The last couple of years Cold Cave's presence has been a bit sparse compared to the first five years of the moniker's existence, but now things seem to be getting warmer for Wesley Eisold and company. Last Fall The Idea Of Love 7'' came out, which was pretty great, and is now followed by Glory, a more lustrous track that finds Cold Cave in excellent shape, performing as a full band, and killing it.

As we're promised more exciting news from Cold Cave soon to come, this will definitely be playing on heavy rotation. Glory comes with a simple yet grabbing clip, filmed at Echoplex Rehearsal, Los Angeles, only three days ago and directed by Amy Lee.

Cold Cave are about to go on tour which will include dates with Ritual Howls, Drab Majesty, Peaking Lights and Joe Cardamone’s Holy War, and then they will embark on a European Tour to support The Jesus And Mary Chain.







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Half Chilean, half Spanish, currently Barcelona-based indie rockers, The Zephyr Bones, will be releasing their debut full length album, Secret Place November 10th on La Castanya. The band's sound has been quite accurately described as "beach-wave", and from what has been shared off their upcoming work so far, that well mingled combination of dreampop and psychedelic pop has resulted in something very warm and balmy.




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Chalk Hands is a post rock/screamo four piece from Brighton, UK, who got together only earlier this year but have already put together and released their debut EP, Burrows & Other Hideouts, via Future Void Records.

Drawing attention to their deeply expressive vocals which star over the heavy and intense post rocking soundscapes that delineate the sentimentality in the band's sound, Chalk Hands' self-characterization of their songs as "loud and sad" appears fitting and incredibly accurate.

Take for instance the rollercoaster of emotions that is the heavy and elegant second track on the EP, Arms which jumps out full of intensity and euphony, as well as purgative qualities, while it raises the expectations for this fairly new upcoming act's glowing future.

 


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RIP Records Introduces, the monthly series that so far in 2017 has brought us such curiosities as the latest singles by Water From Your Eyes, Atlas Cedar and four more wonderful tracks, has recently unveiled its seventh installment which comes from Glasgow's post punk four-piece, Sweaty Palms.

Influenced by the genre's rich history and evoking memories of bands like The Fall and The Birthday Party, Sweaty Palms' sound emerges raw and raucous, stripping the angst-ridden characteristic of post punk back to its basics, while echoing dearly familiar and inviting like its kind did back in the genre's best days, the early eighties.

Queer Fatwa is the band's debut single, which borrows its title straight from a quote from Jon Ronson’s book, Them, a work that speaks about extremists of all kinds, but mainly focusing on one Islamist Militant leader who threatens to put a Queer Fatwa on the author. "The phrase is hysterical," the band explain the book's influence on them. "It's just not two words you imagine to see together. The rest of the song is loosely based around extremism, from Islamist militants to the dirty gringos of the western world."

Plastic Flowers hit things off as a bedroom project around 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece by songwriter George Samaras before moving to London and developing into a notable dreampop one-man act, with a couple of full lengths already on his résumé and a third on the way.

Absent Forever will be dropping via The Native Sound on November 10th, and its first single, How Can I, emerges as a model three-and-a-half-minute dreampop piece embellished with enticing shoegazing guitar work and airy, well articulated and deeply sentimental vocals. As the track progresses, so does the enchantment and before its climactic conclusion you'll probably consider yourself won over.


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Newcastle four-piece, Luxury, is a post punk band whose sound evokes plenty of images and emotions, but which by any means cannot be considered luxurious. Instead, the band offers a great deal of rawness and hardcore/punk rocking edginess, aptly demonstrated through their new double A-side single, Blue Wates/Two Swans.

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