Brigitte Calls Me Baby – This House Is Made Of Corners

Sarà che ho trascorso queste ultime settimane centellinando la lettura delle pagine straordinarie di Mentre Morivo di William Faulkner (no, garantisco che lo stimolo non mi è venuto dal magnifico poemetto zen Perfect Days di Wim Wenders, che comunque raccomando ai lettori), sarà che già l’omonimo ep degli australiani Radio Free Alice sul volgere dello scorso anno mi aveva acceso come una piccolissima spia lampeggiante dentro le orecchie.
Fatto sta che non sono poi troppo sorpreso dal constatare che un’altra giovane band riaccenda la fiaccola dell’infinita maratona smithsiana fra le generazioni, prendendo l’abbrivio a migliaia di chilometri da Manchester, nel caso specifico nel profondo sud faulkneriano degli States. A Port Arthur, Texas, per la precisione, dove è nato e cresciuto Wes Leavins, crinito cantante dei Brigitte Calls Me Baby.

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(Make Me A) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 140: Silent Forum

Silent Forum

Four piece Silent Forum are from Cardiff (but now splitting their time between Cardiff, London, Bristol and Barcelona). Silent Forum’s sound isn’t straightforward. It’s a textured, technicoloured trip that separates it from punk’s three chords or post-punk’s monochrome doom. Rejecting both geographical and musical pigeonholing, they had their first album, Everything Solved At Once out on Libertino Records in 2019 (after Sanctuary+, a very limited edition cassete, was out the year before, summarising their previous five years’ working their way up). Avoiding cliched break-up or party tracks, Silent Forum’s debut album was in part themed around a disgruntled office worker, with an awareness of the tongue-in-cheek humour in juxtaposing corporate life lyrics with jagged punk numbers. Silent Forum have a special magic whereby their music has echoes of every seminal band you ever loved across every pioneering and forever fresh genre of the last 4 decades, yet crammed into edgy, enthralling, infectious songs with a fervent originality and unrivalled energy. 
Now the band is back with its new album Domestic Majestic which will be out on Libertino Records on February 23rd, preceded by four exciting singles.

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Postal Blue – I Should Have Known (single premiere)

After releasing Chance Occurrence, their first single in eight years, back in november 2023, Postal Blue, Brazilian singer-songwriter Adriano do Couto own creature, is back with a new self-released double A-side digital single, I Should Have Known / When You’re Not Here, which will be out tomorrow, February 2nd, via their Bandcamp page.
We, at TRISTE©, have the honour to share with you, in advance, the first song from the single!

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86TVs – You Don’t Have To Be Yourself Right Now

Potrei e dovrei forse parlarvi, per restare in tema di retro-meraviglie britanniche, dei ritorni più o meno godibili di Vaccines (che fanno il paio con i sodali Spector, riaffacciatisi alle cronache lo scorso dicembre, senza troppi clamori) o Shed Seven (capaci persino di agguantare la vetta delle classifiche albioniche per la prima volta a trent’anni esatti dall’esordio Change Giver…) ma non ne varrebbe troppo la fatica né l’inchiostro. Trattasi infatti, per ambo i lavori, di onesto quanto prevedibile fan service di buona (diciamola tutta: men che discreta) mano e poco altro. Dolcezze anche gradite che però si sciolgono in bocca (o nelle orecchie dir si voglia) troppo presto per lasciare durevoli ricordi in chi le assapori. E che comunque, rimanendo all’ombra del Big Ben, il saettante arcobaleno schizzato in punta di ugola e plettro da Liam Gallagher e John Squire tende a far scivolare in un secondo se non già terzo piano del paesaggio sonoro di queste prime settimane del 2024.

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Dancer – Passionate Sunday (video premiere)

After two great cassette EPs, out on GoldMold Records in 2023, Dancer returns with their debut album, 10 Songs I Hate About You out on Spanish label Meritorio Records, out MArch 15th.
Written throughout 2023 and recorded over a weekend in August of that year, Dancer returned to Green Door studio and recorded this debut LP live to tape with Ronan Fay, as with their 2 proceeding EPs. Looking to strike the perfect balance between these previous extended plays and something more, they attempt to truly define a Dancer sound in the long play format. The 10 songs in question push, pull and then elaborate on former characteristics – only now they are skewed into greater pop forms; caressed by jittery rhythms and searing guitar-isms that dive into passages of melodic wool and warmth. All using an energy that even the band themselves are surprised to muster.
The first single out the album is Passionate Sunday and today we have the honour to premiere its beautiful video.

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