Doves have made a welcome return with ‘Renegade’, the first single to be taken from upcoming sixth album ‘Constellations for the Lonely’ (out, appropriately enough, on Valentine’s Day, 2025). Described by drummer Andy Williams as ‘’Blade Runner’ set in our home city’ (Manchester), there is a cinematic and – at times – dystopian quality to…
Oso Oso follow up 2019’s smash ‘Basking in the Glow’ and 2022’s ‘Sore Thumb’ with ‘Life Till Bones’ – a collection of 10 songs that find Jade Lilitri looking back over past loves and experiences with fondness and frustration. ‘Many Ways’ opens the album with what might rank as the most famous and special three…
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Maxïmo Park have returned with new song ‘Favourite Songs’ and an extensive UK and EU tour for the autumn. An ode to the timeless power of pop music, ‘Favourite Songs’ opens with a line about Paul Smith’s best years being behind him but soon changes into a more celebratory tone as he decides to focus…
Villagers have returned with ‘That Golden Time’, the title track from Conor O’Brien’s forthcoming sixth album – out on 10 May via Domino Records. The song – which ‘touches on a theme that keeps cropping up, of romanticism versus realism’ – opens in genteel and sparse fashion as Conor recalls the romantics of a more…
The Lemon Twigs have shared brand new single ‘My Golden Years’. A song about ‘making every minute count and living up to your potential’, it’s a jangly and breezy three minutes that recalls The Band or Love with its freewheeling harmonies, irresistible sense of nostalgia and self-confidence pep talk: ‘I know of only I try…
Initially Madeline Link’s solo project, PACKS have added three members (Shane Hooper on drums, Noah O’Neil on bass and Dexter Nash on lead guitar) to their line-up and are all set to release debut record ‘take the cake’ via Fire Talk and Royal Mountain Records. The Toronto-based band shared stages with the likes of Squirrel…
Ducks Ltd. (formerly Ducks Unlimited) have announced they’ve signed to Carpark Records and shared news of a re-release of last year’s debut EP ‘Get Bleak’ – now featuring three new songs. They’ve also shared the video for one of these new songs – ‘As Big as All Outside’ – and its one that finds the…
Willy Mason has shared ‘Youth On a Spit’ ahead of the release of his fourth – and first in nine years – album ‘Already Dead’ on 6 August via Cooking Vinyl. The new record has a theme of faith running through it while also exploring the concepts of honesty, deception, freedom colonialism, love and purpose.…
Norwich five-piece Marigolds have shared new single ‘Spinning’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Hot Springs’ via Beth Shalom Records on 20 March. The EP follows support slots to bands including Turnover and Spring King and the band say they ‘see this EP as a step forward for Marigolds. Each song offers enough versatility…
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