Featuring Adebisi Shank, billy woods, 40hurtz, Godwin, Neal Frances, Say She She, Oh My Sun.
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Adebisi Shank
Start A Band
After promising to return last September the Irish math-rock trio have new music and a run of live dates.
Adebisi Shank put out a new song – ‘Start A Band’ on St. Patrick’s Day, a rock instrumental with the band’s trademark frenzied style, with a fast and frantic pace taking in fuzzed bass, thumping drums and Lar Kaye’s robotic guitar histrionics.
It’s taken from This is the Second EP of a band called Adebisi Shank, to be released in summer 2025 before the upcoming shows.
A second Dublin show was added this week.
Exciting!
Oh My Sun
5 Pieces
This “London based duo making 70s inspired music for the apocalypse” were a genuine new discovery for me, through my new streaming service Qobuz. I liked the look of the artwork in the new releases and gave it a go, and found a bright and breezy indie folk pop album called Apocalypse Baby.
Oh My Sun are vocalist-songwriter Carmody and guitarist-producer Tal Janes, and ‘5 Pieces’ kicks off the record. The duo’s aim was to embrace warm analogue music-making methods with music taking inspiration from the environment, grandparents, love and loss, and the final days feel of modern life.
Neal Francis, Say She She
Broken Glass
I’ve been really enjoying Chicago-based singer-songwriter-pianist Neal Francis’ cover of Stardust’s ‘Music Sound Better With You’ from 2021 lately so I checked in on his new album Return To Zero which was released last week and love this hook up with NY soul dsco trio Say She She from it. Smooth psychedelic 70s pop meets smooth songwriter disco.
“This tune was born from a jam session with Michael Shuman from Queens of the Stone Age,” says Francis. “He was on drums and I was on bass. It was the first time we met, and not only did we have fun, but left with a complete song. The lyrics were free-form material I had written down about sub/dom relationships in the bedroom.” – Neal Francis
billy woods, Kenny Segal
Misery
Kicking off his new song from a forthcoming album called Golliwog on May 9th, is a MF Doom ‘Gas Drawls’ reference and Steely Dan-sample loop before billy woods (small caps when you spell the man’s name)does his dense prismatic cinematic rap thing that makes him so magnetic. It feels like a trailer for the album to come – a scene preview.
40Hurtz, Godwin
U Betta Know
Limerick producer 40Hurtz follows up his recent collaborative sonic assault releases with Hazey Haze, with a new 3-track EP made with producer Godwin, brother of God Knows who featured on the Nialler9 Podcast back in 2021 to talk all things Amapiano.
The Gonzo EP features a track from each, and a collaboration called ‘Gonzo’ and it’s 40’s high-rolling garage bell-ringing spooker that is the pick of the trio for me.
Also added to this week’s playlist:
- The Null Club; E L U C I D – Frameshift
- DIIV; Mount Kimbie – Everyone Out – Mount Kimbie Remix
- Kutmah; Alia – Carry You Away
- DJ Koze – Buschtaxi
- Michi – If You Want Me
- Bon Iver; Danielle Haim – If Only I Could Wait
- BIG WETT – CRAZY
- Cliffords – Bittersweet
- Paddy Hanna – Harry Dean
- florence road – Heavy
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