Now signed to Wichita Recordings and ahead of a tour supporting Bad Sounds, Spectral Nights favourites Indoor Pets have released new single ‘Hi’ and the song is full of the bouncy hooks and self-depreciating humour we’ve all come to love from the four-piece. Jamie Glass opens the song over quirky riffs and big drums by…
Fatherson release their third album, ‘Sum of All Your Parts’, on 14 September. A festival favourite at the likes of 2000 Trees and T in the Park, their brand of anthemic indie-rock has won the Scots a huge army of fans and on this record they promise a different kind of sound while retaining the…
My Little Empire Records signing Pip Hall has unveiled ‘Mary’, the first single from her debut album ‘Everything Before’ (out 9 November). Opening with a burst of Wolf Alice-style grunge-pop guitar, the song is Pip’s ode to the joys of being young and careless and finds her recalling fond memories (‘You took me to the…
The Twilight Sad have announced details of their new album ‘It Won/t Be Like This All the Time’ and released a stream of new single – and album closer – ‘Videograms’. The record will be released on 18 January, 2019 and you can pre-order it here. Described by James Graham as ‘one of the most…
By the Time It Gets Dark Records brought us the Spielbergs EP earlier this year and it’s been on pretty constant rotation since. After loving those songs so much, we were excited to see where the label would head next. This week they announced they have signed Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam and will be releasing a…
We saw Pizzagirl play the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading Festival the other week and his eclectic brand of electro-indie pop-meets-cabaret performer had the whole crowd dancing. Now he’s announced the release of the ‘season 2’ EP in November via Heist Hit Records (Her’s) and unveiled the opening jam, ‘Highschool’. With a complete DIY aesthetic…
Following their widely acclaimed debut album ‘From Caplan to Belsize’ and countless tours around the UK sharing stages with everyone from Los Campesinos! to Jeremy Corbyn, Muncie Girls have made a welcome return with ‘Fixed Ideals’. Once again produced by Lewis Johns and with a title taken from a Sylvia Plath poem, the Specialist Subject…
Ahead of tours with both Waxahatchee and Shannon Lay and the release of debut album ‘In the Break’ (14 September via Mare Records), Los Angeles-based Justin Sullivan’s Night Shop project has released a video for the sweet folk-rock song ‘My Love’. Justin has spent the past two decades touring as a session drummer with bands…
Following the release of his ‘Megadead’ album, we asked Audio Antihero Records signing Benjamin Shaw to talk us through five songs that influence his sound and five that he’s enjoying right now. Influences Katie Dey – ‘Unkillable’ I feel like my album is a whole big mess of influences, or things I’ve definitely tried…
‘Megadead’ is the new album from now Melbourne-based polymath Benjamin Shaw. Released through Audio Antihero in the US and UK and Kirigirisu Records in Japan, it’s a concept album of sorts about a party where everyone is having a good time except you (as a teetotaller, that’s something I can associate with only too well)……
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