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 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…
‘Hot Springs’ is the new EP from Beth Shalom Records signings Marigolds. It follows support slots to bands including Spring King and Turnover and finds the band dipping into various genres across the four tracks: ‘Ultimately, we see this EP as a step forward for Marigolds and believe each song offers enough versatility for each…
The Airborne Toxic Event have shared ‘Come on Out’ ahead of the release of ‘Hollywood Park’ – the band’s first new music in five years (pre-order HERE). The band’s frontman Mikel Jollett has also announced details of his memoir, also called Hollywood Park, which finds him looking back on an incredible personal journey which takes…
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…
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…
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 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…
Brendan Benson has announced details of ‘Dear Life’, his first solo album in almost seven years, and shared the video for new single ‘Good to Be Alive’. The album will be released via Third Man Records on 24 April. Brendan says the song ‘is kind of weird, to be honest’ and you understand where he’s…
Eve Owen has shared the video (directed by her sister, Hannah) for ‘So Still For You’ ahead of the release of her debut album ‘Don’t Let the Ink Dry’ on 37d03d on 8 May. The record, produced by Aaron Dessner (The National), is already one of the most eagerly anticipated of the year and…
