A half dozen weekly fresh picks of tasty new music…
Theo Croker ft Ego Ella May & D’LEAU – Slowly
The video to this new track, from Theo Croker’s new EP ‘By The Way’ is said to be a ground breaking movement in music and AI. It does have a head spinning effect for sure although at the core is some tasty trumpet playing and sleepy soulful vocals that are, to these ears, cut from a vintage cloth and very fine indeed…
Waco Brothers – In The Dark
This is the first single from The Waco Brothers latest album ‘The Men That God Forgot’ on Plenty Tuff Records. This video features live footage of the song being worked through with a pounding conviction at Kingsize Soundlabs in Chicago where the album was recorded in 2022 with Mike Hagler…
Robert Forster – Always
This is the Brisbane singer-songwriter and Go-Betweens co-founder Robert Forster playing a live acoustic version of the superb ‘Always’, a song from his new and eighth solo album ‘The Candle and The Flame’, at Lightspace in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. The making of the record became a traumatic affair two thirds of the way through when his wife Karin Baumler received a stage four cancer diagnosis. By his own admission she is his most dependable conspirator in the music creative process and so it is so good to hear that, upon completion of the album, the pair are once again playing together, the healing power of music helping Karin navigate the other side of her ordeal…
Big Thief – Vampire Empire
Big Thief continue to spill over with creativity as heard in this clip of them performing a brand new song on the Stephen Colbert Late Show on TV in the US. There is some acid-folk style flute giving this one a delightfully pastoral wave, something which contrasts rather well with the crunchy electric balladry of front woman Adrianne Lenker…
Emiliana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra – Hilton
Always a treat to get any new music from Emiliana, this is taken from the album “Racing The Storm” set to be released 17th March 2023 via Bella Union…
Gorillaz – Silent Running
Gorillaz are letting their heart wrenchingly beautiful melancholy side come to the fore on this MTV performance of ’Silent Running’ featuring Adeleye Omotayo, from new album ‘Cracker Island’, out now…
Fruit Tree Records 