Soft Healer - Civilization's Dying / Grand Isle

Soft Healer have a new one sided 10" out next week and also a new website. Listen to the single below, the player also has their previous Captured Tracks 7" Movie Light / Gentle One.

songs by SoftHealer

Hatcham Social - This Daring Light

This is a re-post, I love this song. It's a bonustrack from Hatcham Social's cassette EP Found In The Woods II from 2008 when they were still lo-fi. HS have just recorded their second album which should be out soon.

Belbury Poly - The Willows

Belbury Poly's great record The Willows is re-issued by Ghost Box on vinyl and CD together with The Focus Group's Sketches And Spells. You can buy the pair in a bundle here. Below a stream of 'Wildspot' and 'The Willows', the first track appeared last year on the brilliant Dirty Sound System mix I Remember The First Time I Heard Your Voice.

Belbury Poly - Wildspot / The Willows by youandmeintheecho

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Video)

PJ Harvey's new album leaked and is also streaming here. I like it better after a few spins, 'The Glorious Land' and 'Bitter Branches' are great songs and I'm currently hooked on 'England', I read this review about the record that said .. the song 'England' begins and ends with some kind of ethnic throat singing and such excruciating shrieking we thought the foxes were shagging on the bins again. If someone sat next to us and did that in our ears we'd get off the bus and walk home. Listen to 'England' here:



I think it's overall a good record with some weak moments, the last song is a duet with a guy I don't recognise. It sounds really M.O.R.
Below the video for the title track.

Therapies Son - Yellow Mama

Another track from Therapies Son's next EP Over The Sea, it's released by Transparent on March 15. Pre-order from Pure Groove. Previously previewed track 'Touching Down' is here.

Forest Swords - BBC 6 Mix

A new Forest Swords mix tape with Demdike Stare, Echo Lake and Women.



Tracklist:

Oneohtrix Point Never — Stress Waves

Echo Lake — In Dreams

Siobhán Donaghy — Medevac


Demdike Stare — Caged In Stammheim

 



oOoOO — Burnout Eyess

 




Lil’ Kim — Lighters Up

 



Julian Lynch — Rancher

 




Women — Group Transport Hall

 



Pariah — Detroit Falls

 




Kenickie — Come Out 2 Nite


 




King Tubby — Flight Of Africa Dub

 



J Dilla — Two Can Win

 




Puro Instinct - No Mames / Lost At Sea

Puro Instinct's debut LP is excellent, one of the best records around now. It's out soon on Mexican Summer.

'No Mames' :



'Lost At Sea' :

Echo Lake - Young Silence EP

Echo Lake's EP is out February 14th on No Pain In Pop.

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - New Album In May

The VEGC finished recording their 3rd album yesterday, it's out in May. Below the tracklist and a stream of 'The Venereal Game' from Love On An Oil Rig. For 'A Biting Wind' go here.

Bag of Meat
Lost my Face
Pistol Whipped
Fire In The Wife
A Conversation
John Denver’s Wife
Richer Than My Tribe
Card Trick With a Chimp
Not Waving But Drowning
My Imagination Can’t Save Me Now
A Biting Wind Followed by an Occasional Drift of Snow
As Jungle Drums Rang Loud and Clear Across the Amazon We Held Our Heads and Screamed

Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say / My Baby Wants Me Dead

The new Vivian Girls record Share The Joy is out April 12. The first single sounds very good and is free here. Below a stream of the track plus the old 'Wild Eyes' b-side 'My Baby Wants Me Dead'.