Back to the top

Matt Hanner

Pom Poko

About “If you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, Pom Poko would like to apply for the role,” tweeted Tim Burgess in April, as Norway’s finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of Tim’s mood-lifting Twitter listening parties. Pom Poko pimp their CV on all fronts with their glorious second album, Cheater, due for release 15th January 2021 via Bella Union. Between the quartet’s sweet melodies, galvanic punky ructions and wild-at-art-rock eruptions, Cheater is the sound of a band celebrating the binding extremes that make them so uniquely qualified to thrill: and, like Tim’s listening......

Continue reading

Highasakite

About Conformity has never been Highasakite’s trademark. The band’s choice to split ‘The Bare Romantic’ in two parts - with ‘Can I Be Forgiven’ as first single - shows a band unwilling to play by the rule book. Having found their soul again by reverting to a two-piece band during the writing process of their last album ‘Uranium Heart’, the new mini album sees the involvement of former Jaga Jazzist and Puma’s guitarist Stian Westerhus, traditional and fiddle composer Sarah-Jane Summers, as well as their regular live band members’ Øystein Moen and Kristoffer Bonsaksen, with the latter also sharing production......

Continue reading

Future Teens

About FUTURE TEENS COMMERCIAL PITCH DRAFT ONE WRITTEN BY: CLIFF DAZZLE BIG SHOT AD AGENCY FADE IN: INT. COFFEE SHOP- DAY We open on an older man and woman in their seventies across the table from one another. The man looks pre-occupied and concerned. ALICE: What’s wrong, Joe? Something on your mind? JOE: Every since Cecil passed on, I’ve been thinking a lot about life insurance. I want to be sure the kids aren’t burdened when it’s my time. Do you and GLADYS have any? ALICE We do. But what’s really been helping us feel secure lately is FUTURE TEENS.......

Continue reading

Black Belt Eagle Scout

About Released in September of 2018, Mother of My Children was the debut album from Black Belt Eagle Scout, the recording project of Katherine Paul. Heralded as a favorite new musician of 2018 by the likes of NPR Music, Stereogum, and Paste, the album was also named as a “Best Rock Album of 2018” by Pitchfork, and garnered further end-of-year praise from FADER, Under The Radar and more. Arriving just a year after that debut record, At the Party With My Brown Friends is a brand new full-length recording from Black Belt Eagle Scout. Where that first record was a......

Continue reading

Algiers

About This is the musical response that dark times demand. One that not only shakes its fist but deploys it. Locally-informed and globally based – spread between London, Atlanta and New York – Algiers refuse to sit idly by while most contemporary artists appear perfectly content to wait out the revolution. Not only do they harbor a purposeful sense of obligation in what they do on their latest resistance record, The Underside Of Power, but they recognize the roots and thorns of precedent in said resistance. Their shared experiences and collective understanding of this rising tide of sinister politics, growing......

Continue reading