Bath/Bristol-based dreampoppers Night Swimming have shared ‘Five-Year Plan’ (please note the correct use of a hyphen) ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘No Place to Land’ on 27 September. Produced by Peter Miles (Torres, Orla Gartland), the song was recorded live to tape and is a sublimely serene and special listen. While the…
Following shows with Michael Cera Palin and Awakebustillinbed and ahead of a main stage appearance at 2024’s ArcTanGent Festival, itoldyouiwouldeatyou have shared new single ‘Moscow is Silent’ – their first new material since 2019. Written in early 2021, the song is all too prescient with its subject of feeling helpless in an endlessly cruel and…
Soccer Mommy has shared ‘M’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Evergreen’ on 25 October via Loma Vista Recordings. ‘M’ finds Sophie Allison singing to shadows and ghosts as she recognises that staying loyal to something that’s gone could be a problem but will offer some kind of comfort right now. Against a backdrop…
Foxing have shared new single ‘Greyhound’ ahead of the release of their upcoming fifth album, ‘Foxing’ (released on the band’s own Grand Paradise label on 13 September). The eight-minute epic opens with atmospheric and synth-led sound as Conor Murphy talks about how beautiful his telephone can be (‘Look at how it loves me’). As the…
Man/Woman/Chainsaw have announced they have signed to Fat Possum Records and announced details of their debut EP ‘Easy Peazy’, which will be released on 8 November. The EP is preceded by the stunning new single ‘Ode to Clio’. The band say they ‘thrive on the thin line between pretty and noisy’ and that’s certainly the…
Militarie Gun have shared ‘Thought You Were Waving’ – their first new music since the release of their debut album ‘Life Under the Gun’ in 2023. The song – created with Zachary Dawes (Lana Del Rey, Sharon Van Etten) – finds the Los Angeles-based four-piece in a scuzzy and desperate mood from its opening moments:…
Cloud Nothings’ latest album, ‘Final Summer’ (out on 19 April via Pure Noise Records) finds Dylan Baldi and co in fine form, powering through 10 songs in just 29 minutes that celebrate the sheer joy of playing music loud and proud. The title track opens proceedings with a futuristic, space-age sound that gently builds –…
BEX follows up 2023’s ‘Scum’ EP with new song ‘sunDae’, a track that takes aim at how so many of us are in awe of the perfect ‘influencer’ lifestyle: ‘sunDae is about the expectation of having to be and look perfect all the time even when the world isn’t. The irony of the constant British…
Growing up in Aldershot at the turn of the century, there wasn’t an awful lot to be proud of – we had a football club that rose from the ashes, were the home of the British Army and that was about it. As soon as I left school and started college (bear in mind I…
The Waeve – a duo made up of Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall – are all set to release their debut album. Co-produced by James Ford, the record finds the talented songwriters exploring various subjects and soundscapes with infectious enthusiasm. ‘Can I Call You’ opens the album in style with its…
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