The Cribs have shared new single ‘Running Into You’ ahead of the release of their self-produced album ‘Night Network’ on 13 November. The video for the single stars Control and Maleficent actor – and former 10,000 Things frontman – Sam Riley as a news anchor reporting on rumours of the Jarman brothers’ potential return. There…
Martha Ffion follows up her Scottish Album of the Year Award-nominated album ‘Sunday Best’ with ‘Nights to Forget’ – a record that finds the Glasgow-based Irish singer-songwriter (known to friends and family as Claire McKay) offering deeply personal observations on loss, letting go and looking towards a better future against a backdrop of glorious pop…
Jenny O’s latest (and first for new label Mama Bird Recording Co.) album ‘New Truth’ finds the singer-songwriter laying her heart bare over gorgeous harmonies and slices of dreamy guitar. It opens with ‘God Knows Why’ – an honest evaluation of the night she suddenly lost all hearing in her right ear: ‘I could hear…
Crake, a Leeds-based four piece who were asked to go on tour with Big Thief after impressing their guitarist Buck Meek during a support slot at one of his solo shows at the Brudenell Social Club, have shared new single ‘Enough Salt (For All Dogs)’. As part of Saddle Creek’s Document series, the song will…
Snow Coats follow up the Dutch Indie XL #1 chart success of ‘Pool Girl’ with new single ‘Navy Blue’. Available via Alcopop! Records now, it will feature on forthcoming debut EP ‘Pool Girl’ (out on 11 September). Anouk van der Kamp says the song is ‘about having friends that are different than you are, but…
Signed to Felix White’s YALA! Records, Willie J Healey is all set to release his second full-length album on 7 August. Recorded to tape (along with last year’s ‘Hello Good Morning’) for extra warmth and authenticity in just nine days, the record finds Willie embracing his love of both slacker pop and the soulful sound…
Kevin Allan’s Fair Mothers project releases the second, more experimental project of 2020 with ‘In Monochrome’. Featuring guest appearances from Faith Eliott, Dana Gavanski (vocals), Esther Swift (harp), Pete Harvey (cello) and Jonny Lynch from Pictish Trail, the album was recorded at The Happiness Hotel in Edinburgh over the past couple of years and expores…
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…
