Dominie Hooper has shared a live performance video of ‘No Name’, one of the highlights of her phenomenal debut album ‘In This Body Lives’ (out now on Lost Map Records). Recorded at the Goods Shed, Stroud with her band, ‘No Name’ flits between avant-garde folk, agit pop and Arab Strap-style experimentation as Dominie declares ‘You…
Bleech 9:3 have shared their third single ‘Cannonball’, a song that vocalist and guitarist Baz Quinlan says is ‘a reflection of how bad worship in the form of a lover has made life itself into something else’. Starting with shoegazey guitar hooks before morphing into something heavier in the vein of Oceansize, it finds Baz…
Nottingham trio Bloodworm have shared ‘Bloodlust’ ahead of an extensive tour of the UK supporting Suede – after being personally invited by guitarist Richard Oakes after he caught one of their London shows. With a devilishly brooding bass line and darkly tinged lyrics – ‘You come for me, I’ll come for you’ – this is…
London’s The Leaf Library have shares ‘The Reader’s Lamp’ ahead of the release of fourth studio album ‘After the Rain, Strange Seeds’ on 20 March 2026 via Fika Recordings. There’s a touch of Delgados in the song’s gentle guitar tones while Kate Gibson’s vocals glide over in style. Described as ‘a hymn to the strangeness…
Night Swimming have announced they’ve signed to Venn Records and shares new single ‘Submarine’, a deeply emotional three minutes that tries to make sense of grief – and how people ‘who have experienced loss will often notice it in others’. Hauntingly beautiful with layers of shoegaze guitar hooks, there’s a fragility in lyricist Meg Jones’…
Brighton four-piece congratulations have announced their debut album ‘Join Hands’ will be released on 13 February, 2026 via Bella Union. To celebrate the news, they’ve shared the lead single ‘This Life’, a quirky and left-field slice of art pop that tackles the all-too-inevitable feeling of losing at life before you’ve even got out of bed.…
Dublin-born singer-songwriter Ailbhe Reddy has shared ‘Align’ ahead of the release of a new album via Don Giovanni Records in 2026. A song about moving on and wishing someone who will no longer be in your life all the best, it blends Beach House-style dream pop aesthetics with intense guitar work and tender, healing words:…
Free Throw have shared ‘Mike Nolan’s Long Weekend’ ahead of shows with Prince Daddy & the Hyena and a UK tour. A song about feeling misunderstood or how sometimes there is ‘something a little more serious hiding slightly beneath the surface’, it’s filled with irresistible, emo-tinged hooks as Cory Castro sings about how anxiety has…
Home Front have shared the video for ‘Light Sleeper’ ahead of the release of their new album ‘Watch It Die’ on 14 November, 2025 via VIA LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS. A goth-tinged and synth-driven intro surrounds chanted post-punk vocals about how ‘there’s gonna be a way’. There are bursts of new wave-inspired guitar…
Idlewild have shared ‘Like I Had Before’, the third and final single from their upcoming self-titled album, out on 3 October. Featuring everything you love about this most special of bands – a touch of R.E.M. in its rhythm and melodies, Roddy Woomble’s poetic wordplay about modern culture and ‘theoretical criticism’ (‘It’s part of the…
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