We first wrote about Tigercub on Brighton Music Blog four years ago, and they’ve come a long way since. This year they released their debut album Abstract Figures in the Dark and showed that they’re top of the pile of Brighton’s alt-rock psych grunge scene.
Number four in our 2016 Top Ten is Tom White’s The Fiction Aisle. The Fiction Aisle issued their second album Fuchsia Days this year, showing that 2015’s gorgeous cinematic Heart Map Rubric wasn’t just a one off.
Moving into the Top Five of our end of year list and we get to Bloom, who released their debut album What Is Life? In October. Bloom rose from the ashes of The Beautiful Word showing a newfound maturity in their sound and songwriting, and triumphing over adversity following Megan’s vocal surgery.
It’s December – we should be writing our end of year round up, but instead we’ve got more music to post, so here goes. Bentcousin actually sent us their new track nearly a month ago, but they sent it to us in a twitter DM and we missed it, but we’ve found it again, and here it is. Tonight I Feel Like I’m In Love is another collaboration with Alcatraz Electro and is a sizzling disco number:
Gang recently had a double A side out a few weeks ago. We featured the video for A side Dead when it came out, and now AA side Enough Nothing also has a video:
Emberhoney sent us their new video two days ago, and for us to turn things round that quickly is quite good for us, but in this case it’s not quite good enough, because it’s meant that we’ve missed out on telling you about their gig at the Brunswick tonight. Maybe if you ran down there as soon is I make this post you might catch the end of the set, but any later than that and you’ll just have to console yourself with the video for Some Kind of Alchemy:
A couple of years ago Us Baby Bear Bones were one of Brighton’s great hopes. They had great tunes, they had a unique style, but most of all they had charisma by the bucketload. But then in 2014 they split up and things have been quiet since, until today when Sun Sets East by TEEFF, a new project by UBBBs Puff Gandalfo, was premiered on the 405:
Lastly, Fear of Men have a new single out called Change Me, which is an alternate version of Erase (Aubade) from this year’s album Fall Forever. The band have got form for releasing alternate versions of their tracks (There was a French version of Luna a few years ago), and this release is a bit faster than the album version and has more percussion. You can buy the track on the Fear of Men Bandcamp page:
Although we’re managing to be fairly regular with our posts these days we haven’t actually made a new music post since the start of November, so we’ve got a bit of catching up to do. The first track we’re going to write about is very new though – the band’s first release (although both members are very established musicians) and only went online at the weekend. The band in question is called Fröst, and they’re made up of Johanna Bramli, who currently sings with The Larsens, but was also a member of Stereolab offshoot Imitation Electric Piano and The Woo!Worths (who we wrote about in the early days of the blog) and Fujiya & Miyagi’s Steve Lewis. The track’s called Crackling On The Wire, and if you like the sound of their motoric psychedelia their first gig is at the Rose Hill on 2nd December: Continue reading
Last Friday night we headed down to the Haunt to catch Fujiya & Miyagi round off a mini tour to promote their new release EP2. The set covered most of the two new EPs and skipped through a greatest hits of their back catalogue with Ankle Injuries, Uh, Collarbone and Flaws all in the set list. Best of all was the reintroduction of Electro Karaoke, which they always used to close their set with but had been absent for a few years. Support came from Lost Idol who played a set drawn mainly from his recent Chrome Machine Tales album.
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We have two new albums to write about this week – The first is from Broker, whose album Quixota came out on October 22nd on Smalltown America records, although we received the first mail about the record back in August. Sorry guys. Since then the band have been on tour around Europe, but you haven’t missed the local launch yet – The album launch is happening this Saturday at the Prince Albert.
Next other is the new long player from Luo, who also got in touch with us far too long ago. Again, apologies. Their new release is called Sleep Spindles, and is out on local label Small Pond. There’s no big local launch for the record, but Luo are supporting Three Trapped Tigers on Sunday at Patterns, with the equally brilliant Physics House Band also on the bill.
Here’s this week’s New Music roundup. We’re kicking off with Our Girl whose EP Normally comes out on local label Cannibal Hymns on 18th November. The video for No Big Deal taken from the EP was featured on Vevo this week. Good work Our Girl!
We posted the audio for the new Gang single Dead in our last New Music roundup, but with a track name like that they would have been missing a trick if they didn’t do something to celebrate Halloween earlier this week. Right on cue they sent us the video:
Kudu Blue have a new track out called NGFM. They finally play their first headline shows later this month, in London on 16th November and at the Hope & Ruin on 17th.
It’s been a while since we wrote about The Space Agency, but they’ve just let us know about a double A side single The Devil’s Saddle / Tiger Paw, out now on their own label Tremolo Records and available to buy through their bandcamp page.
The latest band to sign up to the Communion singles club are MarthaGunn, who’ve featured on these pages before. The lead track from their single is Honest, which you can hear below. Look out too for the acoustic video of the track filmed in a church in Wales.
In advance of the release of their album Abstract Figures in the Dark, which comes out a week tomorrow, Tigercub have shared a video for Memory Boy, made up of footage shot at their gig in October at Patterns:
Rounding up this week is This Party, whose new single Money comes out on Moscow Let’s Go records on 14th November
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