After looking back at some of the human race’s finest achievements, blasting off to the moon and examining the rise and fall of the British coal industry, Public Service Broadcasting head to Berlin on fourth album ‘Bright Magic’. ‘Doing this felt inevitable, somehow,’ muses PSB’s auteur J. Willgoose, Esq. ‘In my head, it was whirring…
Ada Lea’s second album – the fantastically titled ‘One Hand on the Steering Wheel, The Other Sewing a Garden’ – finds the Montreal native (real name Alexandra Levy) talking about life in the city and offering a dotted personal history of growing up there. Although, like with all good storytelling, the line between fiction and…
‘Someone Else’s Albert Hammond Jr-esque guitar hooks kick off the album as Colleen reveals: ‘We are the lucky ones, we’re having so much fun’. This is swiftly followed by ‘I Wanna Be A Dog’ – we’re sure there’s a nod to The Stooges in that title – and Colleen sharing her desire to go to…
“It feels so important for me to see people through change. To accept people for the many shapes they take, whether those shapes fit into your life or not. This album is a reflection of that.’ Indigo De Souza’s ‘Any Shape You Take’ (her second album and first to be released via Saddle Creek) is…
Sleigh Bells make a welcome return with sixth album ‘Texis’ on 10 September. The band claim they let go of all inhibitions when it came to writing and recording this album with Derek Miller saying: ‘We stopped worrying about whether or not we’re in or out of our comfort zone, or if we were being…
I Feel Fine follow up their 2018 debut EP ‘Long Distance Celebration’ with their first long player – ‘The Cold in Every Shelter’. Released via Venn Records, the release comes ahead of a few tour dates with Lakes and finds the Brighton-based four-piece examining their own actions – and what they can learn from them:…
Manic Street Preachers release ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, the 14th album in their glittering career. Inspired by the bands the trio grew up listening to – ABBA, ‘Fables’-era R.E.M. and Echo and the Bunnymen – the record finds the Welshmen examining where we all fit in today’s uncertain and divisive world. It also features guest…
Lakes’ debut album ‘The Constance LP’ was inspired after American Football’s 2016 ‘LP2’ inspired drummer/guitarist Matt Shaw to start writing music again. Within the space of month, he had the songs that made up 2018’s ‘The Tahoe EP’ and 2019’s ‘The Geneva EP’ and the basis of the full-length. Now – after various lockdowns disrupted…
Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay’s (Tunng) side-project LUMP has returned with new album ‘Animal’ – a record unlike the previous output of either of these most talented artists. While Laura’s lyrics and observations draw on psychoanalysis and are playful and spontaneous, Mike explores a vast array of electronic soundscapes that sometimes drift towards deep psychedelia.…
Conor O’Brien’s Villagers return with sixth album ‘Fever Dreams’. Written over the past couple of years and recorded during those longer lockdown days at the start of the pandemic, the record has a central theme of escapism and finds Conor ruminating on events ranging from night swimming on a Dutch island to the inescapable power…
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