The latest EP release from our friends at Fox Food Records is Fairy Godmother’s ‘Attic Space’. Available on limited-edition cassette, it contains six lo-fi songs full of heart and honesty. Opening with a burst of ambient noise and chatter that sets the scene perfectly, you first hear Alyssa Thomas’s lilting vocals on second track ‘Tell…
Audio Antihero Records’ Cloud (or Tyler Taormina to his friends and family) makes a welcome return with ‘Plays with Fire’ – a 32-minute album drenched in hope and nostalgia. A loud burst of feedback signals the start of the opener ‘Happer’s Laugh’; a song full of acoustic strums and white noise effects that evolves into…
As a touring member of Bastille, Charlie Barnes has played to arena-sized audiences all over the world in the three years since his debut record ‘More Stately Mansions’. The follow-up ‘Oceanography’, again released via the ever-reliable Superball Music, was written in various hotel rooms during this period. The album opens with a short intro that…
pronoun – ‘Run‘ Ahead of an appearance at SXSW and shows with Basement, Citizen and Turnover, Alyse Vellturo (aka pronoun) has unveiled ‘Run’; a song they describe as ‘a ball of frustration’. Covering the ending of a relationship where one person easily gave up because things got slightly tough, pronoun doesn’t pull any punches as…
itoldyouiwouldeatyou. Failure by Design Records. Alcopop! Records. There are a lot of brilliant, beautiful people involved in all three of these and now they’re set to come together with the release of the new ityiwey EP ‘Get Terrified’ (out 20 April) – a set of physically unreleased previous singles and new material. The title track…
Oslo’s Spielbergs (great name) have announced details of their debut EP ‘Distant Star’ and shared the hook-laden power-pop of ‘We Are All Going to Die’. With its precision drumming and fierce but melodic guitar riffs, it’s a song that instantly gets inside your head and it’s sure to delight fans of Japandroids, Beach Slang and…
Ahead of the release of the now sold-out ‘Just Don’t’/’Can’t They Hear?’ new Super Fan 99 Records signings The Entire Universe speak to us about their Top 5 Influences… 1) Nirvana – “Scentless Apprentice” At the time this was the biggest band in the world & this was there highly anticipated follow up to…
Everything Everything have released a surprise EP just before their biggest ever UK and Ireland tour. It includes two new tracks, a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ and a Tom Vek remix of ‘Ivory Tower. The video for ‘Breadwinner’ features a Lawnmower Man-style rendering of EE frontman Jonathan Higgs dancing…
Bad News Club follows up their debut ‘The Painter’ with ‘Absent’, a cleverly layered song that packs a hefty emotional punch. Written after a trip away from home, it’s an ode to the items that had been left behind and combines tender vocals, mournful strings and the heartfelt sentiments of The Antlers or Elliott Smith.…
Raised in Ireland but now based in Glasgow, we’ve been excited to hear Martha Ffion’s debut album for a long time. The album opens with ‘Missing You’, a ‘50s-style soul song which has her discussing staying up all night and smoking her way through an entire packed of Lucky Stripe cigarettes. Martha sings about eagerly…
