Spectral Nights favourites Tugboat Captain have shared new album ‘Dog Tale’. Written and recorded in just one week, it finds lead singer Sox ruminating on London life when you’re navigating your mid to late 20s: ‘I feel like this album is a ‘Dog’s Tale’ of love, relationships, family and domesticity. I feel like lyrically, I’ve…
Brighton trio Orchards return with new album ‘Bicker’ (released on Friday 28 March via Big Scary Monsters. Full of bittersweet lyrics about love and losing it, Lucy Evers says about the album: ‘There are sad songs, happy songs, songs of ambivalence and everywhere in between on this record. But it’s back breakingly true. Every word,…
Recorded in just four days with cover artwork that recreates ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ LP – albeit with more raw cheek – Jeffrey Lewis’s latest album, ‘The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis’ is a record that once again finds one of the world’s finest storytellers offering musings and ruminations on the memories and mundanities of…
Teenage Tom Petties and Rural France’s Tom Brown releases the first record under his solo moniker, Lone Striker. Five years in the making, this self-titled album was recorded at Tom’s home using a selection of bedroom instruments, wobbly doo-wop samples, off-kilter drum loops and found sounds. ‘Blip One’ opens the record with a Sparklehorse sound…
Keg release their debut album ‘Fun’s Over’ via Alcopop! Records on 14 March, 2025. Known for their infectious live performances, this record finds the seven-piece showcasing a more vulnerable, human side amidst the chaos of synths, trombone and barbed guitars… Album opener ‘Photo Day’ has a long, mathy, post-rock-inspired build up that makes for a…
Michael Cera Palin, an Atlanta trio made up of Elliott Brabant (vocals/guitar), Jon Buncic (drums – Chad Miller joined after the album’s completion) and Jon Williams (bass), release their debut album ‘We Could Be Brave’ via Big Scary Monsters on 7 March, 2025. A clattering of drums and Kinsella-esque guitar noodling signals the start of…
Moreish Idols release their debut album ‘All in the Game’ on 7 March 2025 via Speedy Wunderground. Produced by the label’s Dan Carey, the record is inspired by iconic US indie rockers including Pavement and Sonic Youth but also has elements of contemporary art rock that offer something quite fresh and unique. Album opener ‘Ambergrin’…
25 years after the release of their debut album ‘Lost Souls’ (still an all-time Top 10 for us), Doves return with ‘Constellations for the Lonely’, a record filled with ten songs that find the band in the role of narrators, offering contemplations on shattered images of a world in flux. Andy Williams, drummer, vocalist and…
The Murder Capital return with ‘Blindness’, their third album following the success of ‘Gigi’s Recovery and debut ‘When I Have Fears’. Recorded with producer John Congleton, the record finds the band in renewed and re-energised form as they tackle everything life is throwing at them. The opening ‘Moonshot’ is a statement of intent, its wiry,…
Trevor Powers returns with his Youth Lagoon moniker, following up 2023’s ‘Heaven is a Junkyard’ with ‘Rarely Do I Dream’ (released via Fat Possum on 21 February 2025). This record finds Trevor armed with a shoebox of home videos that allows him to blend memories and more innocent times with aland filled with drifters, drug…
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