Southampton’s Waking Aida are already lined up to make an appearance at ArcTanGent, have played Leicester’s Handmade Festival and their debut album ‘Eschaton’ is being released on esteemed label Robot Needs Home. To complete their rapport with math-rock royalty, the album was recorded by Maybeshewill’s Jamie Ward. With this impressive list of associates, the four-piece…
Deep Elm Records is held in high regard by many music fans around the world and with their recent decision to offer up their entire back catalogue on a ‘pay-what-you-want’ basis, the American label is set to grow. As a thank you to their loyal fans – and to encourage those new to the label…
Monument Valley is a one-man band (known as Ned Younger to his friends and family) and he’s already gained praise from many of the top names in the music press. His latest single ‘Tattooed Fists’ is a deeply personal, hard-hitting but surprisingly warm-hearted list of observations about modern life. From tourists to toilet circuit venues…
A five piece hailing from Macclesfield and already playing a prestigious slot at Radio 1’s One Big Weekend festival, unsigned Racing Glaciers have released the first single, ‘First Light’, from their third EP ‘Don’t Wait for Me’, which will be released in the summer by the brilliant Killing Moon label. Opening with stadium-sized guitar lines,…
To mark our 100th post, we have a very special video from our friends Our Lost Infantry. It’s safe to say this site probably wouldn’t exist without the recently expanded Surrey five piece, who have always been fully supportive and provided us with so many band suggestions and pictures of their constantly smiling bass player,…
We’re so late to the party with this one, but it’s such a spectacular album we couldn’t resist sharing our views on it. Originally released in June last year via TopShelf Records, ‘Whenever, If Ever’ is the debut record from Connecticut natives The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to…
Post rock is a notoriously hard genre to get right, but luckily Aldershot three-piece Parachute For Gordo know how to hit all the right buttons. Their recent EP, ‘Eight Minutes of Weightlessness’ hints at a band with lofty ambitions, but unlike like their moniker (one of the first monkeys to fly into space), they remain…
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