Patrick Wolf releases ‘Crying the Neck’, his first album in 13 years, on 13 June, 2025. While addiction, bankruptcy and recovery influenced 2023’s ‘The Night Safari’ EP, this new record finds Patrick in more confident mood with inspiration from nature, the East Kent landscape and folklore – albeit tinged with his grief following the death…
Turin Brakes have returned with ‘Spacehopper’ – their first new music in over three years and 10th studio album overall. The record found the band heading back to Konk Studios, where they recorded debut album ‘The Optimist’ for the first time in a quarter of a century with Olly Knights saying: ‘We honestly don’t normally…
Arm’s Length explore the power and perils of personal trauma, love and loss in their new album ‘There’s a Whole World Out There’. Primarily written solo by vocalist and guitarist Allen Steinberg (‘the songs aren’t written for anyone else at all’), with input from the rest of the band bringing the songs to life, this…
Tor Maries, also known as Billy Nomates, is set to release her third album ‘Metalhorse’ via Invada Records on 16 May, 2025. This is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio with a full band – bassist Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX…
Exeter trio Soot Sprite will release their debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. Elise Cook (lead vocals/guitar) says the album is ‘about embracing empathy over apathy, despite the constant stream of worldly horrors. If we have empathy we can have hope, and with hope then…
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…
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