post-punk – and so she thinks

The Murder Capital – Don’t Cling To Life

admin — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:31:19 +0000

Dark and devilish, Dublin’s The Murder Capital have just released a new live video for Don’t Cling To Life (Part II/IV), ahead of a series of in stores and live gigs to celebrate their album When I Have Fears, which was released on August 16th through Human Season Records. It’s blistering, angsty, and utterly potent, with a thrilling sense of menace. Bolshy post punk at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cvwwPQhaU&feature=youtu.be

Beastmilk – Love in a Cold World

admin — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:16:35 +0000

Scandinavian music usually falls into one of two camps – happy clappy pop a la Abba, or dark death metal, like…well I don’t know, I tend to avoid it. I blame it on the weather. With twenty four hour bright skies or dark nights, it is no doubt hard to find middle ground. Swedish Beastmilk inhabit that space, but not middle ground as in beige and boring, but middle ground as in the post punk, gravelly greatness, rhythmically exciting musical space that most people enjoy.
Beastmilk’s debut album Climax is equally exhilarating and heart-breaking, combining stark vocals with darkly shimmering melodies, and a throbbing pulse underneath the atmospheric shadowy gleam. Anxious and unsettling, but also animated and thrilling, first track Love in a Cold World is a great intro, from its flickering start, poppy melodies and flexing muscular riffage. It’s the sound of earnest frustration, slightly muted but with echoes of a violent siege within. Blinking into existence before it erupts into thrashing heady moments, Love in a Cold World is expansive and engaging, noisy and catchy, dark and light – beautifully middle ground.
Released on Svart Records on December 2^nd.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQIlW14aRc&w=420&h=315]

Sky Between Leaves – Sky Between Leaves

admin — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:48:14 +0000

You know how sometimes the path to a new band is an odd one, nothing to do with hearing their music and all together with an unhealthy obsession with a spectacle wearing, nimble of body, linguistically dexterous, ludicrously talented, socially perceptive and seductively softly spoken songwriter and musician who has beguiled me since his Britpop days ’til now? No? Well Sky Between Leaves make music brilliant enough that they will probably manage to capture you in the more conventional manner.
The band’s name was taken from Jarvis Cocker’s narrative of being given glasses as a child and realizing that the holes in the trees were in fact the ‘sky between the leaves.’ Bristling with poignancy, and brimming with urgency, this eponymous Sky Between Leaves flickers in waves, looping and looping, its underlying repression threatening to burst forth at any moment.
It won’t take more than approximately four seconds to realise that the totally trippy swooning psychedelia of the track is influenced somewhat by the Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Primal Scream, and eight to realise that in itself is an excellent thing.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCuqlD5epo&w=560&h=315]

The Capsules – Northern Lights & Southern Skies

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:01:04 +0000

Released June 14th 2013

Northern Lights & Southern Skies, the new album from The Capsules, sounds as though it was recorded in a smooth wind tunnel, floating chilled dance, good Saturday evening warm up in the sun or Sunday afternoon thinking back to the night before kind of music. Wistful and whimsical yet fully rooted in beats and electronica, occasionally flipping into what seems like a darker textural edge simmering underneath. The output of married couple Julie and Jason, who met at high school and started playing music together when everyone else was following the rules and doing homework, the sleepless nights and pensive reveries seem to have paid off on this album.