Photo credit: Morgan Sidle Barnsley-based indie rockers Bedroom High Club have shared new single ‘What You Did’ ahead of a few UK performances and a slot at this year’s Great Escape. A song ‘for when you’re proper fed up and ready to pack it all in’, it finds frontman Blue Brownlie’s rasping vocals soaring over…
After looking up to the skies and filling 2020’s album ‘Wake Up Calls’ with the sounds of the UK’s endangered bird species, multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake will be heading deep underwater with new EP ‘Wild Wet World’. Lead single ‘Bathed in Sound’ features Cosmo’s vocals alongside humpback whales, sperm whales, long horn sculpin, oyster toad fish,…
Hailing from the beautiful city of Bath, the brilliantly named Teenage Tom Petties have shared new double A-side single ‘Posters’ and ‘My First Beer’. ‘Posters’ reminded us of early Cloud Nothings with its fuzzy, frenetic and fantastically jangly hooks, while the lyrics (and song title) has a touch of Jeffrey Lewis as Tom Brown reminisces…
Photo credit: Sarah Currie Gold Baby return with new single ‘Cheer’ – a song ‘about the feeling of disappearing’ according to songwriter Siân Fawcett and how changing situations can lead to you losing a sense of who you are: ‘When I listen to this song I can see myself vividly in certain situations from that …
Photo credit: Shervin Lainez The Hold Steady celebrate their 20th anniversary with new album ‘The Price of Progress’ – a collection of songs that finds Craig Finn once again telling the gut-punching stories of ordinary and often flawed people trying to navigate their way through life in today’s unsettled times…. ‘Grand Junction’ opens the song…
Experimental trio Exploring Birdsong follow up their 2019 debut EP ‘The Thing with Feathers’ with ‘Dancing in the Face of Danger’ – a collection of five tracks full of unique storytelling, stunning synth and piano work and live strings… The opening ‘Pure’ has clattering drums that soon make way for a swirling mix of post…
Tugboat Captain follow up recent single ‘Flash of Light’ with ‘Deep Sea Diving’ – a piece of intelligent baroque pop that takes a look at the polymetallic nodules that can be found on the ocean floor, and how this might lead to ecological disaster: ‘Maybe we’re running on borrowed time, got no answer. I don’t…
Photo credit: Niamh Berry Ailbhe Reddy follows up her 2020 debut album ‘Personal History’ with ‘Endless Affair’ – a collection of songs that find the Irish singer-songwriter tackling the pain and relief of growing up, the power of living and the raw emotion of mortality… ‘Shitshow’ opens the album with hushed tones that evolve into…
The Antlers make a welcome return with new single ‘I Was Not There’, a song Peter Silberman says is about ‘the elusive experience of complete presence. Across three scenes, the song describes fleeting moments of clarity and wholeness, and the accompanying feeling of leaving yourself’. It opens in evocative style as Peter sings about the…
Photo credit: Shervin Lainez Joanna Sternberg has shared the video for new single ‘I’ve Got Me’, the title track from their new album out via Fat Possum on 30 June. Partly inspired by Charles Bukowski’s ‘Oh Yes’ poem (which Joanna has tattooed on their right arm), the song brings back memories of the anti-folk scene…
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