Signed to our friends Beth Shalom (digitally) and Rose Coloured (physically), Manchester trip Hora Douse have unveiled the video for new two-in-one single ‘Outgrow/Anything’. Influenced by emo heavyweights including The Hotelier and Manchester Orchestra and featuring backing vocals by Kamikaze Girls’ Lucinda Livingstone, this track has been recorded and mixed by Bob Cooper (who’s produced…
Following countless tours and festival appearances, Orchards have signed to Big Scary Monsters in the perfect combination of band and label. To celebrate the news, the Brighton four-piece have unveiled ‘Luv You 2’, a song about falling for the same person as someone who used to be a friend and then not putting yourself down…
Manchester band The Maple State release their first new material in almost a decade with new album ‘The Things I Heard at the Party’ (via Far Out Records). In the band’s hiatus, the members have found themselves spread across the globe and worked in industries ranging from universities to wildlife conservation and environmental projects. But…
Ahead of the European release of the ‘Hobby Limit’ EP via Super Fan 99 Records any day now, Boy Scouts (aka Taylor Vick) talked us through the Top 5 Influences that shape her sound. It’s a wonderful list and one we’d quite happily have as a playlist for any journey… Marika Hackman – ‘Boyfriend‘…
Everything Everything have released a surprise EP just before their biggest ever UK and Ireland tour. It includes two new tracks, a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ and a Tom Vek remix of ‘Ivory Tower. The video for ‘Breadwinner’ features a Lawnmower Man-style rendering of EE frontman Jonathan Higgs dancing…
Bad News Club follows up their debut ‘The Painter’ with ‘Absent’, a cleverly layered song that packs a hefty emotional punch. Written after a trip away from home, it’s an ode to the items that had been left behind and combines tender vocals, mournful strings and the heartfelt sentiments of The Antlers or Elliott Smith.…
I Feel Fine – ‘Everyday Safari’ New Failure by Design signings I Feel Fine hail from Brighton and ‘Everyday Safari’ has a sound that reminded us of early Into It. Over It. ‘Everyday Safari’ mixes chanted group vocals and stop-start guitars with the refreshing vigour of Cloud Nothings. Frankie Cosmos – ‘Being Alive’ Greta…
Indoor Pets, the artists formerly known as Get Inuit, have returned with a song surprisingly bursting with positivity and pride. Frontman Jamie Glass is a self-confessed cynic but even he gives in to the power of love and this 2-and-a-half minute burst of power-pop captures all the joys that come with falling for someone as…
Bad News Club is the latest signing to the prestigious paradYse Records (Marika Hackman and Spring King have also featured on their roster) and ‘The Painter’ is a stunning introduction to his heartfelt and intimate work. This is the very first take of the acoustic song, recorded onto an iPhone, and it has a lo-fi…
Cats of Transnistria – ‘Tunnel’ Helsinki act Cats of Transnistria’s ‘Tunnel’, which features on their new album ‘Opium’ merge David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti-esque eerieness with a powerful wall of feedback and drippings of distorted guitar and unnerving harmonies. The opening of the song is quite dreamy but this evolves into Godspeed-inspired post-rock with added string arrangements…
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