The new video for the track Curtain, off Lungbutter's fantastic debut LP, Honey, is proof that a mere 75 seconds appear to be enough to squeeze in a fair amount of artfulness and brilliance, when in the right hands.

"The lyrics of this song are about the struggle to be legible to others," the band state about Curtain. "They come from the feeling of simultaneously being lonely and spending too much time having long and circular conversations. Our brains and selves are all obscure to us."

The band's first full length came out earlier in 2019 through Constellation, and it's an intriguing and eccentric combination of edgy sounds which make up something very much expressive that goes over and beyond the confines of noise rock.

Lungbutter are Ky Brooks, Joni Sadler and Kaity Zozula. The band will be touring the UK in April 2020, with more details to follow.










Artist photo by Cameron Mitchell

Video directed by Clayton Beugeling & Kaitlyn Zozula

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Following the staggering It’s Coming It’s Real, the second piece unveiled from the coming Swans album, is the ten-minute tense cut, The Hanging Man, and through both these tracks Leaving Meaning is shaping up to be really good, as was foreseeable.

True to Swans' characteristic ominous and eerie tone, The Hanging Man finds Michael Gira delivering a dramatic and poignant vocal performance as he chants and thunders over a set of repetitive riffs and piano lines, which protrude over the song's overall rich and gripping instrumentals.

Leaving Meaning features a ton of contributors, both new and old which make up the latest version of the Swans' fascinating path. The album is due out October 25th, 2019 via Young God Records/Mute.





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Always brilliant, and always moving forward, Boris released LφVE & EVφL earlier this month, a double album which works like a fantastic showcase of their boundless creativity and their urge to explore and come up with progressive, cutting edge material during this latest phase of their long career. The band is fresh off a very much extensive North American tour alongside Uniform, and they have just unveiled a trippy and captivating video for the terrifying, 12-minute cut, Shadow of Skull.

The video's horror-inclined nature is paired with the track's profound darkness, its slow burning drone and far out psychedelic nature to utter perfection, and it stands as one of the finest music videos we've come across this year.

LφVE & EVφL is available via Third Man Records, while new editions of their seminal albums Akuma No Uta and Feedbacker are also available on the same label.










Video directed by AZVSA MATSVDA & fangsanalsatan

Painting by Akiko Nakayama


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Psychedelic hard rock trio, Ute Root, came forth quite impressively last year with a fantastic single and even more imposing video for their song Ketamine Queen. The band now reemerge with a follow up a bit different, faster and more animated, yet, equally striking, while the accompanying video once again shines.

Stylized as a trailer for a b-movie from the Grindhouse era, the video for Hey Miho, directed by guitarist Matty Barker and conceived by the band themselves, is incredibly fun, bizarre storytelling and impossible to look away from, and for it Ute Root cite influence from Tarantino, Repo Man and Class Of 84, so all the right ingredients are there.

Having recently toured with the great Cosmic Psychos, the Melbourne trio this time around take a more relentless punk rock approach, showcasing their knack for high energy rock 'n' roll in the vein of The Hellacopters, with a metallic edge reminiscent of the immortal Motörhead. As the band puts it: "It's a red hot fuel-injected nightmare-ride on a road to nowhere, and you'd better hold on to your ASS!!"




 


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Recorded with the great Will Yip, Altogether, the upcoming LP by indie rock stalwarts, Turnover, has already sprung four notable singles, coming across early as a fine full length and a strong successor to the successful Peripheral Vision and Good Nature from 2015 and 2017 respectively.

With a vibrant soft rock posture, Number On The Gate finds the band in good shape as a trio, part of an album written by the band's members while living on opposite coasts.

"Instead of making things more difficult, being far apart helped us learn to appreciate each other even more," frontman Austin Getz comments. "As a band, we’re closer now than we’ve ever been before."

Altogether releases November 1st, 2019 through Run For Cover.









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London's Two Tribes bring an anchored set of tasteful influences to good use through their very lively and overall enamoring new single, Videodrone, which draws its title and theme from David Cronenberg, and its sound from the electro-punk-infused psychedelia of Primal Scream, and the more temperamental qualities of krautrock, as the song burns slowly and brightly for seven whole minutes.

"Videodrone deals with how the idea of a digital identity, over-stimulation from technology and the internet can perpetuate disillusion and desensitisation in the real world," the band state about the song's aim. "For some of us, the amount of information available can be a difficult thing to process sometimes, we wanted to explore in this song that increasingly blurred line between mind and mechanism. The title takes inspiration from David Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome, which carries similar themes about the cult of technology."

Videodrone was produced by Oli Bayston (Teleman, Honeyblood, Spiritualized, Boxed In). Two Tribes are Patrick Smith (vocals, guitars), Annalisa Iembo (vocals, synths and samples), Kim Engelhardt (bass) and Alastair Batchelor (drums, programming).








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