Featuring members of Meat Market, Lofter, Twin Steps, Radiator Hospital and Our Brother the Native, Club Night are a band you’ll fall in love with straight away. Hailing from Oakland, California, the DIY five-piece have a kitchen-sink approach to writing and recording that leaves you with a hugely entertaining and surprising listen. ‘Hell Ya’ is…
Signed to the ever-reliable Father/Daughter Records, San Francisco’s SOAR came together in 2015 when four queer and femme friends who fronted their respective bands decided they wanted to try their hands at something a little more collaborative. ‘dark/gold’ is their debut album and it’s one flourishing with creativity. The opener ‘Fort Funston’ has a slow…
The War on Drugs have gone from strength to strength with each album and now they’re set to release ‘A Deeper Understanding’; their first record on Atlantic Records. It follows 2014’s ‘Lost in the Dream’, a hugely successful album all around the world that brought about massive tours and high-profile slots at major festivals. Will…
Ever since Everything Everything burst onto the scene in 2008 (they’ve been around a long time now!) with ‘Suffragette Suffragette’, they’ve been going from strength to strength. 2015’s ‘Get to Heaven’ was a hugely successful record and anyone who was lucky enough to see their two Glastonbury performances on that tour cycle – especially the…
Signed to our friends at Audio Antihero, it’s with a heavy heart we review the final album from CHUCK (known to friends and family as Charles Griffin Gibson). The fantastically named ‘Frankenstein Songs for the Grocery Store’ is an album full of songs ‘about diet, exercise, work, love, TV and animals’. It’s CHUCK’s last album…
It’s been a while coming but Matt Emery has finally revealed details of his debut album, ‘Empire’, which is due out on 15 September. He’s also unveiled the title track, that you can hear in the Soundcloud stream below. Poignant and powerful, ‘Empire’ opens with simply gorgeous piano notes before contemporary-sounding glitches and effects are…
Maisonneuve Music are set to release ‘Time Side / Memory Side: A Tribute to R.E.M.’s Out of Time’ in a weeks and Hamilton, Ontario’s Max the Lesser has contributed his own take on ‘Me in Honey’. More psychedelic than the original, Max doesn’t try to replicate Michael Stipe’s vocals but instead lends his own voice…
When you receive an email about an act who has written a song inspired by Seinfeld’s pilot episode, your interest is peaked. When you look further into the act in question and find out they’ve also had music featured on Adult Swim and in Lena Dunham’s ‘Tiny Furniture’, you know they might be something quite…
Released as part of Saddle Creek‘s Document series which highlights some of esteemed label’s favourite acts who are not yet part of their family, Hand Habits (also known as Meg Duffy to her friend and family) is an artist you’ll want to hear more from after just one listen. Hailing from upstate New York, the…
Excitement is already at breaking point for ‘A Fever Dream’, Everything Everything‘s fourth album. Now, it will go up another level after the Manchester masters of oddball pop revealed their new single, ‘Desire”. A synth-led intro dives into the bands more math-rock elements before it takes a typically EE turn into 80s power pop with…
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