Spectral Nights favourites Tugboat Captain have shared new album ‘Dog Tale’. Written and recorded in just one week, it finds lead singer Sox ruminating on London life when you’re navigating your mid to late 20s: ‘I feel like this album is a ‘Dog’s Tale’ of love, relationships, family and domesticity. I feel like lyrically, I’ve…
Bleach Lab have shared ‘Feel Something’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Close to the Flame’ on 18 July, 2025. Frontwoman Jenna Kyle says the new single is ‘About being locked in a slowly dying relationship, where you’re heavily dependent on another.’ This feeling of devastation and being stuck as you only bring out…
Scottish sisters Brèagha Cuinn (Guitar and vocals) and Onnagh Cuinn (Bass and vocals) – Bratakus – have signed to Venn Records and released new single ‘Final Girls’, ‘a song about the horror movie trope of the ‘Final Girl’ and all the rules they have to follow in order to survive the movie. The song talks…
Friendship, friends of MJ Lenderman and Wednesday, have shared ‘Resident Evil’ ahead of the release of more new material in the near future. Written while crashing at MJ and Karly Hartzman’s home in summer 2023, the song is an introspective piece of anthemic alt-folk with plenty of self-deprecation about where life takes you – despite…
New York City’s indie-rockers Slow Fiction have shared ‘When’ as part of the Speedy Wunderground Speedy Singles series. The song, which opens with some ferocious drumming that partly recalls The Walkmen’s ‘The Rat’, is a captivating and intense piece of power pop about trying to stay positive in the midst of adversity and disillusionment: ‘There…
Jo Bartlett has shared the video for her synth protest song ‘These Simple Things’. A timely piece that comes just two weeks after the release of ‘Time and Time and Again’, the song finds Jo talking about how everything is ‘fucked up with all these things’ and how ‘the billionaires are stealing from our hands’…
Edinburgh duo No Windows have shared ‘Easter Island’, the latest song to be taken from new EP ‘The Great Traitor’, which will be released on 9 May, 2025 via Fat Possum Records. Lo-fi and folk tinged, it brought back fond memories of early Slow Club for us with the gorgeous blend of dual vocals, pared-back…
Bath/Bristol dreampoppers Night Swimming have shared ‘In the Real World’ ahead of shows with Miki Berenyi and a debut headline UK tour in the autumn. Produced by Peter Miles (TORRES, Orla Gartland) and mastered by Simon Scott of Slowdive, the song is delivered from the point of view of a young person who feels trapped,…
We Are Scientists have made a welcome return with ‘Please Don’t Say It’, the first single to be taken from upcoming ninth album ‘Qualifying Miles’, out on 18 July via Groenland Records. Complete with a fog-laden video that takes you back to the ’90s – with just a touch of Meatloaf – the anthemic song…
Fresh off the back of their hundredth gig and rave reviews at SXSW, Man/Woman/Chainsaw release ‘Adam & Steve’. The London-based six piece’s ’bittersweet take on the heart-on-sleeve love song’, it features dual vocals from Billy Ward and Vera Leppänen pining over what could have been: “Now you’re going overseas, why’d you have to up and…
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