British Asian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dewan-Dean Soomary returns with a new project that blends the snappy pop sensibility of indie disco with the bleak humour and biting social commentary of post-punk.

Teenage Sequence tells acid-tongued and relatable stories about the humiliations and alienations of modern life: the casual racism of the music industry or your crush, the endless series of hangovers that keep you stuck as an eternal kid, the despair of living in a world on the verge of destruction, the yearning when you fall in love despite all of this. Lush synthesisers, fuzzy guitars, and relentless 909 beats build a soundscape that is as sleek, pulsing, merciless, and ultimately as irresistible as London itself— demanding that the listener dance, even as it reminds them that the dance-floor is burning. 

Teenage Sequence’s debut single “All This Art” turns a scathing eye on the small indignities and hypocrisies of a music industry that doesn’t want face its own racial shortcomings— all the while poking fun at its self and sarcastically  sending up the warped relationship we all have to ourselves and our art. 
Clocking in at 6.29 of spoken word over a dance beat as bright, tart, and cutting as the song’s lyrics, “All This Art” disregards the rules of modern pop and alternative songwriting in favour of brutal honesty and bittersweet fun.
	- K.M Ferebee

All This Art

Music:Pablo Casadey
Lyrics:Aphrodite Goulioumi

Mixed and mastered  : Blackkassidy Production

Artwork by Aphrodite Goulioumi

Reality

Superior Mirage

Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

G.N.D. Deity

Super Mega Ultra

Stimulation

The Drin forge further into their own captivating world of sound on "Tigers Cage", the first taste of their fourth album, 'Elude the Torch'. Since 2021, the Cincinnati group has released one strikingly original album per year, crawling closer to the aether with a driving, reverberated rhythm. The Drin's current six piece lineup is at a new height - loose, yet focused and commanding. Deep layers of saxophone, synthesizer, percussion, and strings stir across "Tigers Cage" while D McCartney's nebulous verbiage further paints the dystopian landscape. Look for the Drin on tour across Europe this April, followed by the early Summer release of 'Elude the Torch'.

The Drin - Tigers Cage

Quest For Blood

Blown (Pop!)

June 14th, what a prodigious day! 

We will be releasing Marcel Wave’s inaugural album ‘Something Looming’, packed with eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Marcel Wave (featuring members of Cold Pumas & Sauna Youth) are part trades club symphony, part itchy serenade and part wistful lament. This heady concoction of ‘Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council’ will be formally baptised on stage in London at the MOTH Club that very same day (June 14th) with an album launch (featuring The Pheromoans + LASH), now on sale.

Check out their first single ‘Barrow Boys’, a raucous ode to the death of the docklands. Out now digitally and available to study in this suitably wavy VHS promo: https://youtu.be/7Si1SslYnBU

‘Something Looming’ will be released on June 14th by Upset The Rhythm and Feel It Records (in the USA).

It is available to pre-order now on 180g black vinyl too: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Marcel Wave - Barrow Boys

Aphrodite Goulioumi -Lyrics.
Aphrodite Goulioumi - Vocals.
Pablo Casadey - Guitar, bass, drum machine, backing vocals.
Dewan-Dean Soomary - Synths and additional drum machine.

Arranged, mixed and mastered by Dewan-Dean Soomary.

Artwork by Aphrodite Goulioumi

What I want

Marcel Wave return with effervescent bop ‘Stop/Continue’ today, a punctual new single owing much to decaying industrial backdrops to childhood. 

‘Stop/Continue’ dwells on derelict mills, spooling rivers and the unfaltering sweep of the second hand. We very much like songs with a heavy dose of rumination at UTR and if they come with a trippy video of waterways, tunnels and some dancing too, then all the better!

‘Stop/Continue’ is out now digitally, it features on Marcel Wave’s debut album ‘Something Looming’ out June 14th on Upset The Rhythm and Feel It Records (USA). Dive in!

https://youtu.be/CQ0lvEnQLGw

Marcel Wave - 'Stop/Continue'

Very little info so far, but very efficient DIY UK Post-Punk.

*Update: Marcel Wave is MM Lyle of A Terrible Splendour, a synthwave post-punk project, with all the romanticism and doomed fatality of the genre. Marcel Wave had a prior incarnation as a synth-based project in 2018. But this new demo is strictly garage (bass/guitar/drums), and indie, with post-punk phrasings reminiscent of Suburban Lawns, Kleenex, Dolly Mixture, etc.. VERY GOOD,

Discount Demos

Stream demo

Marcel Wave - "Discount Centre" (2019)

Noise/post-punk  band

https://venusinnoise.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1XgIYLoOrBc1QevoZ1JKtE

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCCe-XCCjNnYSCNLxlAf2w

https://www.instagram.com/venusinnoise/

Reality

Venus in Noise

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