Rosie Tucker has shared the video for new single ‘Habanero’ ahead of the release of their third album – and first on Epitaph Records – ‘Sucker Supreme’ on 30 April digitally/18 June physically. Discussing the new single, Rosie says: ‘The first two verses of ‘Habanero’ are about flirting, which is an important distraction from both…
Manchester Orchestra have shared the video for ‘Keel Timing’, the second single to be taken from upcoming album ‘The Million Masks of God’ (out on 30 April via Loma Vista Recordings – pre-order here). Described by frontman Andy Hull as ‘an isolated internal investigation about personal growth. Trying to decide what growh is positive and…
Alf Whitby has shared ‘Dampen the Fire’, his first new music since last year’s debut album ‘Sistine Dreams’. The piano-based piece finds Alf exploring the role his grandmother has played in family gatherings over the years- and the fear of what will happen once she is no longer there: ‘I wrote this song at Dublin…
Gold Baby self-release their debut EP, ‘Rabbits’, on 26 March. The four songs find Siân Alex offering astute observations on everything from her own struggles with OCD to female identity, American ghost towns and the medieval notion of cockaigne – an imaginary place of luxury where physical comforts and pleasures are always availble. Sole drumbeats…
Wild Cat Strike’s frontman Daniel God Damn Byrom has shared the video for ‘Funeral Song’, a poignant and quietly stirring piece that features on his new EP ‘Live From Dead Tuesdays’ (order via Small Pond’s Bandcamp here). The video finds Daniel looking through an old notebook full of powerful lyrics about painful moments from his…
On ‘Green to Gold’, The Antlers’ first new album in seven years, Peter Silberman documents two years in his life, without shrouding the the themes of the song in mystery and metaphors: ‘I think this is the first album I’ve made that has no eeriness in it. I set out to make Sunday morning music’.…
Loney Dear makes a welcome return with ‘A Lantern and a Bell’. Released via Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, the nine songs have a stripped-back marine theme with Emil Svanängen’s beautiful (and, at times, haunting) falsetto being joined by tender piano tones, discreet double bass and diffused water sounds played at dark low frequencies. The…
New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Esther Rose’s honest folk storytelling has been compared to Hank Williams, Dean Johnson and Jenny Lewis. On new album ‘How Many Times’, she looks back over a tumultuous period in her life that saw three moves, the end of a relationship and constant touring – but with the attitude that what will…
Regressive Left have shared new single ‘Take The Hit’, a song ‘about how neoliberalism acts as a shield for irresponsible politicians and greedy profiteers – as we try to disentangle the complex web of capitalism to find the spider at its heart, we end up instead blaming the countless flies that have been trapped along…
London four-piece Fightmilk have shared the animated video (directed by Jono Ganz) for ‘Overbite’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘Contender’ via Reckless Yes on 14 May. The song – which will resonate with anyone who has a fear of the dentist (personally, I still haven’t got over the time when one tried…
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