Experimental trio Exploring Birdsong follow up their 2019 debut EP ‘The Thing with Feathers’ with ‘Dancing in the Face of Danger’ – a collection of five tracks full of unique storytelling, stunning synth and piano work and live strings… The opening ‘Pure’ has clattering drums that soon make way for a swirling mix of post…
Tugboat Captain follow up recent single ‘Flash of Light’ with ‘Deep Sea Diving’ – a piece of intelligent baroque pop that takes a look at the polymetallic nodules that can be found on the ocean floor, and how this might lead to ecological disaster: ‘Maybe we’re running on borrowed time, got no answer. I don’t…
Photo credit: Niamh Berry Ailbhe Reddy follows up her 2020 debut album ‘Personal History’ with ‘Endless Affair’ – a collection of songs that find the Irish singer-songwriter tackling the pain and relief of growing up, the power of living and the raw emotion of mortality… ‘Shitshow’ opens the album with hushed tones that evolve into…
The Antlers make a welcome return with new single ‘I Was Not There’, a song Peter Silberman says is about ‘the elusive experience of complete presence. Across three scenes, the song describes fleeting moments of clarity and wholeness, and the accompanying feeling of leaving yourself’. It opens in evocative style as Peter sings about the…
Photo credit: Shervin Lainez Joanna Sternberg has shared the video for new single ‘I’ve Got Me’, the title track from their new album out via Fat Possum on 30 June. Partly inspired by Charles Bukowski’s ‘Oh Yes’ poem (which Joanna has tattooed on their right arm), the song brings back memories of the anti-folk scene…
Following a support slot to Pip Blom and ahead of shows at SXSW and with Grandmas House, Bristol post-punkers Saloon Dion release new single ‘Happiness’ from forthcoming debut EP ‘Muckers’ (out on 19 May). With frenetic yet melodic pop hooks and vocals demanding ‘Stand by yourself, forget everything else’, there are elements of Life or…
Photo credit: Rory Dunn Following tours with Priestgate and We Are Scientists, Bleach Lab release new single ‘Indigo’, a song inspired by being in a toxic relationship where the person responsible for the pain keeps trying to apologise for their behaviour. The band say the song is partly based on the famous John Cusack boombox…
Photo credit: Zak Pinchin The Xcerts follow up recent release ‘Gimme’ with ‘Ache’ – ‘a song about desperately clinging on to hope when your own mental wellbeing is cumbling’. It’s 104 seconds of adrenaline-driven power-pop hooks, poignant discussion and advice on letting go when things get too much (‘Life’s a bitch, please take care of…
Manchester Orchestra follow up 2021’s ‘The Million Masks of God’ with ‘The Valley of Vision’ a 6-song piece that finds Andy Hull and co exploring all-new sounds (this is not a guitar-heavy record) while touching on the powerful and sometimes futile concepts of faith, adulthood and self-redemption… ‘Capital Karma’ opens the album with gentle stabs…
Photo credit: Oliver Sangster Dutch Uncles return after six years with ‘True Entertainment’, their sixth (!) album since 2009. Inspired by acts including Kate Bush, The Blue Nile and Ennio Morricone, the album features guest appearances from Metronomy’s Anna Prior and Everything Everything’s Jonathan Higgs while the sound continues to blend eminently danceable hooks with…
Photo credit: Tim Nagle Ahead of UK and EU tour dates supporting Death Cab for Cutie, Slow Pulp have announced they’ve signed to ANTI- Records and shared new single ‘Cramps’ – a song lead singer Emily Massey says ‘Came out of a jam at practice right after I had proclaimed that my period cramps were…
Former Sœur guitarist and vocalist Anya Pulver has shared ‘Dormant’, the first single from her new project Exit Child. Described as a band ‘for fans of nihilism, self-loathing and long walks on the beach’, this song tackles the importance of mental health and how you should never lose sight of who you really are. Anya…
Photo credit: Harrison Whitford boygenius – the sadpop supergroup made up of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus – have shared the video of ‘Not Strong Enough’ ahead of the released of their debut album ‘the record’ on 31st March. They’ve also announced details of their first UK tour dates in Gunnersbury Park in…
Photo credit: Ashley Zhang Momma follow last year’s incredible ‘Household Name’ album with new single ‘Bang Bang’ – a ‘super literal and crude’ song about great sex. Written while isolating and drunk during Covid restrictions, the slice of ’90s-tinged melodic grunge rock finds Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten demanding ‘If you want it, we can…
Growing up in Aldershot at the turn of the century, there wasn’t an awful lot to be proud of – we had a football club that rose from the ashes, were the home of the British Army and that was about it. As soon as I left school and started college (bear in mind I…
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