Sleigh Bells make a welcome return with sixth album ‘Texis’ on 10 September. The band claim they let go of all inhibitions when it came to writing and recording this album with Derek Miller saying: ‘We stopped worrying about whether or not we’re in or out of our comfort zone, or if we were being…
Tom Williams’ latest album finds the artist sharing his thoughts and feelings about all kinds of events from the past few years – and how they’ve contributed to the increasingly fractured and divisive world we find ourselves in today. His most experimental work to date with orchestral sounds being seamlessly complemented by drum machines, synths,…
Alcopop! Records signings Cherym have shared the Dirty John-inspired video for new single for ‘Listening To My Head’. While the video recounts the experiences of Betty Broderick being mentally tortured by her lying, cheating husband of 20 years, the song itself is a potent and pacy piece of power punk filled with riffs and sing-along…
Queer indie/punk Londoners Bitch Hunt release their debut EP ‘Shapeshifter’ via Reckless Yes on limited edition CD and digital outlets on 28 May. The band say: ”Shapeshifter’ explores the difficult journeys that someone has to go through to navigate a cisheteronormative world, but does it in a mostly upbeat and triumphant tone. Themes include heartbreak…
Blackpool’s Strange Bones have shared ‘England Screams’ ahead of the release of their debut album of the same name on 20 August via FRKST/300 Entertainment. Frontman Bobby Bentham says the new single focuses on the tumultuous thought process behind human behaviour: ‘It’s like we’re living in a pantomime, everyone is waiting and expecting for something shocking…
Released as part of Nice Swan Records (Sports Team, Pip Blom, Hotel Lux) ‘Nice Swan Introduces…’ series, English Teacher’s ‘R&B’ is a powerful and loud piece of art rock with a delicate edge as Lily Fontaine delivers words about caring for someone so much that you end up writing them R&B – even if these…
Fresh’s latest EP, ‘The Summer I Got Good at Guitar’, finds the four-piece tackling a number of important issues – from self-acceptance to the prevalence of misogyny throughout the music industry and beyond. The title track kicks off the EP with a burst of Hotelier-meets-Guided by Voices hooks before Kathryn Woods offers a statement full…
Self-recorded and mostly self-performed, The Reds, Pinks & Purples new album ‘Uncommon Weather’ finds Glenn Donaldson looking over his life in the ever-changing San Francisco landscape, the losses he has experienced, mental health issues and wider social and cultural issues. ‘Don’t Ever Pray in the Church On My Street’ opens the record in fuzzy yet…
Following support from 6 Music, Dork and DIY and shows with Stef Chura and Frankie Cosmos, Bristol-based queer punks Grandmas House have shared new song ‘Small Talk’, a 96-second fusion of riffs and anger that finds them pushing back against the way women are cornered into small talk in bars by so many men with…
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