Boy Scouts (aka Oakland, California-based Taylor Vick) releases her new album ‘Wayfinder’ via ANTI- and this record – with its title taken from Sallie Tisdale’s book ‘Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying’ – finds the talented singer-songwriter (and Super Fan 99 alumni) looking at how…
Ahead of tours with both Idles and Pillow Queens, Gustaf release their debut album ‘Audio Drag for Ego Slobs’ via Royal Mountain Records. Having already gained acclaim from the likes of NME, NPR, Beck and James Chance, the album finds the fuzz-filled art rockers examining the contrast of existential dread with sheer optimism. Angular post-punk…
‘True Love’, Hovvdy’s fourth album, finds the duo embracing their lo-fi, DIY roots while examining the tumultuous nature of all kinds of relationships… Produced by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver), the album opens with the sweet, soulful and soul-searching 80 seconds of ‘Sometimes’, a song all about asking for forgiveness with the running message:…
Following a five-year tussle with their former record label for the rights to their own music, Matt Pond PA release their ‘The State of Gold’ album. Remastered and resequenced in reverse – because that’s how the band view the past – the album was inspired by Matt Pond’s visit to a winter cabin in Bearsville,…
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:…
