Following a number of personal and professional hurdles – not to mention a global pandemic – Indoor Pets almost called it quits in 2020 but now they’re back at their spiritual home of Alcopop! Records with a brand new album called ‘Pathetic Apathetic’ – and it’s one that finds the four-piece embracing their love of…
The Lemon Twigs’ fifth album – ‘A Dream is All We Know’ – finds the brothers D’Addario celebrating the joy and beauty of dreams – while throwing all kinds of new instruments into their finely honed pop sound, including cellos, mandolin, trumpets, horns and harpsichord. Recent single ‘My Golden Years’ opens the album and feels…
Masca’s ‘Stage Fright’, the latest release from forthcoming EP ‘Teen Dream Dealer’ (out on 5 June) finds vocalist and guitarist Tina Maynard confronting the demons that arrive when it comes to performing in front of people. Opening with scuzzy Reuben-style riffs, Tina sings about having butterflies and trying to cope with bright lights before explaining…
Adult Jazz’s ‘So Sorry So Slow’ is the London four-piece’s first album in a decade and over its hour-long running time, the band get to explore the power and pain of passion, panic, devotion and remorse… ‘Bleat Melisma’ opens the record with loose, tribal drumming and beautiful vocals that talk about ‘how heartless you are’…
Probably the band with the greatest name in the world right now, Philadelphia’s The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick release the equally enthrallingly titled new album ‘The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick’ via Count Your Lucky Stars Records on 25 April. A six – sometimes seven –…
Spielmann’s ‘Just Like Everybody Else’, taken from the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut EP ‘Fifteen Minutes with Spielmann’ (out on 31 May), is described as ‘an anthem for the modern person who wants to have it all, but is probably realising something has to give’. Over a sea of synths and emotional vocals, the self-proclaimed ‘Harry Styles…
Pillow Queens new album ‘Name Your Sorrow’ is more exposed than ever before. Taking influence from the Irish poet Eavan Boland – alongside the likes of Tool, Barbara Streisand and Frank Ocean – it’s a raw account of life, love and self-worth as the band consider a question posed in Boland’s poem ‘Love’: ‘Will we…
Cloud Nothings’ latest album, ‘Final Summer’ (out on 19 April via Pure Noise Records) finds Dylan Baldi and co in fine form, powering through 10 songs in just 29 minutes that celebrate the sheer joy of playing music loud and proud. The title track opens proceedings with a futuristic, space-age sound that gently builds –…
Alcopop! Records’ London-based collective have shared new single ‘Michael Phelps’, an ode to the most decorated Olympian of all time… Opening with stop-start wonky guitar riffs that come across like David Byrne fronting Squid, the experimental art pop track demands you ‘Teach your children to swim, because one day Michael Phelps will be king’ –…
Personal Trainer have shared ‘Star Jelly’, the first single to be taken from debut EP ‘What Was There Before?’. The trio formed over a shared love of Alanis Morissette back in 2017 and her influence shines through in both the gorgeous guitar tones and raw lyrics: ‘Pull my hair, fuck me on a second date.…
BEX follows up 2023’s ‘Scum’ EP with new song ‘sunDae’, a track that takes aim at how so many of us are in awe of the perfect ‘influencer’ lifestyle: ‘sunDae is about the expectation of having to be and look perfect all the time even when the world isn’t. The irony of the constant British…
With influences ranging from Leonard Cohen to The Last Shadow Puppets and the film Casablanca, Nottingham’s Victory Lap have quickly established themselves as ones to watch and now they’re releasing their debut single ‘Jealousy’. Described as ‘new noir’ in the press release, ‘Jealousy’ has elements of Richard Hawley’s yearning majesty but also baroque moments and…
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Maxïmo Park have returned with new song ‘Favourite Songs’ and an extensive UK and EU tour for the autumn. An ode to the timeless power of pop music, ‘Favourite Songs’ opens with a line about Paul Smith’s best years being behind him but soon changes into a more celebratory tone as he decides to focus…
Bess Atwell has shared ‘Fan Favourite’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Light Sleeper’ on 24 May via Lucy Rose’s Real Kind Records. Produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, the song is an ode to shared experiences and our strong connections to them. With swaying melodies and a bittersweet look at how sometimes these…
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