A group with a real gang mentality, Die Spitz share instruments, swap songwriting and vocal duties seemingly on a whim and tackle subjects including politics, addiction and love. Made up of Austin, Texas natives Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St.Aubin, Ellie Livingston, and Kate Halter, the friends decided to form the band following a late night…
‘Rainy Day Afternoon’ (out on 19 September, 2025) is the thirteenth album from The Divine Comedy, and it feels luck is in for Neil Hannon following the top five charting of 2019’s album ‘Office Politics’ and blockbuster success of his soundtrack to the Wonka film. Neil has been thinking about mortality, memories, relationships and political…
New Zealand’s The Beths return with their fourth (and first for new label ANTI-) album ‘Straight Line Was a Lie’. With a focus on how life, no matter how difficult or transformative it seems, has a habit of feeling like it’s taken you back to where it started. It follows Elizabeth Stokes taking medication as…
David Balfe returns with ‘Carving the Stone’, the second album to be released under his For Those I Love moniker. While the debut self-titled record offered meditations on grief and loss following the death of his best friend, this record finds David focusing on life in working-class communities, familial life and how Irish capitalism is…
Swaggering superstar-in-waiting De’Wayne releases his third album, ‘June’, via Fearless Records today (30 July, 2025). There’s no messing around with this record, opener ‘Lady Lady’ combining Aerosmith-style hooks with copious amounts of funk and one-liners about his love life: ‘Great conversation, I don’t think she’ll be staying’. This is followed by an old-school countdown to…
20 years after their classic debut ‘With Love and Squalor’, We Are Scientists are set to release their ninth album ‘Qualifying Miles’ on 18 July, 2025. With themes of ‘nostalgia, loss and the bittersweet ache of the past’ and inspiration from ’90s guitar rock bands, the record finds the duo in introspective and reflective mood.…
Patrick Wolf releases ‘Crying the Neck’, his first album in 13 years, on 13 June, 2025. While addiction, bankruptcy and recovery influenced 2023’s ‘The Night Safari’ EP, this new record finds Patrick in more confident mood with inspiration from nature, the East Kent landscape and folklore – albeit tinged with his grief following the death…
Elisabeth Elektra’s second album, ‘Hypersigil’, is named after Grant Morrison’s definition of a work of art that also acts as a spell. It takes in themes of magic, empowerment and self-realisation while working through trauma and reclaiming your true self. Elisabeth says: ”Hypersigil’ is about taking the fragments of my past, the pain and the…
Turin Brakes have returned with ‘Spacehopper’ – their first new music in over three years and 10th studio album overall. The record found the band heading back to Konk Studios, where they recorded debut album ‘The Optimist’ for the first time in a quarter of a century with Olly Knights saying: ‘We honestly don’t normally…
With influences ranging from Neil Young and Yo La Tengo to Lomelda and Lambchop, Friendship’s new album ‘Caveman Wakes Up’ promises a delicious cacophony of poetry, pain and alt-folk – with a dollop of heartbreak and longing thrown in for good measure. Written by Dan Wriggins while he crashed at MJ Lenderman and Wednesday’s Karly…
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