‘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…
Home Counties have followed up ‘Modern Yuppies’ with new single ‘White Shirt/Clean Shirt’ – a song that continues with the theme of working life under contemporary capitalism. It examines how people can sometimes feel like they’re losing a piece of themselves and their individuality when they are a small cog in a big corporate machine…
Lightning Bug have signed to Fat Possum and announced the release of their third album ‘A Color of the Sky’ on 25 June. To celebrate the news, they have shared new single ‘The Right Thing is Hard to Do’, a song that Audrey Kang says examines her struggles with self-worth and vulnerability and how personal…
Akron, OH-based duo En Garde (Ross Horvath – vocals/guitar – and Andy Hendricks – drums) have shared a collection of songs recorded back in 2012 with Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader) via the always sublime Count Your Lucky Stars Records. The EP opens with the urgent, intense and impassioned ‘Our Hands’. Reminding us of…
Bristol trio Our Nameless Boy have shared the video for new single ‘Not Thinking of Home’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Colour From the Doves’ (pre-order via Bandcamp here) in June. To mark the news, we had the chance to have a quick chat with the band about their background, influences, signing to…
Already favourites of Annie Mac, Steve Lamacq, Marc Riley and Lauren Laverne, Manchester four-piece Blanketman are getting set to release their new EP, ‘National Trust’. The songs cover everything from the band’s exasperation at Britain’s national identity to personal fears, escapism and the consequences of financial, social and geographical divisions. The early Maximo Park-style art…
Middle Kids, a Sydney-based trip made up of Hannah Joy, Tim Fitz and Harry Day, release their second album ‘Today We’re the Greatest’ via Lucky Number. The album was recorded and produced in Los Angeles by Lars Stalfors (Soccer Mommy, St. Vincent, Purity Ring) and finds Hannah pulling directly from her own experiences in a…
Liverpool four-piece Courting have shared ‘Grand National’ ahead of the release of their debut EP of the same name – out on 9 April to coincide with the event itself. With the vital – and horrific – message that sums up the state of this sport (‘I don’t care if he dies, it’s entertainment’), the…
Merpire (also known as Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt) has shared new single ‘Dinosaur’ – a Soccer Mommy-meets-Basia Bulat-style song that was written on the ukulele after playing covers of Toro Y Moi and Unknown Mortal Orchestra songs. It was inspired by Sam Neill’s line in Jurassic Park – ‘If you stay still, they can’t see you’ –…
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