Released via Run for Cover and Keeled Scales, Sun June’s second album finds the Austin, Texa-based five-piece expanding on the ‘regret pop’ (their term) that served them so well on the ‘Years’ LP. Focusing on how love evolves and shapes our lives, the band describe the new record as ‘prom’ music: ‘Prom isn’t all rosy…
Adeline Hotel, the psych-folk project led by Dan Knishkowy, have shared the sublime instrumental ‘Reliable Feelings’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Good Timing’ via Ruination Records on 19 February. Sparse and subtly powerful, the new single is reminiscent of old folk heroes and their music-based storytelling but sprinkled with some kaleidoscopic elements. It’s…
Formed in Tallinn, Estonia, back in 2013, Holy Motors have gained praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum and Bandcamp and have played shows with bands including Low. Now, they’re set to release ‘Horse’, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘Slow Sundown’, via New York City’s ever-brilliant Wharf Cat Records. The slow-burning opener ‘Country Church’ finds Eliann Tulve…
Slow Pulp have already gained plaudits from SXSW, The Fader and KEXP and are now set to release their debut album ‘Moveys’ – a record that took shape while on tour with Alex G in 2019 after the band scrapped an album’s worth of material following Emily Massey’s diagnosis with both Lyme disease and chronic…
Born and raised in Oxford, singer-songwriter Rosie Shaw has shared new song ‘Temporary Love’ ahead of the release of a new EP later this year. Counting fellow Oxfordonians Radiohead as one of her main influences alongside the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, the alt-folk-tinged single’s emotive atmospherics reminded us of both Courney Marie Andrews and Mazzy…
Bright Eyes return after a nine-year hiatus with the brilliantly titled new album ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’. The past (almost) decade has seen a huge amount of upheaval on a global and personal scale for Conor Oberst and this record focuses on the profoundness of mortality, broken relationships and grief.…
Jenny O’s latest (and first for new label Mama Bird Recording Co.) album ‘New Truth’ finds the singer-songwriter laying her heart bare over gorgeous harmonies and slices of dreamy guitar. It opens with ‘God Knows Why’ – an honest evaluation of the night she suddenly lost all hearing in her right ear: ‘I could hear…
With a mantra of ‘Minimal takes, minimal instruments, simple songs’, Uncle Luc’s surprise mini-album was recorded in lockdown after discovering the 1960s and ’70s recording equipment in his parents’ Surrey house still worked. All of the songs on this new record centre around an old Revox 2 track tape machine, a trusty 1965 Gibson LG-0…
Land of Talk have been building a loyal cult following for a few years and their fourth album ‘Indistinct Conversations’ finds them breaking new, emotional ground while retaining their raw and emotional power. The songs were inspired by vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Elizabeth Powell confronting the oppressive nature of the world while embracing their non-binary…
Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek has released stand-alone single ‘Roll Back Your Clocks’ via the ever-excellent Keeled Scales label. Recorded in lockdown so that Buck and his bandmates (who are scattered around the States) wouldn’t hear each other’s parts until they’d been mixed together by Andrew Sarlo, the song is a sublime slice of nature-themed…
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