Hideout (a band featuring Cults guitarist Gabriel Rodriguez and Scarlett Stephenson-Connolly) have shared wistful new single ‘Rose’. A piece of jangly yet off-kilter pop in the Belle and Sebastian or Rilo Kiley vein, the three minutes find the band looking back over what are now considered perfect moments from an imperfect relationship: ‘I don’t wanna…
Glasgow band Walt Disco have shared new single ‘Dancing Shoes’ ahead of dates with HMLTD in October. The song, released via Sports Team’s Holm Front Records, has flashes of the new romantic movement mixed in with a sadness and pining more akin to Joy Division, Simple Minds or Eagulls. Singer James Potter said the song…
Benjamin Shaw has announced details of his first ever live album. A cult artist who now resides in Melbourne, Australia, the performance was his first in five years and took place at a church in Krems, Austria for donaufestival 2019. Throughout the record, Benjamin reimagines material from his extensive back catalogue with glitches, synthesisers and…
Quiet Lions have shared a video of a special reworked acoustic performance of their ‘Absenteeism’ album favourite ‘Youth in Question’. Filmed in the stunning Two Woods Estate in Pulborough, Sussex, the band have added a string section to the song while also managing to strip the sound right back offering more focus on Michael Williams’…
Toronto musician Dana Gavanski follows up the excellent ‘One by One’ with new single ‘Catch’. Available as limited edition 7″ via Dana’s Bandcamp, the song was produced by Mike Lindsay (a member of Tunng and Lump alongside Laura Marling), Dana describes the song as ‘an attestation to the daily struggle to be inspired and how…
Soccer Mommy has released her first new song since 2018 with ‘lucy’. Described by the Nashville musician (known as Sophie Allison to her family and friends) as ‘a song about struggling with inner demons and your own mortality, but I masked it with this scenario of being seduced by the devil’, it opens with Smiths-esque…
Seattle indie rockers Great Grandpa have shared new single ‘Digger’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘Four of Arrows’ on 25 October through Big Scary Monsters in the UK and EU and Double Double Whammy in the US. The record is already being touted as one of the albums of the year and…
F*cked Up guitarist Ben Cook has shared ‘Try Not to Hang On So Hard’ ahead of the release of his solo project Young Guv’s upcoming album ‘GUV II’ via Run For Cover Records later this year. Already drawing praise from Pitchfork, the record was written in a Brooklyn flat and is full of acute and…
After playing shows with Bully, The Breeders and Broken Social Scene, Dead Soft are preparing to release their new album ‘Big Blue’ via the ever-reliable Arts & Crafts. To whet your anticipation, they’ve shared new single ‘I Believe You’. The album itself was inspired by the way the band had to leave Vancouver (regarded as…
New signings to our friends over at Fox Food Records, Old Amica are a Swedish duo who make spellbinding folk-tinged music with the help of the internet as they are separated by 750km. They’ve now shared ‘Condensation’ and two other tracks (‘Julia, Umea’ and ‘Juli, Goteborg’) from their upcoming fifth album ‘Constellation’ – which you…
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