David Balfe returns with ‘Carving the Stone’, the second album to be released under his For Those I Love moniker. While the debut self-titled record offered meditations on grief and loss following the death of his best friend, this record finds David focusing on life in working-class communities, familial life and how Irish capitalism is…
Swaggering superstar-in-waiting De’Wayne releases his third album, ‘June’, via Fearless Records today (30 July, 2025). There’s no messing around with this record, opener ‘Lady Lady’ combining Aerosmith-style hooks with copious amounts of funk and one-liners about his love life: ‘Great conversation, I don’t think she’ll be staying’. This is followed by an old-school countdown to…
Tor Maries, also known as Billy Nomates, is set to release her third album ‘Metalhorse’ via Invada Records on 16 May, 2025. This is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio with a full band – bassist Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX…
Exeter trio Soot Sprite will release their debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. Elise Cook (lead vocals/guitar) says the album is ‘about embracing empathy over apathy, despite the constant stream of worldly horrors. If we have empathy we can have hope, and with hope then…
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…
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