Jenny Hollingworth, one half of Let’s Eat Grandma, has shared new single ‘Good Intentions’ ahead of the release of debut solo album ‘Quicksand Heart’ via Transgressive Records on 9 January, 2026. Jenny said: ‘I wrote Good Intentions as a reflection on challenges I’ve faced in the past and how I relate to them in the…
Brooklyn-based indie-rockers Hiding Places have announced they’ve signed to Keeled Scales and shared new single ‘Holy Roller’, a song that vocalist Audrey Keelin describes as having ‘happened with no planning, no ‘trying to write, a pure, detached channeling’. A bittersweet piece of math-tinged indie pop that fits somewhere between Big Thief and Broken Social Scene,…
Following shows with Keo and Shame, Bleech 9:3 have shared their second ever single, ‘Jacky’. The now four-piece were formed when vocalist and guitarist Baz Quinlan met guitarist Sam Duffy at an AA meeting, with Baz becoming Sam’s sponsor. Combining the brilliant Brit rock of the early 2000s (think Hundred Reasons, Jetplane Landing and My…
East Anglian emo rockers SUDS have shared ‘Hook Me Out’ ahead of the release of sophomore album ‘Tell Me About Your Day Again’ via Big Scary Monsters on 21 November. They’ve also announced a tour with Exeter indie-rockers Soot Sprite for early next year. Majestic, mathy and marvellous, ‘Hook Me Out’ combines elements of slow-burning…
thistle have shared new song ‘tied’ ahead of a tour with Humour and what’s set to be a breakthrough year in 2026. This follows shows with Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Upchuck and Westside Cowboy and airplay from the likes of Steve Lamacq, Deb Grant and Nathan Shepherd. Over and done in 95 seconds, the song combines a classic…
Man/Woman/Chainsaw have shared ‘Only Girl’ to celebrate their signing to Fiction Records (The Cure, St. Vincent, The Horrors). Described by the band as their ‘playful love song’, there’s a touch of late 2010s fightpop in the blend of gorgeous violin and crunching riffs while also slotting seamlessly alongside the contemporary batch of chamber-math enthusiasts like…
Theo Bleak has shared ‘Megan in New York’ ahead of the release of ‘Bargaining’ – ‘A chronological mixtape of my year through the most intense stage of grief I experienced’ – on 18 December, 2025. Against a blend of sampled drum effects and gorgeously glacial yet gothic guitar, the song chronicles a trip to New…
On his latest (ninth!) album ‘Parader’, Keaton Henson turns the guitars up but still doesn’t hide away from personal issues and ‘what it feels like to be this age and a musician’…. There’s a slow, smoky and atmospheric build-up on album opener ‘Don’t I Just’, a song that finds Keaton asking a number of rhetorical…
Night Swimming have announced they’ve signed to Venn Records and shares new single ‘Submarine’, a deeply emotional three minutes that tries to make sense of grief – and how people ‘who have experienced loss will often notice it in others’. Hauntingly beautiful with layers of shoegaze guitar hooks, there’s a fragility in lyricist Meg Jones’…
Hotel Lux follow up their highly acclaimed 2023 debut album ‘Hands Across the Creek’ with ‘The Bitter Cup’, a song that found them writing in a more collaborative way as they head into their mid-20s in an increasingly tumultuous world. Gentrification, inter-generational divides and battles with mental health are just some of the subjects they…
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