New music to listen to this week: Estrons

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Welsh band Estrons have released their blistering new track "Cold Wash", which you can listen to first via The Independent.

The track is taken from their AA side single featuring BBC Radio1 favourite "Glasgow Kisses".

Fronted by Taliesyn Kallstrom, the band have a fierce command on record and are apparently even better live.

Check out "Cold Wash" below:

Q&A with Estrons

What are you listening to at the moment?

I stand by the opinion that the music taste you adopt in your adolescence is the one that sticks. Elliott Smith, Tom Waits, The Roots, Angie Stone, Tanya Stephens, I even found myself listening to a Smashing Pumpkins album the other day.

Those angsty years. I pick up new favourite R n B and Hip Hop artists all the time however, maybe because I think it's really innovative at the moment. Anderson Paak is a new found love of mine, and I'm really addicted to Thundercat who has worked closely with Kendrick Lamar. Paul Kalkbrenner is also on our gigtime playlist, as I think techno has the ability to control your pulse almost, it's great for anticipation.

What are your plans for the rest of 2017?

We have so many songs in their incubation period it's getting quite frustrating that they're not hatched yet. We want to have a bunch of songs to pick from to put on the album, and ideas seem to be coming quite naturally to us at the moment, which is an important opportunity to grab hold of.

After we finish this headline tour we're going to lock ourselves away in a cottage somewhere for a week and emerge with creative gold, or so we hope. To top off the year we've got our own home show in Cardiff in December at Clwb Ifor Bach, and a show in Barcelona which will be a nice change. Other than that, who knows what will get chucked at you in this business.

What was the first gig you ever played and what’s been the best so far?

The first gig we played collectively as Estrons was in a house party in a big flat that used to be an office building right in the centre of Cardiff. Rhodri (guitarist) lived there and it's where Estrons really began. It sounds arty but it really was just a giant bizarre crap hole. It was a good induction though and we've learnt a lot since then.

I don't want to cop out but there really is no such thing as 'the best' gig, just like it's hard to measure 'the best' ice cream or 'the best' anything. There are ones which you feel went down really well, on a professional level you feel “I did good, we played on time and people loved it” and then other gigs where some sort of bizarre chaos ensues, either within yourself, the equipment or within the crowd. The best is when it's all three, those are the really fun ones.

Estrons play the following tour dates

27 Sep Guildford - The Boileroom

28 Sep Newcastle - Think Tank

29 Sep Liverpool - Buyers Club

30 Sep Cardiff - HOYfest

2 Oct Leicester - The Cookie

3 Oct London - Electrowerkz

6 Oct Birmingham - The Sunflower Lounge

7 Oct Manchester - Neighbourhood Festival w/ Peace, Ratboy, Black Honey

2 Dec Barcelona - Razzclub