New Brighton Music

Posted on 31/03/2020 by brightonmusicblog

It’s been a funny few weeks since I last posted – Coronavirus has changed the world as we know it. Festival season has been decimated – Glastonbury has been cancelled this year, as has Brighton’s own Great Escape. I doubt I’ll be doing my monthly gig previews post for a bit. But there is still music to listen to, so here’s what’s new including a few Lockdown themed songs:

Knightstown / Rewire (from Rewire EP)
Man Like Malcolm / Don’t Cry For Me
Ruby Dutch / Listen To The Rain
The Ducks / Disco Fox (from Up To No Good album)
Ahsoka / Creature of the Deep
Ralph TV / Making Movements (from Cabin Fever Dreams LP)
Chxrlotte / Don’t Save Me
Mariah Casals / For You
Night House / To Be With (from Everyone is Watching from Afar LP)
Heights / Let Down
CLT DRP / Worth It (AKDK remix)
Samuel / Karma

Kate Gerrard and Beth Chesser from The Delta Bell / May You Bring Light // The New And The Old

Yumi & The Weather / Struggling

LibraLibra / Panic Buy

Sit Down / Quarantine

New Brighton Music

Posted on 13/03/2020 by brightonmusicblog

It’s New Music Time! We’re going to kick off this week’s post by saying happy release day to Orchards, Slum of Legs and Knightstown, all of whom have new albums out today (Knightstown also has an EP of material that isn’t on the album but we’ll post something from that next time around.

Orchards / Burn Alive (taken from Lovecore album)
Slum of Legs / Benetint & Malevolence (taken from Slum of Legs album)
Knightstown / Gossamer (from Locus album)
Beachtape / Somewhere Better
Boudicca / Caveman
Thrillhouse / Lesser
Para Fiction / Episode 47
Eden Farrow / Baggage
Jarki Monno / Wet Shave
Treadell / Marks
Idlewood / Waiting for Something (from Idlewood EP)
Indigo Riot / Pay No Mind

Normanton Street / Whatever

New Brighton Music

Posted on 07/02/2019 by brightonmusicblog

I nearly put off making a new music post earlier this week – I only had a couple of things to write about and I thought I’d carry them over to next week. but then I double checked what I had to post about and suddenly there was more than enough. So let’s get on with it…

Artist: Demob Happy
Track Name: Less Is More
Taken From: Less Is More
Release Date: 1st February 2019
Next Gig: 2nd March at the Concorde, supported by Sick Joy and Heirloom
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New Brighton Music

Posted on 29/07/2018 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music post. We’re kicking off this week’s post with the new track from Knightstown, who as well as sharing Catcher this week, also announced news of their debut album.

Artist: Knightstown
Track Name: Catcher
Taken From: Knightstown album
Release Date : 17th August 2018
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New Brighton Music

Posted on 18/01/2018 by brightonmusicblog

After a couple of weeks of live posts, here’s our second new music post of the year.

Our first track this week is the new release from Adal called Synthesize. Tight eighties synths provide the perfect accompaniment to vocals provided by Alexanderson from Cardiff’s XY&O.
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Brighton Music Blog 2017 Top 25 – numbers 25-11

Posted on 04/12/2017 by brightonmusicblog

Making end of year lists is tough, especially for us. No, hear us out – this isn’t just some sob story. Most of the bands we write about are just starting out, so haven’t had albums out yet – should they be lower down the list or even omitted because they haven’t put out a long player? And conversely what about the bands who have released an album – surely they shouldn’t be higher in the list by default. And what about the more established bands – should we be including them at the expense of smaller bands? And how are we going to get around the fact that bands with more recent release or live dates are nearer the front of our mind than those who put records out at the start of the year? It’s a metaphorical minefield, so our list is rather arbitrary. It could easily have been twice as long, and as usual we’ve gone for bands rather than tracks or albums to get around it. Here’s numbers 25 through to 11: Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 13/11/2017 by brightonmusicblog

Here’s this week’s new music post, two weeks after our last one – we were out of the country last week though, so we’re playing catchup a bit now. Our first tune this week is from Brighton supergroup Alien Stadium, made up of Steve Mason and Primal Scream‘s Martin Duffy. Their first release is a track called This One’s for the Humans, a lolloping almost-baggy almost-bluesy number which is taken from a mini LP called Livin’ in Elizabethan Times which gets released on 1st December. Have a dig around for the version that’s up on Spotify which clocks in over six minutes long and gets a much more psychedelic groove on.
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Spectrum / Dog in the Snow Album Launch gallery

Posted on 29/10/2017 by brightonmusicblog

Last night we went along to our first Spectrum gig in about eighteen months. They haven’t been quite as frequent in that period, but those that there have been we haven’t been able to make it along to. Now that they’re back to monthly again, hopefully they’ll be appearing a bit more regularly in these pages too. Continue reading →

Matthew Hodson / Detach album launch

Posted on 16/10/2017 by brightonmusicblog

DETACH ALBUM FINAL -small So, Friday night’s New Faith gig wasn’t the only album launch we went to this weekend. Saturday night Matthew Hodson launched his debut album Detach at the Hope & Ruin. Matthew Hodson has previously graced the blog under his former artist name Bitbin, and his current moniker makes similar bass heavy electronic music. Support on the night came from Johanna Bramli and Knightstown, who Matthew Hodson plays with live, which meant that in essence he was supporting himself. The album is out now on Solitude records. Continue reading →

New Brighton Music

Posted on 10/10/2017 by brightonmusicblog

It’s been a fortnight since our last New Music roundup, so we’re playing catchup from the off. We’ll kick off with the new EP from Yonaka, Heavy, which came out last Friday. As mentioned in our gig preview post they’re playing in a few weeks time at Patterns, and then again at the Green Door Store in January. Here’s EP lead track Bubblegum:
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