Released via Partisan Records, Aerial East’s ‘Try Harder’ is a coming-of-age record that looks at everything from trying to find your perfect home to dealing with friendships and feelings of loneliness. It also looks at the effect people from your past can have on your entire life. The sparse atmospherics of the title track open…
Signed to Hidden Bay Records, Walk Home Drunk is the name of Toulouse-based comic book artist and Docks guitarist Daniel Selig’s solo project. Written, recorded and produced over the course of several years, ‘Time Flies’ (order via Bandcamp) has a fitting title and a wide range of influences are incorporated into its mellow and mesmerising…
Pictish Trail has shared new single ‘Dream Wall’ ahead of the release of an EP of the same name on 1 April. This EP – which features remixes of PT songs by friends and collaborators including Callum Easter, Kinbote, Bamboo and Good Dog – is exclusively available now to subscribers of Lost Map’s PostMap Club.…
Iceage have made a welcome return with the release of new single ‘The Holding Hand’ – the Copenhagen punks first for new label, Mexican Summer. Elias Bender Rønnenfelt says ‘The song lives in a slurred world, movements are elastically stretched out and strength is found in weakness while you find it hard to tell the…
Former The Pains of Being Pure at Heart singer/songwriter Kip Berman has announced details of ‘Tethers’, his debut solo album as The Natvral (Pre-order via Dirty Bingo here). To celebrate this announcement, he has also shared the video for ‘Why Don’t You Come Out Anymore?’ Informed by catching up with a friend and noticing that…
Skullcrusher (LA-based musician Helen Ballentine) pays homage to one of her favourite songwriters on new single ‘Song for Nick Drake’ – and BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac has already chosen it as ‘Hottest Record in the World’. As you’d expect from its title, the song is a special blend of sad pop that shows how…
TV Priest’s debut album ‘Uppers’ finds the four-piece embracing the beautiful and terrifying unknown moments that shape every aspect of our lives. Formed of four childhood friends who made music together as teens before drifting apart and then coming back together in late 2019, the band is a result of each member’s need to fulfil…
Possibly the longest month yet during this pandemic? At least there was some great music to keep all of our spirits up – from the New Year’s Day release of a new album from The Dirty Nil to the gorgeous new single from Loney Dear and the industrial art pop of Albertine Sarges. Here’s a…
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…
The Anchoress has shared the video for ‘The Art of Losing’, the title track from her second album due out on 12 March. While the visuals riff on ‘fake news’ and the role the media plays in enabling – and encouraging – it, the song itself is about loss. Catherine Anne Davies says: ‘Every idea…
