‘Box’, the new single from Seattle trio Dude York opens with Peter Richards proclaiming: ‘It started with a kiss, who’d have thought it would end like this in a total eclipse? You broke my heart with your ruby lips’. It’s a power pop-infused three-and-a-half minutes that throws together elements of Guided by Voices and early…
Released by our friends at Beth Shalom, Tea Leaf’s ‘Disappear’ EP is a sparse, stark and honest collection of songs about depression, loneliness and anxiety. Here, Tea Leaf (Tom Lee) talks us through the six honest and affecting songs that appear on this startling EP. ‘Actor’ I don’t know if it’s obvious, but I…
After playing a stripped back set for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, James Alex was inspired to release an album full of alternative versions of Beach Slang hits. Ditching the fuzz and riffs in favour of cello and piano, he said where his day job finds him fawning over The Replacements, Quiet Slang is more…
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