The Saints – Long March Through The Jazz Age (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
This posthumous release by Chris Bailey’s The Saints, was seven years in the making, started in 2018, but not completed until three years after his death.
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The Saints Take A Long March Through The Jazz Age: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Aussie punk pioneers The Saints, led by vocalist Chris Bailey, recorded one last album before his death in 2022, now titled, Long March Through The Jazz Age.
The Saints – Gasoline: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day
Out today, two new tracks from The Saints record Long March Through The Jazz Age (out 28th November via Fire Records).
The Lemonheads – Love Chant (Fire Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Lemonheads, well Evan Dando, darling of the 90s alt-music scene, witty, romantic, and a notorious scallywag has hit the return key, as he delivers the first Lemonheads (proper) album in 19 years – Love Chant.
The Dream Syndicate – A New, Expanded Medicine Show: 13th Floor MusicTalk Interview
Paisley Underground pioneers The Dream Syndicate celebrate the 40th anniversary of their second album, Medicine Show, with an expanded 4-CD reissue featuring 42 previously unreleased tracks.
Black Lips – Season of the Peach (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
Season of the Peach, the latest album from Black Lips, kicks the doors down from the first warped note. What follows is a relentless 14-track, 40 minute, loud, high-speed ride through death wishes, celebrity name-drops, and glorious chaos.
Dead Famous People – Wild Young Ways (Tiny Global) (13th Floor Album Review)
Dead Famous People… their story is a pop parable. Formed in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in the mid-1980s by the singularly gifted Dons Savage, they quickly shone with two Flying Nun EPs and Savage’s backing vocals graced The Chills’ Heavenly Pop Hit.
The Reds, Pinks and Purples – The Past Is a Garden I Never Fed (Fire)
There’s a special kind of romance in Glenn Donaldson’s work that explores the understated ache that sits between moments. This might be in the quiet indignities of creative life, the drift of friendships, or the daily performance of holding yourself together. Under his long-running project The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Donaldson has, over the last half-decade, […]
Lucy Gooch – Desert Window (Fire) (13th Floor Album Review)
Lucy Gooch has steadily carved out a space for herself as a distinct and affecting voice in contemporary British ambient music. Emerging first with the EP Rushing (2020) and then expanding her cinematic textures in the EP Rain’s Break, (2021) she received critical praise for her ability to merge choral elements with synth-driven soundscapes that feel both ecclesiastical and intimate.
Death and Vanilla – Whistle And I’ll Come To You (Fire Records)
Swedish group Death And Vanilla, aesthetically, chronically, and craftily, sit somewhere, as creators, drawing on genres ranging from krautrock, enoism and DIY electronica. The (core) three members Anders Hansson, Magnus Bodin, Marleen Nilsson have been creating together since the 2010’s, drawing on (not exclusively) an (inferred) love of vintage film & TV.
