On new album ‘Film Buff’, Slotface delve into the worlds of film and TV to tackle stereotypes, gender roles and toxic masculinity… ‘I Used to Be a Real Piece…’ opens the album with big power pop hooks and lyrics about narcissism and confessions. These lead brilliantly into the repeated mantra of ‘I used to be…
Efterklang return with ‘Things We Have in Common’, an album that celebrates the bond between humans and the power of community, looking at the beauty in humanity and how our differences can make us stronger. ‘Balancing Stones’ opens the album with slow and distorted effects, falling somewhere between electro clash and dream pop. The vocals…
Eight albums into their career and Maximo Park continue to delight with their intelligent brand of indie pop. ‘Stream of Life’ finds the band trying to make sense of what life is and what things mean when you are in your 40s… There’s that distinctive guitar sound on album opener ‘Your Own Worst Enemy’ that…
October Drift’s third album ‘Blame the Young’ finds the four-piece delivering their most powerful and personal songs yet… The title track opens the album with a blast of vocals, power drumming, alt-rock riffs and words about the state of the nation, referencing how many people are in ‘denial’: ‘It’s just the aching inside, blame divide’.…
Just over a year after the release of their debut album, The Waeve (real-life couple Graham Coxon from Blur and Rose Elinor Dougall of The Pipettes) return with ‘City Lights’, a bolder, brashier affair with an even more personal approach. The title track opens the album, landing in the sweet spot where disco meets art…
After a period of burnout, self-enforced exile from music-making and solo travel, Katy J Pearson returns with new album ‘Someday, Now’ (out on 20 September via Heavenly Recordings). Recorded at the iconic Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire and produced by electronic producer Nathan ‘Bullion’ Jenkins (Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard), the album finds Katy embracing a love…
‘Foxing’, the self-titled fifth album from St. Louis math rockers finds the quartet ‘finding comfort in their own chaos’. ‘Secret History’ opens with plenty of distortion, feedback and falsetto as Conor Murphy sings about how ‘They pissed on your dreams’. Halfway through there’s a demand to ‘make your mother proud’ amidst some healthy screams. Recent…
A dollop of industrial bass opens ‘Hysterical Strength’ – the debut album from Yorkshire art rockers Deadletter – as ‘Credit to Treason’ combines frantic drums with blues-meets-grunge guitars and a warning that ‘It’s a futile investment to tempt it with patience’. It then moves into a more jerky, Folly Group-esque sound as the band sing…
London-based alt-rocker Uzumaki release their debut album ‘Waded’ via Everything Sucks Music on 13 September. With influences ranging from Sonic Youth to Pulp and early Weezer, the record aims to capture the raw and real energy of the band in a live setting… The 2 1/2-minute title track opens the record with a Breeders-esque bass…
Sheffield-based art rockers New Ghost release their debut album ‘A Dagger in Every Tide’ on 6 September. Written and recorded following a near-death experience, the record finds the narrator imagining their own demise and then heading on a search for a long-lost loved one… ‘Like Lazarus’ opens the record with twinkly tones and waves of…
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