1) Pale Blue Eyes - Motionless / Chelsea
Debut Double A side single from Totnes,
UK indiepop trio
Pale Blue Eyes are a new horizon-wide pop group based in the remote rural hinterlands of South Devon. Hey! Thats like us!!
The single was mixed and mastered by Dean Honer (The Moonlandingz, Róisín Murphy, I Monster, Human League, International Teachers of Pop).
The single’s side A is clean-lined, mechanised pop – like the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant firing up at his most raga-frenetic and then joining Neu! for a journey to the far side of the pop Moooooonnn. Side AA is an emotive, wide-screen sci-fi ballad, like these kids have somehow gained access to the wondrous Felt’s wondrous Primitive Painters, or something.
“We’ve recently been building our own studio,” says PBE singer/guitarist Matt Board. “It’s down by the River Lud, just south of Dartmoor here in Devon, where we’ve been working away. Our debut album is ready and recorded, waiting to go…”
The single is being released with financial support from Devon’s New Lion Brewery and GroCycle mushrooms. Pale Blue Eyes are further sponsored by Devon’s Green Funeral Company, who are also part of Callender, Callender, Cauty & Drummond Undertakers, the funeral directors for the MuMufictation afterlife memorial programme. Cauty and Drummond are, of course, also know for their work with The KLF and The Justified Ancients Of MuMu.
Pale Blue Eyes will be accompanied by a bespoke Pale Blue Ale from South Devon’s New Lion Brewery.
2) Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee
News from Dagenham, Essex, England, living California ex D.M.
releases January 29, 2021
(12" vinyl, EP, CD - Grabbing Hands Music / Mute)
3) Soft Kill - New Age / Fatigue
Portland post-punks Soft Kill are releasing their new album Dead Kids, R.I.P. City on November 20 via Cercle Social Records/Cobraside), but first they're releasing a tribute 7" to UK punk/Oi! vets Blitz on TKO Records.
They're covering both songs from the classic 1983 single "New Age" and its B-side "Fatigue," and it'll include artwork by original Blitz bassist Mackie, who also designed the artwork for Blitz's first three singles. The "Fatigue" cover features guest vocals by Jerry A from Poison Idea, with drums by Adam Bulgasem (Black Mountain, Dommengang, Holy Sons). "After we posted the 'New Age' cover, Mark Rainey from TKO / Cascade Record Pressing reached out with the insane idea of recreating the 7” with Jerry A (Poison Idea) doing vocals for 'Fatigue,'" Soft Kill tells us. "I’m pretty sure I told him 'yeah, you put that together and we’re down' and within a couple days it was confirmed. If that wasn’t bucket list enough, Mackie from Blitz who also did all those original drawings for the 7” covers stepped up to do the art. Probably the coolest project we’ve ever been part of." They released the "New Age" cover back in May, and we're now premiering the "Fatigue" cover. Soft Kill turn both songs into their own gothy, morose post-punk style, and the legendary Jerry A fits right in. Listen to both and watch the trailer for
(7" vinyl - TKO)
4) Ruby Haunt - Snow Angel / Reverse Creek
(EP - Ruby Haunt)
5) Fanfold Paper - Anyway
New video / single from Thailand shoegaze band
(digital, video - Fanfold Paper)
Kurvy Češi - We Are Family (10")
EPs:
DINYA - Tváří v tvář /EP/
Motorama - Before The Road /EP/
Pictures on Silence - Pictures on Silence /EP/
Senior Living - The Paintbox Lace /EP/
Slam - Final Conflict /EP/
HACKJOB - HACKJOB /cassette EP/
digi single, video:
Goth Babe - Canary Islands
Pinemoon - Sinister
Juliper Sky - Into the Outer Light
Warish - Say To Please
Vestron Vulture - Cemetery Cowboy
CLAMM - Keystone Pols
Gary, Indiana - Alien 3
The Gathering - Ocean Star
Buggin - Brainfreeze
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
Sculpture Club - Just One More
Thyla - Breathe
The Vacant Lots - Into The Depths (Cold Cave Deep Speed Remix)
Hiatus - Your Place Is Empty (feat. Malahat)
Kubatko - Tehdy
Long Distance Calling - Black Shuck
Paris Youth Foundation - The Back Seat
A Festival, a Parade - Area Man
Police Car Collective - Mine
Море Ясности - Домой возврата нет
Color Crush - Wishing
Relay Tapes - Daylighter
The Watchmakers - Clover
Fawning - Uptight (Her Eyes)
the churchhill garden -Fade Away
Sun Mahshene - The Righteous One
Malka - Reach Out
Mascara Ashes - Shade
Mute Swan - Sedative Sun
Closer - Angry Flood
The Minimal Trees - Jupiter
Balvanera - Rust
Affet Robot - Kargaşa
Autarkic - Kar BaGehenom
Heligoland - Palomino
The Obsessives - Lala
Juno Is - Floating
Blue Canopy - Motovun