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…
Hundred Reasons have shared new single ‘The Old School Way’ ahead of the release of new album – and first in 15 years – ‘Glorious Sunset’ on 24th February via SO Recordings. Taking aim at those who don’t take responsibility for their own actions, the song opens with Colin Doran urging the subject to change…
We’re kicking off 2023 with the latest offering from our friends Good Good Blood. A cryptic piece about Johnny – a boy who was ‘as cute as cute can get‘ – with a dark edge (‘All the disease, all of the blight, cancels out, cancels the light’; ‘he’s as dead as dead can get’) and…
Bright Eyes are finally getting to tour their 2020 ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’ album and arrived in England’s capital city ahead of a headline slot at the prestigious End of the Road festival. Following stellar support from Penelope Isles, the Nebraska band appeared on stage at the Apollo – complete…
She & Him – the duo made up of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward – make a welcome return with a tribute album to one of the finest songwriters of all time, Brian Wilson. Released just after the ‘Pet Sounds’ man’s 80thbirthday, the album finds the band putting their own spin on some of the…
As the year draws to a close, we thought we’d take a look at some of the records that have soundtracked our past 12 months. As ever, we’ll remind you that music is not a competition and there is so much to discover out there – and with the government’s (in the UK, at least)…
Dexy has shared the video for new single ‘I Don’t Think I Turned Out Right’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Sleeping Through Summer’ on 28 January, 2022. Filling the gap between Cheap Trick and Fountains of Wayne, the new single is ‘About never feeling like you found your way, or managed to fit…
Toronto jangle-poppers Motorists follow up ‘Through to You’ by sharing the video for ‘Vainglorious’ ahead of the release of debut alun ‘Surrounded’ via We Are Time, Bobo Integral and Debt Offensive on 3 September. Although it has a breezy and melodic feel, the song finds the band confronting how the people in charge are always…
‘737’ opens the album in subtle, swaying style as Conor Murphy declares ‘I feel like a 737, painted over and over again until the paint gets too heavy’ – keeping up the Foxing tradition of cryptic metaphors in their lyrics. He then repeats the words ‘I can’t do this alone’ over an ‘I’m Wide Awake’-era…
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