When Brawlers appeared on the scene with their social media-aping ‘Instagram Famous’ and a brash live show in tow, you knew there was something special about them. Signed to Alcopop! Records, Harry Johns’ personal self-depreciating lyrics were brutally honest: ‘I Am a Worthless Piece of Shit’ indeed. Now following its singles ‘Two Minutes’ and ‘Windowmisser’,…
Ahead of a full-length album later this year, Olympians have released an extended EP/mini-album via Barely Regal with the fitting title ‘Dance Like Everybody’s Watching and They Hate You’. Full of the feelings that have quickly become the London-via-Norwich quartet’s trademark, it follows on from last year’s ‘Adventure Gun’ EP and retains the dreamy, drone-tinged…
Luxembourg’s finest purveyors of math rock Mutiny on the Bounty will soon be back on the scene with their new album ‘Digital Tropics’ (released on Small Pond Recordings) and to whet the anticipation, they’ve released a video for ‘MKL JKSN’… and it’s one that will take you right back to Friday evenings spent watching Top…
Part of the Sargent House family – surely one of the most exciting record labels around – and ahead of an extensive tour supporting And So I Watch You From Afar, Columbus native Mylets (known as Henry Kohen to family and friends) has made the track ‘Arizona’ available for streaming ahead of the release of…
Olympians will be releasing their new extended EP (or is eight tracks a mini album?) on 23 March and have unveiled a teaser trailer for it. The first of two releases from the London-via-Norwich four-piece in 2015, the trailer hints at a very spaced-out, drone-drenched sound with plenty of the band’s trademark harmonies. Coinciding with…
Anyone who loves Alcopop! Records will still have fond memories of the dearly departed Elephants and we’re yet to meet anyone who doesn’t have a soft spot for the gloriously spiky indie pop of Stagecoach. There’s been some buzz about Get Inuit for a while now, with some incredible shows and a number of plays…
Having been around just over ten years, the fantastically named Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love are saying goodbye with the gift of a fourth, final full-length album – appropriately titled ‘Last’. Now a two-piece consisting of brothers Kelly and Ellis Dyson, the Peak District band lost none of their penchant for…
When it comes to talking about our favourite bands of all time, Idlewild are a constant presence in the Top 5. From the punk of ‘Chandelier’ and ‘When I Argue I See Shapes’ to a classic opening trilogy of albums, they wrote songs that would become soundtracks to our lives – as well as influencing…
Hailing from Bordon, Surrey, Joe Booley is an 18-year-old singer-songwriter with a healthy respect for both the classic artists in his fields and his local peers – counting Spectral Nights favourite Annabel Allum among his friends. Opening fairly quietly with ‘Not a Fairytale’, the song showcases his very emotive and atmospheric nature. With ever-so-slightly mumbled…
We’ve been huge fans of Villagers ever since Conor O’Brien appeared on Jools Holland a few years back to deliver a stunning solo rendition of ‘Becoming a Jackal’. The album of the same name lived up to the potential of its lead single and then 2013’s ‘{Awayland}’ saw Conor invite his bandmates into the fold…
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