Tyler Costolo (Two Meters) has shared ‘Passing Through’ – the first single to be released from his new project, Ghost Fan Club. Inspired by emo bedroom music and released through the Florida DIY label knifepunch records, we hear elements of Elliott Smith, Sparklehorse and The Antlers in the poignant guitar sound as Tyler discusses the…
Eve Owen has released her debut album ‘Don’t Let the Ink Dry’. Produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner – and released via 37d03d Records, the label he runs with his brother and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon – the record is packed with tales of heartbreak and longing set against backing that dips into a multitude…
Charli Adams follows her highly acclaimed debut EP ‘Good at Being Young’ with new single ‘Superpowers’. Written during the lockdown, the song encapsulates the feelings of so many right now as they miss loved ones and wonder what opportunities have slipped away during this period of isolation. Charli says about writing this song: ‘I felt…
Walt Disco have shared the video (directed and filmed by the band themselves in the Glasgow flat that they share) for new single ‘Cut Your Hair’. Inspired by ‘female, queer pop and dance music’ with the aim ‘to get people moving’, lead singer James Power says: ”Cut Your Hair’ was written as a wee fun…
Dust in the Sunlight follow up their eponymous debut single from earlier this year with ‘Strangest Places’. Singer-songwriters Billy Wright and Annie Rew Shaw bonded while recording backing vocals for Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’s new album and had signed a deal with Project Melody withing 12 months of forming. This new song, released ahead…
Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) and Hayden Thorpe (ex-Wild Beasts) have collaborated on new single ‘Unknown Song’. Written and recorded in the early part of the year before all of this, the dance banger will raise your spirits as Hayden sings about ‘where all the lost chords belong’ and broken melodies over synth beats that fall…
Chris Root, formerly of Mosquitos (Bar/None Records) releases ‘Wind Made of Kisses‘ via Team Love Records on 9 May. With a focus on pop hooks, love stories and dark secrets, the album promises to reward you on repeated listens. A burst of ’60s rock & roll guitar opens ‘Blow It Up With Love’, a song…
Glasgow-based Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay (better known as Martha Ffion) has shared the lyric video for new single ‘After the Fact’, the first song to be taken from her highly anticipated second album ‘Nights to Forget’. We were huge fans of 2018’s Scottish Album of the Year Award-nominated ‘Sunday Best’ and can’t wait to see…
I LIKE TRAINS have returned with new single ‘The Truth’ – their first new material in eight years and the first song to be taken from new record ‘KOMPROMAT’ (out on 21 August via the newly founded Atlantic Curve label). The album deals with knotted themes of information and how hard it is to make…
Matt Evans (Tigue, Bearthoven, Man Forever) has shared new album ‘New Topographics’ – a record filled with percussive ambient pieces that make use of sounds including writing, typing and morse code. Written and recorded in December 2018 during a month-long artist’s residency program at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the songs are the result of researching…
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