 2006 romcom. It is about growing old and believing everything will fall into place, the mundanity of doing dishes, and leaving oppositional film reviews.”

Touring will be well underway by the time of their debut album’s release, with UK dates running through most of October.

Girls In Synthesis have confirmed their new album The Rest Is Distraction will be out via their own Own It/Cargo Records label on October 14th.

The lead track Watch With Mother reflects its parent album as a whole according to bassist/vocalist John – taking a, ‘darker look at family dynamics and the way in which we’re shaped by them’:

“The music is more expansive, too, and is the perfect match for the lyrics. We were trying to approach things differently this time round.”

Deadletter have returned with their new track Binge, ‘written in no more than 25 minutes during rehearsals for a tour in January’, according to singer Zac Lawrence.

“Using our usual formula of ‘drumbeat, bassline, lyrics, seasoning’ it was quickly realised that we had to include it in our coming live shows and record it without further ado,” he continues.

“Sometimes the energy of a track’s just there, you don’t have to think about it for a year.”

Barstaff have continued a measured march towards the release of their debut EP with the second of five tracks which are slated to appear on it.

Ahead of the EP’s planned release in early 2023, Know How is streaming online now with more live shows coming up before the year is out.

The Wigan band (excepting guitarist Byrom, who hails from Warrington) are making up for lost time having formed just prior to the pandemic.


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