Los Angeles-via-Boston trio Slothrust have released the video for new single ‘Double Down’ ahead of a short UK tour this January. This follows shows with Manchester Orchestra and hugely positive acclaim for fourth album ‘The Pact’. Veering somewhere between art pop and grungey riffs that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on the first Garbage…
Formed from the ashes of previous Spectral Nights favourites Goonies Never Say Die and I Drink Therefore There’s Darkness, Oceans Over Alderaan have unveiled a stream of debut single ‘Sevenfour’ ahead of its official release on 11 January, 2019. Self-described as an ‘atmospheric gloom pop band’, the Blackpool four-piece recorded this single with producer Tom…
‘Lonely This Christmas’, ‘Last Christmas’, ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’… All of the best festive songs have an air of melancholy and sadness running through them and now Pizzagirl has contributed his effort, the aptly titled ‘Pizza for Christmas’. Pizzagirl’s trademark ’80s synth beats open the song before a voicemail recording of a loved one…
It’s December and Bubble & Squeak (Girl Ray’s Poppy Hankin and The Boy Least Likely To’s Jof Owen) are here to get you in the festive spirit with a cracking hit called ‘The Christmas Stick’. Released on Moshi Moshi, the slacker-style duet is in the vein of the label’s previous Christmas songs by artists including…
We’re delighted to be premiering the new video for ‘Much to Me’ by Marigolds. Signed to our pals over at Beth Shalom Records, the Norwich-based five-piece have come up with a song fans of Delta Sleep, Evan Weiss and TTNG will instantly fall for. It opens with lyrics about trying to find happiness in a…
Heist or Hit Records signing Pizzagirl has unveiled ‘Blossom at my feet, flower’, the final single to be released from his upcoming EP, ‘Season 2’ (out 30 November). The dreamy sad song would perfectly soundtrack a prom scene where everything goes wrong in an ’80s teen film and has a wistful tone amidst all the…
Following the release of their ‘Fight’ EP (check out our review here), Tina from Sœur talks us through five songs that have influenced the band’s sound and five acts you should be checking out right now…. Top 5 Influences Black Honey – ‘All My Pride‘ Pop banger, got everything you want from a pop…
Now signed to Alcopop! Records, Art Brut are set to release their first album in seven (!) years. During that time, there have been a number of changes in frontman Eddie Argos’ life; not least a major break-up, a move to Berlin and a hospital visit for a major operation – which you will have…
South London’s Sophie Nicole Ellison, known as HUSSY, has just released a double A-side of ‘Slayer’ and ‘Playtime’ ahead of an EP in early 2019. ‘Slayer’ is full of grunge-laden guitars and more restrained shoegazing moments as Sophie tries to capture the feeling of not quite knowing what you’re meant to do with your life…
Ahead of a tour with Sam Evian, Brighton native Max Kinghorn-Mills’ Hollow Hand project has unveiled ‘Milestone’; a song that you can find on his debut album ‘Star Chamber’ (out via Talkshow Records now). A combination of Gruff Rhys and Graham Coxon’s solo material, the psych-tinged folk song is part of an album that aims…
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