Good Good Blood (James Smith) returns with another selection of haunting songs to delve into during these strange times. ‘There Are Wolves Here’ opens with ‘The Renegade’, a fractured and atmospheric piece of dream pop with a brooding bass line and dark lyrics: ‘The body pains will make you pay for the babe you laid…
Rosie Tucker has shared their cover of the one and only Jeffrey Lewis’s ‘Arrow’. Already a live favourite, Rosie has released a recorded version during the lockdown as the song’s themes are fitting to the current situaton we’re all living in: ‘For me, it’s a song of disassociation, born in the uncanny space where the…
Courtney Marie Andrews has shared the video for new single ‘Burlap String’ ahead of the release of her new album ‘Old Flowers’ (out on 5 June via Loose/Fat Possum Records – pre-order). The album was written following the end of a long-term relationship and this song finds Courtney looking back on the ups and downs…
Following appearances at ArcTanGent, 2000 Trees and Y Not Festival and shows with The Xcerts, Natalie Evans and I Feel Fine, Brighton four-piece Wild Cat Strike are set to release their new EP ‘Mustard Coloured Years’ via Small Pond Records on 17 April. Opening with the quiet-loud-quiet ‘Mustard’, the quartet delve into a new and…
Serbian-Canadian singer-songwriter Dana Gavanski has shared her debut album ‘Yesterday is Gone’ (available via Bandcamp now). An alumni from our friends at Fox Food Records, the video for the album’s title track was filmed in the colourful and retro underground of Montreal’s metro system. ‘One By One’ is a slow and atmospheric introduction to the…
International indie-pop duo Born Fighters – Luke Barham from London and Peter Maffei from California – celebrate the release of bittersweet new single ‘Shadow’ by sharing their favourite duets with us. Luke: Rockpile – ‘Teacher Teacher‘ Rockpile in many ways is the blueprint for Born Fighters. Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds would both bring songs…
Laura Marling has brought forward the release of her new album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ to this Friday (10 April) and shared new single ‘Held Down’. Laura’s seventh solo record finds the supremely talented singer-songwriter taking over the production reins alongside frequent collaborators Ethan Johns and Dom Monks while also experimenting with all kinds of…
Anna Burch follows up 2018’s glorious debut ‘Quit the Curse’ with ‘If You’re Dreaming’ – an album written after months on the road and significant upheaval in her personal life. Tracked with producer (and acclaimed singer-songwriter in his own right) Sam Evian at his home studio in upstate New York, the songs were recorded against…
Half Waif follows up 2018’s ‘Lavender’ with ‘The Caretaker’, a record that finds Nandi Rose opening up her heart and sharing her innermost thoughts as she ponders the importance and impact of isolation and connection. There’s a slow Warpaint feel to the introduction of album opener ‘Clouds Rest’ with its words about ‘going nowhere fast…
Surrey-born singer-songwriter Second Hand Poet has shared new single ‘Heartstrings’. Opening with poignant Nick Cave-style atmospherics, the song veers into Keaton Henson-meets-Elliot Smith territory as Jamie reveals his innermost thoughts amidst intricate instrumentation: ‘It’s only dark when you’re not with me’. It’s a powerful 3 minutes and 20 seconds with evocative lyrics about emotions and…
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