Essential new releases from this week, also featuring nabeel, Public Circuit, PARADE and Kansas City Playboys.
Humour by Rosie Sco | Words: Brad Sked, Hazel Blacher, Toby Furlong
Humour – 'In The Paddies'
Glaswegian quintet Humour are back, sharing new single 'In The Paddies', ahead of debut record 'Learning Greek', due for release on August 8th via So Young Records. Creating post-rock that meanders on the fringes of post-hardcore and alternative rock, here their scuzzed-out sound leans into a more dynamic arena, contending for the perfect soundtrack to those summer skateboarding shredding sessions (for those who are that way inclined that is). Speaking on the track's lyrical themes, frontman Andreas Christoloudis explains: "In the Paddies is from the point of view of a character who summons various members of the dead throughout history to rise in a muddy field and asks them what it would take to allow their souls to rest peacefully". (Brad Sked)
Pebbledash – 'Cartography'
An ethereal wonder, 'Cartography' sees Cork 5-piece Pebbledash take us on a voyage of stunningly somnolent shoegaze and noise-rock, journeying through the cosmos and beyond. The track begins with delightfully dreamy guitars, akin to the more celestial-stylings of Slowdive and Pinkshinyultrablast, before launching into a My Bloody Valentine-esque wall-of-noise that sonically traverses the boundary between otherworldly shoegaze and saccharine sweet dream pop and noise. Pebbledash will be taking their stunning shoegaze across the country later this year, joining both Cardinals and Men an Tol for the So Young tour that culminates at Moth Club on the 30th September. (Brad Sked)
nabeel (نبيل) – 'resala يلمع'
Those in search of a fresh, hearty slice of sunshine toasted slowcore will have their appetites well and truly sated on nabeel's (نبيل) latest cut 'resala يلمع'. Languoring in a warm, soupy midsummer heat of shoegaze guitar and panned vocals, the track's steady pulse invites you to take a breather in its cool, shaded patches of gentle daylight fuzz. Emerging from the DIY scene in Virginia, 'resala يلمع', sees project frontman Yasir Razak nod to the 90s guitar music that he says he heard playing on the radio while growing up, and its lyrics are sung entirely in Arabic as a means of bridging Razak's identity as a first-generation immigrant. The new single serves as the latest taster from nabeel's (نبيل) upcoming EP 'ghayoom (غيوم)', due for release on the 24th of July. (Hazel Blacher)
Public Circuit – 'Samson'
Leaning into a playful synth pop maximalism that almost feels as if it could be bouncing through the winding, squiggling abstractions of an iconic Memphis Milano design, 'Samson' is the latest icy cool, shades-on-indoors banger from New York City's Public Circuit. Arriving alongside an announcement of their upcoming second album 'Modern Church', the trio's new single could be described as a sort of new wave conflation of Yello's 'Oh Yeah' and Talking Head's 'Burning Down The House', marrying the former's scattered, hardware midi propulsions with the latter's jutting polyrhythms and booming vocal chants. Whether you find yourself at home alone cooking pasta on a quiet weekday evening or fighting an army of bloodsucking monsters in a garish shell suit beside Bill Murray, 'Samson' will have you shaking a leg to its glimmering, irresistible grooves. (Hazel Blacher)
PARADE – 'It Moves'
Listening to London's PARADE, a sprawling octet of creatives that come from varying artistic backgrounds, you very much get the sense that there is a plurality of brilliant minds taking turns to steer the ship in different stylistic directions. From the dissonant, King Krule-esque distortions of their previous single 'Que', to the eerie, lo-fi acoustics of predecessor 'Reach', there is a shapeshifting quality to their music that brings an element of surprise and unpredictability, perhaps heightened by the starkly contrasting vocalists and changing instrumentation. Their latest track 'It Moves' glissades through choppy, merciless waters of brooding experimental art-rock, mooring vaulting jazz-inflected guitar arpeggios beneath a warped, fraught sounding vocal, and tension builds and billows throughout, autonomous and mercurial like the organic, ever-changing pressure of the sky. 'It Moves' serves as the final single from their upcoming mixtape 'Lightning Hit the Trees', due for release on the 11th July. (Hazel Blacher)
Kansas City Playboys – 'Greens Turn To Grey'
Introducing a unique brand of 'country sleaze' not seen since the heyday of the Violent Femmes, Kansas City Playboys debut with the wonderful 'Greens Turn To Grey'. The first release from the Camberwell band is an energetic jaunt that seems to evolve and expand into a very memorable release throughout its four-minute playtime. The duo's debut track arrives via KCP Records, and it serves as a noteworthy slice of off-kilter country reinvention that places the duo firmly in the 'ones to watch' category. (Toby Furlong)
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