Nite Songs

  Leeds natives Pulled Apart By Horses were one of those bands I was kind of aware of back in the day without really knowing too much about their output. Now on Alcopop records (also home to the likes of Helen Love and the Subways among others), Reality Cheques  is their first album in five years and their first as a trio following the departure of guitarist James Brown earlier this year. It gets off to a decent start - the slow building Pipe Dream  is something you could imagine sitting on Queens of the Stone Age's Rated R album and First World Problems  and  Rinse And Repeat  are angular jolts of Wire style post-punk with some good guitar work on there. Sleep In Your Grave  keeps the punky energy up and could almost be a more melodic version of Winnebago Deal with a hint of the Damned circa Neat Neat Neat  in there which is no bad thing. Devil Inside  is built on the same sort of buzzsaw drone riff that Pigs Pigs Pigs do so well before Rat ...

  Summer in the city and the air is still as Aztec Camera once sang. Though not that still over here as we've got a bumper crop of new releases in this month's Singles Bar - we'll have a couple of EP's later this morning but for now let's get started by pouring a cold one and looking at the singles themselves... *** We could only really start with a new effort from Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners  really as Lately Always  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗) represents the second release from their upcoming debut album due in October. Ginger's spoken of the Sinners as being an outlet for the much-loved country-influenced side of his output and while its predecessor Wasted Times  didn't quite showcase this, great though it was, this is more what you might be expecting, a gentle mid-paced effort which is a perfect soundtrack to those lazy summer evenings chilling out in the garden. Great stuff as you'd expect. Bandcamp Link *** Ginger's not the only member of the Wildheart...