Following 4 years spent focusing on releasing bands via his Super Fan 99 Records label, Uncle Luc (aka Luke Barham) makes a most-welcome return with the 8-song album ‘Sticking to the Rules’. ‘Plateaux’ opens the record with some ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ guitar strums and Luke singing the words ‘Don’t look back’ over and…
Recorded in a remote cottage in Wales, new three-piece Kin’s debut single ‘Margins’ is an avant-garde and enticing piece that will delight fans of Mew, Explosions in the Sky and Everything Everything. It opens with gently swaying guitars before miltary drums, synths falsetto vocals and gloriously orchestral soundscapes join the mix. Of course, the lyrics…
Mastered by Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub, The Love-Birds’ ‘Angela’ has a timeless feel from its very first burst of guitar. Clocking in at just over 2 and a half minutes, it will appeal to fans of The Replacements, The Wave Pictures and perhaps Jeffery Lewis. The latest band to show there’s clearly something…
New Wichita signings The Goon Sax have unveiled ‘She Knows’ ahead of the release of their new album ‘We’re Not Talking’ in September. The Australian trio will soon be touring with Frankie Cosmos and have already played with the likes of Whitney, Angel Olsen and Teenage Fanclub. This burst of angst-filled guitar pop has elements…
Opening with a burst of ‘Waterloo Sunset’-inspired guitar, Sam Evian’s latest single ‘IDGAF’ – the opener to his upcoming second album ‘You, Forever’ (Saddle Creek) – is a song about embracing one’s passions and interests, no matter how hard it is to do. Its dreamy tone combines with Wilco-esque heartache as Sam laments the fact…
Made up of members of Idles and The St. Pierre Snake Invasion, The Plainviews are an in-your-face rock band with ‘songs about nothing’. With one line repeated over and over again – ‘Go and get the gun’ – ‘Bladerunner’ is 2 and a half minutes of unadulterated heavy monster riffs that will make you feel…
itoldyouiwouldeatyou’s video for ‘Get Terrified’ found the band at a prom and following the release of the EP via Failure by Design and Alcopop! Records (order here), we thought what better time to ask Joey Ashworth about their dream prom playlist. But first we had a few important questions… Do you have fond memories of…
Having recently been hand-picked by Frank Turner to play a Last Minutes show at his Lost Evenings festival, China Bears have released another fine indie-pop tune n the shape of ‘Night Calls’ – and it’s a hair-raising anthem tinged with regret. Ivan Proctor states how ‘You think I don’t recognise your heartbreak through that smile’…
Now in its sixth year, Are You Listening? Festival takes place throughout the centre of Reading this Saturday (28 April). Supporting Reading Mencap, the festival brings some of the nation’s finest alternative bands to Berkshire and this year might just be their best line-up yet. Here are just a few of our top picks from…
Paul Steel has unveiled ‘Music Makes Me Feel So Alone’, the first single from his new album ‘Carousel Kites’ (released via Raygun Records on 13 July). This is a record separated into three distinct parts of five songs, which will be released as three EPs in the build-up to the final LP release date, and…
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