A new project from Sam Goater (Ugly) and Halden Cook, Sons of Ivaldi place themselves as some sort of Electro-Elder Scrolls Alt-pop, alchemised in a Rivendell mountain gorge. Sending folk music into lightspeed, the duo are on a heaven-sent quest…
Focusing a Fat Whites-ish brain-crawling unease, Dog’s latest vignette chronicles a certain ‘Daddy’, whose ‘baby’ rejects his gift of ‘pony.’ For sure, it’s simple enough as songplots go, but ‘Daddy…’ is generously slaked with a mystifying, oozing sliminess. The track…
Trapping the wonderland majesties of Maurice Ravel’s interludes, inside a psychedelicious post-whatyamacallit fever-dream, For Breakfast’s follow up to 2020 ‘Songs in the Key Of O’, presents gripping reformulations and eclectic confoundments. Recorded in a decommissioned air base in Suffolk –…
Park Motive release their circuit-board-curdling single ‘Undark’, via Bristol’s Spinny Nights. “I have seen the beauty in decay”. This is the key refrain which Park Motive’s brain-centre Sam Herschmann, croaks and caterwauls in chamber-chilled vaults of ‘Undark’. It’s a fitting line…
