‘Someone Else’s Albert Hammond Jr-esque guitar hooks kick off the album as Colleen reveals: ‘We are the lucky ones, we’re having so much fun’. This is swiftly followed by ‘I Wanna Be A Dog’ – we’re sure there’s a nod to The Stooges in that title – and Colleen sharing her desire to go to…
“It feels so important for me to see people through change. To accept people for the many shapes they take, whether those shapes fit into your life or not. This album is a reflection of that.’ Indigo De Souza’s ‘Any Shape You Take’ (her second album and first to be released via Saddle Creek) is…
Sleigh Bells make a welcome return with sixth album ‘Texis’ on 10 September. The band claim they let go of all inhibitions when it came to writing and recording this album with Derek Miller saying: ‘We stopped worrying about whether or not we’re in or out of our comfort zone, or if we were being…
I Feel Fine follow up their 2018 debut EP ‘Long Distance Celebration’ with their first long player – ‘The Cold in Every Shelter’. Released via Venn Records, the release comes ahead of a few tour dates with Lakes and finds the Brighton-based four-piece examining their own actions – and what they can learn from them:…
Manic Street Preachers release ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, the 14th album in their glittering career. Inspired by the bands the trio grew up listening to – ABBA, ‘Fables’-era R.E.M. and Echo and the Bunnymen – the record finds the Welshmen examining where we all fit in today’s uncertain and divisive world. It also features guest…
Orchards follow up last year’s incredible debut album ‘Lovecore’ with the vibrant and important new single ‘Leave Us Here (We’re Fine)’. The song finds the band once again showing their desire to live in a safer and more accepting world – something we can all get behind. Lucy Evers says: ‘This song means exactly what…
Poster Paints – a Glasgow-based duo made up of Carla J Easton and Simon Liddell (Frightened Rabbit) – have shared new single ‘Never Saw It Coming’ ahead of a few dates with Teenage Fanclub and their debut headline show at Glasgow’s Poetry Club on 7 October. The two members met through Carla’s work with The…
Tachys – a new duo consisting of Blue Foundation’s Tobias Wilner and Mew’s Jonas Bjerre – have shared ‘Signify’, an ‘eerie electronic pop song’ that deals with the relentless and sometimes overwhelming stimulus of the modern world. With a fractured yet gentle electronica-meets-indie pop sound, the band discuss the fine line between the dream state…
Bleach Lab have shared new single ‘Talk It Out’ ahead of the release of the EP ‘Nothing Feels Real’ on 15 October. Produced by Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths, Cranberries), the song finds Jenna Kyle opening up about her insecurities, vulnerabilities and the importance of talking out personal struggles. While the introduction is heartfelt and…
Silverbacks have shared the video for ‘Wear My Medals’ to celebrate the news that they have now signed to Full Time Hobby. The song finds the Dublin-based art rockers in defiant, punky mood as it fizzes along with its jaunty rhythmic section, an experimental breakdown and duelling guitar work – all while Emma Hanlon’s tender…
Lakes’ debut album ‘The Constance LP’ was inspired after American Football’s 2016 ‘LP2’ inspired drummer/guitarist Matt Shaw to start writing music again. Within the space of month, he had the songs that made up 2018’s ‘The Tahoe EP’ and 2019’s ‘The Geneva EP’ and the basis of the full-length. Now – after various lockdowns disrupted…
Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay’s (Tunng) side-project LUMP has returned with new album ‘Animal’ – a record unlike the previous output of either of these most talented artists. While Laura’s lyrics and observations draw on psychoanalysis and are playful and spontaneous, Mike explores a vast array of electronic soundscapes that sometimes drift towards deep psychedelia.…
Conor O’Brien’s Villagers return with sixth album ‘Fever Dreams’. Written over the past couple of years and recorded during those longer lockdown days at the start of the pandemic, the record has a central theme of escapism and finds Conor ruminating on events ranging from night swimming on a Dutch island to the inescapable power…
Tom Williams’ latest album finds the artist sharing his thoughts and feelings about all kinds of events from the past few years – and how they’ve contributed to the increasingly fractured and divisive world we find ourselves in today. His most experimental work to date with orchestral sounds being seamlessly complemented by drum machines, synths,…
Edinburgh-based four-piece Swim School share their debut EP ‘Making Sense of it All’ on Friday 20 August. The five songs are all deeply personal to frontwoman Alice Johnson, who says: ‘Each track on the EP is based on an event that I’ve experienced in the last year and the effect it had on my own…
