Fresh off the back of their hundredth gig and rave reviews at SXSW, Man/Woman/Chainsaw release ‘Adam & Steve’. The London-based six piece’s ’bittersweet take on the heart-on-sleeve love song’, it features dual vocals from Billy Ward and Vera Leppänen pining over what could have been: “Now you’re going overseas, why’d you have to up and…
Five years since their incredible ‘Four of Arrows’ album, Seattle four-piece Great Grandpa return with ‘Patience, Moonbeam’, an expansive self-produced record that will take you on an otherworldly journey… The album opens with an almost classical string-laden feel, the 36 seconds of ‘Sleep’ offering the perfect introduction of what’s to come next. ‘Never Rest’ stays…
Amy Millan has shared ‘Make Way for Waves’ ahead of the release of forthcoming solo album ‘I Went to Find You’ (out on 30 May, 2025 via Last Gang Records). Starting life as a Stars demo, the song is a collaboration between Amy and the album’s co-writer and co-producer Jay McCarrol. Describing how the song…
Self Esteem (Rebecca Lucy Taylor) has shared ‘If Not Now, It’s Soon’, the third single to be taken from upcoming third album ‘A Complicated Woman’ (out on 25 April via Polydor Records). Partly inspired by Rebecca’s pre-fame years – a time when hypersexuality, booze and self-destruction all figured strongly – the song finds her looking…
South London indie-rockers Ain’t have shared new single ‘Pirouette’ ahead of a hefty touring schedule and debut London headline show at The Waiting Room on 12 June. Guitarist/vocalist George Ellerby says: ”Pirouette’ details the drudgery of break ups and the lethargy that can come with dating, but I feel it’s preoccupied with a sense of…
Benefits have shared the video for ‘Blame’, a pulsating song that features on their new album ‘Constant Noise’ (out now). Taking you back to the more hedonistic sound of 90s dance, there are nods to Leftfield, Underworld and various other acts that could and should have featured on the Trainspotting soundtrack. The pummeling bass lays…
Panic Shack have made a welcome return with ‘Gok Wan’, a song that tackles the toxic culture of the ‘self-improvement’ shows that blighted TV screens during the mid-noughties. On the inspiration behind the track, Sarah Harvey said: ‘Growing up in the ’00s we were bombarded with constant images of super skinny models and ‘IT girls’…
Ben Kweller has shared ‘Depression’. Written in the wake of his 16-year-old son Dorian’s death, the song is a poignant piece built around a pre-set sound on a keytar that Ben has had since he was 8 years old. Actor Jason Schwartzman guests under his Coconut Records moniker. It will appear on forthcoming album, ‘Cover…
Following a string of sold-out shows and hype from all the good places, Twat Union have released ‘Singer of the Band’. It’s the first song to be taken from forthcoming EP ‘Don’t Look It in the Eye’, coming out via Alcopop! Records on 4 April 2025. Angry art punk with a sensationally squalid jazzy tone…
Brighton trio Orchards return with new album ‘Bicker’ (released on Friday 28 March via Big Scary Monsters. Full of bittersweet lyrics about love and losing it, Lucy Evers says about the album: ‘There are sad songs, happy songs, songs of ambivalence and everywhere in between on this record. But it’s back breakingly true. Every word,…
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