Hayden Thorpe, formerly of Wild Beasts, has shared the Alexandra Liveris-directed video for new single ‘Love Crimes’ ahead of the release of his debut solo album ‘Diviner’ on 24 May (Domino). The song’s spacey and atmospheric opening recalls his old band as Hayden lays his heart bare and gives an honest admission of where his…
After a four-year hiatus, Norway’s premier indie-poppers Team Me reunited with an extended line-up back in February and have now released ‘The Future in Your Eyes’, the second single since their most welcome return. Released via Propeller Recordings, the song tells the Wall-E-esque story of two cyborgs fighting to hold on to a love they…
Idlewild made a welcome return with 2015’s ‘Everything Ever Written’ – an album that hit the top 20 and saw them play the biggest venues in their career to date. Now the Scottish indie legends are back once more with ‘Interview Music’, a record they started to scrobble down ideas for shortly after the release…
The Parker brothers’ (The Superman Revenge Squad/Nosferatu 2) Tempertwig project was a band from 1999-2004 and this new release from our friends over at Audio Antihero Records collates together some of their finest material from those heady years. With the band’s sound lovingly described by their own label as ‘wordy racket’, the record is packed…
C Duncan’s third album ‘Health’ (out on 29 March via FatCat Records) finds the Scottish multi-instrumentalist working with other producers, engineers and musicians for the first time. His most personal work yet, it tackles issues of relationships, mental health and sexuality with honesty and humour – and wraps them all up in swaying harmonies delicious…
Despite being almost entirely absent from social media, Organised Scum have made a name for themselves through occasional appearances on Spotify playlists and acclaim from the likes of Clash, The Line of Best Fit and Louder than War. New single ‘Fotograph’ is the perfect introduction to their abstract art pop. Resembling Dutch Uncles covering XTC,…
Alcopop! Records have added another fine band to their roster with the signing of Bury St Edmund trio Gaffa Tape Sandy. The band have also shared ‘Headlights’, the first track to be taken from their forthcoming EP – which will be released in time for the festivals. Gaffa Tape Sandy have already played shows with…
On the eve of Audio Antihero Records’ release of ‘Fake Nostalgia: An Anthology of Broken Stuff’, Ben and Adam Parker from the dearly departed early ’00s cult indie favourites Tempertwig talk us through the influences on their old band’s sound and the music they are enjoying right now… Order ‘Fake Nostalgia’ via Audio Antihero Records.…
Bristol punks Weatherstate have shared the video for new single ‘Brain Dead’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Born a Cynic’ on 10 May via Failure by Design Records in the UK and EU and Wiretap Records in the US. Vocalist and guitarist Harry Hoskins claims ‘Brain Dead’ is ‘a song about disconnecting your…
The mysterious new Alcopop! Records signings DBoy never speak publicly, instead letting their music do the talking. ‘Here to dominate the carnivorous world of rock and roll’, their new single ‘Dboy for President’ is a short, sharp and feedback-laden song that combines the ramshackle allure of early Cribs or Sonic Youth with the cheeky nous…
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