Ahead of the release of the now sold-out ‘Just Don’t’/’Can’t They Hear?’ new Super Fan 99 Records signings The Entire Universe speak to us about their Top 5 Influences… 1) Nirvana – “Scentless Apprentice” At the time this was the biggest band in the world & this was there highly anticipated follow up to…
Written by Poppy Hankin when she was just 16, Girl Ray’s brand new song ‘The Way We Came Back’s is a West Coast-inspired track that the band describe as a ‘plump cow that needed to be milked’. The fact that the video takes place during a blizzard makes it even more charming. Within seconds of…
Everything Everything have released a surprise EP just before their biggest ever UK and Ireland tour. It includes two new tracks, a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ and a Tom Vek remix of ‘Ivory Tower. The video for ‘Breadwinner’ features a Lawnmower Man-style rendering of EE frontman Jonathan Higgs dancing…
Bad News Club follows up their debut ‘The Painter’ with ‘Absent’, a cleverly layered song that packs a hefty emotional punch. Written after a trip away from home, it’s an ode to the items that had been left behind and combines tender vocals, mournful strings and the heartfelt sentiments of The Antlers or Elliott Smith.…
Raised in Ireland but now based in Glasgow, we’ve been excited to hear Martha Ffion’s debut album for a long time. The album opens with ‘Missing You’, a ‘50s-style soul song which has her discussing staying up all night and smoking her way through an entire packed of Lucky Stripe cigarettes. Martha sings about eagerly…
The Hutchison brothers from Frightened Rabbit have teamed up with Editors guitarist Justin Lockey and his brother James from Minor Victories to form the brilliantly titled (for those of a certain age) Mastersystem. Their new band have now dropped ‘Notes on a Life Not Quite Lived’; the first song from debut album Dance Music (our…
The Districts – ‘Nighttime Girls’ In this “song about the allure of escapism and a character’s general preoccupation with shallowness and neon light”, The Districts are in alluring form. It opens with a burst of rousing drums before the Grizzly Bear-style guitar hooks and distorted vocals join the fray. A song that will appeal to…
Boy Scouts – ‘Queen’ San Franciscan Taylor Vick recorded this EP in various houses across her home city, begging and borrowing instruments along the way. It has a Sparklehorse meets Alex G feel and its tender yet glitchy atmospherics will enchant you from the first note. Taylor’s gorgeous vocals glide over the acoustic strums as…
On ‘Nunhead’, the opening track on Happy Accidents second album, guitarist Rich is talking about meeting by a cemetery in an attempt to block out the noise – both physically and mentally – and the song has a deliciously lo-fi vibe with its Casio keyboard effects, Lemonheads riffs and big bass sound. It’s a fine…
Fairhazel – ‘7×7’ Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, ‘7×7’ finds Fairhazel singing about breaking free and discovering further humanity. The former Boston Berklee College of Music student takes influences from a diverse range of genres, experiences and locations and this is captured in the fantastical introduction to this song. The subtle electronics…
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