Having been around just over ten years, the fantastically named Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love are saying goodbye with the gift of a fourth, final full-length album – appropriately titled ‘Last’. Now a two-piece consisting of brothers Kelly and Ellis Dyson, the Peak District band lost none of their penchant for…
Hailing from Bordon, Surrey, Joe Booley is an 18-year-old singer-songwriter with a healthy respect for both the classic artists in his fields and his local peers – counting Spectral Nights favourite Annabel Allum among his friends. Opening fairly quietly with ‘Not a Fairytale’, the song showcases his very emotive and atmospheric nature. With ever-so-slightly mumbled…
Norway’s finest purveyors of indie-pop, Team Me wowed everyone they come across a few years ago with their phenomenal self-titled debut EP and jubilant live show. That they followed this up with the incredible album ‘To the Treetops!’ in 2012 was something every music fan jumped for joy at. Following this up with the more…
It’s always hard to decide on what the ‘best’ albums of the year were… There could be some that you’d been eagerly awaiting and loved upon release and scarcely went back to thereafter, or even the opposite – the more you listened, the more it grew – as well as records that captured a particular…
A split EP between two very talented songwriters from our local area, ‘We Have Not Panned Out’ features two songs from Our Lost Infantry bass player Joey Ashworth’s itoldyouiwouldeatyou project and two from Guildford’s Annabel Allum. Released by our friends at Rose Coloured in a very limited edition run, the acts promised plenty of sadness…
‘By No One, For Nothing’ is the new single from Coventry indie-rockers Indian Summer and it’s a slice of sun-kissed indie pop to warm up with as we head into winter. There’s something of the Cribs in the repeated guitar riff, while the production is far cleaner than the Wakefield brothers’ early outings. There are…
Based in Fleet, 19-year-old Ethan Attwood-Summers might well be a bedroom genius. Performing under the moniker Son Joan, he has just released his debut EP ‘Menagerie Melodies’ via Quatre Femmes Records and you can own it via Bandcamp. Full of scuzz and riffs, there’s a DIY attitude bursting throughout the opening track ‘A Balancing Act’.…
Having supported Mac DeMarco in the States, Boston trio Vundabar have just finished a tour throughout France (with an extra show at Camden’s Lock Tavern thrown in for good measure) and now they’re releasing their self-titled EP. Specialising in the kind of slackerpop that makes you want to live the life of a student once…
We introduced you to Carnival Youth back in the summer when they released their debut single ‘Never Have Enough’ and now the Latvian folk-poppers have released a new video for ‘Octopus’. With a more electro-tinged feeling than the previous video, the song has the quirkier elements of bands like Wild Beasts and Dutch Uncles but…
After a couple of highly acclaimed albums, many EPs and even a collection LP, Topshelf Records signings Sundials have made a welcome return to the scene with a new 6-song EP called ‘Kick’. Having been around for five years, the trio have firmly established themselves as a favourite in the punk-rock scene and this EP…
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