Promoting and Supporting Women in Music
Celebrating the launch of the new Get In Her Ears website, tonight’s show brought the usual array of great new tunes to our listeners’ ears, from the likes of Weaves, Wy, Fever Dream & Pom Poko.
We also had Aussie scuzz punks Mannequin Death Squad with us in the studio to play a few tracks and chat about their current UK tour.
Listen back to the show here:
Manchester’s coolest post-punk collective PINS released their new single ‘Serve The Rich’ last month, and it’s been swirling around our skulls ever since. Produced by The Kills’ Jamie Hince, the track is spiked with sassy bass lines and serious attitude that’s destined to “save the kids”.
Speaking about their new song, Vocalist Faith said “‘Serve The Rich’ was my opportunity to assert myself. I’m saying that we as PINS, musicians, women, Labour voters and feminists, are here to save the kids; we’re here to save each other, we’re here to save ourselves.”
The band are currently supporting The Breeders on their October European tour, and they’ll be performing throughout November at their own headline shows across the UK. With their defiant and daring new track, PINS have created an anthem for girls who are fed up of capitalism, and ready to embrace anarchy. Grab a ticket for their UK tour here, and listen to ‘Serve The Rich’ below.
Following their debut EP The Art Of Letting Go, East London rockers Thunder On The Left have made a welcome return to our ears with a seething new single.
Oozing an eerie sense of unease, ‘National Insecurity’ is an ominous depiction of a dystopian world that society’s heading towards because of its hyper-dependency on technology. Filled with aggressively thrashing beats and whirring riffs, swooning vocals flow throughout with a stirring, dark energy. Building to a thrilling, angst-driven climax, ‘National Insecurity’ provides the raging outburst we all need right now.
Watch the haunting new video for ‘National Insecurity’ here:
‘National Insecurity’ is out 27th October via Malevolent Records.
Mari Lane
@marimindles
Not satisfied with songwriting and guitar-playing for Bella Union’s Landshapes, Jemma Freeman has hitched her wagon to a Cosmic Something and put together a four track EP, showcasing her dream-pop view of various corners of the world. For those familiar with Freeman’s work with Landshapes’ pysch-rock explorations of earthy magick, the guitarist’s solo work is perhaps a more sonorous, spacey departure – albeit with her familiar guitar style.
The EP’s title track kicks things into gear. Freeman’s laconic verse vocals sit high above an overdriven garage beat, interspersed with flecks of bleepy-guitar, before slipping into some higher notes for its chorus. With the song’s lyrical criticisms ringing in your ears, the effect is rather like Cait Le Bon and Courtney Barnett crossing swords above a pub in Hackney.
Second track ‘Black Rain’ is slower, but hypnotically so, as a gently lilting guitar line wrests for control with a flash of strings, before exploding with a flurry in the middle eight. The follower, ‘Kopenhagen’, is a little more real-world, depicting the Danish capital with a ‘so-so’ quality – so much so that it verges on the eerie. The sense of the oddity amongst the mundane is a little bit Bowie, as is final track, ‘The Visitor’. A sombre, string-laden ballad about being on the outside of a disaffected world, the closer is an ideal final showcase of Freeman’s abilities, her voice echoing into the onrushing vacuum of feedback.
As debut solo EPs go, this is the way to do it. A multi-faceted, kaleidoscopic journey in just four tracks, released on a custard-yellow cassette. Cosmic or otherwise, Jemma Freeman’s certainly onto something…
Someone Else To Blame, the upcoming EP from Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something, is out 20th October. And you can celebrate its release by coming along to see her live for Get In Her Ears live at the Amersham Arms that night!
John McGovern
@etinsuburbiaego
