Teenage Tom Petties and Rural France’s Tom Brown releases the first record under his solo moniker, Lone Striker. Five years in the making, this self-titled album was recorded at Tom’s home using a selection of bedroom instruments, wobbly doo-wop samples, off-kilter drum loops and found sounds. ‘Blip One’ opens the record with a Sparklehorse sound…
Keg release their debut album ‘Fun’s Over’ via Alcopop! Records on 14 March, 2025. Known for their infectious live performances, this record finds the seven-piece showcasing a more vulnerable, human side amidst the chaos of synths, trombone and barbed guitars… Album opener ‘Photo Day’ has a long, mathy, post-rock-inspired build up that makes for a…
Michael Cera Palin, an Atlanta trio made up of Elliott Brabant (vocals/guitar), Jon Buncic (drums – Chad Miller joined after the album’s completion) and Jon Williams (bass), release their debut album ‘We Could Be Brave’ via Big Scary Monsters on 7 March, 2025. A clattering of drums and Kinsella-esque guitar noodling signals the start of…
25 years after the release of their debut album ‘Lost Souls’ (still an all-time Top 10 for us), Doves return with ‘Constellations for the Lonely’, a record filled with ten songs that find the band in the role of narrators, offering contemplations on shattered images of a world in flux. Andy Williams, drummer, vocalist and…
The Murder Capital return with ‘Blindness’, their third album following the success of ‘Gigi’s Recovery and debut ‘When I Have Fears’. Recorded with producer John Congleton, the record finds the band in renewed and re-energised form as they tackle everything life is throwing at them. The opening ‘Moonshot’ is a statement of intent, its wiry,…
Trevor Powers returns with his Youth Lagoon moniker, following up 2023’s ‘Heaven is a Junkyard’ with ‘Rarely Do I Dream’ (released via Fat Possum on 21 February 2025). This record finds Trevor armed with a shoebox of home videos that allows him to blend memories and more innocent times with aland filled with drifters, drug…
Newport, Wales quintet The Nightmares follow their 2023 debut album ‘Séance’ with new record ‘Fire in Heaven’ (released on 14 February, 2025 via Venn Records). With its title inspired by a quote from Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman, The Nightmares vocalist and guitarist Adam Parslow said: ‘This record explores the curiosity between the struggles of human…
New York duo Frog follow up 2023’s ‘Grog’ with ‘1000 Variations on the Same Song’, out via Audio Antihero Records on 14 February, 2025. This is an eclectic record that takes in themes of parenthood, living and finding yourself in your home city, with Frog singer-songwriter Daniel Bateman saying: ‘1000 Variations on the Same Song…
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sam Sodomsky releases ‘Melody Trail’, the latest album under his The Bird Calls moniker. Packed with astute observations, dark humour and a slab of Americana, it’s a record based around the concept of idly waiting around for some kind of revelation. There’s a touch of Wilco in the country-tinged opener ‘God Bless These…
Singer-songwriter Bryony Williams releases her debut album ‘You Are Here’ on 5 February, 2025. The record explores themes of love, self-discovery and resilience while also looking back at the battles you work through to get through this thing called life… ‘Trip Me Up’ opens the record with Postal Service vibes, an air of sadness (‘Taken…
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