Formerly known as The Holy Road, multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Stolber has shared ‘Scattered Red, Blue & Black’ – the first release under his new moniker, A Knife Ballet. Challenging himself to lean more into exploring different types of guitar sounds, but with a powerful cello from guest Maddie Cutter (Martin Grech) underpinning the seven minutes, this…
Dana Gavanski has shared ‘How to Feel Uncomfortable’ ahead of the release of third album ‘Late Slap’ via Full Time Hobby on 5 April. Promising that the record will celebrate the ‘disparate aspects of my character that I sometimes tried to repress’, this song – which opens the album – finds Dana in more confident…
Glasgow post punks Pizza Crunch follow last year’s debut EP ‘That Serene Age’ with new single ‘Advertised Enlightenment’. This new song finds Ewan Heards trying his best to find meaning and awakening but only ending with disappointment – something many of us have experienced only all too well over the past few years. Mixing the…
Oslo’s Flight Mode have announced they have signed to Tiny Engines and that they will be releasing a collection of the band’s trilogy of EPs called ‘The Three Times’ in February. This anthology will include the band’s new EP ‘Tøyen, ‘13‘ (which will be released on Tiny Engines’ sister label, Sound as Language). The deeply…
No Windows – the Sound of Young Scotland award-winning Edinburgh duo of Morgan Morris and Verity Slangen – have shared ‘Song 01’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Point Nemo’ (Fat Possum Records) on 3 May. A meditation on loss inspired by Daniel Keyes’ novel ‘Flowers for Algernon’, the swaying and woozy song fits…
Villagers have returned with ‘That Golden Time’, the title track from Conor O’Brien’s forthcoming sixth album – out on 10 May via Domino Records. The song – which ‘touches on a theme that keeps cropping up, of romanticism versus realism’ – opens in genteel and sparse fashion as Conor recalls the romantics of a more…
Ducks Ltd. have shared ‘Train Full of Gasoline’ – the third single to be taken from upcoming album ‘Harm’s Way’ (out on 9 February via Carpark Records). Featuring backing vocals by Ratboys Julia Steiner and Moontype’s Margaret McCarthy, the subject of the song was inspired by a train full of crude oil exploding in a…
Katy Kirby had shared ‘Hand to Hand’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Blue Raspberry’ via ANTI- Records on 26 January. The song – written while ‘witnessing the gory breakdown of several relationships/couples at the same time’ – starts in a sparse and evoking fashion that recalls Lomelda or Adrianne Lenker as Katy discusses…
Experimental post-pickers Folly Group have shared new single ‘Pressure Pad’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Down There!’ on 12 January. Inspired by the grand cinematic sounds of Massive Attack and Gorillaz but with the added math rock stylings of Youthmovies or early Foals – plus a healthy dose of Afro-Cuban rhythms –…
Bob Vylan, the most important band in the country, have shared new single ‘Hunger Games’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Humble as the Sun’ on 5 April. Bobby Vylan says: ‘’Hunger Games’ is like a rallying cry for everybody that’s sick of suffering due this economic crisis that we’re living with.’ Opening with…
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