Brighton four-piece The New Eves have shared ‘Rivers Run Red’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘The New Eve is Rising’ on 1 August via Transgressive Records. Based around a poem band member Ella Oona Russell had written when she was a teenager, the song blends elements of pagan folk, Porridge Radio-esque alt-rock and…
Frankie Cosmos have shared new single ‘Bitch Heart’ and announced details of a world tour ahead of the release of new album ‘Different Talking’ vis Sub Pop on 27 June. The breezy (it clocks in at scarcely over 2 and a half minutes) slice of slacker-style indie-pop harks back to a time when we weren’t…
Wolf Alice have shared ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, the lead single from forthcoming album ‘The Clearing’, which will be released on 29 August. Described as ‘an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art’, it blends a jaunty bar-room baroque piano stomp with a pummeling rhythm section, tribal handclaps and infectious riffs.…
Tor Maries, also known as Billy Nomates, is set to release her third album ‘Metalhorse’ via Invada Records on 16 May, 2025. This is the first Billy Nomates album to be made in a studio with a full band – bassist Mandy Clarke (KT Tunstall, The Go! Team) and drummer Liam Chapman (Rozi Plain, BMX…
Exeter trio Soot Sprite will release their debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. Elise Cook (lead vocals/guitar) says the album is ‘about embracing empathy over apathy, despite the constant stream of worldly horrors. If we have empathy we can have hope, and with hope then…
Edinburgh duo No Windows (multi-instrumentalist Morgan Morris and lyricist Verity Slangen) are releasing their latest EP ‘The Great Traitor’ via Fat Possum Records on 9 May, 2025. Drawing on inspirations ranging from Leonard Cohen and George Harrison to film composer Jon Brion, the six songs were written and recorded during a time of personal upheaval…
Adult Mom (an indie-rock quartet made up of Stevie Knipe, Olivia Battell, Allegra Eidinger and Lily Mastrodimos) release their fourth album ‘Natural Causes’ on 9 May, 2025 via Epitaph Records. Inspired by R.E.M and Lucinda Williams, the album finds Stevie examining their own queerness, separating it from learned straightness, and chronicling their battle with cancer.…
Panic Shack have announced details of their debut self-titled album and shared lead single ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’. The record will be released on 18 July via Brace Yourself Records and promises to capture the vibrant energy of their phenomenal love show. ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’ is an instantly relatable and zesty piece of pop-punk…
Spectral Nights favourites Tugboat Captain have shared new album ‘Dog Tale’. Written and recorded in just one week, it finds lead singer Sox ruminating on London life when you’re navigating your mid to late 20s: ‘I feel like this album is a ‘Dog’s Tale’ of love, relationships, family and domesticity. I feel like lyrically, I’ve…
Scottish sisters Brèagha Cuinn (Guitar and vocals) and Onnagh Cuinn (Bass and vocals) – Bratakus – have signed to Venn Records and released new single ‘Final Girls’, ‘a song about the horror movie trope of the ‘Final Girl’ and all the rules they have to follow in order to survive the movie. The song talks…
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