Parisian indie-poppers Hoorsees have shared their self-titled debut album via Kanine Records. The nine songs on this record are filled with singer/songwriter Alex Delamard’s wry observations and driving hooks that capture the slacker spirit of the ’90s. ‘Overdry’ opens the record in a more breezy, jangly fashion that sounds somewhat akin to The Strokes jamming…
Left Field Messiah – a band made up of Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat), Jeremy Ruzumna (Fitz and the Tantrums) and Erik Janson (Wildling) – have shared their latest single ‘Young Libertine’. The release follows the success of ‘Fuzz Machine’ and finds the trio stepping into the spaced-out zone where funk meets indie rock –…
The Death of Pop, a bedroom duo made up of brothers Oliver and Angus James, have shared new single ‘Go Back’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Seconds’ on 19 March. Following releases on indie stalwarts Too Pure and Art is Hard the band have now signed to Discos de Kirlian & Hidden Bay…
Lael Neale has shared her self-directed video for ‘Acquainted with Night’, the title track from her new album (out now via Sub Pop and available to order physically on white vinyl* via megamart.subpop.com, select independent retailers in North America, in the U.K.). Lael says the concept is ‘another homemade video that explores my complex relationship…
Eades have announced they’ve signed to Heist or Hit (Pizzagirl, Her’s, Hannah’s Little Sister) and shared the Wes Anderson-inspired video for new single ‘Former Warnings Cluster’. The new single finds them channeling their inner Graham Coxon or Stephen Malkmus with its wiry, fuzzy and spiky melodies, while the beats and back-and-forth vocals – not to…
Rose Coloured Records signings Bad Idea have shared new single ‘Happy’ – a song described by the Leeds-based four-piece as ‘a sad sounding song about feeling good, describing the surprise appearance of positive thoughts during a slump’. Opening with woozy Cocteau Twins atmospherics, the track finds Sarah Sefton trying to make sense of these chinks…
The Hold Steady return with ‘Open Door Policy’, the follow-up to 2019’s critically revered ‘Thrashing Thru the Passion’. The now six-piece again worked with producer Josh Kaufman to deliver 10 richly developed pieces of storytelling that examine issues including wealth, power, capitalism, ambition, opportunism and survival… Gentle stabs at the piano signal the start of…
Major Murphy have shared the video for ‘In the Meantime’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘Access’ via Winspear on 2 April. Written after band members Jacob Bullard and Jacki Warren’s young son suffered from lead poisoning, the song captures the fears and anxieties parents go through when children are in danger with…
Brighton-via-Falmouth-based band Holiday Ghosts have announced they have signed to FatCat Records and released a video for new single ‘Mr. Herandi’ ahead of the release of their third album ‘North Street Air’. Bringing to mind revered acts The Kinks and Violent Femmes but also cult contemporaries including Jeffrey Lewis and Daniel Johnston, the new song…
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Madi Diaz has announced she has signed to ANTI- Records and shared the video for debut single ‘Man in Me’. The song, produced by Madi with additional work by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver), finds her looking back on a past relationship: ‘It’s a very intimately visceral moment, a sort of play-by-play…
