A split EP between two very talented songwriters from our local area, ‘We Have Not Panned Out’ features two songs from Our Lost Infantry bass player Joey Ashworth’s itoldyouiwouldeatyou project and two from Guildford’s Annabel Allum. Released by our friends at Rose Coloured in a very limited edition run, the acts promised plenty of sadness…
Based in Fleet, 19-year-old Ethan Attwood-Summers might well be a bedroom genius. Performing under the moniker Son Joan, he has just released his debut EP ‘Menagerie Melodies’ via Quatre Femmes Records and you can own it via Bandcamp. Full of scuzz and riffs, there’s a DIY attitude bursting throughout the opening track ‘A Balancing Act’.…
Releasing their new EP ‘Monster Trucks’ through ‘Get Into It Records’ (who list the likes of Dads, The World Is a Beautiful Place and Healing Powers among their roster), Brighton three-piece The New Tusk have an infectious and endearingly childlike enthusiasm for all things punk rock. The opening riffs on the opening song ‘Nice Charity’…
A side project from Johnny Foreigner’s Alexei Berrow and Junior Washington, Yr Poetry takes its name from their previous solo outings – Yr Friends and Fridge Poetry – and is, in Lex’s own words the kind of band: ‘designed to be thrown in a car to play all those house shows we’d get invited to…
Guildford’s finest purveyors of three-minute indie-pop songs, The Cottonettes have shared their new single ‘Call Me’ – and it might just be their best song yet. Recorded by Paul Tipler (who counts Reuben and Idlewild among his previous clients), the brash and confident song is described by the band as an ‘upbeat ditty about an…
Teaming up with the brilliant Alcopop! Records once again, Fight Like Apes make a welcome return with the fantastically named ‘Whigfield Sex Tape’ EP. Bringing back memories of awful school discos and that dance, alas the EP doesn’t find Fight Like Apes heading into mid-90s pop territory, but instead retains their trademark synth-drenched bold and…
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