Denver, Colorado’s Allison Lorenzen has raised a crimson, crushed-velvet curtain on her opulent, expansive and darkly-theatrical version of Belinda Carlisle’s transcendent “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”. You can stream this one right now, and you can also find her previous releases on her Bandcamp page.
Just today Vancouver’s Kamikaze Nurse unleashed their melody-drenched, pedal-hopping and quite-excellent new album Stimuloso, and you can preview a couple of its surging, polychromatic songs above. Out courtesy of the legendary Mint Records, you can buy vinyl, CD and digital versions of it both from their webstore and from Bandcamp.
From Preston, England come the enigmatic White Flowers, and “Are You” is the honeyed, hazy lead track from the forthcoming four-track EP of the same name. Out from May 13th via Tough Love, you can pre-order cream-vinyl and digital editions of it from Bandcamp, and you’ll find links to gig tickets for their upcoming late-Spring dates here.
Its sky-scraping sonics balanced between menace and mercy, “Blue” is the titanic latest single from Belgium’s Slow Crush. Their Hush LP is out now on Quiet Panic, and you can order various eye-catching splatter-vinyl versions, CD, bundled and digital editions of it either from the label or from Bandcamp now.
Floridly flanged, propelled by youthfulness and built on Shoegaze history, “Lights On” is the dynamic, divine newest single from Hatchie. You’ll find your choice of streaming links for it right here. On April 22nd she releases her Giving The World Away LP, and you can order “radioactive”-vinyl, black-vinyl, cassette, CD and digital editions of it either from the Secretly Store, her website or Bandcamp today.
Bored At My Grandmas House is the solo-musical project of Cumbrian musician Amber Strawbridge, and “Detox” is her coruscant, contemplative and calmly-cool brand-new single. It’s available right now on green or yellow 7″ vinyl, and you can find various ordering options for that right here.
A chromatic wash of pedal effects set in a molten, tuneful nostalgia, “Something” glows with narcotic nuance. It’s the heaven-sent brand-new single from Malmö, Sweden’s Hater, and you can download it from Bandcamp. Sincere, their next LP, will be released by Fire Records on May 6th, and you can pre-order vinyl and CD editions of it from their webstore right now. Via Gorilla vs. Bear.
Spiky, smoldering and drenched in a harmonious distortion, “Howl” is the fluid and fearsome brand-new single from Yumi and The Weather, the solo-musical project of Brighton, England’s Ruby Taylor. Out on her own MIOHMI Records, you can find streaming links for it right here, and it’s on Bandcamp as well.
Long a TAR favorite, Austin’s Blushing have just revealed their absinthe-rinsed, effects-saturated and persimmon-toned new single “Blame” — one featuring a spectral contribution from shoegaze legend Miki Berenyi. The track is taken from their just-announced Possessions LP, one they release on February 18th. You can pre-order blue-vinyl and digital versions of it now from their Bandcamp page.
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