Released via Run for Cover and Keeled Scales, Sun June’s second album finds the Austin, Texa-based five-piece expanding on the ‘regret pop’ (their term) that served them so well on the ‘Years’ LP. Focusing on how love evolves and shapes our lives, the band describe the new record as ‘prom’ music: ‘Prom isn’t all rosy…
Berlin-based artist Albertine Sarges explores the concepts of growth, self-fulfilment, sexuality, gender and the importance of mental health on ‘The Sticky Fingers’. The record, named after her pet name for her closest friends and band mates, also celebrates the importance of companionship: ‘So much of this album is about the experience of togetherness vs. fighting…
Released via Get Better Records, Lande Hekt’s (Muncie Girls) debut solo album is a personal piece that not only chronicles her experiences coming out but also at the wider world, the climate crisis and the actions of both society and politicians. Acoustic strums signal the start of album opener – and recent single – ‘Whiskey’,…
Melodic art pop-rockers Kiwi Jr. have now signed to Sub Pop and are set to release their latest album ‘Cooler Returns’ on 22 January. The album is full of storytelling and characters that will live long in the memory – taking in everything from true stories of local arson and insurance fraud to the dark…
Cheekface kick off 2021 with the release of their second album, ‘Emphatically No’. The Los Angeles trio – made up of Greg Katz, Amanda Tannen and Mark ‘Echo’ Edwards – are renowned for their wry, witty and observational lyrics and throughout this album, they offer up opinions on mental health, fascist governments and political hypocrisy.…
Hamilton punks The Dirty Nil will dust the cobwebs off your New Year’s Day hangover with the release of ferocious new record, ‘Fuck Art’. The record kicks off with the crunching riffs of ‘Doom Bay’ before moving into something more alternative rock anthem sounding on ‘Blunt Force Confusion’ – a track that features impassioned vocals…
EX OH is the moniker of The Blam’s Jerry Adler – a songwriter who came out of the same NYC scene of the early 200s that spawned The Stokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol. He’s now released the self-titled debut album of this project via Team Love Records. The record opens with ‘Love and War’,…
Black Foxxes release their third album following a number of personnel and personal changes. Mark Holley has always been open and honest about his physical and mental health challenges and this continues through these nine songs – recorded quickly with a new rhythm section (drummer Finn McClean and bass player Jack Henley) and producer/mixer Ade…
Royal Mountain Records (Mac DeMarco, Orville Peck, Pottery) founder Menno Versteeg is set to release the debut full-length record, ‘Strangers Like Us’, under his Mav Karlo moniker. Menno says: ‘The goal with the album was to take a good hard look at myself and my behaviour and really get to the heart of the matter.…
Tugboat Captain spent the past year secretly using free studio hours at Abbey Road to record their debut album, ‘Rut’. The four-piece have long been acclaimed for their work ethic and gorgeous pop hooks but now they’re ready to take their sound to new – often orchestral – height’. The cabaret-style announcement of ‘Please excuse…
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