Our recent recommendations for Dareshack
Sublime electric elegance for clarinet and keys - casting a pastoral net of aching beauty and melancholy over your weary existence. Transportative field notes for the soul, vital FFO: Mort Garson, Virginia Astley, Ghostbox Recs, ECM, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Colleen.
GROUP LISTENING live at Dareshack.
San Francisco sadcore veteran Glenn Donaldson makes a long overdue transatlantic debut with The Reds, Pinks and Purples; shimmering retro-sympathetic college rock rich in sentimental Magnetic Fields-style tragicomedy and jangly warmth. New favourite FFO: The Go-Betweens, early R.E.M., The Tubs, Trust Fund, Sarah Records.
THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES
Dark, dirgy and doped-out post-punk skuzz! Drahla kickstart your wicked heart after a brief yet unwelcome 3 year break. With sinister industrial sludgtronics from Jerome in support, this one’s a no-brainer FFO: Dry Cleaning, Cola, Crack Cloud, Ditz, Delta 5, Sonic Youth.
DRAHLA live at Dareshack.
Southern Lord-signed spacious guitar brutalism. Droney and torturous sonics with Tasy Hudson’s vocals adding sweet barbs that set them apart from the crop of sludge metal machismo acts. Huge FFO: Divide and Dissolve, The Body, Earth.
BIG BRAVE + AICHER live at Dareshack.
Jazz-pop perfection somewhere between Stanlaey, t l k and Jessie Ware; Stevie Toddler’s grooving double bass and unforgettable melodies float her gracefully to the top echelons of Bristol’s nu-jazz scene.
Stevie Toddler + Rosie Tee + boci