Webcuts Music

Luke Haines looks back at the 20th Century, and takes pop shots at the maligned and those who got left behind in typical Haines fashion.

One of Webcuts favourite albums of last year, Hatcham Social hit the new year with this 6 track EP of new and familiar.

“Let’s go out to play on the Sidewalk”. With snow all over the UK, it’s probably best to stay in doors, but Londoners Hatcham Social have just released one of the stronger tracks off their inspired debut You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil with “Sidewalk”. Available from 18th January via Fierce Panda, the expanded download version features recent 7” release “Crocodile”, a slithery electro Breton Labs remix of “Sidewalk” and a mindbending mix of the same song by Tom Furse of The Horrors. The seven track EP also features two previously unreleased tracks and their take on the Beach Boys ‘Surfin’ Safari’. Again, a cover choice that’s a little miss-timed for this part of the globe…

A fusion of dub reggae, ska and soul, the brilliance of Pama International comes to the fore with their seventh album Pama Outernational.

If New Order and Doves made a record, how would it sound? Something like this, we think…

UK retro-funk n’ soul act The Heavy roll out the grooves and ask the question “How you like me now?”. Our answer awaits.

Windmill embark on a musical trip through the Epcot Space Center to give us the futuristic feel of Epcot Starfields.

A powerhouse debut and its cathartic, brooding follow-up, Bauhaus‘ back catalogue is remastered and revived for the masses.

Get out your eyeliner and your crushed velvet blouse as The Cult’s Love is dusted down and dressed up in this sublime 4CD boxset.

Recently setting the stereo at Webcuts HQ on fire with their debut release A Brief History of Love, we speak to Robbie Furze of The Big Pink as he explains the power of love and offers us a brief history of this incredible electronic/shoegaze duo.