keeled scales

Taking the trend of putting additional letters in otherwise straightforward band names to new extremes is Meernaa aka California hotshot Carly Bond who has already worked with the likes of Luke Temple, Jerry Paper and Helado Negro but now presents her second full-length album - a moody, inventive thing taking in R&B, jazz, art rock and pop along the way.

The long-awaited album from Twain released via Keeled Scales is his first-ever double LP titled Noon. Twain’s first album in three years, Noon looks to explore the balancing exercise between soul-fantasy and self- scrutiny. The songs on Noon try to sit in the liminal state between the spirit’s ambition for itself and the often harsh truth of the present. The hope is to erode the barrier between those two states. ‘Twain’ is Mat Davidson’s approach to reconcile those two states, and to forget that they could ever exist in opposition.