Photo credit: Harrison Whitford boygenius – the sadpop supergroup made up of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus – have shared the video of ‘Not Strong Enough’ ahead of the released of their debut album ‘the record’ on 31st March. They’ve also announced details of their first UK tour dates in Gunnersbury Park in…
Claud, the first signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory (a new label imprint with Dead Oceans), has shared the video for ‘Guard Down’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Super Monster’ on 12 February. Co-written with Cameron Hale and Mary Weitz, the emo-tinged pop song finds the singer-songwriter heading to New York City –…
It’s been a tough year, but so many of us were kept going by the phenomenal amount of music released over the past 12 months. We won’t claim any of these to be the ‘best’ – music is not a competition, especially in 2020 – but the following were all on constant rotation at Spectral…
Phoebe Bridgers releases an EP featuring stripped-back, orchestral reworks of four of the songs on her album of the year contender, ‘Punisher’. These new versions have all been recorded with GRAMMY Award-winning arranger and string player Rob Moose. ‘Kyoto’ is one of the defining songs of 2020 and here’s it’s slowed down to just Phoebe’s…
It feels like a long time since Phoebe Bridgers’ debut album ‘Stranger in the Alps’ started soundtracking our lives. Since the release of that record back in 2017, Phoebe has collaborated with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus in boygenius and Conor Oberst in Better Oblivion Community Center; both of which she toured with relentlessly. Now,…
Phoebe Bridgers has shared ‘I See You’, the third song to be released from her forthcoming album ‘Punisher’ (out on 19 June via Dead Oceans). The song has been retitled from ‘ICU’ to the more emotive ‘I See You’ to fit the troubling times we’re all living through. Written about Phoebe’s break-up – and platonic,…
Phoebe Bridgers has announced details of her eagerly anticipated second solo record ‘Punisher’ (released on 19 June via Dead Oceans and available to pre-order HERE) and shared the video for new single ‘Kyoto’. The album features Phoebe’s band of Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford, Emily Retsas and Nick White alongside a multitude of special guests including…
Phoebe Bridgers has shared the video for ‘Garden Song’, her first new solo material since 2017’s phenomenal debut album ‘Stranger in the Alps’. In the years since, Phoebe has played shows all around the world and formed two extraordinary ‘side’ projects – boygenius with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker and Better Oblivion Community Center with…
2017 has been an incredible year for music with so many must-have EPs and albums. Big names like Ryan Adams, The National and British Sea Power released their best new material in years while the likes of BSM, Holy Roar and Specialist Subject Records helped ensure the independent scene continued to thrive. Below are our…
The Orielles – ‘Let Your Dogtooth Grow’ Now signed to Heavenly and all set to release one of the albums of 2018, The Orielles’ ‘Let Your Dogtooth Grow’ is a song full of swaying guitars and gently melded vocals. We heard the melodic elements of C90 favourites like Teenage Fanclub mixed up with some of…
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