The Death of Pop, a bedroom duo made up of brothers Oliver and Angus James, have shared new single ‘Go Back’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Seconds’ on 19 March. Following releases on indie stalwarts Too Pure and Art is Hard the band have now signed to Discos de Kirlian & Hidden Bay…
Lael Neale has shared her self-directed video for ‘Acquainted with Night’, the title track from her new album (out now via Sub Pop and available to order physically on white vinyl* via megamart.subpop.com, select independent retailers in North America, in the U.K.). Lael says the concept is ‘another homemade video that explores my complex relationship…
Eades have announced they’ve signed to Heist or Hit (Pizzagirl, Her’s, Hannah’s Little Sister) and shared the Wes Anderson-inspired video for new single ‘Former Warnings Cluster’. The new single finds them channeling their inner Graham Coxon or Stephen Malkmus with its wiry, fuzzy and spiky melodies, while the beats and back-and-forth vocals – not to…
London four-piece Italia 90 have shared new single ‘Borderline’ ahead of its release on 7″ in April (order via Bandcamp here). Slotting nicely into a slot near Yard Act, TV Priest and Life, the new single finds the band taking aim ‘at the failed third-way ideology that led to our present political moment’. With sardonic…
Rose Coloured Records signings Bad Idea have shared new single ‘Happy’ – a song described by the Leeds-based four-piece as ‘a sad sounding song about feeling good, describing the surprise appearance of positive thoughts during a slump’. Opening with woozy Cocteau Twins atmospherics, the track finds Sarah Sefton trying to make sense of these chinks…
The Hold Steady return with ‘Open Door Policy’, the follow-up to 2019’s critically revered ‘Thrashing Thru the Passion’. The now six-piece again worked with producer Josh Kaufman to deliver 10 richly developed pieces of storytelling that examine issues including wealth, power, capitalism, ambition, opportunism and survival… Gentle stabs at the piano signal the start of…
Wild Pink follow up the tremendous ‘Yolk in the Fur’ with ‘A Billion Little Lights – their first album on new label Royal Mountain Records (Mac DeMarco, Orville Peck, US Girls). Produced by Dave Greenbaum (U2, Beck, Jenny Lewis), the record features guest vocals from Ratboys’ Julia Steiner as frontman John Ross ruminates on accepting…
Texas-based singer-songwriter Katy Kirby was born, raised and homeschooled by two ex-cheerleaders in small-town Texas and started singing in an evangelical church. Her new album, ‘Cool Dry Place’ (released via Keeled Scales), finds her dismantling her past: ‘I can hear myself fighting that deeply internalized impulse to make things that are super pleasant or approachable’.…
Corvair – a Portland, Oregon-based husband-and-wife duo made up of Brian Laubert and Heather Larimer – release their self-titled debut album and it’s one that tells a love story spanning over three decades, five cities and six continents. Big pop hooks that sit somewhere between Bleachers and The Rolling Stones signal the start of album…
Major Murphy have shared the video for ‘In the Meantime’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘Access’ via Winspear on 2 April. Written after band members Jacob Bullard and Jacki Warren’s young son suffered from lead poisoning, the song captures the fears and anxieties parents go through when children are in danger with…
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