Blanketman have shared new single ‘The Signalman’ ahead of a physical 7″ release (along with the other A-side ‘Yard Sale’) on 11 February. The song, inspired by the 1976 BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens mystery, finds the art-poppers looking into the day-to-day life of guitarist Daniel Hand and drawing parallels with the protaganist of…
Cheekface have shared new single ‘Featured Singer’, a song that was inspired by a daydream lead member Greg Katz had during the pandemic about being a featured singer on an EDM song: ‘I was thinking about how hard it is for a band to reach people, especially in the middle of the pandemic, and my…
Life have shared ‘Friends Without Names’ ahead of the potential release of their third album next year. Recorded in the dead of night with producer Luke Smith in a chapel below Hull, vocalise Mez Green says the song ‘is the anchor and and blueprint for our next record. In a remote part of Eastern England,…
Babeheaven have shared new single ‘Don’t Wake Me’ ahead of what’s set to be a big 2022 for the West London five-piece. A song about feeling – and losing – connections with both loved ones and your possessions, it’s a sublime slice of melancholic dream pop that has elements of both London Grammar and The…
Fatherson have shared a live recording of new track ‘Honest to God’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Normal Fears’ on 25 February via Easy Life Records. While the piano-led song focuses on a dark period in 2019 when the trio struggled to figure out their next steps (Ross Leighton says it’s ‘about one…
Dexy has shared the video for new single ‘I Don’t Think I Turned Out Right’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Sleeping Through Summer’ on 28 January, 2022. Filling the gap between Cheap Trick and Fountains of Wayne, the new single is ‘About never feeling like you found your way, or managed to fit…
Manchester-based indie heroes crush have shared new single ‘So Strange’, a song that vocalist and guitarist Amber Warren says is all about overcoming negative thoughts and feelings in a powerful way: ‘It’s a dialogue in the first person, addressing anxiety in a cathartic defiance of the emotions that arise from it’. The band list My…
Sea Power follow up ‘Two Fingers’ with ‘Folly’ – the latest single to be taken from upcoming new album ‘Everything Was Forever’ (out on 11 February, 2022). With a classic and anthemic ‘Waving Flags’ feel running throughout the sound, the song finds the band looking at the way the human race tends to sleepwalk from…
Exeter trip Soot Sprite have shared ‘Night Thirst’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Poltergeists’ via Specialist Subject Recors on 29 October. Opening with a somber tone – both in vocal delivery and the guitar tone – the song finds Elise Cook looking back over a past relationship and the devastating effect it left…
Dublin-based quarter Sprints have shared ‘Modern Job’ – the first song to be released from upcoming EP ‘A Modern Job’, out on 11 March 2022 via Nice Swan Records. The song finds Karla Chubb looking back on her past and how important it is to accept yourself for who you are: ‘Modern Job is a…
