Cloud Nothings return on 19 October with fifth album ‘Last Building Burning’. Released via Wichita, the album was recorded in just eight day and clocks in at just 30 minutes – and that’s with space for the 11-minute ‘Dissolution’! The aim was to capture the dynamic and energetic sound of Dylan Baldi’s live band on…
Already a thrilling live prospect and now a must-see fixture at festivals across the country, Black Peaks prepare to release their second album ‘All That Divides’ on 5 October. A wall of feedback and frantic drumming signal the start of album opener ‘Can’t Sleep’. Already a consistent part of Black Peaks live set, it finds…
Ivor Novello Award-winning Conor O’Brien’s Villagers project returns with fourth album ‘The Art of Pretending to Swim’. A huge favourite with Spectral Nights ever since we first heard ‘Becoming a Jackal’ back in 2010, this record promises a fuller sound than his previous album = the sparse and intimate (yet no less special) ‘Darling Arithmetic’.…
Transgressive Records signing Mutual Benefit makes a welcome return with ‘Thunder Follows the Light’ on 21 September. The album opens with ‘Written in Lighting’; a song that gives Mutual Benefit (or Jordan Lee as he’s known to his friends and family) the chance to showcase his gentle falsetto and warming advice about taking care of…
Fatherson release their third album, ‘Sum of All Your Parts’, on 14 September. A festival favourite at the likes of 2000 Trees and T in the Park, their brand of anthemic indie-rock has won the Scots a huge army of fans and on this record they promise a different kind of sound while retaining the…
Following their widely acclaimed debut album ‘From Caplan to Belsize’ and countless tours around the UK sharing stages with everyone from Los Campesinos! to Jeremy Corbyn, Muncie Girls have made a welcome return with ‘Fixed Ideals’. Once again produced by Lewis Johns and with a title taken from a Sylvia Plath poem, the Specialist Subject…
‘Megadead’ is the new album from now Melbourne-based polymath Benjamin Shaw. Released through Audio Antihero in the US and UK and Kirigirisu Records in Japan, it’s a concept album of sorts about a party where everyone is having a good time except you (as a teetotaller, that’s something I can associate with only too well)……
Following a series of rapturously received live shows, Liverpool-based synth-pop duo Her’s unveil their debut album, the appropriately titled ‘Invitation to… Her’s’. Released via Heist or Hit Records, it finds Barrow-in-Furness native Stephen Fitzpatrick and Norwegian Audun Laading offering wry observations about life and its many directions over off-kilter pop beats. The short and sweet…
Foxing’s third album, ‘Nearer My God’, has been three years in the making. It will be released ahead of a UK tour with Pianos Become the Teeth and an eagerly anticipated performance at this year’s ArcTanGent Festival. Produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) and Foxing’s own Eric Hudson, with help from Joe Reinhart,…
Released on 10 August via the ever-reliable Saddle Creek Records, Sarah-Beth Tomberlin’s debut album ‘At Weddings’ is one you’ll want to hold dear. It’s a transcendant and poignant record about learning to love oneself, even when everything seems to be caving in on you. The gentle folk of ‘Any Other Way’ opens the record with…
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