Quiet Lions have shared the video for ‘Wasteland’ ahead of the release of eagerly awaited debut album ‘Absenteeism’ on 14 June (Lonely Voyage Records). Frontman Michael Williams says the song ‘is all about having a voice, and using it for the greater good’ and the four-piece have released the video during the week of the…
Olden Yolk – Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer – have shared ‘Grand Palais’ from their second album ‘Living Theatre’ (available via Trouble in Mind now). Much of this track was improvised in the studio alongside percussionist Booker Stardrum as the New York-based duo attempted to capture the euphoria of ‘seek(ing) some semblance of spiritual understanding…
Blackpool punks Strange Bones have shared new song ‘Give Me the Sun’ ahead of the release of the EP ‘Blitz Pt 1’ on 5 July. The frantic piece of punk rock clocks in at under two and a half minutes and combines zesty Puppy-style hooks with impassioned vocals delivering potent words: ‘Give me the sun,…
Filthy Friends – a supergroup made up of Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey, Kurt Bloch and Linda Pitmon – follow up the release of ‘Emerald Valley’ with the video for new single ‘Break Me’. Written by Peter the day after Tom Petty died, the song tries to ‘capture how tough he…
Hayden Thorpe has shared ‘Earthly Needs’, the third song to be taken from his upcoming solo album ‘Diviner’ (out on Domino on Friday 24 May – pre-order here). With its synths, programmed drumbeats and deeply personal lyrics (‘I cannot unlove you’), the song opens in a style that brings to mind ‘Digital Ash’-era Bright Eyes…
Annabel Allum has shared ‘You Got it Good’, the first single from her forthcoming six-track EP on Killing Moon. Recorded with Adrian Hall (Anna Calvi, Goldfrapp) in his garden shed studio, the song was inspired by a cathartic conversation Annabel had with a close friend during a really low moment and focuses on the importance…
New Saddle Creek signing Ada Lea has shared the video for ‘the party’ ahead of the release of her debut album ‘what we say in private’ on 19 July (pre-order here). Hailing from Montreal, Ada’s sound is both intimate and powerful and this slow-building song offers the perfect introduction. Recalling the emotional atmospherics of 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…
The Futureheads have shared ‘Jekyll’ – the lead single from their forthcoming sixth album (and first electric guitar release in almost a decade!), out on 30 August. Already a favourite with Steve Lamacq and his 6Music chums, it feels like the Mackem four-piece have never been away. Described by Barry Hyde as ‘a monstrous, preposterous…
We shared Seattle punk-rockers single ‘I’m a Regular’ a month or so back and now we’ve finally had the chance to listen to their new LP, also called ‘Regulars’ (out now via All in Vinyl in the UK). The DIY sound of ‘Freaks’ opens the album and works as a fine introduction to what Dead…
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