After almost five years away, The Appleseed Cast have returned with new single ‘Time the Destroyer’. It will appear on the emo legends’ new album ‘The Fleeting Light of Impermanence’ (out via Graveface Records on 28 June). There’s an experimental and industrial edge to the first half of the song, with its synthy stabs and…
John Galm’s (Snowing, Street Smart Cyclists) Bad Heaven Ltd project features fellow Snowing man Ross Brazuk on bass, ex-TWIABP guitarist Tyler Bussey on guitar and Melissa Brain on drums. ‘strength’ is a one-and-a-half-minute-long song that will introduce you to their charmingly DIY sound. Combining the heartfelt and self-depreciating style of Field Medic with brash, early…
Beth Shalom Records signings Marigolds have shared new single ‘Nerves’. Combining the hazy emo stylings of Delta Sleep with the folk tendencies of The Tallest Man on Earth, the track finds Lydia White tenderly asking ‘Will you still remember me?’ and listing a number of anxieties that sum up songwriter Joe Maguire’s complex feelings of…
Quiet Lions have shared the visually stunning video for ‘Echo Chamber’, the first single to be taken from their debut album ‘Absenteeism’ (out on 14 June via Lonely Voyage Records – pre-order here). Loosely inspired by the role of digital media in both the Trump and Vote Leave campaigns, ‘Echo Chamber’ has a seething political…
As soon as Kevin Patrick opens the debut Field Medic album with ‘Used 2 Be a Romantic’ by stating ‘I need a cigarette, those fuckers talked over my whole set’ on ‘Used 2 Be a Romantic’, you’ll be on his side. Kevin follows this up with another admission that ‘I don’t have any time to…
A London band led by Marcus Gooda that features members of Employed to Serve and Ducking Punches, The Yacht Club are set to release their new album ‘The Last Words That You Said to Me Have Kept Me Here and Safe’ via our friends at Beth Shalom Records on 25 January. Written following the death…
Following the ‘Attic Space’ EP (released by Fox Food Records earlier this year), Alyssa Thomas’ Fairy Godmother project makes a return with ‘Spit It Out’. Based around the pain of a break-up and the comfort that comes with moving on, the EP is full of darkly melodic bedroom pop songs in the vein of Rilo…
Chicago-based Clearance have signed to the ever-reliable Topshelf Records and streamed ‘Had a Fantastic’; a 90-second song that will appear on their forthcoming second album ‘At Your Leisure’ (released on 27 July and available to pre-order here). Combining the slacker pop hooks of Pavement with the emo stylings of Braid, the song finds Mike Bellis…
Ahead of the release of new album ‘Magic Gone’ on 15 June (Run for Cover Records), a US tour with Camp Cope and an eagerly awaited UK tour, Petal has unveiled ‘Tight Rope’. The song opens with Petal (Kiley Lotz) singing: ‘I saw a strange light in the sky. A fireball burning brightly’ before then…
Signed to Hanger Records, Brighton’s Murderhouse are a four-piece emo-punk band who play interesting shows with cool bands (their upcoming Brighton gig with itoldyouiwouldeatyou and Orchards looks like it will be a blast) and they also have a healthy disregard for capitalisation and spacing, judging by the title of ‘BURYMEbeneathGRUBBS’. Anthemic from its very first…
