South London’s Sophie Nicole Ellison, known as HUSSY, has just released a double A-side of ‘Slayer’ and ‘Playtime’ ahead of an EP in early 2019. ‘Slayer’ is full of grunge-laden guitars and more restrained shoegazing moments as Sophie tries to capture the feeling of not quite knowing what you’re meant to do with your life…
Australian duo Oh Pep! have released ‘Your Nail and Hammer’, the third single from their upcoming second album. The short and sweet song finds the band reflecting on those brief moments that have a tendency to inexplicably pop in your head weeks – and sometimes months – later. Amongst First Aid Kit strums and stunning…
itoldyouiwouldeatyou have released a new video for ‘Young American’; a song that will feature on upcoming debut album ‘Oh Dearism’ (order via Alcopop!/Failure by Design here). Created by their regular collaborators, LGTBQIA art collective Clumsy Bodies and Chevy Blazer, the video is based around pranks and how so many things in the modern world seem…
flirting. are an ‘anxiety pop’ band with so much to say about the world and how we all treat mental health. Their new EP ‘This Would Be Funny if it Were Happening to Anyone But Me’ is released on 5 October via Noise is Therapy (digital) and Hidden Bay Records (cassette). The dark shoegaze of…
It’s been four years since Sharon Van Etten released the sublime ‘Are We There’ album and in the meantime she’s become a mother, gone back to school to study psychology, written a score for the film Strange Weather and made guest appearances acting in The OA and singing in the Twin Peaks revival. Now, she…
Ahead of tours with both Waxahatchee and Shannon Lay and the release of debut album ‘In the Break’ (14 September via Mare Records), Los Angeles-based Justin Sullivan’s Night Shop project has released a video for the sweet folk-rock song ‘My Love’. Justin has spent the past two decades touring as a session drummer with bands…
‘Megadead’ is the new album from now Melbourne-based polymath Benjamin Shaw. Released through Audio Antihero in the US and UK and Kirigirisu Records in Japan, it’s a concept album of sorts about a party where everyone is having a good time except you (as a teetotaller, that’s something I can associate with only too well)……
