Sound Of Guns - Architect

Sound of Guns release their new single “Architects” on June 21st through Distiller Records. The single will be available on 7” vinyl and digital download. This track is taken from their forthcoming debut album “What Came From Fire” which will be released on June 28th.

April Album Review Roundup

April, meant to be a month of spring sunshine, summery showers and cherry blossom. What have we had this year? Volcanoes, hail storms and general elections.

All feels a little end of days if you ask me and adding to that sensation comes this apocalyptic sounding record. ‘We Are A Unit’ (Brew Records, April 12) from Castrovalva is twenty seven minutes of absolute adrenaline charged insanity. In less than half an hour this Leeds three piece crash through twelve tracks of thumpingly heavy but tight as fuck funky craziness. Read More...

The Like - He's Not A Boy

New vid for their 60's tinged single 'He's Not A Boy' from LA ladies The Like presented here for your appreciation:

                   
                    He's Not A Boy from The Like on Vimeo

Subfocus - Splash Feat. Coco

Surefire dancefloor filler from Subfocus, fresh from remix work with The Prodigy & Empire of The Sun, here's the vid for 'Splash' featuring up and comer Coco on vocal duties:

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Matt Bentley - 'Entropy' Album Review Posted

Matt Bentley is a singer songwriter hailing from Leeds (where else these days? It seems like every other CD we’ve reviewed recently has come from Leeds) and plying a quirky, upbeat type of melancholia, if that isn’t too much of a contradiction. Think Iron & Wine or Noah & The Whale.

The Half Open Sky Gives Us Hope - 'The Explorer' Album Review Posted

Before an initial listen to ‘The Explorer’ by The Half Open Sky Gives Us Hope it is worth knowing that this is the product of one man and a whole bunch of technology. It’s worth knowing that because without that knowledge most listeners would assume it was the work of an at least four piece band with a pretty hefty string section in accompaniment; such is the scale and scope of these tunes. In fact, the more I listen to this album the more the notion that this is all the produce of just one mind becomes increasingly astounding. Read More...

Lazer Crystal - 'MCMLXXX' Album Review Posted

I never really got the point of using Roman numerals to denote years (being as we've been using…y'know…numbers, for the past 1,500 of them) but I eventually worked out that MCMLXXX translates to "1980". After the first minute or so of this album (during which you get the impression you might just have embarked on a dance/trance trip), you realise that Lazer Crystal are probably not too fussy about using subtle or obscure titles. This is a Gary Numan/Metal Mickey/Visage/Mighty Boosh/Hot Chip non-stop-retro-kraut-electro-robo-disco party and you’re all invited. Just remember to wear something dayglo. And whatever you do, don’t smile. Read More...

Marvin

Awesome track from French band Marvin

The Echo Chamber Volume 1.2

Welcome to Volume 1.2 of The Echo Chamber. Seven of the best new tunes reverbarating around the Echoes And Dust offices.

Last Dinosaur - 'Every Second Is A Second Chance'


Marvin - 'Dirty Tapping'


Fortune - 'Bully'


Trans Am - 'Interstellar Drift'


Lasse Brawn - 'Kim'


Team Horse - 'Megaton'


Castrovalva - 'We Don't Go To Ravenholm'

Red Sparowes - 'The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer' Album Review Posted

Contrary to the protracted style to which we are accustomed, Red Sparowes’ third album, at just over forty three minutes, is unusually short. Despite this relative brevity, Bryant Clifford Meyer’s collective, with the help of sometime Melvins collaborator, Toshi Kasai, have produced a sublimely accomplished release, peppered with moments of both force and beauty. Read More...