Nite Songs

Our monthly trip to the Singles Bar takes place a bit earlier than usual this month as we’ve got a Sounds From The Junkshop Footnotes feature coming up next Saturday for you to look forward to. Not that it’s led to a smaller haul than normal with no less than fourteen (count ‘em!) new releases in this month’s column. Enjoy… *** And we're kicking off with some proper goth royalty here in the form of a new Bauhaus  single, their first in fourteen years no less, Drink The New Wine  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑). It's certainly an odd beast (then again, would you expect anything less?) with about four different sections including spaced out lyrics about being taken off to the funny farm then bass heavy dub then gentle acoustic guitars. Something of a dark epic here but it's naggingly insistent in its weirdness and doesn't let you go throughout. Is a new album in the works? Dunno but even if not, this is an intriguingly addictive slice of weirdness which could only have come from the minds o...

A cold night on the roof of the Nite Songs Singles Bar. After a heavy shift sorting out two lots of singles and a consignment of EP's and mini-albums, your friendly reviewer was about to close the bar up for the night when he was distracted by the sound of sleigh bells on the roof. Climbing up through the skylight, he sees... ANDY: Santa? SANTA: Ho ho ho. That's right. A: Hold on a sec, what are you doing here? I've just finished my reviews for the month and was about to clock out... S: Have you forgotten what time of year it is, yer daft bugger? A: Oh...yeah. That. S: And you know what that means, right? A; Ah. Yes. S: Indeed. :throws a group of Christmas singles at your friendly reviewer: You'd better get these listened to then hadn't yer? A: You mean PART FOUR of this month's Singles Bar? Oh for... (interrupted by the sound of the sleigh taking off and heading back towards the North Pole)  Starting off with that staple of festive listening, the big Christmas ...