American Football have previewed LP4 with the release of 8-minute epic ‘Bad Moons’. Originally written as two separate reacks, the first section is built around a sample of a gentle harp strum as Mike Kinsella ponders over past misdemeanours and the hurt they’ve caused: ‘Surprise, I’ve been so many boys in this trenchcoat. Ask my…
Nottingham trio Eyre Llew have shared new single ‘Miningsby’. A song about ‘staying, listening and offering warmth’ when someone you love is struggling, the poignant song was recorded on a baby grand piano the band no longer owns. It opens in sparse post-rock fashion, all bowed guitar, restrained drums and genteel piano before the falsetto…
The Lemon Twigs have shared ‘I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Look for Your Mind!’ on 8 May via Captured Tracks. A break-up song hidden amongst the most joyous of pop melodies (with a Beatles-esque video to boot) there’s a fondness shining through as the band recall…
Manchester duo Succulents have shared their debut single ‘Underdog’, a song that Laurie Hulme says has ‘a darkly playful edge to the narrative, not unlike the gleeful antagonism found in The Twits, wrapped in warm, fuzzed-out indie-pop textures’. With The Pastels-meets-Cheap Trick power-pop hooks from its first melodic moment, Lauria and bandmate Lucy Ridges sing…
London-based feminist punk rockers YAKKIE have shared ‘Lean Out’ as a Pay What You Want track on Bandcamp, with all money raised being donated to striking teaching assistants at Richard Cobden school in North London. Confirming the track is a tribute to Dawn Foster and the global women’s strike, vocalist Janey Starling (also the founding…
False Advertising have shared new single ‘Acid Rain’ ahead of the release of new album ‘The Sorry Window’ on 1 May, 2026. A song about ‘feeling attacked by your own insecurity and fighting back’, the music was inspired by a dream Jen Hingley had about watching Fall Out Boy live. There’s a grungey atmosphere running…
The Xcerts follow pulsating single ‘Do It to Myself’ with the tender and emotional ‘In Your Eyes’. A song Murray Macleod describes as ‘without question the most raw and personal song we’ve ever written’, it covers both the loss of bassist Jordan Smith’s mother to cancer and the breakdown of a ‘forever love’: ‘The closing…
Describing their sound as ‘doomsday foot-tappers for fellow hippies’, Brighton’s Snake Eyes release their long-awaited debut album ‘Cash Rich’ via Alcopop! Records on 6 March, 2026. This record is almost 6 years in the making and follows two incredible EPs and a whole host of shows supporting the likes of The Xcerts, You Me At…
While enjoying a whirlwind year promoting ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’ album, Divorce’s Felix Mackenzie-Barrow has somehow found time to release a self-titled solo album under the name ‘Book of Churches’. Describing the writing process as ‘incredibly DIY’ and ‘kind of naive’, each song was written in one day and recorded the next, leaving a raw account…
The first Nothing album to be released via Run for Cover Records, ‘A Short History of Decay’ finds Domenic “Nicky” Palermo ruminating on his past behavious, family issues and a health condition that causes his body to shake uncontrollably, both physically and verbally… ‘When I was young, life was easy’ are the words that run…
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