Oso Oso follow up 2019’s smash ‘Basking in the Glow’ and 2022’s ‘Sore Thumb’ with ‘Life Till Bones’ – a collection of 10 songs that find Jade Lilitri looking back over past loves and experiences with fondness and frustration. ‘Many Ways’ opens the album with what might rank as the most famous and special three…
Soccer Mommy has shared ‘M’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Evergreen’ on 25 October via Loma Vista Recordings. ‘M’ finds Sophie Allison singing to shadows and ghosts as she recognises that staying loyal to something that’s gone could be a problem but will offer some kind of comfort right now. Against a backdrop…
Happy Accidents have shared new single ‘Dog Day’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Edit Undo’ on 27 September via Alcopop! Records. Co-written with Phoebe Cross’s cheerbleederz bandmate Sophie MacKenzie, ‘Dog Day’ finds the band in somber and reflective mood as they discuss the changing of the seasons and how it feels to believe…
Foxing have shared new single ‘Greyhound’ ahead of the release of their upcoming fifth album, ‘Foxing’ (released on the band’s own Grand Paradise label on 13 September). The eight-minute epic opens with atmospheric and synth-led sound as Conor Murphy talks about how beautiful his telephone can be (‘Look at how it loves me’). As the…
Wednesday guitarist MJ Lenderman has shared new single ‘Joker Lips’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Manning Fireworks’ via ANTI- on 6 September. A song about feeling pushed out by everyone else, there’s a slacker undercurrent running behind the alt-folk yet shoegazey sound as he pleads with people to ‘Please don’t ask how I’m…
Man/Woman/Chainsaw have announced they have signed to Fat Possum Records and announced details of their debut EP ‘Easy Peazy’, which will be released on 8 November. The EP is preceded by the stunning new single ‘Ode to Clio’. The band say they ‘thrive on the thin line between pretty and noisy’ and that’s certainly the…
Efterklang have shared ‘To a New Day’, the fourth single to be taken from new album ‘Things We Have in Common’ (released via City Slang on 27 September). Collaborating with talented musicians including vocalists Rune Mølgaard and Sønderjysk Pigekor plus Hector Tosta (additional arrangement, guitar, percussion), Jarrett Gilgore (alto sax), Mabe Fratti (cello), Damian Dalla Torre (bass clarinet, tenor sax), Christian Balvig (piano, Rhodes, vibraphone), Tatu…
Porridge Radio have shared ‘Sick of the Blues’ ahead of the release of their fourth album ‘Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’ on 18 October via Secretly Canadian. Described by Dana Margolin as a song ‘about being heartbroken and taking back some joy, remembering that you’re the source of your…
Haley Heynderickx has shared ‘Seed of a Seed’, her first new solo material since 2018’s sublime ‘I Need to Start a Garden’ album. It’s a song that finds Haley following her ‘desire for simplicity’ and searching for peace in a world that seems to do everything it can to disrupt this. Opening with hushed strums…
Saturday 13 July After a whirlwind three days, 2000trees wrapped up with a much-anticipated headline set from Don Broco. But things were again kicking off from 10.30am and there was a hell of a day in store with some of our personal favourites making welcome returns or debuts on Upcote Farm… Who wants circle pits…
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