Talk Show Host – ‘This Monologue’


Toronto punks Talk Show Host have signed to Wiretap Records and shared the video for ‘This Monologue’ ahead of the release of a full-length album in 2021. The band have played shows with Planes Mistaken for Stars and Pet Symmetry and this potent slice of melodic power pop (think Pup meets Press Club) finds the…

Wild Pink – ‘You Can Have It Back’


Wild Pink have shared ‘You Can Have It Back’, the second single to be taken from forthcoming album ‘A Billion Little Lights’ (out on 9 February, 2021 via Royal Mountain Records). Inspired by Fleetwood Mac and Townes Van Zandt and featuring guest vocals from Ratboys’ Julia Steiner, the blissed-out and melodic indie-pop sound wraps around…

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Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Copycat Killer’ EP review


Phoebe Bridgers releases an EP featuring stripped-back, orchestral reworks of four of the songs on her album of the year contender, ‘Punisher’. These new versions have all been recorded with GRAMMY Award-winning arranger and string player Rob Moose. ‘Kyoto’ is one of the defining songs of 2020 and here’s it’s slowed down to just Phoebe’s…

EX OH – ‘EX OH’ album review


EX OH is the moniker of The Blam’s Jerry Adler – a songwriter who came out of the same NYC scene of the early 200s that spawned The Stokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Interpol. He’s now released the self-titled debut album of this project via Team Love Records. The record opens with ‘Love and War’,…

The Antlers – ‘It Is What It Is’


The Antlers have shared the Derrick Belcham- and Emily Terndrup-directed video for new single ‘It Is What It Is’. A continuation of the story that started in the previously released ‘Wheels Roll Home’, the video features renowned contemporary dancers Bobbi-Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. Peter Silberman gently sings about a friend freeing themselves from pain…

Gold Baby – ‘Versailles’


Gold Baby have shared ‘Versailles’ and the song finds the band in more introspective mood than we’ve heard before. Recorded in lockdown, the song explores the physical and emotional space between two people who are trying to re-establish some kind of relationship. Siân Alex says: ‘Versailles is a song that just came out one day,…

Phoebe Green – ‘Golden Girl’


Manchester-based singer-songwriter Phoebe Green has shared the video for ‘Golden Girl’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘I Can’t Cry for You’ on 3 December via Chess Club Records (preorder HERE). The song has already receives support from DJs including Annie Mac, Jack Saunders and Phil Taggart. Phobe says the song is about the…

Rosehip Teahouse – ‘A Million Times’


Rosehip Teahouse have shared ‘A Million Times’ ahead of the releas of their ‘Fine’ EP on 9 December. Inspired by Faye Rogers’ battles with anxiety (‘I was finding that I would try and mould myself into what I thought everyone else wanted from me, not realising that I was losing more and more of myself…

The Cribs – ‘Never Thought I’d Feel Again’


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…