LISTEN: Stream Ghost Guilt’s debut ‘EP 1’

Durham “grunge-tinted fuzz pop” rockers Ghost Guilt have released their debut EP via Frux Tapes today, and we’re delighted to share their raucous new sounds with you. Inspired by the bands they saw performing around their hometown, front woman Cat Black wrote the EP alongside band mates Ellie, Stevo & Jonny to combat a turbulent few years battling intense anxiety and depression.

Fortunately, after speaking out and seeking professional help, Cat is back on track and ready to front Ghost Guilt alongside her supportive band mates. Thier debut EP hosts four tracks, all of which are taken from their first recording session with Neil Combstock at Rocking Horse Studios in Durham.

Speaking about the band and the new release, Cat says: “Ghost Guilt has been such a positive place for me, I never thought I would have the courage to stand up and scream everything out in front of people!”

Listen to Ghost Guilt’s debut EP below and follow the band on Facebook for more updates.

Track Listing:

1. Billy Liar
2. Creepy
3. Heavy Weather (social anxiety)
4. This Girl Can’t

Ghost Guilt will be playing with Bob Nastanovich from Pavement and Schwervon at Empty Shop in Durham on Monday 4th December.

Kate Crudgington
@KCBobCut

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Track(s) Of The Day: Yumi And The Weather – ‘Long Before / Callum’

Yumi And The Weather is Brighton-based project fronted by the crystalline-voiced singer/songwriter/producer, Ruby Taylor. For those who let their ears and whole bodies drift to her wave, Yumi And The Weather make beautiful indie-electro pop, mixed with guitar, serving up dreams of endless, blissful summers, with an added depth. Now, Taylor has offered us a taste of what’s to come on next year’s debut album with a special AA side release.

‘Long Before’ is a sparkling guitar-led song reminiscent of Blondie. The lyrics soar around the crevices of a doomed relationship – “You were hiding from me/lying to me long before you came around to me.” The thrilling guitar solidifies the poignancy of the lyrics, lifting it up and letting it explode into sonic stardust.

‘Callum’, however, is a more introspective, electronica-fuelled offering. Another break-up song, Taylor’s voice repeats the name “Callum” throughout the beautiful chorus as the track builds to a powerful climax, ending with the poignant lyrics: “Like flowers that bloomed and slowly died… You didn’t seem to notice.”

Both tracks add beauty to the mundane, turning heartbreak into something transformative. The perfect sustinence for cold November days to make the endorphins dance again.

 

‘Long Before / Callum’ is out now via MIOHMI Records. Yumi And The Weather’s debut album is due for release in May 2018, but in the mean time, listen to more of her on Soundcloud – she deserves your love!

Fi Ni Aicead
@gotnomoniker

Photo Credit: Joeseth Carter

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Track Of The Day: Queen Zee – ‘Idle Crown’

Hot on the heels of their last single ‘Fly The Pink Flag’, GIHEs favourites Queen Zee have released new track ‘Idle Crown’, and it’s a smartly executed piece of Marilyn Manson-esque garage punk. Released via the band’s own label Sasstone Records, the Liverpool group have yet to record something that we don’t instantly fall in love with.

Blending activism and politics into their fleshy, raucous tunes, ‘Idle Crown’ is another fiery gem in Queen Zee’s crown. Front person Zee explains the inspiration behind the track:”‘Idle Crown’ is essentially a narrative between two characters trapped in a toxic relationship. It’s something everyone can relate too, but what I wanted to do was question heteronormativity using a familiar setting. A theme throughout our album as a whole is society’s wish for LGBTQ+ people to conform to a standard, regardless of the happiness or health of them. Within ‘Idle Crown’, I used two LGBTQ+ characters trapped in a heteronormative relationship to express the pain of being unable to live as your true self”

The band will head back out on the road again with Marmozets in February 2018 to deliver more of their fearless, provocative sounds to the eager crowds who caught them live earlier this year. Together, Queen Zee (vocals/guitar), Jason Taylor Brown (guitar), Frank Wortho (bass), David Bloom (drums) and Courtney Colley (Keys & Vocals) “give so much of a fuck, that they really couldn’t give a single fuck” – and we’re more than happy to follow their example.

Listen to ‘Idle Crown’ below.

Queen Zee February 2018 Tour Dates (with Marmozets)

Friday 2nd  – Cardiff – The Tramshed
Saturday 3rd – Southampton – Engine Rooms
Sunday 4th – Brighton – Concorde 2
Tuesday 6th – Cambridge – Cambridge Junction
Wednesday 7th –  London – Student Central
Thursday 8th – Nottingham – Rescue Rooms
Friday 9th – Newcastle – Riverside
Sunday 11th – Sheffield – The Leadmill
Monday 12th – Edinburgh – The Liquid Room

Follow Queen Zee on Facebook for more updates.

Kate Crudgington
@KCBobCut

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ALBUM: Permahorn – ‘My Blood Carries My Dreams Away’

Opening with the swirl of looped tape and a flurry of different voices, the title track of Permahorn‘s debut album, My Blood Carries My Dreams Away, blindsides its listener. There may be melody ahead – but the anger and confusion is never far away.

The latest signees to slowcore maestro Kramer’s Shimmy-Disc label, Permahorn officially comprise a duo named Saint Pauly & Jexy Pesic with the former taking guitar, vocals and percussion and the latter bass, vocals and drums. 

Second track ‘Vertigo’ is an appropriately cinematic take for a song named after a Hitchcock classic; Jexy’s delivery is dulcet and talks of being dizzy and high whilst guitar lines fall gently around her voice. Taking points from another psycho-sexual movie auteur, the album’s first single ‘Into the Dreams (Slut)’ is a Lynchian seduction. “We’ll build a floating castle and then we’ll tear it down” intones a Nico-sounding Jexy over a backing that throbs with an ache reminiscent of Kramer’s previous work with Low.  

The album has its twisted takes on rock stylings too. ‘Radiation’ starts with an overdriven barrage of guitars that bleeds into the post-rock of Mogwai. ‘Lynch Mob’ is a darkly ironic ballad built around Pauly’s spoken word vocals; lyrics that talk of the happiness of “being part of the crowd” bring in the bleak sensibility of a Bad Seeds murder ballad, by way of Arab Strap. The Glaswegians’ influence is also present on the suitably haunting ballad ‘Ghost’ and the goth-folk snarl of ‘Peel Me’.  

 

‘Weather’, meanwhile, has the drone strum of The Velvet Underground, buzzing repetitively in the foreground, with both Jexy and Pauly’s intertwining and melodious voices sitting slightly further back. ‘Friday 5:13’ keeps up the VU feel too – although the lyrical subject matter of obsessive behaviour and observation harks back to Pulp’s ‘I Spy’ and their epic ‘This Is Hardcore’.

The album is not without its lighter moments, however – though even they too are couched in darkness. ‘Roll Over’ with its major-key guitars, is a creepy take on the children’s song ‘Ten In The Bed’, while closer ‘Daniel’ is a gently lilting ballad that draws to a close with an echoing shudder of guitar. It leaves the album’s tales of dark dreams and fuzzy reality on an uncertain and quizzical note.

Absorbing and all-too-short, My Blood Carries My Dreams Away is a collection of hypnotic swirling tunes and vocal delivery that carries both a bitter smirk and an alluring snarl. And, through instrumentation as dark and multi-layered as their lyrics, topped with a jet-black sense of humour, Permahorn have created an album perfect for the long nights of winter.  

My Blood Carries My Dreams Away is out on 1st December via Shimmy-500.

John McGovern
@etinsuburbiaego

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