Gallops with Live4ever @ SXSW 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
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Gallops are further embracing technology as they emerge into a post-lockdown world with their new single Boolean Who?.
“As well as making things a lot easier for us practically, releasing our own stuff has been really liberating, and it’s come as big part of lockdown being a reflection on different ways of doing things,” Huckridge explains.
“So whereas I’d always been most comfortable with composing with guitars, I found that this sense of comfort – of muscle memory – had been working against me. Muscle memory is not an issue with technology, it doesn’t have influences or an ego.”
Snail Mail has shared a cover of Superdrag’s Feeling Like I Do along side an updated version of her own track Headlock, taken from last year’s Valentine album.
“I think that the Spotify version of Headlock is different from the original, in that the original was recorded almost two years ago, and the more I perform the song the more I think of ideas that I wish I had put into the original,” Lindsey Jordan aka says.
“This version gave me the opportunity to implement some of those ideas. It’s been really cool getting to cover Feeling Like I Do by Superdrag because I love it, and I’ve loved it for a while, and I was able to make it my own by singing on it.”
The Big Pink’s latest slice of new music has been co-written with the Jamies T and Hince.
“Love Spins On Its Axis is probably the most hopeful song I’ve ever written,” Robbie Furze believes. “My life got pretty confusing and I started feeling like I was in a bizarre surreal war that I was never going to make it out of.”
“It was from the depths of that darkness that I had this moment of perfect clarity and calm. I started questioning “what’s most important on this journey that I am on?” It’s Love. Pure and simple.”
Oscar Lang is back with his first new music since last summer’s debut album Chew The Scenery.
I’ve Never Been To L.A. is out now, described by the songwriter and producer as, ‘an anthem for all those people that have only ever seen sunny Los Angeles through the eyes of Hollywood’:
“An imaginary world where you get to hold your hands in the air while cruising down the freeway soaking up American hyper-consumerism. Being an L.A. native and me being a huge fan of hers I thought it was only right to ask Wallice to hop on the track and come at it from the American perspective.”
Pale Blue Eyes are streaming Star Vehicle from their maiden record Souvenirs.
“Embracing good times, losing yourself in a moment of bliss when the world around you is going to shit,” is what singer/guitarist Matt Board believes runs through the LP.
“Processing and understanding loss and grief and using music as a vehicle to move on. Fighting against the mundane and not giving up on dreams. The pure joy of a good night out or a moment of being moved by a band or a piece of artwork or a great film. Making the most of the time you have.”
The Good Water have returned with their latest psych-rock single Love.
“This track is about the incomprehensible feeling that we hope comes to us all at some point, and those four simple letters that try their very best to encapsulate it,” singer/guitarist Rob Clements explains. “In reality words will ever come close. Only when it hits you do you know. Love.”
The band formed in 2016 and have since supported artists such as Mercury Rev, Super Fury Animals and Bill Ryder-Jones.
Superorganism have premiered the video for Into The Sun, the latest from their forthcoming World Wide Pop album.
“The whole record is all about combining different worlds and scales, so it was a real thrill to be able to mix Gen into a track with Malkmus and Pi Ja Ma,” the band continue.
“It’s a carefree song, somewhat about being in your own bubble, so bringing those French, American, and Japanese artists into that world reconnects the SuperO universe with these other bubbles – a bit of a multiverse! It all came together super naturally, a cute little lovebug song moment.”
