Packs have shared the video for new single ‘Silvertongue’, the second to be taken from new record ‘Take the Cake’ (out on 14 May through Fire Talk and Royal Mountain). Following shows with acts including Squirrel Flower and Odetta Hartman, this scatty and scuzzy piece of grunge-meets-slacker pop will introduce Maddie Link to a wider…
Fresh have shared new song ‘Girl Clout’ – an impassioned rally against the toxic masculinity that infects our culture (and especially the music scene). Lead singer Kathryn Woods says the song’s themes ‘include power, not being taken seriously by male musicians and bands, and being tokenised. It’s also about seeing through performative male allyship, owning…
The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) follows up her critically acclaimed debut album with ‘The Art of Losing’ – a self-produced LP that finds her trying to make sense of grief and exploring how we all try to make something from the losses that affect our lives. The record’s title is inspired by the opening…
Michigan-based duo Sideria released their self-tired debut LP at the end of last year – and you can order it on Bandcamp here. The rercord, inspired by bands including Hop Along and Algernon Cadwallader, will be on streaming services from 20 March. Opening with a distorted confusion of riffs and drums on the Cap’n Jazz-esque…
Astroturf Inspector, a one-man-band based in Leith, Edinburgh known to friends and family as Daniel Crichton, has shared his debut single ‘User Error’ via the new also Leith-based record label ‘New Teeth’. Recorded entirely on an iPhone (using its accompanying microphone), the quirky troubadour pop sound reminded us of The Voluntary Butler Scheme or Pictish…
Sharon Van Etten has announced the release of ‘epic Ten’, a double LP of her 2010 album and a collection of covers by artists including Fiona Apple, Idles and Courtney Barnett, on 16 April digitally and 11 June physically. Sharon’s also shared news of an accompanying documentary and concert stream that will find her and…
Maple Glader, a singer-songwriter based in Naarm/Melbourne, has announced she has signed to Partisan Records (Idles, Laura Marling, Fela Kuti) and Pieater. To celebrate this news, Maple Glider (aka Tori Ziestch) has shared the video for new single ‘Good Thing’ – a song about how it feels when you have to hurt someone you love…
Japanese Breakfast has made a welcome return with new single ‘Be Sweet’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Jubilee’ on 4 June via Dead Oceans. A vibrant and sparkling dose of Robyn-esque synth-pop with an ’80s influence running through its heart, the song finds Michelle Zauner opening up about how ‘I want to believe…
Manchester-based rock band The Hyena Kill release ‘A Disconnect’ via APF Records on 5 March. The album finds the band reflecting on a number of traumatic and tragic incidents in the members’ personal lives, with vocalist/guitarist Steven Dobb saying: ‘The bulk of material was written during a very low point in my life, and as…
Brooklyn-via Hudson Valley singer songwriter Juliet Quick releases her new ‘Glass Years’ EP – five songs full of poignant storytelling, spare acoustics, playful synths, stirring strings and lap steel. The EP opens with recent single ‘Circles’ and Juliet delivering the lines ‘Don’t know what to do with myself lately, I’m not that driven. Funny how…
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