Wave Pictures announce new single

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Misanthropic quirkophiles The Wave Pictures return this month with a new 7" single, 'Jonny Helm Sings'.

The three tracks are sung by Pictures' drummer Jonny Helm (the clue's in the title), and showcase a stripped down interpretation of their usual brand of twisted indie-pop. However, seasoned fans will be pleased to know there are still plenty of lyrical bon mots on offer.

The band had also announced a pre-Christmas show at Union Chapel on 22 December, but unfortunately for all those of you us who can't on the guestlist, it's already sold out. Quite how this happened before being announced is anyone's guess.

You can still purchase the 7" through Moshi Moshi, however. Here's a taster, 'Now You Are Pregnant':

  The Wave Pictures - Jonny Helm Sings - 01 Now You Are Pregnant by Freeman PR 

Listen Up! No. 73: Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo - Little Deaths

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BAFTA Award-winning Australian songwriter Emily Barker sings wistful, undulating songs with a endearingly breathy fragility. It's as if she's staring out of a window at rolling hills, her gentle ruminations and lightly strummed guitar later commited to a tape of Red Clay Halo's more than capable accompaniment. At once melancholy and uplifting, minor in key but major in depth, this kicks the crap out of most of the unseemly dribble of contemporary folk seeping out of London. Her record, Almanac, funded with help from Pledge Music, comes out in February. In the meantime, enjoy her last single, the beautiful 'Little Deaths'.

Listen Up! No. 72: Cerebral Ballzy - Insufficient Fare

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Re-invigorated by Bad Religion's best record for almost a decade, I've been telling anyone who'll listen for the past month or so that punk-rock is cool again. Here's the proof - in hardcore form - for the uber-trendies who hitherto refused to believe me. They're from Brooklyn (tick it off, uber-trendies) but they're also ethnically diverse, and you won't see them in oversized sweaters and deck shoes. They say things like "you haven’t heard of the New York hardcore scene because we it", they sound like Bad Brains (minus the reggae), and they've already been tagged "Brooklyn's wildest band". If they intend to do themselves justice, they'll last six months. Get in early to say you were there.

Free Download: Asobi Seksu - Trails

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Brooklyn noise-pop quartet Asobi Seksu are back, armed with beautiful new track 'Trails' to fill the guitar-pedal shaped hole in your life until their fourth full-lengther, Fluorescence, drops on 14 February 2011.

This one showcases a slightly more 60s-ish vibe than the pitch (im)perfect dreamy shoegaze delivered on their finest effort to date, 2007's Citrus. However, they wear it well, meaning Fluorescence could mark an intriguing semi-reinvention for the band.

Download 'Trails' from Polyvinyl here, or check out the video below for a taster:

Listen Up! No. 71: Palmyra Delran - Shut Out

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Formerly the songwriter/guitarist in forgotten 90s trash-rockers The Friggs, Palmyra Delran shows she's not averse to staying on trend with new single, 'Shut Out', her first new material to surface since 2008's debut EP She Digs The Ride. Despite half a Hole-ish nod to her 90s roots, on 'Shut Out' Delran still positions herself comfortably amongst this year's noisy, female fronted sunshine-poppers, particularly evoking California's finest Dum Dum Girls and Best Coast.

Palmyra Delran - Shut Out - single (Filter Mag excl premiere) by Press Here