The Swagger is an original 4 piece indie-alt rock band from Hornsey North London UK originally formed in March 2011.
SOURCE: Official Bio
Written by Lee Stevens & Paul Stevens
Music recorded by The Swagger 2018
Produced by Mike Bennett & The Swagger
Engineered, Mixed & mastered by Angus Wallace at Far Heath studios, Northamptonshire UK
The music video was done by Electric Copper Films Ltd
Produced by Tina Emmett
Editing & Directed by Ben Coen
LINKS:
https://theswagger.bandcamp.com
https://facebook.com/theswaggerofficial
https://facebook.com/groups/theswaggermusic
https://twitter.com/theswaggermusic
https://instagram.com/theswaggermusic
https://musicglue.com/theswaggermusic
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m1nk – The Far Side
m1nk (pronounced ’em one en kay’) is a duo based in the UK and Greece, comprised of Barry Snaith from Wakefield, UK, and Erika Bach – German-born, raised in Australia and currently living in Ithaca, Greece. Having met each other on Soundcloud, they collaborated on the track ‘Bleed Through’, hitting the alt-rock chart on that platform after the first day.
Erika Bach (a.k.a. Lola Demo) comes from a more garage rock background with some electronic influences. Her haunting voice and edgy trash ethic sometimes remind us of a less hopeful Patti Smith. Barry Snaith (a.k.a. The Inconsistent Jukebox) moves effortlessly between genres, his productions encompassing everything from acerbic alt-pop and industrial soundscapes to French cabaret and dubstep.
For these two, writing together was instantly a natural and organic process, each adding what they felt at the time of writing. Sometimes structured and sometimes completely abstract, vocally and sonically.
m1nk produce dark, gothic, electronic soundscapes for the passionately dispossessed and sexually charged absentees of the blank gender nation. Their songs are about lust, disappointment and dangerous encounters. They are very distinctive, yet hard to define.
Barry’s influences include Bernard Herrmann, David Lynch, Francis Bacon, Robert Fripp, Captain Beefheart and Dali. Erika is inspired by stormy days, a little pain and ugliness, human kindness and bewilderment.
For the Single ‘The Far Side’, Bach wrote the lyrics and melody first. “This is a song of yearning, waiting and disappointment,” says Erika Bach. With no particular sonic or musical structure, Snaith added the soundscape to fit the plaintive mood.
‘The Far Side’ released on August 1 across online music stores and streaming platforms, as well as Bandcamp. Find this and their previous single ‘Fuck You Up’ on Spotify and everywhere.
“Hauntingly ethereal… the imagery cloaked in a thickening black atmospheric is all at once petrified, desolate and withered yet strangely seductive in a darkening way”
– The Sunday Experience“A dark edgy sonic trip… like David Lynch armed with a fuzz box”
– The Spill Magazine“A stunning slab of gritty, grimy industrial electro reminiscent of the KLF at their idiosyncratic best. From the distorted, glitchy guitars to the impassive rapped vocals”
– Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna, BBC6 Music Selector)“A genre-defying collage of electro beats, distorted guitar… surreal lyrics and spooky chanted vocals”
– Essentially Pop“Apart from Lynch, this music brings to mind Portishead, The Bad Seeds, Nico, the softer underbelly of Lydia Lunch, and Siouxsie Sioux, and even the darkest side of Mylene Farmer. The lyrics take you to a noir place and, surprisingly enough, it’s not an uncomfortable one”
– Big Takeover MagazineLINKS:
http://www.m1nk.com
https://www.facebook.com/m1nk.official
https://twitter.com/m1nk_official
https://sejarecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/m1nk_band
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SNKT – Lost in Love
SNKT has just released his new single and video titled ‘Lost in Love’. Take this for what you will, but, this is a fun song. It’s not so much in your face but it is wildly infectious. SNKT’s vocals are stellar in an original popstar fashion and perfectly compliment the music. And that music, while steady, is signature. Coming from a new artist, having found his sound really shows where SNKT is headed. And it’s atmospheric.
ABOUT SNKT
SNKT is the stage name of Stockholm-based artist Jack O’Connor, but while his alias comes from a Swedish word for ‘saint’, O’Connor is far from anointed as he unpacks sins across his upcoming debut No Saints.
Born and raised in Ireland, O’Connor began writing and producing music in university, pulling from his country’s gift for storytelling with a coming-of-age soundtrack by Robyn, Kate Bush, and The Knife. Taking from his experiences discovering his queer identity along with the rush of an Irish college experience, SNKT inherently began as a project born out of club pop adoration met with searingly candid confessionals.
“I realized that when you’re the one with the pen, you can easily portray yourself in the best light possible,” O’Connor adds. “I found myself being more honest in terms of writing where I saw faults in both parties. This is where I thought of the ‘saint’ idea, in that there were no saints in these relationships.”
Considering the personal nature of his latest batch of songs, O’Connor decided to approach No Saints as its sole writer and producer after working with Grammy Award-winning producer Philip Larsen among others. The end result is one of the most fully formed, ebullient pop debuts in recent memory anchored by O’Connor’s deft vision of heartfelt dance music.
Lead single “Lost in Love” is peak club hours excellence in an alternate universe where dancefloors are unencumbered by lockdowns. Written during an isolating period this past summer, “Love” finds O’Connor grappling with the pandemic alongside the end of a fleeting romance doomed from the get-go. Love and lust factor heavily across No Saints, but at its core, SNKT’s debut is a document of unvarnished personal growth and acceptance in real-time.
“I feel like this record is very me,” O’Connor concludes. “Growing up gay in Ireland had its challenges, though I learned so much of myself through music, and I feel this record is, in part, a tribute to all the great music I was raised on that gave me strength when I was weak. Through this record, I was able to truly be my unashamed gay self and I hope to be able to spread the same joy that I was able to hear and feel in my teenage years to anyone who’s going through a rough time.”
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/snktstockholm
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Vandebilt – Dream In Colour
Vandebilt {ˈvændəbɪlt, pronounced in three syllables ‘Van’, ‘Duh’ & ‘built’} is a four piece dance-floor inspired indie disco band from Sunderland, in the North-East of England.
Taking their name from the Paul McCartney song “Mrs. Vandebilt”, the band are not one for gimmicks or Instagram inspired fads or the rush of the industry and take inspiration from the song of their name – don’t worry, no need to rush. Their music is honest, positive and centered around the band’s experiences of love, lust, and loss as well as frequent experiences of north-east working clubs.
LINKS:
https://tippingpoint.lnk.to/vandebilt-dreamincolour
https://www.facebook.com/vandebiltmusic
https://www.instagram.com/vandebiltmusic
https://twitter.com/Vandebiltmusic