English Teacher have shared new single ‘Albert Road’ ahead of the release of their debut LP ‘This Could Be Texas’ (out on 12 April via Island Records). The ballad opens in sparse and introspective fashion as Lily Fontaine opens up about how it feels to be a mixed-race individual in an increasingly intolerant and divisive…
Divorce have shared the video for ‘Sex and the Millennium Bridge’, a song that can be found on their recently released ‘Heady Metal’ EP. While the video finds the band channelling their inner Alice Coopers or Motley Crue, the song itself is more in line with Big Thief or Better Oblivion Community Center – albeit…
bedbug – previously the lo-fi DIY project of Dylan Gamez Citron but now a fully fledged indie rock four-piece – have shared ‘halo on the interstate’ ahead of the release of fourth album ‘pack your bags, the sun is growing’ on 15 March through Boston’s Disposable America label. With breezy and potent guitar Real Estate-style…
Formerly known as The Holy Road, multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Stolber has shared ‘Scattered Red, Blue & Black’ – the first release under his new moniker, A Knife Ballet. Challenging himself to lean more into exploring different types of guitar sounds, but with a powerful cello from guest Maddie Cutter (Martin Grech) underpinning the seven minutes, this…
Dana Gavanski has shared ‘How to Feel Uncomfortable’ ahead of the release of third album ‘Late Slap’ via Full Time Hobby on 5 April. Promising that the record will celebrate the ‘disparate aspects of my character that I sometimes tried to repress’, this song – which opens the album – finds Dana in more confident…
Glasgow post punks Pizza Crunch follow last year’s debut EP ‘That Serene Age’ with new single ‘Advertised Enlightenment’. This new song finds Ewan Heards trying his best to find meaning and awakening but only ending with disappointment – something many of us have experienced only all too well over the past few years. Mixing the…
Oslo’s Flight Mode have announced they have signed to Tiny Engines and that they will be releasing a collection of the band’s trilogy of EPs called ‘The Three Times’ in February. This anthology will include the band’s new EP ‘Tøyen, ‘13‘ (which will be released on Tiny Engines’ sister label, Sound as Language). The deeply…
No Windows – the Sound of Young Scotland award-winning Edinburgh duo of Morgan Morris and Verity Slangen – have shared ‘Song 01’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘Point Nemo’ (Fat Possum Records) on 3 May. A meditation on loss inspired by Daniel Keyes’ novel ‘Flowers for Algernon’, the swaying and woozy song fits…
Ducks Ltd. have shared ‘Train Full of Gasoline’ – the third single to be taken from upcoming album ‘Harm’s Way’ (out on 9 February via Carpark Records). Featuring backing vocals by Ratboys Julia Steiner and Moontype’s Margaret McCarthy, the subject of the song was inspired by a train full of crude oil exploding in a…
Experimental post-pickers Folly Group have shared new single ‘Pressure Pad’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘Down There!’ on 12 January. Inspired by the grand cinematic sounds of Massive Attack and Gorillaz but with the added math rock stylings of Youthmovies or early Foals – plus a healthy dose of Afro-Cuban rhythms –…
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