As mentioned in our Top 5 Songs of 2023 post, there are a number of reasons why we haven’t posted as much as we’d like over the past 12 months – and these equally apply to our lack of gigs. We did still make it to a few unforgettable shows though – here are our…
Frog’s new album – and first since 2019 – ‘Grog’ is now out in the wild and features the curiously captivating ‘Doom Song’. Opening with loose, slacker-style guitar riffs, the song transforms into a slow marching beat with assertive vocals, talk about fever dreams and a perfectly pitched stop-start finish – all in just under…
Five years ago, Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia were strangers meeting for the first time but it didn’t take long for these two talented artists to form a bond and write the ‘Among Horses III*’. 15 million streams later and the duo have reunited to write a new single each to celebrate the anniversary of…
‘In many cultures children born with a dominant left hand were taught not to use that hand, and were told that using the right hand was ‘normal’ and ‘correct.’ Similarly, queer children are often times told that it’s not ‘normal’ for them to love who they love and that they need to change’. ‘Left Hand’,…
Written collaboratively from start to finish in Seattle, ‘The Window’ is the fourth album from Chicago’s Ratboys – and it finds the four-piece ruminating on love and grief. ‘Making Noise for the Ones You Love’ opens the album with a burst of intense feedback and pulsating drums that recall Deerhunter or The Walkmen. Julia Steiner’s…
There have been a lot of changes in The Xcerts’ camp over the past few years… A change of label, management and other personal and global challenges have made the release of their fifth album ‘Learning How to Live and Let Go’ a triumph in itself. Seeing it as a cathartic unshackling, the band promise…
Lilts – a collaboration between Wild Pink’s John Ross and Laura Wolf – have shared ‘Dodge Street’, the first single to be taken from their debut EP ‘Waiting Around’ (out on Better Company Records on 13 October). Written ‘about the disappointment of living for someone else’s dreams’, the song found the duo exchanging and tweaking…
After two packed days, there was no sign of anything slowing down as the sun shone – and the rain later hit – in style on Upcote Farm for the Friday and Saturday of 2000trees 2023. Friday 7 July We opened our Friday morning with some Wonder Years-style emo pop courtesy of Beauty School, whose…
Brighton five-piece Youth Sector have shared new single ‘Free Parking’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Quarrels’ on 16 June via Dance to the Radio. With art rock elements and jagged riffs that hark back to the indie-rock explosion of the mid-2000s (think The Rakes, early Maximo Park and the Futureheads), it finds Youth…
Bleach Lab have shared ‘All Night’, the latest single to be taken from their debut album ‘Lost in a Rush of Emptiness’. Inspired by true crime documentaries and podcasts, the song finds Jenna Kyle examining the sometimes fine line between romance and obsession: ‘I really wanted to write lyrics that at first few listens could…
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