‘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)……
Following shows with the likes of DZ Deathrays, Dream Wife and Idles and ahead of a nationwide tour, Leeds-based DIY art punks Dead Naked Hippies have released the riff-heavy ‘Rare’. Opening with a disgustingly catchy riff, the song finds Lucy Jowett letting rip at the way advertising companies use the general public’s discontentment to make…
Following a world tour supporting The Cure and ahead of a UK run of dates with Mogwai (whose Rock Action label they recently signed to), The Twilight Sad have released a VHS-inspired video for recent single ‘I/m Not Here [missing face]’: The 5-and-a-half-minute song finds James Graham laying his anxieties bare as he discusses his…
Following a series of rapturously received live shows, Liverpool-based synth-pop duo Her’s unveil their debut album, the appropriately titled ‘Invitation to… Her’s’. Released via Heist or Hit Records, it finds Barrow-in-Furness native Stephen Fitzpatrick and Norwegian Audun Laading offering wry observations about life and its many directions over off-kilter pop beats. The short and sweet…
Glaswegian four-piece Lucia’s ‘Summertime’ will help you see out what’s been a glorious season in marvellously melancholic style. Lucia Fairfull reminisces about holiday romances and the carefree joys of being a teenager: ‘I only love you in the summertime and summertime’s nearly done’. Produced by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys, Adele) and mixed by Craig Silvey…
Idles offer scathing and darkly humorous observations (‘Islam didn’t eat your hamster, change isn’t a crime) on what the likes of Brexit and Trump have done to communities across the world in pro-immigration anthem, ‘Great’. The fourth song to be released ahead of their second album ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’ (out 31 August),…
Uncle Luc releases a new double A-side single (which you can order – complete with an enamel badge and guitar pick – here) of ‘Sticking to the Rules’ favourite ‘Bones of the Days’ and new song ‘Forever a Fan’. Written just a few weeks ago, ‘Forever a Fan’ is a nostalgia-fuelled piece of bedroom pop…
After seven years away, Art Brut have made a welcome return with the enthusiastically titled ‘Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out!’. Now signed to Alcopop! Records, the song opens with Eddie Argos stating ‘I’m just looking for a party’ and it’s one you’ll want to be at. Amidst Gang of Four-esque guitar work, a chanty…
Foxing’s third album, ‘Nearer My God’, has been three years in the making. It will be released ahead of a UK tour with Pianos Become the Teeth and an eagerly anticipated performance at this year’s ArcTanGent Festival. Produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) and Foxing’s own Eric Hudson, with help from Joe Reinhart,…
Ahead of the release of new album ‘Thunder Follows the Light’ in September, Transgressive Records signing Mutual Benefit (multi-instrumentalist and producer Jordan Lee) has shared not one but two tasters of what we can look forward to. ‘Come to Pass’ is a gorgeous 2 minutes and 42 seconds all about the futile nature of nostalgia…
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