Adult Mom returns with third album, ‘Driver’, and it’s a record that finds Stevie Knipe examing that awkward phase where you’ve hit 20-something, the bills are starting to pile up and you’re not entirely sure of your place in a ‘grown-up world’. The album finds Stevie trying to answer a question that has confounded generations:…
February has been an odd month – again going by so fast and so slowly at the same time. But music is keeping us all going – and any month that features new albums by TV Priest, The Hold Steady, Katy Kirby and Wild Pink is fine by us. Here’s a Spotify playlist of the…
Brighton-via-Falmouth-based band Holiday Ghosts have announced they have signed to FatCat Records and released a video for new single ‘Mr. Herandi’ ahead of the release of their third album ‘North Street Air’. Bringing to mind revered acts The Kinks and Violent Femmes but also cult contemporaries including Jeffrey Lewis and Daniel Johnston, the new song…
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Madi Diaz has announced she has signed to ANTI- Records and shared the video for debut single ‘Man in Me’. The song, produced by Madi with additional work by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver), finds her looking back on a past relationship: ‘It’s a very intimately visceral moment, a sort of play-by-play…
Mat Weitman releases his debut album, ‘Grief Museum’, under his Hotels on Mars moniker and as the title suggests, it’s informed by the power of loss. Following a break-up and sudden death of a friend at the start of the pandemic, Mat processed his anxiety and dark thoughts in a quickfire recording session that forms…
Spirit of the Beehive have signed to Saddle Creek and announced details of new album ‘Entertainment, Death’ (due out 9 April). To celebrate this news, they’ve also shared the Ryan Schnackenberg-directed video for lead single ‘There’s Nothing You Can’t Do’. The new record has been entirely self-recorded and produced by the now three-piece while ‘There’s…
Released via Run for Cover and Keeled Scales, Sun June’s second album finds the Austin, Texa-based five-piece expanding on the ‘regret pop’ (their term) that served them so well on the ‘Years’ LP. Focusing on how love evolves and shapes our lives, the band describe the new record as ‘prom’ music: ‘Prom isn’t all rosy…
Possibly the longest month yet during this pandemic? At least there was some great music to keep all of our spirits up – from the New Year’s Day release of a new album from The Dirty Nil to the gorgeous new single from Loney Dear and the industrial art pop of Albertine Sarges. Here’s a…
Loney Dear has shared latest single ‘Trifles’ ahead of the release of new album ‘A Lantern and a Flag’, via Peter Gabriel’s Real World label, on 26 March. Described as a central track ofthe record, ‘Trifles’ starts off in sparse, almost ambient fashion with Emil Svanängen’s gentle falsetto gliding over a stripped-back piano sound while…
Gold Baby have shared ‘Dorego’ ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘Rabbits’ on 26 March. The song finds Siân Alex laying bare her feelings about feeling overwhelmed in the overstimulating and always-on modern world. The press says it’s ‘about feeling overstimulated and inadequate, about wanting to smash and crush and grind your smartphone…
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