Spectral Nights favourites Tugboat Captain have shared new album ‘Dog Tale’. Written and recorded in just one week, it finds lead singer Sox ruminating on London life when you’re navigating your mid to late 20s: ‘I feel like this album is a ‘Dog’s Tale’ of love, relationships, family and domesticity. I feel like lyrically, I’ve…
Five years since their incredible ‘Four of Arrows’ album, Seattle four-piece Great Grandpa return with ‘Patience, Moonbeam’, an expansive self-produced record that will take you on an otherworldly journey… The album opens with an almost classical string-laden feel, the 36 seconds of ‘Sleep’ offering the perfect introduction of what’s to come next. ‘Never Rest’ stays…
Brighton trio Orchards return with new album ‘Bicker’ (released on Friday 28 March via Big Scary Monsters. Full of bittersweet lyrics about love and losing it, Lucy Evers says about the album: ‘There are sad songs, happy songs, songs of ambivalence and everywhere in between on this record. But it’s back breakingly true. Every word,…
Recorded in just four days with cover artwork that recreates ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ LP – albeit with more raw cheek – Jeffrey Lewis’s latest album, ‘The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis’ is a record that once again finds one of the world’s finest storytellers offering musings and ruminations on the memories and mundanities of…
Teenage Tom Petties and Rural France’s Tom Brown releases the first record under his solo moniker, Lone Striker. Five years in the making, this self-titled album was recorded at Tom’s home using a selection of bedroom instruments, wobbly doo-wop samples, off-kilter drum loops and found sounds. ‘Blip One’ opens the record with a Sparklehorse sound…
Keg release their debut album ‘Fun’s Over’ via Alcopop! Records on 14 March, 2025. Known for their infectious live performances, this record finds the seven-piece showcasing a more vulnerable, human side amidst the chaos of synths, trombone and barbed guitars… Album opener ‘Photo Day’ has a long, mathy, post-rock-inspired build up that makes for a…
‘It’s meant to feel very contradictory and confusing but it’s also fully realized’. Courting’s Sean Murphy-O’Neil hits the nail on the head when describing the Liverpool band’s third album ‘Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ (out via Lower Third on 14 March…
Based around the theme of reincarnation – and a story shaped by songwriter Reid Bateh about women linked through generations by dreams, snakebites and violence in dive bars – ‘Birthmarks’ is Bambara’s fifth album. Packed with darkness and troubled characters, Reid said ‘I wanted to write about the idea of love surviving after death, or…
Michael Cera Palin, an Atlanta trio made up of Elliott Brabant (vocals/guitar), Jon Buncic (drums – Chad Miller joined after the album’s completion) and Jon Williams (bass), release their debut album ‘We Could Be Brave’ via Big Scary Monsters on 7 March, 2025. A clattering of drums and Kinsella-esque guitar noodling signals the start of…
Moreish Idols release their debut album ‘All in the Game’ on 7 March 2025 via Speedy Wunderground. Produced by the label’s Dan Carey, the record is inspired by iconic US indie rockers including Pavement and Sonic Youth but also has elements of contemporary art rock that offer something quite fresh and unique. Album opener ‘Ambergrin’…
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