Singles of the Week (04//22)

1) SOAK - Last July

 

New single from album 'If I Never Know You Like This Again' out May 20th, With their new album, 'If I Never Know You Like This Again', 

SOAK has finally shaken the hangover of their starry debut 'Before We Forgot How To Dream', and the pressures that came with it, hiding in the wings of their ambitious follow up album, Grim Town. Having come up through BBC introducing at the tender age of 15 before signing to Rough Trade Records as well as winning the RTE Choice Music Prize, The Northern Irish Music Prize and the youngest ever Mercury Prize nominee, SOAK has again and again been described as ‘the voice of a generation.’ Showing from a young age an intensely artistic awareness of the poetry of memory, Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, would incessantly photograph and video everything, documenting and organising the material so it was always there for them to revisit. "I always want to remember exactly how I felt at a certain moment." Now, at 25, SOAK’s third album 'If I Never Know You Like This Again', is naturally made up of what Bridie intimately calls “song-memories”. Working closely with Tommy McLaughlin (Villagers), with whom Bridie has been collaborating with since the age of 15, and armed with influences from Pavement, to Radiohead to Broken Social Scene, they wrote most of the album together before recording it with the rest of the band in Attica Studios, Donegal. Throughout the album SOAK pushes and pulls at melodies, but never milks their brilliance. Bridie masterfully glides their vocal melody slightly off-kilter above excitable compressed high hats and flourishing guitar lines. With the new direction of a grungier, more lo-fi production the swooning guitars are given a contemporary pop-edge, reflected in the rich and robust musicality of songs like 'Bleach', 'Last July' and 'Pretzel'. There’s a constant pulsating beat at the album’s centre, propelling it towards a kind of dewy happiness, like the end credits of a 90s coming-of-age film. Bridie’s lyrics move through the songs almost as effortlessly and they sing them, and the songs when read, read like poetry. With this album Bridie is, as the title suggests, freezing time in the pursuit of truth: capturing their life into existence. 

 

(digital, video - Rough Trade)

2) Rew - Minerall

 

 

 New single from Delaware indie-rock shoegaze musician 

Album Quiet All the Time release 25/3/2022 Written, performed, and produced by Andrew Fusca Recorded at home in Wilmington, DE, 2021–2022 

Mixed and mastered by Andrew Fusca Art, design, and layout by Claire Ciccarone 

 

 
(digital, video - REWWW)

3) Big Image - Crazier

 

 

 News from indie-pop Birmingham, England band... 

Debut E.P ‘Human Touch Is Forever’ will be released 27th April 2022 

BIG IMAGE – George, vocals / Luke, bass / Connor, guitar / Seb, drums / 

 

(digital, video - Vertex Music LTD)

4) Clearfight - Which Way is North 

 

 

 New video from Comfort In Your Skin EP releases March 18, 2022 

Clearfight is an emotional pop punk group based out of the midwest area. With deeply intimate lyrics, passionate vocal melodies and roaring guitars, Clearfight is here to make an impact by creating heartfelt, melodic declarations surrounding topics like heartbreak, mental health, and trying to find positivity in difficult situations. Here’s what Idobi Radio had to say regarding “Goldmine”, the band’s debut single: "Invoking calm before the inevitable storm, “Goldmine” is clear in its message of fate coming for all of us. Every instrument’s tone is dreary and resigned, creating the space for Hunter Spano’s raw vocals to hit that much harder. The song is a beautiful lamentation steeped in tragic relatability." 2022 will feature the release of their debut EP titled "Comfort In Your Skin"; mixed by Seth Henderson (Knuckle Puck, Real Friends, State Champs) and mastered by John Naclerio (My Chemical Romance, American Authors, Brand New).

 

 
(video - Clearfight)

5) Lady Blue - Lady Blue 

 

 

 New 2 songs from Madison, Wisconsin metal-core band 

releases January 28, 2022 Self-recorded by Lady Blue 

Mixed/Mastered by Spencer Fox at No Passenger Studios Additional drum production credit to Stacey Smyre 

 

 
(digital - Lady Blue)
 

vinyl:
Dreamcoaster - Dreamcoaster (7")
Schedule 1 - Schedule 1 (12")
Flying Moon In Space - Remixes (12")
EPs:
PURPLISH - So Far Down /EP/
SPC ECO - Astro /EP/
zachwyt - zachwyt /EP/
digi single, video:
Dream Suicides - It's Better Not To Say Anything
High Sunn - Midnight Walk
Boy With Apple - Strawberry Boy
Endless Dive - Au revoir
TEEN BLUSH - Turning
NNHMN - Perigee Syzygy
Quirinello - As Fast as We Fall in Love
Hyd - Into My Arms
Ducks Ltd. - Sheets of Grey
Jaws The Shark - Still Young
Ex-Vöid - Churchyard
Loose Fit - Social Graces
Thyla - Kin
Hater - Something
Soft Set - More More More
Widowspeak - While You Wait
No Museums - The Hospital Library
Deserta - Where Did You Go
Death Bells - Passerby
DETECTS - Hours
The Starlit Hues - Vero Beach
Carly Cosgrove - Really Big Shrimp
Headshrinkers - Doorway Conversation
Tree River - Journey Proud
Bloc Party - The Girls Are Fighting
ISOCULT - White Noise
Echoberyl - On My Own
Зубы:) - Казнь
Tempers - Nightwalking