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Club Night – ‘Joy Coming Down’ album review


Club Night follow up their 2019 debut album ‘What Life’ with ‘Joy Coming Down’, a record that has themes of loss and mortality at its core – albeit with hope shining through. Opener ‘Expo’ is all twinkly and intricate emo guitar work to start with before quickly changing course into something more mathy with post-hardcore…

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Tugboat Captain – ‘Dog Tale’ album review


Spectral Nights favourites Tugboat Captain have shared new album ‘Dog Tale’. Written and recorded in just one week, it finds lead singer Sox ruminating on London life when you’re navigating your mid to late 20s: ‘I feel like this album is a ‘Dog’s Tale’ of love, relationships, family and domesticity. I feel like lyrically, I’ve…

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Bleach Lab – ‘Feel Something’


Bleach Lab have shared ‘Feel Something’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Close to the Flame’ on 18 July, 2025. Frontwoman Jenna Kyle says the new single is ‘About being locked in a slowly dying relationship, where you’re heavily dependent on another.’ This feeling of devastation and being stuck as you only bring out…

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Bratakus – ‘Final Girls’


Scottish sisters Brèagha Cuinn (Guitar and vocals) and Onnagh Cuinn (Bass and vocals) – Bratakus – have signed to Venn Records and released new single ‘Final Girls’, ‘a song about the horror movie trope of the ‘Final Girl’ and all the rules they have to follow in order to survive the movie. The song talks…

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Symbol Soup – ‘Miniatures’


Symbol Soup (known to family and friends as Michael Rea) has shared ‘Miniatures’ via Sad Club Records. With themes of detachment at its core, the song finds Michael looking at his own life as if it were a miniature model world. This feeling of being out of control is delivered against a crescendo of guitars…

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Friendship – ‘Resident Evil’


Friendship, friends of MJ Lenderman and Wednesday, have shared ‘Resident Evil’ ahead of the release of more new material in the near future. Written while crashing at MJ and Karly Hartzman’s home in summer 2023, the song is an introspective piece of anthemic alt-folk with plenty of self-deprecation about where life takes you – despite…

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Those Fucking Snowflakes – ‘No Sky for Rishi’


Inspired by former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s infamous interview where he claimed to know what poverty was like because he grew up with no Sky TV (join the club), Those Fucking Snowflakes return with the appropriately titled ‘No Sky for Rishi’. A singalong, old-school punk anthem with gonzo drumming, stop-start riffs and witty lyrics explaining…

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Love Rarely – ‘Disappear’


Love Rarely have shared ‘Disappear’ ahead of shows with Sweet Pill and appearances at 2000trees and ArcTanGent Festivals. The melodically mathy song finds Courtney Levitt letting her frustrations about being made to feel shit loose with primal, raw emotion: ‘You said I should disappear’. With quieter interludes and healthy doses of screaming amidst the hardcore…

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Soot Sprite – ‘Vicious Cycles’


Exeter’s Soot Sprite have shared new single ‘Vicious Cycles’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. A reflective and slow-burning piece with gothic atmospherics that bring to mind Anna Calvi or Hovvdy – but with the edgier emo stylings of Sweet…