A woman sure of her own purity, until she meets the monster inside. Sheherazaad wrote "Pakeezah" in Lucknow's Mughal ruins, about purity culture and caste. Debut album out Nov 20.
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@stereobar.netA woman sure of her own purity, until she meets the monster inside. Sheherazaad wrote "Pakeezah" in Lucknow's Mughal ruins, about purity culture and caste. Debut album out Nov 20.
@stereobar.netBibi Club cover Lhasa De Sela's "J'arrive à la ville", her song about a great-grandfather arriving in Marseille from Lebanon, quicker and brighter, and aimed at today's hostility toward immigrants.
@stereobar.netA live favourite finally on record. Madra Salach's "Ribbon Factory" runs on a conveyor-belt guitar, mandolin and harmonium, and climbs until it crushes. Recorded in New York with Loren Humphrey.
@stereobar.netHMLTD call "Umami" the closest they've come to a club track. Bloghouse and eurotrash synths, one night told in flashes, and a vampire bite on the dancefloor. From FANGS, out Oct 23.
@stereobar.netA girl rehearses confronting the man who abused her, and someone keeps calling cut. PISS's "blocking a scene you can't remember" builds from near silence to a heavy slow-core surge. Debut album out Oct 30.
@stereobar.netPorchlight's "Topsoil" lives on the ledge between standing still and moving on: a snake at the threshold, a stall at the junction, a storm that won't break. All nerve, no certainty.
@stereobar.netIggy Pop wrote it, sings it and gets crude in the first line. Mogwai answer with a tornado of guitar noise straight from their punk side. "Underground" is on Happy Tears, out Jan 8.
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@stereobar.netRototoms, a racing drum machine and a heartbroken vocal. Art Feynman's "Down With Heaven" writes off paradise as a cheap fantasy, with a video shot entirely on LiDAR scanners. Out now on Western Vinyl.
@stereobar.netSharp guitar stabs, Rebecca Allan at her most sardonic, and a song about working out who your people are. Delivery's "Measuring Cup" opens Zone 3, out Feb 26 on Heavenly Recordings.
@stereobar.netAl Doyle plays everything on "Hard Times In America" except the Korg Delta, that's James Murphy. A US travel diary with the dread turned up, sung in his own voice at last. From Hollywood Saviour, out Nov 20.
@stereobar.netA gift left for an old friend, a flaw owned up to, a circle of friends bound for life. Pit Pony's "The Present" is softer and wider than "Thunder", recorded with Jackie Purver seven months pregnant.