Cassels have announced details of their new album ‘The Perfect Ending’ and shared the video for its title track. The record will be released via Big Scary Monsters and is available to pre-order now. ‘The Perfect Ending’ is guitarist and vocalist Jim Beck’s ‘attempt to put a positive spin on the fact climate change is…
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…
Eva Hendricks, the singer of Charly Bliss, once said that ‘the two best emotional releases are crying and dancing, so it makes sense for me to marry the two’ and this rings true throughout all 11 songs on the Brooklyn four-piece’s second album ‘Young Enough’ (out on Barsuk on 10 May). The synthy start to…
Hell is for Heroes frontman Justin Schlosberg has unveiled his August Spies (named after the 19th century Mayday union activist from Chicago) solo project and is all set to release his debut EP ‘Corruption of the Human Heart’ on 6 May. A drum machine opens ‘This Is How It Ends’ before the song veers into…
Cassels have shared ‘A Snowflake in Winter’ ahead of tour dates with Brutus and an appearance at Truck Festival this July. Inspired by Trump and Brexit, the song finds Jim Beck examining his own thoughts and behaviour and how he found himself ‘deep inside an echo chamber’ of liberal thinking that everything would turn out…
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…
Ahead of a European tour and the release of debut album ‘Happy to Be Here’, Brooklyn five-piece Barrie have shared ‘Geology’, a sun-drenched piece of dream pop inspired by Best Coast’s chillwave sound (and Bethany Cosentino’s love of ’90s teen movie soundtracks). Its gliding guitars and harmonies combine with the personal lyrics about wondering what’s coming…
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…
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