Leeds-based four-piece Bad Idea are the latest band to sign with our friends over at Rose Coloured Records and ‘Winter’ is a potent blast of lo-fi anxiety pop with emo tendencies and sugar-sweet hooks – think Muncie Girls meets Tellison. Lead singer Sarah first discusses money worries and playing the fool before declaring ‘I do…
Rosehip Teahouse have shared the video for their new single ‘No Gloom’ ahead of an appearance at this year’s virtual SXSW event. The video features singer songwriter Faye Rogers’ dog, Chucky, in a starring role while the song itself sits somewhere between the emo-tinged chamber pop of Great Grandpa and a dreamy shoegaze sound. Faye…
Berlin-based artist Albertine Sarges explores the concepts of growth, self-fulfilment, sexuality, gender and the importance of mental health on ‘The Sticky Fingers’. The record, named after her pet name for her closest friends and band mates, also celebrates the importance of companionship: ‘So much of this album is about the experience of togetherness vs. fighting…
Half Waif, the project of Nandi Rose, follows up 2020’s stunning ‘The Caretaker’ album with new 7″ single ‘Orange Blossoms’. Nandi says the song ‘feels like the next chapter in that story’ and was inspired by how she found herself taking care of someone who was struggling with addiction and ended up feeling their pain…
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…
