When you call your band Enjoyable Listens, you need to ensure your sound lives up to the name. The duo of Duffett and Jamie Maurice have managed to achieve this (and so much more) with new single ‘The Key of Innocence’. Formed in 2018 when both members lived in a derelict pub in Greenwich, the…
Land of Talk have been building a loyal cult following for a few years and their fourth album ‘Indistinct Conversations’ finds them breaking new, emotional ground while retaining their raw and emotional power. The songs were inspired by vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Elizabeth Powell confronting the oppressive nature of the world while embracing their non-binary…
Wye Oak, the experimental duo of Jenn Wassner and Andy Stack, may have released five acclaimed LPs over the past decade or so but ‘No Horizon’ is the first EP to see them write music while both living in Durham (the one in North Carolina, not the UK one that you drive a few hundred…
Alt-rock legends Semisonic (1998’s ‘Feeling Strangely Fine’ is a phenomenal album) have shared the video for ‘You’re Not Alone’ – the Minneapolis trio’s first new material in almost 20 years. The song will feature on the forthcoming EP of the same name (out via Pleasuresonic Recordings and Megaforce Records on 18 September). The video was…
Jamie Lenman has shared the video for ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Your Friend’ ahead of the release of his new mini-album ‘King of Clubs’ on 25 September (via Big Scary Monsters and available to pre-order HERE). The video features guest appearances from Wargasm, False Advertising, We Never Learned To Live, Intechnicolour, Frauds, Follow, Palm Reader,…
Signed to our friends over at Rose Coloured Records, Great Defeat feature members of classic Alcopop! bands My First Tooth (Ross Witt) and The Attika State (Warren Mallia) and specialise in soaring anthems. The band have now shared their debut album featuring a host of songs ‘written on various industrial estates between 2016 and 2019…
Spotify playlist of the bands featured on Spectral Nights over the period of May to August 2020. A must for fans of alternative and indie music.
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has shared new single ‘Surrender’ ahead of the release of new solo album ‘Generations’ on 25 September via Merge Records (Waxahatchee, Caribou, Destroyer). Opening with handclaps, a bluesy riff and call-and-response lyrics (‘Remember? I don’t know! You told me? Maybe so! You wanted to surrender’), it has a bit of back-to-basics…
Sarah Walk, a graduate of Berklee College of Music (St. Vincent, Aimee Mann and Melissa Etheridge are also alumni) signed to One Little Independent Records, has shared new single ‘Unravel’ ahead of the release of her new album, ‘Another Me’, on 28 August. The single finds her sharing her experiences as a queer woman and…
We’ve been fans of Lomelda for a while now and are really excited to hear that her new album ‘Hannah’ will be arriving via Double Double Whammy on 4 September. To whet the anticipation further, she has now released the video for its lead single, ‘Wonder’. Lomelda’s Hannah Read says the song is ‘about working…
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