The Über Rock Singles Club: March Madness (Part One)

Curated by Monk

It’s been another busy couple of weeks here at the clubhouse, with a succession of ‘banging anthems blasting from our death decks and worming their way into the darkest recesses of our aural consciousness. Our new #DailyPick feature has proven to be enormously popular, allowing us to showcase many more rising artists and in a more timely way than the fortnightly opening of the main club permits… but, there are always tonnes of quality tunes that are grabbing us by the lugholes, and so here’s another eclectic playlist of the ones that are currently warming the cockles of our wizened rock ‘n’ roll hearts…

BELMONT – ‘All Bite’ (Pure Noise Records)

We kick off with a bunch of noiseniks who are making their second appearance at the club in just over a month, this time with the Chicago crüe putting their money where their mouths are and their best feet forward with the latest preview of their forthcoming third album, which we’ve been spinning privately for a couple of weeks now but you lot will have to wait until 12 April to hear in full:

CRUZH – ‘Angel Dust’ (Frontiers Music)

The Swedish glamsters are ramping things up for the imminent release of their new album, ‘The Jungle Revolution‘, their first since the addition of second guitarist Johan Öberg and one which the band describe as their heaviest and most honest to date. In the meantime they are sprinkling us with a liberal dose of rock ‘n’ roll anthemics in the shape of this cracking track:

CLT DRP – ‘Until You Showed Me’ (Venn Records)

The Brighton-based feminist electro-punk trio continue an unstoppable string of exceptional releases, in the form of this gender-fluid love song, their first new material since last year’s sophomore ‘Nothing Clever, Just Feelings’ album. The band have also just announced their first ever run of dates on the island of Ireland, this coming May, as well as a handful of summer festival appearances.

NATE SILVA – ‘Burn!’ (Self-Released)

The former frontman of Canadian proggies The Slyde takes a more folky/alt-rock direction with the lead single from his forthcoming debut solo album. Silva describes ‘Burn!’ as both “an unapologetic ode to the enjoyment of driving your favourite motorized vehicle at exhilarating speeds down a two-lane highway” and “a metaphor for pursuing your dreams and living a lifestyle of rock and roll”.

ECLIPSE – ‘Apocalypse Blues’ (Frontiers)

More Swedish sleaze now, thanks to one of the best proponents of the craft, who are providing us with a soundtrack to navigate doomsday with a smirk and a sway, asking the question “why settle for a sunset when you can dance through a mushroom cloud?”. Well, why indeed?

SULDUSK – ‘Mythical Creatures’ (Napalm)

Five years on from their impressive debut, the Australian dark folk/blackgaze project have just released their second album, ‘Anthesis‘, which sees band founder and visionary Emily Highfield once again casting a dark and magical spell:

HIMALAYAS – ‘V.O.V’ (Self-Released)

This Cardiff quartet are definitely reaching for the heights, and they have some truly superstar help, as the lyrics for this latest offering were penned by none other than AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson. And their career path is firmly in the ascendancy, as they support the mighty Foo Fighters at their home city’s Principiality Stadium in June:

TROY REDFERN – ‘The Calling’ (Self-Released)

This latest single from the guitar slinger’s forthcoming third album, ‘Invocation‘, is an ode to escaping the technological net we all live in, and to getting out into the wilderness to reset and get perspective on what’s important in life. Appropriately, it was penned in an isolated shepherd’s cottage on the wild Welsh west coast, where Redfern had only his trusty 1929 National Triolian resonator guitar for company during a week of self-enforced solitude:

ALBERT HAMMOND – ‘Looking Back’ (earMUSIC)

From a rising star of the blues world to one of its most respected purveyors, who is ‘Looking Back’ on the ‘Body Of Work‘ that has made up his long and storied career, via his first new music in almost 20 years:

GHOSTWORK – ‘Erase The Morning’ (Spartan Records)

This post-punk supergroup, made up of current and former members of Seaweed, Snapcase, Milemarker and Minus The Bear, are no strangers to the Singles Club playlist, having previously featured as one of our #DailyPicks. And we’re delighted to have them back again with the latest cut issued to promote their just-released second album, ‘Light A Candle For The Lonely‘, which came out this past Friday:

phem AND WATERPARKS – ‘cheerleader’ (Hopeless Records)

The enigmatic alt-pop singer and producer has teamed up with her long-term friends, pop punk act Waterworks, for this catchy earworm of a tune, which also serves as the lead track off the LA-based artist’s upcoming debut album:

THE DOLLYROTS – ‘Trees Sway’ (Wicked Cool Records)

Best known for their catchier-than-Covid pop-punk anthems, the husband-and-wife duo of Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabezas have gone and gotten all emotional on us, with this ballad, which apparently came to the guitarist in a dream and subsequently was recorded in one take on a mobile ‘phone… well’ aren’t all the best songs done that way? No!? Well, they should be…

LOS SAiNTS – ‘Faded’ (ENCI Records)

The San Diego-based Mexicana alt-rockers are preparing to launch their first full-length album, which will be the ‘Certified’ follow-up to 2022’s debut EP and promises to serve up another heady does of tequila-fuelled desert punk…

DUST MICE – ‘Room Within A Room’ (Epictronic)

The space/garage rockers take us on a cosmic journey through the fractal constructions our minds create that distort and control us on the title track of their newly released second album, in the process delving into the intricacies of the mind, illustrating a struggle with haunting thoughts and inner conflicts while searching for solace, all the while using the metaphor of a “room within a room” to symbolize the complexity of the human psyche and the journey toward self-awareness and liberation from inner turmoil.

RORY RYAN – ‘In The Past’ (Self-Released)

Hailing from the western wildlands of Ireland, chef Ryan mixes up a recipe influenced by neo-psychedelia, synthwave, classic Sixties and Seventies songwriting, the bleak landscapes in which he grew up into a delicious sample of introspective dreampop that blends tones of nostalgia and melancholy with hope and optimism:

THE HOWLERS – ‘Cowboys Don’t Cry’ (Self-Released)

“I am my mother’s child stronger for each and every single tear I’ve ever cried” is the line that cuts to the core of this belligerently emotional and resilient new single from this East London trio, the third to be lifted from their eloquently titled new album, ‘What You’ve Got To Lose To Win It All‘, due for release on 17 May:

ERJA LYYTINEN – ‘Black Ocean’ (Self-Released)

Back to the blues now, and the prodigious Finnish guitarist Erja Lyytinen, who is about to bring her ‘Diamonds On The Road’ tour to these shores next month:

ROBERT JON & THE WRECK – ‘Dragging Me Down’ (Journeyman Records)

RJ and da beys sure as hell ain’t dragging us down but rather lifting us up with this latest slice of hard-riffin’ rawk ‘n’fuckin’roll, served up today as another sampler of their forthcoming new album, which will see a ‘Red Moon Rising‘ on 28 June. The release will be followed by a return to the ÜK’s shores in November.

CADET CARTER – ‘My Favourite Place’ (SBÄM Records)

We finish as we started, with another band making a welcome return to the Club’s playlist. This bunch of Munich maniacs are set to cement their position at the forefront of the New Wave Of Emo/Pop Punk revivalism with their upcoming new album, ‘Self-Maintenance‘, which is due out this time next month. Their latest single sees them collaborating with viral folk-pop sensation Kayleigh Goldsworthy:

And there you have it, another eclectic selection of what we feel are the hottest new tunes tickling the airwaves at the moment – with most of them being completely ignored by the mainstream media, of course. We’ll be back with the full-blown Club in two weeks’ time, but don’t forget to tune in each and every day for out #DailyPick… and we promise you that tonmorow’s choice is just a little bit special, featuring as it does not just one, not just two but THREE rock ‘n’ roll demigods. Until then, keep ‘er lit, keep ‘er between the hedges and keep on Über Rockin’ baybee \m/