Our favorite post industrial act has been kept pretty busy over the course of the last three years, and they keep on delivering, with each new cut being lyrically heavier than the previous, while their sound moves back and forth between intelligibility and chaos.

The next to last entry in the socially electric Gentrification series was previously introduced with Tomorrow is a Trap, and now its other track, the brilliantly titled If Life is a Gift, It’s in Very Poor Taste, comes with a blunt video directed by A.F. Cortes which contrasts the black and white elegance with exceptional vivid red highlights.

The vocals are once again charged, the lyrics are downright weighty, and the instrumental mayhem is relentless and pretty massive like the song's very concept.

Gentrification IV: Suspended from Gallery Rails comes out via The Flenser on November 22nd, 2019. If you're eager for a new piece of Leo's writing, then rejoice, because the new release comes with one.






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Street Sects — On Tour:
December 3 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves *
December 4 Wichita, KS @ DIYMCA *
December 5 Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room *
December 6 Minneapolis, MN @ Barfly *
December 7 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean *
December 8 Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary ^
December 9 Toronto, ON @ Baby G ^
December 10 Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo ^
December 11 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus ^
December 12 Boston, MA @ O’Briens #
December 13 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie #
December 14 Washington, DC @ Atlas Brew Works #
December 15 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 #
December 16 Atlanta, GA @ 529 #
December 17 Nashville, TN @ Dark Mttr #
December 18 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa #
December 19 Houston, TX @ Secret Group #

*w/ Fire-Toolz
^ w/ METH
# w/Elizabeth Colour Wheel

January 10 Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red %
January 11 San Diego, CA @ Space %
January 12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell %
January 13 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer %
January 15 Oakland, CA @ Elbo Room Jack London %
January 16 Eugene, OR @ Old Nicks %
January 17 Portland, OR @ High Water Mark %
January 18 Seattle, WA @ Substation %
January 19 Tacoma, WA @ The Plaid Pig %
January 20 Boise, ID @ RamaPong %
January 21 Salt Lake City, UT @ Diabolical Records %
January 22 Laramie, WY @ The Great Untamed %
January 23 Denver, CO @ High Dive %
January 24 Wichita KS, @ DIYMCA %

% w/ Portrayal of Guilt



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Interweaving causticity and sophistication with an excitable post punk sound and ultra sharp production, Dublin's Silverbacks return with a biting new single, just released through Nice Swan ahead of the band's anticipated debut full length.

Like their previous three releases Sirens was again produced by Daniel Fox from fellow Dubliners, Girl Band, with whom Silverbacks also toured recently, in addition to being on the road with greats such as Ride and The Lemonheads.

The new song is constructed on razor-edged instrumentation which involves kinetic rhythms and impelling guitar work, while vocalist Daniel O'Kelly's almost apathetic calmness wittily juxtaposes the song's antipathy for modern society.

O'Kelly explains: "In Sirens, the narrator misses riots and important protests taking place in his city because he’s too preoccupied with writing the perfect soundtrack for what is happening. He’s equally distracted by his relationship issues, tennis, and his obsession with his favourite band."

Silverbacks are Daniel O’Kelly (guitar, vocals), Kilian O’Kelly (guitar, vocals), Peadar Kearney (guitar), Emma Hanlon (bass, vocals) and Gary Wickham (drums).



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Upcoming dates

Dec 13 2019 – Nerve Centre, Derry Northern Ireland
Jan 15-18 2020 – Eurosonic, Gronigen, Netherlands
Jan 31 2020 – Sebright Arms, London UK
May 13-16 2020 – The Great Escape, Brighton UK



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We have previously enjoyed the work of Brisbane musician, Kelly Hanlon, through a couple of excellent bands of which she's been part, Deafcult and Terra Pines, both commendable acts within the shoegaze realm. Ancient Channels is her latest project, alongside Chris Preindel (Leavings, Vestiges and Apparitions) on the drums.

Through their very first outing, Footprints In The Dark, Ancient Channels showcase their clear bent toward a dreamier and more psychedelic side of shoegaze, and sound all the way melodious, musing and dense, while citing influence from bands like The Creatures, Warpaint and Beach House.

Blending its overarching melancholy with an everlasting form of uneasiness that's subtly linked to existentialism, the song is a stellar, mesmeric piece of well executed dreampop absent-mindedness. It unfolds like a wonderful, and without a doubt promising debut single.






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One of the most radical and drastic pieces in Sondra Sun-Odeon's upcoming sophomore album is a nine-minute epic, grand and awe-inspiring from its conception which bears a striking title, and implements a huge amount of excellence by an impressive lineup of contributors.

Drowning Man: An Invocation for the Demise of Patriarchy was written during the hearings of SCOTUS justice Kavanaugh, and absorbs the #MeToo movement's spirit, as the song speaks of a world in which an undivided female outrage conquers what's left of the long-established patriarchy, and guides the rise of a new society.

Sun-Odeon's core team of Thor Harris of Swans on drums and percussion, herself and J.R. Bohannon (Ancient Ocean) on guitars, Anthony Piromalli on soundscapes and Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus) on production, is enhanced with Mary Lattimore contributing harp, Cordey Lopez and Matthew Clough-Hunter on gamelan, and Lia Simone Braswell of A Place to Bury Strangers expressively reciting a piece written by Sun-Odeon, inspired by a seventies wicca futurist feminist manifesto.

The song is a venturous, immense piece in three parts which transforms anger into beautiful poetry conjoined with elevated and tough to categorize musicianship.

Desyre arrives November 22nd, 2019 via Graveface Records.




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Like both the previously unveiled introductory singles, Miracle and Sinister suggested, Pinemoon's debut full length which finally arrived in its entirety, is one of the finest dreampop releases of 2019, and a record that places the band straight into the genre's forefront.

Miracle - the album, draws from shoegaze's fountainhead, and although it doesn't reinvent anything, it possesses all those upstanding properties that have made the genre consistently popular and reliable through time. The album's strengths lie mostly on the keenness of its soft melodiousness, the acumen of its analog production and its pretty fantastic ear for instrumentation and arrangement.

Picture Slowdive at their most nostalgic and add that Scandinavian reticence that makes everything sounding even more distant, still, the warmth in Pinemoon's art is still present, lurking underneath the existential qualities of their themes.

Next to the radiance of the aforementioned singles, the album's highlights include opener Strange Times, mellow soft rocker I Try, hopeful pop jewel Weak / Dress / Fly, as well as the epic closing piece The Feeling That You Left Me Won't Return which finds the Danish band at their most epic and ambitious.

Pinemoon is comprised of experienced musicians who have been playing together for twenty years in other projects, so there's no surprise as to why the band's chemistry is thoroughly identifiable, hence the fully realized and accomplished record Miracle turned out to be.








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Limerick, Ireland four-piece, Slow Riot, came around a little before this sudden reemergence of British post punk lead by Shame and Idles, and released a series of notable singles and EP’s, but never a proper full length.

G.A.D is the band's first and only LP, as Slow Riot disbanded in 2018, a little after the completion of the album's recording, and while they were still at their very peak, sharing stages with Preoccupations, whenyoung, The Twilight Sad, Mission Of Burma and more. The album was recorded at Savage Sound Studios, Hastings, with longtime collaborator Kevin Vanbergen (The Pixies, The Maccabees, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The La’s and Biffy Clyro), and has the markings of a solid breakthrough release evident all over its dozen tracks, utterly fleshing out the quitting while ahead philosophy.

Unmistakably bent toward the darker side of post punk, Slow Riot's full length is comprised of both more resilient and emotionally fragile tracks, balancing the fitting boldness and grit in the band's compositions with similarly powerful lyricism and introspection, as it all generate a multifarious release which feels non-standard and accessible at the same time.

Heaven's Daughter is the lead single and one of the highest highlights on G.A.D, which by all means appears like something that deserves continuation, but then again, it's fairly wholesome as it is.






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