Seattle’s premier power-pop trio Dude York have made a welcome return with ‘Falling’ – their second album to be released on the esteemed label, Hardly Art. An album all about how you can fall in and out of all kinds of relationships during your life and how sometimes, it all manages to fall into place.…
Saddle Creek signing Ada Lea’s album ‘What We Say in Private’ continually evolved over the course of its writing and recording process, leaving us with a debut to savour. Montreal native Ada is also a painter and visual artist and these passions have added to the colourful collection of songs that make up this record.…
Rosie Tucker has shared the lemon-drenched video for their new single ‘Habit’, one of many highlights from album ‘Never Not Never Not Never Not’. It opens with Rosie laying their heart bare: ‘I wanna tell you I’m sorry but what’s a couple words? Drops in the Pacific between us’ before going on to admit that even…
Croydon four-piece Bellevue Days have shared ‘Freakin Out’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘It Can’t Possibly Go Wrong Ever’ later this year. Bursting with scattergun guitars and frantic drumming, the song about ‘a kind of depression that keeps you up all night and makes you question everything’, Alan Smith starts the song by…
Seattle-based singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen has announced details of new album ‘Lover’ (out on 23 August via Cooking Vinyl – pre-order HERE) and shared the video for emotional new single ‘Robin Williams’. Written after watching a Robin Williams documentary and being inspired by the much-missed actor and comedian’s spirit and enormous talent, it’s a song that…
Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Tom Fleming has shared ‘One True Pairing’, the first glimpse of his solo material to be released under the same name. A synth-heavy track that falls more in line with his old band’s latterday material, the song is all about keeping hopeful no matter how much shit life…
Anyone who has seen Jamie Lenman play live will know he loves nothing more than to pull out a surprise cover or two. Whether it’s a faithful rendition of ‘Especially for You’ with his wife or songs by Madness and Queen at a festival or even a famous TV theme tune like ‘Home and Away’,…
As soon as Bobby Bentham announces ‘I’m the fucking triceratops’ on the opening ‘Vicious’, you just know that Strange Bones are going to live up to the potential of their incendiary live show on the ‘Blitz Pt 1’ EP. The first of a handful of EPs to be released by the Blackpool four-piece this year,…
Annabel Allum has shared new single ‘When the Wind Stopped’, an indie rock anthem bursting with positivity that encourages you to never give up on your dreams, or as Annabel eloquently puts it: ‘Less moaning, more chasing’. With new wave stylings and crisp guitar hooks, Annabel demands that if you’re stuck in a rut, you…
The Dears frontman Murray A. Lightburn has shared the video for ‘Changed My Ways’ (directed by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene) ahead of a UK and Ireland tour to promote recent album ‘Hear Me Out’ (Firebird Records). The song has a grand, cinematic feel with a number of orchestral elements thrown into the mix…
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