Middle Kids, a Sydney-based trip made up of Hannah Joy, Tim Fitz and Harry Day, release their second album ‘Today We’re the Greatest’ via Lucky Number. The album was recorded and produced in Los Angeles by Lars Stalfors (Soccer Mommy, St. Vincent, Purity Ring) and finds Hannah pulling directly from her own experiences in a…
The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) follows up her critically acclaimed debut album with ‘The Art of Losing’ – a self-produced LP that finds her trying to make sense of grief and exploring how we all try to make something from the losses that affect our lives. The record’s title is inspired by the opening…
Michigan-based duo Sideria released their self-tired debut LP at the end of last year – and you can order it on Bandcamp here. The rercord, inspired by bands including Hop Along and Algernon Cadwallader, will be on streaming services from 20 March. Opening with a distorted confusion of riffs and drums on the Cap’n Jazz-esque…
Manchester-based rock band The Hyena Kill release ‘A Disconnect’ via APF Records on 5 March. The album finds the band reflecting on a number of traumatic and tragic incidents in the members’ personal lives, with vocalist/guitarist Steven Dobb saying: ‘The bulk of material was written during a very low point in my life, and as…
Adult Mom returns with third album, ‘Driver’, and it’s a record that finds Stevie Knipe examing that awkward phase where you’ve hit 20-something, the bills are starting to pile up and you’re not entirely sure of your place in a ‘grown-up world’. The album finds Stevie trying to answer a question that has confounded generations:…
Maxïmo Park’s seventh album ‘Nature Always Wins’ finds Paul Smith, Duncan Lloyd and Tom English asking ‘who we are, who do we want to be, and do we have any control over it?’ From issues of neglect, corruption and tragedy to major life changes, it’s all examined against a backdrop of art rock recorded and…
Nightshift follow up last year’s self-released full-lenth cassette with new album ‘Zöe’. Now signed to Trouble in Mind, the now five-piece have a sound that dips into the musical history of their base in Glasgow and offers something fresh and contemporary. The album begins with ‘Piece Together’, a slow-burner with elongated Warpaint-style vocals about ‘learning…
The Hold Steady return with ‘Open Door Policy’, the follow-up to 2019’s critically revered ‘Thrashing Thru the Passion’. The now six-piece again worked with producer Josh Kaufman to deliver 10 richly developed pieces of storytelling that examine issues including wealth, power, capitalism, ambition, opportunism and survival… Gentle stabs at the piano signal the start of…
Texas-based singer-songwriter Katy Kirby was born, raised and homeschooled by two ex-cheerleaders in small-town Texas and started singing in an evangelical church. Her new album, ‘Cool Dry Place’ (released via Keeled Scales), finds her dismantling her past: ‘I can hear myself fighting that deeply internalized impulse to make things that are super pleasant or approachable’.…
Released via Run for Cover and Keeled Scales, Sun June’s second album finds the Austin, Texa-based five-piece expanding on the ‘regret pop’ (their term) that served them so well on the ‘Years’ LP. Focusing on how love evolves and shapes our lives, the band describe the new record as ‘prom’ music: ‘Prom isn’t all rosy…
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