Bright Eyes – ‘Persona Non Grata’


The world is a very strange place right now and we hope everyone is staying safe and adhering to the social distancing rules… It feels weird that when Bright Eyes announced their comeback at the beginning of the year, everything seemed so different but Conor Oberst and co have decided to press on and have…

Deeper Auto-Pain new music 2020 Fire Talk Records album review

Deeper – ‘Auto-Pain’ album review


Deeper follow up their eponymous 2018 LP with ‘Auto-Pain’ – a record that finds the Chicago band dipping into more ideas and emotions than ever before as they grapple with mortality, mental illness, harm and loss. Duelling guitars fade in and out on the album opener ‘Esoteric’. This then evolves into the kind of melodic…

Orlando Weeks (The Maccabees) – ‘Safe in Sound’


Orlando Weeks, former frontman of The Maccabees, has shared his debut solo material in the form of ‘Safe in Sound’. The single comes ahead of the release of his first solo album later this year. Written early in 2018 as Orlando and his partner anticipated the birth of their son, the restrained shoegazey melodies are…

Land of Talk – ‘Weight of that Weekend’


Elizabeth Powell’s Land of Talk have announced details of new album ‘Indistinct Conversations’ (out on 15 May via Saddle Creek – pre-order) and shared new single ‘Weight of That Weekend’. Elizabeth says the song ‘is a recognition of having been on the receiving end of a lifetime of sexual coercion, assault, boundary violations, and subsequent…

Julia Bardo – ‘Please Don’t Tell Me’


New Wichita Recordings signing Julia Bardo has shared ‘Please Don’t Tell Me’ ahead of the release of her debut EP ‘Phase’ on 6 March and a support slot on The Orielles’ UK tour. A song ‘about being yourself and thinking with your own head’, it finds the Manchester-via-Italy musician examining how hard it is to…

Phoebe Bridgers Garden Song stream 2020

Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Garden Song’


Phoebe Bridgers has shared the video for ‘Garden Song’, her first new solo material since 2017’s phenomenal debut album ‘Stranger in the Alps’. In the years since, Phoebe has played shows all around the world and formed two extraordinary ‘side’ projects – boygenius with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker and Better Oblivion Community Center with…