New Father/Daughter Records signing Annie Blackman has shared her sublime new single, ‘Why We Met’. Hailing from Montclair, New Jersey, Annie draws inspiration from her diaries, schoolwork and the Notes app on her iPhone for her visceral observations and her next run of singles capture her later college years and post-grad life. She’s already shared…
Fleet trio Drug Store Romeos have shared new single ‘What’s On Your Mind’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘The world within our bedrooms’ on 25 June via Fiction Records (preorder HERE). They’ve also announced details of a headline show at London’s prestigious Scala on 17 November. While the album aims to ‘reflect the…
Philadelphia’s psych-pop trio Spirit of the Beehive get set to release ‘Entertainment, Death’ – their first album since signing to Saddle Creek and fourth overall. Entirely self-recorded and produced remotely over the past 12 months, the band mixed the album digitally before mastering it to tape with guitarist and vocalist Zach Schwartz saying: ‘We knew…
Self-recorded and mostly self-performed, The Reds, Pinks & Purples new album ‘Uncommon Weather’ finds Glenn Donaldson looking over his life in the ever-changing San Francisco landscape, the losses he has experienced, mental health issues and wider social and cultural issues. ‘Don’t Ever Pray in the Church On My Street’ opens the record in fuzzy yet…
London-based trio Muttering’s debut EP ‘Don’t Think About It’ finds the band considering the state of the world and trying to hold on to those glimpses of optimism that shine through the almost constant doom. In fact, the band describe the EP as a collection of ‘songs for the end of the world’. Swirling Appleseed…
Kip Berman, former The Pains of Being Pure at Heart frontman, examines the changes in his life and shift in priorities since the band split on ‘Tethers’ – the first album to be released under his The Natvral moniker. Over the past few years, Kip’s life has changed dramatically – he welcomed two children and…
Boy Azooga’s bassist Sam Barnes has shared stand-alone single ‘Wired World’ ahead of the release of his debut album in August. Recorded in lockdown and influenced by classic singer-songwriters including Nick Drake and Elliott Smith, we also hear elements of contemporaries like Pictish Trail, Bill Ryder-Jones or even Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips in…
Willy Mason has shared ‘Youth On a Spit’ ahead of the release of his fourth – and first in nine years – album ‘Already Dead’ on 6 August via Cooking Vinyl. The new record has a theme of faith running through it while also exploring the concepts of honesty, deception, freedom colonialism, love and purpose.…
Major Murphy, a four-piece from Grand Rapids, Michigan, are all set to release their second album ‘Access’ – a collection of nine songs that navigate the uncertainty of creative and artistic livelihoods while also trying to make sense of newfound parenthood. Opening with the slackerpop hooks of the recently released title track, there’s an element…
We’re getting there, aren’t we? Not long now until we can see friends and family outside and then there will soon be the chance to actually see people under roofs. Anyhow, March 2021 has been another solid month for new music and here’s a Spotify playlist with a song from every act we’ve covered over…
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