Night Swimming have announced they’ve signed to Venn Records and shares new single ‘Submarine’, a deeply emotional three minutes that tries to make sense of grief – and how people ‘who have experienced loss will often notice it in others’. Hauntingly beautiful with layers of shoegaze guitar hooks, there’s a fragility in lyricist Meg Jones’…
Brooklyn band Stay Inside follow up last year’s debut album ‘Ferried Away’ with ‘Lunger’, a record filled with tales of hope, heartbreak and exploration. Now signed to Tiny Engines, the record dips and dives through different genres with experimental energy. ‘Counting Electric Sheep’ opens with ferocious drumming and riffs, squeals and synths that recall Motion…
Australian group dust face shared ‘Alastair’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Sky is Falling’ on 10 October via Kanine Records. A song ‘about meeting someone down on their luck and feeling conflictingly empathetic for them’, ‘Alastair’ merges emotional and hefty alt-rock sounds akin to The National with considered post-rock sensibilities, bursts of…
Brighton four-piece congratulations have announced their debut album ‘Join Hands’ will be released on 13 February, 2026 via Bella Union. To celebrate the news, they’ve shared the lead single ‘This Life’, a quirky and left-field slice of art pop that tackles the all-too-inevitable feeling of losing at life before you’ve even got out of bed.…
Dublin-born singer-songwriter Ailbhe Reddy has shared ‘Align’ ahead of the release of a new album via Don Giovanni Records in 2026. A song about moving on and wishing someone who will no longer be in your life all the best, it blends Beach House-style dream pop aesthetics with intense guitar work and tender, healing words:…
Free Throw have shared ‘Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend’ ahead of shows with Prince Daddy & the Hyena and a UK tour. A song about feeling misunderstood or how sometimes there is ‘something a little more serious hiding slightly beneath the surface’, it’s filled with irresistible, emo-tinged hooks as Cory Castro sings about how anxiety has…
Home Front have shared the video for ‘Light Sleeper’ ahead of the release of their new album ‘Watch It Die’ on 14 November, 2025 via VIA LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS. A goth-tinged and synth-driven intro surrounds chanted post-punk vocals about how ‘there’s gonna be a way’. There are bursts of new wave-inspired guitar…
Scottish sister duo The Cords (Eva and Grace Tedeschi) have shared ‘I’m Not Sad’ ahead of the release of their debut album on 26 September (co-released by Skep Wax and Slumberland Records). Clocking in at just one minute, the melancholic and melodic slice of jangle pop finds the duo singing about how they’d have spent…
Originally from Peterborough but now split between Bristol and London, Club Brat are the latest signings to Venn Records (Meryl Streek, Clobber and previously Bob Vylan) and they’ve shared ‘Goodbye Pop Culture’ ahead of the release of the conveniently titled ‘Four Songs’ EP on 12 September. Described by the band as ‘concise, deliberate, and unapologetically…
Laura Mary Carter – one half of Blood Red Shoes – has shared ‘June Gloom’ ahead of the release of her debut album ‘Bye Bye Jackie’. Swapping grungey riffs for something more soulful with an Americana tinge and a touch of The National and Basia Bulat, Laura says the song is ‘a bittersweet weather report…
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