When up is down and black is white, how do you make sense of what makes no sense? Maintaining equanimity, innocence, and authenticity within a world of deep fakes, media manipulation, and 24-hour news is what inspired many of the ten songs on The Violet Mine’s new album White Night. Slated for release on February 16, 2024, White Night is a collaboration between singer-songwriter, Meredith Minogue and songwriter-guitarist, Jim Barry along with an all-star cast of local New York City musicians who have collaborated with the duo for years.
Rising Reading trio doops release the new single ‘everything’s fine’ (27th June). Released via the freshly launched DIY imprint Hot Earth Records (HER001), the track offers another radiant, beguiling example of the band’s Psychedelic-Post-Punk sound. Following openings for Opus Kink, Do Nothing and Plantoid, the band has already established itself as one to watch into the release of new material. Jagged, fuzzy, and unapologetically spacey and hypnotic, ‘everything’s fine’ is as comparable to Pink Floyd as it is to Shame and Radiohead. Thematically, the track wrestles with the monotony and compromise of modern working life. Driven by angular dual-guitar lines,…
