Tokyo Police Club have shared new single ‘Simple Dude’ ahead of the release of fourth album ‘TPC’ (out 5 October via Dine Alone Records). The band based themselves in a church in rural Ontario for the recording of this record and it was written while they grappled with the idea of calling it a day.…
flirting. are an ‘anxiety pop’ band with so much to say about the world and how we all treat mental health. Their new EP ‘This Would Be Funny if it Were Happening to Anyone But Me’ is released on 5 October via Noise is Therapy (digital) and Hidden Bay Records (cassette). The dark shoegaze of…
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…
It’s been four years since Sharon Van Etten released the sublime ‘Are We There’ album and in the meantime she’s become a mother, gone back to school to study psychology, written a score for the film Strange Weather and made guest appearances acting in The OA and singing in the Twin Peaks revival. Now, she…
Released by our friends at Beth Shalom, Tea Leaf’s ‘Disappear’ EP is a sparse, stark and honest collection of songs about depression, loneliness and anxiety. Here, Tea Leaf (Tom Lee) talks us through the six honest and affecting songs that appear on this startling EP. ‘Actor’ I don’t know if it’s obvious, but I…
Following the ‘Attic Space’ EP (released by Fox Food Records earlier this year), Alyssa Thomas’ Fairy Godmother project makes a return with ‘Spit It Out’. Based around the pain of a break-up and the comfort that comes with moving on, the EP is full of darkly melodic bedroom pop songs in the vein of Rilo…
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…
New Rose Coloured Records signing Wyse has released the video for ‘Rhythm She Knows’, a song that will appear on her upcoming debut EP ‘Switch of My Controller’ (released digitally and on vinyl on 23 November). Bringing to mind talents ranging from Let’s Eat Grandma to Phoenix and Marika Hackman, the synth-led song finds the…
Bristol three-piece Sœur have unveiled the video for the title track to their upcoming ‘Fight’ EP (self-released on 17 November). The song’s intro recalls some of Reuben’s more reflective moments as Tina and Anya ponder past mistakes and question why they followed something so blindly – and how they’re now determined to rise against it:…
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