‘As cliché as it sounds, being our first release I wanted ‘Skeletons’ to really show the bare bones (no pun intended) of the band. We ended up making the record between my bedroom and Thomas’ attic as I wanted the EP to feel as DIY as the songs. It ended up being a pretty fun…
Touché Amoré return with their fifth album, ‘Lament’. The record follows up 2016’s ‘Stage Four’, a deeply personal piece that found vocalist Jeremy Bolm mourning the loss of his mother. This album finds Jeremy and his bandmates looking at what life has been like over the past four years as they all push forward for…
After three decades playing with Ride. Hurricane #1, Oasis, Beady Eye and Ride again, Andy Bell releases his debut solo album ‘The View from Halfway Down’ this month. The album was engineered by former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer and mastered by Hebra Kadry and has been in the works since the death of David Bowie…
Slow Pulp have already gained plaudits from SXSW, The Fader and KEXP and are now set to release their debut album ‘Moveys’ – a record that took shape while on tour with Alex G in 2019 after the band scrapped an album’s worth of material following Emily Massey’s diagnosis with both Lyme disease and chronic…
Firestations have released ‘Small Island’ – ‘a song about finding ways to escape when the dominant narrative seems to be stuck in slow motion or on repeat’ – ahead of the release of the first EP in their ‘Automatic Tendencies’ project (an album split into three EPs/collections) via Lost Map Records on 6 November. A…
Canadian indie rockers Kiwi Jr have announced they’ve signed to Sub Pop Records and shared a video for timely new single ‘Undecided Voters’. The jangly and melodic indie pop sound, reminiscent of early ’90s heroes including Pavement and Teenage Fanclub, surrounds Jeremy Gaudet’s astute and amusing observations on the state of society and the way…
Lande Hekt has shared the video for ‘Whiskey’ ahead of the release of her debut solo album ‘Going to Hell’ via Get Better Records on 22 January, 2021. The single is about Lande coming to terms with her sexuality and realising that she couldn’t pretend she wasn’t gay forever, especially when she found love. The…
Following many years of releasing sad and beautiful music under his own name, singer-songwriter Benjamin Shaw moved to Melbourne, Australia and started a new project under the moniker, Megadead. ‘Audio Visual Metro Computers’ is his second EP of the year and it follows a time of upheaval in his personal life… ‘Slowdead’ has a psych-yet-tender…
Magana’s latest album ‘You Are Not a Morning Person’ finds the singer-songwriter observing the different ways in which we all grow up and grow old. It’s inspired by the lives of people she’s met while touring the world with wide-ranging acts including Mitski, Lady Lamb and bluegrass artist Laura Cortese. The confusingly titled ‘The End’…
Beth Shalom Records signing Bryony Williams has shared ‘Dive’ ahead of the re;ease of new EP ‘State I’m In’ on 30 October. Written after a three-month backpacking world adventure, the song is described by Bryony as her ‘most delicate piece of work to date’ as she talks about making the difficult decision to be a…
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