The singer and frontman of The Cassandra Complex Rodney Orpheus released a new solo ambient record, Places Beginning with N earlier this month. On this album Rodney features completely instrumental material. He explains: “I’ve always loved ambient electronic music since I first discovered people like Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno in my early teens, and I find myself coming back to it over and over again. With this album instead of telling people stories…

  Mexico City-based act Mint Field have just revealed their new single & video “Natural“. It is a song about speaking words and their relation to our subconscious, as well as being self-aware. Sonically it resumes Mint Field’s classic dreamy and distorted sound with a complex rhythm section. Mint Field’s current lineup is Estrella del Sol Sanchez, Sebastian Neyra and Callum Brown from Ulrika Spacek with Callum Brown joining the band last August. For this single the…

  Miami based Gothic rock act Astari Nite have just released the video for their song “Capulet Loves Montague”. The video was inspired by a nightmare vocalist Mychael had when Astari Nite was writing their new album Here Lies, in particular “Capulet Loves Montague”. Mychael explains: I’ve always imagined what it would be like to capture a dream on film, especially one that mirrored words that I was able to desperately tear out of my…

  Soft Riot has just revealed a new video for the track “Fate’s Got A Bone To Pick With You”, taken from the album When Push Comes To Shove released November 2019 on Possession Records. This is the third video from the album. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRjc4spGKbE JJD explains: “At the beginning this track was just a concept for a bass line that I had in my head, whereby I was wanting to…

  Choir Boy have announced details of their new album ‘Gathering Swans’ for release on May 8 via Dais Records. Full of heartbreak and gently steeped in pop nostalgia, the band push their unmistakable sound to a new level.  ‘Gathering Swans’ paints a bright, hopeful, and deeply heartfelt image with a little humour along the way.   Choir Boy‘s Adam Klopp explains about the lead single ‘Complainer’: “While many of our earlier songs serve as flowery lamentations of loss and grief,…

  ‘HUAM’ is the eagerly awaited new album from SALT HOUSE, out on 20th March 2020. It is Salt House’s third collection of songs about place, politics, landscape and birds. The trio continue their love of recording ‘on location’ with this album, taking themselves to rural Argyllshire to finish writing and recording the songs which were crafted between their homes of Inverness-shire and Shetland. The natural world plays a huge influence on the band’s writing, and…

  UK industrialist Matt Hart has announced his new single ‘Triolith’. It’s a follow up to his well received recent album ‘Terra 3808’. Matt Hart is expanding on this world and the narrative within: “After the events of 3808 we find humanity on its last legs. A world controlled by the machine. The Outlaws are hunkered down in a bunker only leaving to engage in reconnaissance missions. One of which ends in many casualties. What…