“We don’t always get to hear the mind of the creator. And this is that mind with little or nothing more and it’s beguiling…”
heartache
“Run’ is a single that hides in itself, that comes across pain free and breezy. It washes, soaks, and soothes over smoothly, it doesn’t strain to command our attention…”
“Part gypsy, part folk, fluidic and calm, or calm if it weren’t so heart breaking. With a sadness etched into each line and each verse, there’s a feeling of warmth and reflection…”
“This assortment of tracks takes a thin postpunk set up and carves out a desolate sound. There’s as much 60s folk as there is Young Marble Giants and it’s almost all stripped back and bare…”
Continuing their run of dirtbomb-raw singles, EPs and collections, Whisky Stain have released Human Touch.
Music from UK, US and NL, to here now and onto your playlists…
“Surroundings layer up around swathes of warm colours that twist between cold ache and warmth, there’s traces of light and residual heat and a slow touch of absolute blame…”
Music in brief – Singles Roundup Part 1…
Headclouds – ‘Marmalade’ / Juniper Nights – ‘Birth Right’ / El Toppo – ‘Stig of the Dump & Ogglet’.
…For three minuets I knew someone intimately, for three minutes I was someone else…
Rats on the Run 