After the more upbeat and traditional rock bent, Camino Reel and Look Alive, veteran post rockers, Unwed Sailor, revealed a third track from their forthcoming album. Haze, the stirring LP closer, takes a completely different approach, as this time the band channel some of their earlier material, and use the piece's nine-minute fullness to expand toward more atmospheric and ambient territories, starring a fantastic way of instrumentation which involves layers of guitars, percussion, finespun electronic elements, as well as exciting synths.

Look Alive will be coming out in its entirety on June 12th, 2020 by Old Bear Records via Light In the Attic distro.




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Continuing to break boundaries and moving forward with reverence and the same existential spirit which has haunted the entirety of his body of work through different projects and monikers, Steve Von Till prepares for the release of the fourth album under his own name. No Wilderness Deep Enough comes out August 7th, 2020 via Neurot Recordings, and Shadows On The Run is the second single off it.

A seven-minute song of immense lyricism and passages of elegiac folk, electronic experimentation and ambiance, as well as meticulously honed instrumentation and production, the new song bears all of the heaviness, the spirituality and fragility one would expect from a Steve Von Till creation, and expresses through its beautiful mysticism that the experienced musician's pneuma will always remain restless.

Von Till's first book, Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics, including original poetry, will also be out on the same date.



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New Zealand post punk band, MEDal, may have just released their debut full length, Replica, yet, their three members are by no means new to the post punk and underground alternative rock business.

Dave Mulcahy, Mark Whyte and John Billows have been members of bands like Superette, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, The Renderers, Into the Void, Dark Matter, SexyAnimals  and many more, and have released music through the legendary Australian labels like Flying Nun and Mushroom Records, as well as the US-based Ba Da Bing, 3 Beads of Sweat and Last Visible Dog among others.

The relentless Wanna Feel Good kicks off the band's album to a very dynamic start, bringing together post punk with noise rock and krautrock, and sounding like a vital mixture made from the spikiness of Suicide, APTBS, and Metz, all sheathed in an absorbing way of instrumentation and production, and coming together with a brilliant video of eye popping, animated visuals.








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Swedish alternative rock duo, Pale Honey, release another single and specimen from their forthcoming third full length expected later in 2020. Following Set Me Free from last October, Killer Scene draws inspiration from the violence in Quentin Tarantino's films, while paying homage to Queens Of The Stone Age through its title, and despite the enigmatic and dark nature of its lyrical content, it instantly appears like one of the band's most approachable pieces to date.

"Killer Scene probably takes us back to the beginning of our musical endavours and has this magical playfulness to it," the band's own Nelly Daltrey remarks. "The lyrics wrapped it up as a favourite, I refused to believe in the song until the mad rows of the text about a killer came about. In my head working on the artwork was like putting the angel of death together with my cozy big white sweater and an undead from WoW. I run with a no pants policy at home where I draw so I really live in that sweater. I should have bought more of them."



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Multi-instrumentalist Bailey Crone from Atlanta, Georgia writes and records a warm and balmy style of shoegaze and dreampop under the moniker Bathe Alone. Primarily a classically trained musician, Crone was won over by the motifs and aesthetics of bedroom pop, and has already released a series of notable singles, formerly as Bathe, and later as Bathe Alone with the assistance of producer Damon Moon whom she met through her other project, Mango Cat.

Bathe Alone's newest release, In Deep, follows the recent singles Champagne and Calm Down which were the first examples of her first commercial full length, Last Looks, expected later in 2020. It's an easily memorable dreampop cut which draws inspiration from the eighties and the genre's more approachable facet, and flaunts her splendid songwriting style, as well as the acuity in Moon's production.

"I wanted this song to be an unapologetic song in it's aesthetic and even in the lyrics," the artist shares. "Lyrically, the song is about a relationship that has been brought to fruition only to be deteriorated, and what it feels like to lose everything that's been worked for. Depending on if you hear the song in first person or in third person, the lyrics can be completely spiteful, or self-loathing. But that's what I love about writing in the vague, is it allows the listener to chose which side to put themselves on in the story."







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Philadephia shoegazers, Nothing, have just released a new EP recorded last year as part of their Part Time Punks session. The release is titled GEORGE (A Live Part Time Punks Session, Los Angeles 12​.​07​.​2019), and it's composed of four tracks; two from the band's latest album, Dance On The Blacktop, a cut from 2016's Tired Of Tomorrow, and a pleasantly surprising take on Marcy Playgroud's 1997 indie rock hit, Sex And Candy.

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