Canadian singer-songwriter Evening Hymns (Jonas Bonnetta) has shared new single ‘I Can Only Be Good’ – his first new material under this moniker since 2015’s ‘Quiet Energies’. Evening Hymns has played with acts including Agnes Obel, Lou Doillon and Mount Eerie and this heart-wrencing song features Destroyer saxophonist Joseph Shabason. Jonas anticipates the end of…
Roxy Girls have announced details of new EP ‘A Wealth of Information’ (out on 5 June via Moshi Moshi Records) and shared the lead single, ‘Dirtier’. Clocking in under two minutes, there is a sense of the calm before the storm as jaunty guitar hooks gradually join the sole drums in its first 30 seconds…
Chicago-based duo Ohmme have shared the video for new single ‘Ghost’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Fantasize Your Ghost’ on 5 June via Joyful Noise Recordings. Combining the heartfelt passion of Sharon Van Etten with the artful and experimental tones of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the song finds Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart in…
Following appearances at ArcTanGent, 2000 Trees and Y Not Festival and shows with The Xcerts, Natalie Evans and I Feel Fine, Brighton four-piece Wild Cat Strike are set to release their new EP ‘Mustard Coloured Years’ via Small Pond Records on 17 April. Opening with the quiet-loud-quiet ‘Mustard’, the quartet delve into a new and…
Serbian-Canadian singer-songwriter Dana Gavanski has shared her debut album ‘Yesterday is Gone’ (available via Bandcamp now). An alumni from our friends at Fox Food Records, the video for the album’s title track was filmed in the colourful and retro underground of Montreal’s metro system. ‘One By One’ is a slow and atmospheric introduction to the…
International indie-pop duo Born Fighters – Luke Barham from London and Peter Maffei from California – celebrate the release of bittersweet new single ‘Shadow’ by sharing their favourite duets with us. Luke: Rockpile – ‘Teacher Teacher‘ Rockpile in many ways is the blueprint for Born Fighters. Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds would both bring songs…
Eerie Gaits, John Ross from Wild Pink’s solo project, have shared new single ‘The Rainbow Trout and the Wicker Creel’ from upcoming album ‘Holopaw’ (released on 10 April via sound as language). The instrumental piece has elements of the shoegaze-tinged and anthemic indie rock that Wild Pink specialise in so well but there’s also a…
You’ll know Toby Hayes from Meet Me in St Louis, Shoes and Socks Off and Eugene Quell and it’s always exciting to hear one of his new projects. Laundromat began when Toby was living in China but has also been on his radar while living in Berlin, London and Brighton – the city he has…
Now signed to Fat Possum, Austin-based Why Bonnie follow up their 2018 Sports Day Records release ‘In Water’ with brand new EP ‘Voice Box’. You will (and if not, why not?) have heard the title track from the EP which finds Blair Howerton sharing her frustrations and anger at the way men treat all female-identifying…
Laura Marling has brought forward the release of her new album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ to this Friday (10 April) and shared new single ‘Held Down’. Laura’s seventh solo record finds the supremely talented singer-songwriter taking over the production reins alongside frequent collaborators Ethan Johns and Dom Monks while also experimenting with all kinds of…
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