The Cribs have shared the video for ‘Never Thought I’d Feel Again’ ahead of the release of their eighth album, ‘Night Network’, on Friday 13 November. Describing the song as ‘Wakefield Motown’, the Jarman brothers said: ‘We wrote this song with a very simple goal in mind – we wanted something very simple, dancey and…
Tilly and the Wall’s Kianna White has shared her debut solo single, ‘Homecoming Queen’, via Team Love Records. Opening with dreamy guitar hooks and luscious melodies that fall somewhere between The Sundays and Haim, Kianna tells a story about how ‘someone’s giving drugs to the high school kids’ before declaring ‘I don’t really want to…
Royal Mountain Records (Mac DeMarco, Orville Peck, Pottery) founder Menno Versteeg is set to release the debut full-length record, ‘Strangers Like Us’, under his Mav Karlo moniker. Menno says: ‘The goal with the album was to take a good hard look at myself and my behaviour and really get to the heart of the matter.…
Sarah Beth Tomberlin follows up 2018’s beautiful ‘At Weddings’ album with her new EP, ‘Projections’. This release follows appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and tours with emo heroes including American Football, Alex G and Andy Shauf. The EP opens in subtle style with ‘Hours’, an understated song that reminded us of Tim Kasher’s solo material with…
Brooklyn-based indie rockers Wild Pink have made a welcome return with a video (starring Schitt’s Creek Emmy winner Annie Murphy, no less) for new single ‘The Shining But Tropical’ ahead of the release of new album ‘A Billion Little Lights’ on 19 February, 2021. The band have also announced they’ve now signed to Toronto-based label…
Canadian indie rockers Kiwi Jr have announced they’ve signed to Sub Pop Records and shared a video for timely new single ‘Undecided Voters’. The jangly and melodic indie pop sound, reminiscent of early ’90s heroes including Pavement and Teenage Fanclub, surrounds Jeremy Gaudet’s astute and amusing observations on the state of society and the way…
Following many years of releasing sad and beautiful music under his own name, singer-songwriter Benjamin Shaw moved to Melbourne, Australia and started a new project under the moniker, Megadead. ‘Audio Visual Metro Computers’ is his second EP of the year and it follows a time of upheaval in his personal life… ‘Slowdead’ has a psych-yet-tender…
We first heard Ailbhe Reddy when BBC 6 Music conducted an interview with her – and played stunning single ‘Looking Happy’ – as part of their Independence Day celebrations last month. Shortly after, we received an email from her PR Matty at Super Cat, and just couldn’t wait to absorb ourselves in her new album,…
Pillow Queens have been established as a part of Dublin’s underground arts scene for a while now and are set to find a whole new world of fans with the release of debut album ‘In Waiting’. The brooding bass and slow-burning emo stylings of ‘Holy Show’ opens the record in style as lead singer and…
Surrey-based singer-songwriter Second Hand Poet (Jamie Tipson) has shared the video for new single ‘I Wanna Watch TV’ ahead of the release of new album ‘An Avenue of Honest News’ on 16 October. Jamie says the song is ‘about having lots to juggle in day-to-day life and feeling selfishly sorry for yourself…” Jamie says his…
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