With influences ranging from Neil Young and Yo La Tengo to Lomelda and Lambchop, Friendship’s new album ‘Caveman Wakes Up’ promises a delicious cacophony of poetry, pain and alt-folk – with a dollop of heartbreak and longing thrown in for good measure. Written by Dan Wriggins while he crashed at MJ Lenderman and Wednesday’s Karly…
Arm’s Length explore the power and perils of personal trauma, love and loss in their new album ‘There’s a Whole World Out There’. Primarily written solo by vocalist and guitarist Allen Steinberg (‘the songs aren’t written for anyone else at all’), with input from the rest of the band bringing the songs to life, this…
Adeline Hotel has shared new single ‘Came True’, Dan Knishkowy’s first new material since 2024’s ‘Whodunnit’ album. It’s a beautiful and evocative two and a half minutes that finds Dan recalling waking up happy but then feeling it wasn’t to be: ‘I was laughing with you, still I couldn’t smile’. He continues to struggle to…
Ada Lea has shared new single ‘baby blue frigidaire mini fridge’ ahead of the release of forthcoming third album ‘when i paint my masterpiece’ via Saddle Creek on 8 August. Ada says the song was inspired by ‘The Chantal Akerman film where the camera moves in slow circular pans around her apartment. Then what if…
LA-based singer-songwriter Will Paquin has shared new single ‘Hahaha’ ahead of his first shows in the UK and Ireland. Power-pop hooks that have elements of Cake and early Ben Kweller are mixed with the energy of Bleachers as the proudly independent Will talks about unattainable lust – ‘You let me get so close to you,…
Based around themes of longing, superstition and blurred friendship, Scottish artist Theo Bleak’s ‘Said Like a Poet’ falls somewhere between Arab Strap, The Twilight Sad and Nina Nastasia. Gothic alt-folk with a twist and raw, poetic lyrics – plus a powerhouse vocal performance that can’t fail to get under your skin – it’s darkly dreamy…
Tummyache have shared new single ‘Stop, Drop Roll’. In this song, Soren Bryce takes aim at big government and big corporations who do nothing but take advantage of their workforces and public: ‘Look at your empire, stop and smell the rose’. It’s all delivered against a defiantly DIY art rock sound that’s equal parts Malkmus…
Brighton four-piece The New Eves have shared ‘Rivers Run Red’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘The New Eve is Rising’ on 1 August via Transgressive Records. Based around a poem band member Ella Oona Russell had written when she was a teenager, the song blends elements of pagan folk, Porridge Radio-esque alt-rock and…
Frankie Cosmos have shared new single ‘Bitch Heart’ and announced details of a world tour ahead of the release of new album ‘Different Talking’ vis Sub Pop on 27 June. The breezy (it clocks in at scarcely over 2 and a half minutes) slice of slacker-style indie-pop harks back to a time when we weren’t…
Wolf Alice have shared ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, the lead single from forthcoming album ‘The Clearing’, which will be released on 29 August. Described as ‘an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art’, it blends a jaunty bar-room baroque piano stomp with a pummeling rhythm section, tribal handclaps and infectious riffs.…
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