Wild Cat Strike’s frontman Daniel God Damn Byrom has shared the video for ‘Funeral Song’, a poignant and quietly stirring piece that features on his new EP ‘Live From Dead Tuesdays’ (order via Small Pond’s Bandcamp here). The video finds Daniel looking through an old notebook full of powerful lyrics about painful moments from his…
On ‘Green to Gold’, The Antlers’ first new album in seven years, Peter Silberman documents two years in his life, without shrouding the the themes of the song in mystery and metaphors: ‘I think this is the first album I’ve made that has no eeriness in it. I set out to make Sunday morning music’.…
Loney Dear makes a welcome return with ‘A Lantern and a Bell’. Released via Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, the nine songs have a stripped-back marine theme with Emil Svanängen’s beautiful (and, at times, haunting) falsetto being joined by tender piano tones, discreet double bass and diffused water sounds played at dark low frequencies. The…
New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Esther Rose’s honest folk storytelling has been compared to Hank Williams, Dean Johnson and Jenny Lewis. On new album ‘How Many Times’, she looks back over a tumultuous period in her life that saw three moves, the end of a relationship and constant touring – but with the attitude that what will…
Regressive Left have shared new single ‘Take The Hit’, a song ‘about how neoliberalism acts as a shield for irresponsible politicians and greedy profiteers – as we try to disentangle the complex web of capitalism to find the spider at its heart, we end up instead blaming the countless flies that have been trapped along…
London four-piece Fightmilk have shared the animated video (directed by Jono Ganz) for ‘Overbite’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘Contender’ via Reckless Yes on 14 May. The song – which will resonate with anyone who has a fear of the dentist (personally, I still haven’t got over the time when one tried…
Mutes have shared ‘Modern Waste’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Dreams of Being Cornered’ on 7 May via FOMA records (pre-order via Bandcamp here). Recorded with Mark Gittins (The Wytches, Youth Man) at Megatone Studios, ‘Modern Waste’ opens in quieter fashion before clattering drums and huge hooks take it in a potent post-punk…
Sarah Jones – a drummer who has played with acts including New Young Pony Club, Hot Chip and Harry Styles – has shared ‘Bleu’, the latest single to be released under her Pillow Person moniker. Sarah says: ‘This song is about my love / hate relationship with the city and the search for a dark…
‘To me, ‘Lover Undiscovered’, is about when you notice or feel something you take for granted, as simple as the sea or a bird flying, and it’s like discovering that feeling all over again. We wanted the recording to sound like The Velvet Underground playing a Motown song in Rhyl Sun Centre.’ – James Skelly,…
Squid follow up the incredible ‘Narrator’ with ‘Paddling’, the second single to be taken from forthcoming debut album ‘Bright Green Field’. The record, produced by Dan Carey, will be released on 7 May via Warp Records while the new song – already a live favourite (if you can remember shows?) is: ‘Written from two different…
Spectral Nights - alternative music, indie music, music reviews, new music, music blog 