Militarie Gun have collaborated with Dazy again on new single ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’. It follows the the joint release of ‘Pressure Cooker’ in 2022. Focusing on ‘the bigger they are, the harder they fall’ mantra, the song is packed with danceable beats, slacker hooks and a touch of Guided by Voices-meets-Cake wit and…
Exeter’s Soot Sprite have shared new single ‘Vicious Cycles’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. A reflective and slow-burning piece with gothic atmospherics that bring to mind Anna Calvi or Hovvdy – but with the edgier emo stylings of Sweet…
Suds have shared new single ‘State of Everything’, their first new material since 2023’s debut album ‘The Great Overgrowth’. Falling between Cursive and Sweet Pill, the emo hit finds the band trying to make sense of the internal conflicts over the past couple of years that threatened to tear the band apart. With pulsating drums…
HLLLYH (formerly the Mae Shi) have shared their debut song ‘Dead Clade’. Following 2008’s cult classic ‘HLLLYH’ album, the Mae Shi went dark… Leaving an incredible legacy but fans wondering what had happened. In 2022, Mae Shi founding member Tim Byron decided to get the band back together and record one last album. This ending…
New York City’s indie-rockers Slow Fiction have shared ‘When’ as part of the Speedy Wunderground Speedy Singles series. The song, which opens with some ferocious drumming that partly recalls The Walkmen’s ‘The Rat’, is a captivating and intense piece of power pop about trying to stay positive in the midst of adversity and disillusionment: ‘There…
Jo Bartlett has shared the video for her synth protest song ‘These Simple Things’. A timely piece that comes just two weeks after the release of ‘Time and Time and Again’, the song finds Jo talking about how everything is ‘fucked up with all these things’ and how ‘the billionaires are stealing from our hands’…
The Divine Comedy has shared ‘Achilles’ ahead of the release of 13th album ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ on 19 September, 2025. The album was recorded at Abbey Road and finds Neil Hannon offering his usual variety of emotions – funny, sad, angry and everything in-between. Following the bombastic chocolate love-in on the Wonka soundtrack, this record…
Gwenno has shared ‘Dancing on Volcanoes’, the lead single from her new album ‘Utopia’, due out on 11 July, 2025 via Heavenly Recordings. With a focus on ‘the need to dance as a cathartic act’, the song is packed with indie-pop sensibilities (the press release says ‘a motorik-fuelled version of The Smiths’) and foot-shuffling melody…
Edinburgh duo No Windows have shared ‘Easter Island’, the latest song to be taken from new EP ‘The Great Traitor’, which will be released on 9 May, 2025 via Fat Possum Records. Lo-fi and folk tinged, it brought back fond memories of early Slow Club for us with the gorgeous blend of dual vocals, pared-back…
Bath/Bristol dreampoppers Night Swimming have shared ‘In the Real World’ ahead of shows with Miki Berenyi and a debut headline UK tour in the autumn. Produced by Peter Miles (TORRES, Orla Gartland) and mastered by Simon Scott of Slowdive, the song is delivered from the point of view of a young person who feels trapped,…
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