Possessions

Two hours of new cutting-edge post-punk/ punk/ noise rock/ experimental/ no wave/ darkwave/ shoegaze/ psychedelia/ dreampop/ quirky pop and other assorted slices of musical excellence, with two opening oldies - presented by Simon Edwards.
The featured album was SCHWUND's 'Dieezer Tube'.

Baby Ghosts – Ghost Boyfriend
Turkish Delight – Grammy
SCHWUND – Gullideckel
Malen'kii Miroslav Goloden – Utrom Pervoyo Yanvarya
Badge Grabber – Ugly Baby Pretty Baby
Desperate Hell – Freaks In Season
SCHWUND – Reih und Glied
Blushing – The Fires
Omnibael – The Repetition
Salem Trials – SLUM
SCHWUND – Gespenst
½ Mrmraum x Star Destroyer – Nezhnost'
Gagmesharkoff – The Nub
Platinum Crack – Can You Rock With Me
SCHWUND – Computerstaat
Solilians – Old Schmeckled Hen
Banananananana – Loose Cannon
Threx – Signals From The Void
SCHWUND – Gameboyfreak
Confusion – Vamos A Acabar Con Esto
Ultimos Nietos – Covid Brayan
Aiko El Grupo – La Seli
Print Head – In Motion
SCHWUND – Tiefflieger
Beehive – Neighborhood GOP Operative
Kod Elizara – Maneken
Secret Agent Headcheese – Leather Jackets Fast Bikes
SCHWUND – Realistisch
Selman – Tiger Stripe Facepaint
Slimex – Visitor
Granulat – Roboterauto
Dead Stare – I Can't Decide
SCHWUND – Ladefehler
Lessens – Foundations
Sara Mathius – Gautama's Trip
Luncil – Brisa

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Monday 9pm UK – 6 Towns Radio, Stoke-on-Trent – www.6towns.co.uk/
Tuesday 5:30pm EST (10:30pm UK) - Fasching Web Radio, Quebec - www.faschingwebradio.e-monsite.com/
Wednesday 7pm HKT (11am UK) – Radio Lantau, Hong Kong – www.radiolantau.com/
Saturday 9pm UK and the next Tuesday 3pm UK - Radio Wigwam - www.radiowigwam.co.uk

Loose Canon – Monday 17th January 2022 (#425)

Inner Nerd

Taffy - Inner Nerd

She Divine EP

She Divine

Black Doldrums - She Divine

Limited edition 7” single by Slowdive, released as part of the Sonic Cathedral Singles Club on November 14, 2019. Subscribe here: http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/singlesclub/

Written by Syd Barrett / James Joyce / Neil Halstead / Rachel Goswell / Christian Savill / Nick Chaplin / Simon Scott
Recorded live in 2014 by Michael Brennan 
Mixed by Neil Halstead
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Artwork by Marc Jones
Photo by deepskyobject

Slowdive – Golden Hair (live)

Desolation Angel EP

Purple Heart Parade - Petrichor

The first single from bdrmm’s debut album, released later this year.

Recorded and mixed by Alex Greaves at The Nave, Leeds
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Buy here: https://bdrmm.bandcamp.com/track/happy

Happy

bdrmm – Happy

Following up their well-received 2018 album "Used To Yesterday," LA's Smokecreens are back with the excellent new record "A Strange Dream." Produced by David Kilgour from NZ legends The Clean, "A Strange Dream" shows a band at the peak of it's talents, ably blending influences like The Go-Betweens, UK DIY indie and pop, and of course Flying Nun into a compelling, compulsive album. From the jaunty pop of opener "Fork In The Road" to the rocking "Streets of Despair" and the dreamy "On and On" this is a record that clearly shows a band that knows it's way around a timeless guitar riff and aching pop melody. Gorgeous ballads like "Nighttime Skies" and "I Love Only You" add a new depth to Smokescreens' sound, and the cover of Scrotum Poles' DIY classic "Pick The Cats Eyes Out" is perfect, and perfectly fun. A future classic.

A Strange Dream

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Smokescreens - Fork In the Road

“A quiet riot of ethereal vocals and lustrous guitars. Pinkshinyultrablast a valid insight into young modern

Russia via the early-90s Thames Valley” - The Guardian

“Beautifully toned and unconventionally fast, a gutsy effort that makes a big impression” - NME
“A complex but sumptuous confluence of mathy basslines and waves of melodic ecstasy.” - Q Magazine
“Excessively impressive, unexpectedly fast-paced shoegaze.” - Drowned In Sound

Pinkshinyultrablast, Russia’s premiere shoegaze export, have shared their epic and ethereal new single ‘Songs’.

With vocalist Lyubov moving to LA, the band were deeply immersed in exploring new ways of composing and collaborating from a distance long before it was enforced.

They tells us that "this one is kind of an oddball. I think when we recorded ‘Songs’ we weren’t really sure what to do with this 15-minute-long beast, or if we will ever get a chance to release it. For some reason, this B-side feels especially dear to all of us. Possibly because it encapsulates a certain time of us existing together as a band, a very specific moment. We’ve been living in different cities for over four years now, and I think what I miss the most about us all being in the same place is the ability to regularly spend time together in the same room, practice, and run ideas by one another — just communicate and figure stuff out, side by side. I went to a Terry Riley show last December and he was playing with his grandson Gyan. They were sitting on the opposite sides of a really wide stage, pretty far apart from one another, separated by this giant concert grand - playing, pausing, improvising - and just kind of secretly smiling at each other from across the hall. When I think of the time we worked on this song, I think of those kinds of smiles, you know. It feels like hearing back a long conversation you’ve had with a dear friend a while back. Maybe you don’t agree with everything you’ve said back then, but then it doesn’t even really matter, because you know you were just able to truly relate." 

Pinkshinyultrablast have amassed critical praise across the board since the release of their debut album ‘Everything Else Matters’ and follow-ups ‘Grandfeathered’ in 2016 and ‘Miserable Miracles’ in 2018.

On ‘Songs’ they deliver waves upon waves of expansive guitars to form a truly massive fusion of psychedelia and ambience that flows beautifully, awash with blissful synths and their trademark celestial vocals.

Pinkshinyultrablast - Songs

“Definite fan of these kids, they have that special something” – BBC Fresh on the Net
“INDIGOS have managed to blow us away with their sonic spectrum” – Bristol In Stereo

INDIGOS, the latest export of Bristol’s vibrant and significant live music scene, are pleased to announce their signing to premiere shoegaze bastions Club AC30 with the release of their heavenly self-titled debut EP.

An effortless blend of 90s post-punk grunginess mixed with layers of psychedelic guitars and irresistible pop hooks makes ‘INDIGOS’ an enchanting prospect, steeped in that ever popular juxtaposition between dark existential angst and blissful summer licks.

The 4-track was produced by Ben Johnson and IDLES guitarist Lee Kiernan with individual parts recorded from different studios, born as much from the bands financial limitations as anything else. Within these constraints they were able to pull together from various sessions and with the help of multiple collaborators, crafted something that sounded unexpectedly polished and extraordinarily expansive.

Opener ‘Silhouette Of You’ enraptures with its dreamy duel harmonies, marching, anthemic beat and blistering chorus while follow-up and lead single ‘I’m Healed’ goes to ever darker depths. ‘Animalistic’ leans into their cool slacker grooves and nonchalant delivery before euphoric closer ‘Out Of Body’ displays their more intimate stylings beautifully paired with a brutal cascade of riffs.
Lyrically the writing is diverse but always viewed through a poetic lens, exploring themes of self-reflection, projection, nostalgia, dystopia and more. They tells us that “our lyrics very often grow out of streams of consciousness as we bounce off each other’s ideas. We usually don’t know what a song is even about until it’s very nearly finished. Rather than trying to force a song into a preconceived ‘box’, we feel that creativity thrives on letting go of attachment to the end result, leaving the song to take on a form of its own, guiding the next steps we take, and essentially writing itself. Each song is as much a mystery to us as it is to anyone else, and that’s the way we like it.”

Recalling the likes of Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins and The Brian  Jonestown Massacre, their songwriting knack and live reputation piqued industry interest early on, with two Dot to Dot Festival  appearances, a support slot with Cherry Glazerr and 6 Music airplay.

Credits

Produced by Ben Johnson &amp; Lee Kiernan
Drums recorded at Monochrome Studios by Tom Gittins
Guitars recorded at Bink Bonk Studios by Mat Sampson
Vocals recorded at Ben Johnson's home studio
Mixed by Ben Johnson
Mastered by Pete Maher 
Artwork by Helen Lucy

Photography by Simon Holliday

INDIGOS - I'm Healed

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Engineered, produced and mixed by Slade McBride
Vocals: Michelle Soto
Artwork: Cosech (Jordan Braithwaite)
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