DIY artist Mint Eastwood has shared new single ‘Man From Atlantis’. A synth-drenched dose of lo-fi dream pop, it fits somewhere between The Flaming Lips, Stars and Future Islands as Mint opens the song by remembering how someone told him ‘you talk too much’. This somber tone continues as he goes on to say how…
New Xtra Mile Recordings signings (and Rose Coloured Records alumni!) Berries have shared new single ‘Copy’, a single about ‘imitation and how we are programmed by society to try and live up to other people’s expectations of happiness and how unhealthy, self-critical and obsessive this way of existing can be’. Opening with scattergun Biffy-style riffs…
The Anchoress has shared the video for ‘The Art of Losing’, the title track from her second album due out on 12 March. While the visuals riff on ‘fake news’ and the role the media plays in enabling – and encouraging – it, the song itself is about loss. Catherine Anne Davies says: ‘Every idea…
Night Flight have shared the video for new single ‘Dreaming’ – a fittingly soaring slice of jangle pop with dreamy melodies and words about the beauty of England’s capital city. Sam Holmes says: ‘People tend to put London down as expensive and unfriendly. But there is something magical about falling in love in a city.…
Blanketman have shared ‘Leave the South’, the latest single to be taken from upcoming debut EP ‘National Trust’. Covering the extremely important issue of the north/south divide – one that is showing no signs of improving following our government’s attitude towards Andy Burnham last year – it’s a breezy slice of jangly indie pop that…
A band steeped in mystery, Camp Trash are getting set to release their debut EP ‘Downtiming’ via Count Your Lucky Stars Records. The distorted pop-rock hooks of ‘Bobby’ opens the EP in refreshing and vibrant style. There’s perhaps a touch of The Lemonheads in the guitar sound as the band plea with the subject to…
South London-via-Buckinghamshire quartet Bleach Lab have shared new single ‘Old Ways’ ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘A Calm Sense of Surrounding’ on 19 March. Inspired by Mazzy Star and Cocteau Twins, the EP examines the five stages of grief with the new single looking at how you can have these same emotions…
Leeds-based post-punk band Yard Act have shared new single ‘Dark Days’. It follows the success of debut 7″ ‘Fixer Upper’/’The Trapper’s Pelts’ – which sold out all 500 copies on its day of release. The new song finds James Smith examining the world we live in and pondering how we’re seemingly heading towards a post-apocalyptic…
Pottery drummer Paul Jacobs has shared the video for ‘Half Rich Loner’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Pink Dogs on the Green Grass’ on Blow the Fuse Records later this year. A garage rock anthem with a rawness and edgy, experimental tones throughout, it never forgets the importance of the melody as Paul…
Released via Get Better Records, Lande Hekt’s (Muncie Girls) debut solo album is a personal piece that not only chronicles her experiences coming out but also at the wider world, the climate crisis and the actions of both society and politicians. Acoustic strums signal the start of album opener – and recent single – ‘Whiskey’,…
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