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Hello Mary (Helena Straight, Stella Wave and Mikaela Oppenheimer) have released a new stand alone single '0%' which brings to the fore all the favourable sounds of the alternative nineties. The single is heavy with distorted guitars, crunching low end bass and desperately frustrated screams, sparring with shoegaze-dripped melody and they wrap it all up in under three minutes.
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Back in September 2023 we had the pleasure of catching Swiss-born singer and songwriter Anna Erhard live at The Brudenell Social Club in Leeds. Part of a short UK tour, on the back of single release "170". That evening's dreamy laid-back set showcased a new song "Botanical Garden" which has just been released via Radicalis Music.
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METZ are playing us like a fiddle, offering up a brace of new songs to give a tantalising look at where their heads are at on their forthcoming fifth album, and obviously we’ve been sucked in. ‘99’ shoves upbeat and atmospheric verses down concrete steps for a typically discordant chorus, and ‘Entwined’ takes a sharp left turn for a dreamy middle section bookended by joyful noise.
With more drummers (two) than guitar strings (zero), Lip Critic are at the marauding vanguard of NYC punk, and pummeling new single 'The Heart' is thrilling and just a little bit stressful. Vocally it's straight up-and-down punk rock, but underneath the song is powered by frenetic work on two samplers - bringing Death Grips comparisons into the conversation isn't very creative but is inevitable. And one of the most pleasing aspects of it all is the pair of drummers are just doubling up the beats rather than intertwining complex rhythms, a means to a sledgehammer end which quite rightly smashes through any semblance of subtlety. A debut album awaits later this year.
