While Dan Knishkowy was writing the latest Adeline Hotel album ‘Whodunnit’ about the breakdown of a marriage, he realised he was actually pondering things on a wider scale – those connections between all of us. Putting together a band of talented friends, he got to work on creating on an all-encompassing collection of songs full…
Eight albums into their career and Maximo Park continue to delight with their intelligent brand of indie pop. ‘Stream of Life’ finds the band trying to make sense of what life is and what things mean when you are in your 40s… There’s that distinctive guitar sound on album opener ‘Your Own Worst Enemy’ that…
October Drift’s third album ‘Blame the Young’ finds the four-piece delivering their most powerful and personal songs yet… The title track opens the album with a blast of vocals, power drumming, alt-rock riffs and words about the state of the nation, referencing how many people are in ‘denial’: ‘It’s just the aching inside, blame divide’.…
Just over a year after the release of their debut album, The Waeve (real-life couple Graham Coxon from Blur and Rose Elinor Dougall of The Pipettes) return with ‘City Lights’, a bolder, brashier affair with an even more personal approach. The title track opens the album, landing in the sweet spot where disco meets art…
Charly Bliss, now based across New York City and Australia, present their most confident album yet with the aptly-titled ‘Forever’. The record opens with ‘Tragic’, a bass-heavy slice of power pop about the power of lust which finds Eva Hendricks declaring ‘I know I gotta have you’. It finishes with a flourish before ‘Calling You…
Following a number of personal and professional hurdles – not to mention a global pandemic – Indoor Pets almost called it quits in 2020 but now they’re back at their spiritual home of Alcopop! Records with a brand new album called ‘Pathetic Apathetic’ – and it’s one that finds the four-piece embracing their love of…
The Lemon Twigs’ fifth album – ‘A Dream is All We Know’ – finds the brothers D’Addario celebrating the joy and beauty of dreams – while throwing all kinds of new instruments into their finely honed pop sound, including cellos, mandolin, trumpets, horns and harpsichord. Recent single ‘My Golden Years’ opens the album and feels…
Probably the band with the greatest name in the world right now, Philadelphia’s The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick release the equally enthrallingly titled new album ‘The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick’ via Count Your Lucky Stars Records on 25 April. A six – sometimes seven –…
Brilliantly named Van Houten have released ‘The Tallest Room’, a record seven years in the making. The Leeds band enlisted the ears and ideas of producer Alex Greaves (bdrmm, Bloc Party) to help and the result is an emotional snapshot of the band’s formulative years that also manages to look ahead to an optimistic future.…
Rosie Tucker’s fourth album, ‘Utopia Now!’, finds the talented singer-songwriter asking what an artist’s life looks like in 2024 – a time where people’s (especially trans) rights are being taken away because they’re deemed ‘different’ and capitalism rules over (almost) all. The album opener ‘Lightbulb’ is full of synths stabs and Rosie’s trademark stream-of-consciousness thoughts:…
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