Following stellar support from 6Music and shows with bands including Flamingods, Mush and Crocodiles, Sunderland four-piece Roxy Girls have signed to Moshi Moshi Records and announced details of their forthcoming mini album ‘A Poverty of Attention’ (pre-order here). ‘Trials and Tribulations’ is the first song to be taken from the release and finds the band…
Hawaiian artist Katie Iannitello’s Beauty Queen project featured on the recent Super Fan 99 Records compilation and ‘Sold You Out’ is the perfect introduction to her sunshine-infused and evocative sound. The song will feature on the physical (frosted white cassette) release of her EP – pre-order now. Hazy Stars-style synths meet the atmospheric stylings of…
Jade Lilitri has decided to look on the bright side of life on Oso Oso’s forthcoming album ‘Basking in the Glow’ (out via Triple Crown Records on 16 August). New single ‘Dig’ (II) offers a bright glimpse of what’s to come. Combining math-inspired hooks with a punkier energy and then throwing in some pure Bleachers-esque…
Merival has shared ‘No Brakes’, a powerful song that will feature on her debut album ‘Lesson’ (out 21 June). The short and sharp track finds Merival discussing what she now realises to be the melodramatic notion that her songs declined in quality when she found better mental health and realising how she ‘could see the…
Quiet Lions have shared the video for ‘Wasteland’ ahead of the release of eagerly awaited debut album ‘Absenteeism’ on 14 June (Lonely Voyage Records). Frontman Michael Williams says the song ‘is all about having a voice, and using it for the greater good’ and the four-piece have released the video during the week of the…
Filthy Friends – a supergroup made up of Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey, Kurt Bloch and Linda Pitmon – follow up the release of ‘Emerald Valley’ with the video for new single ‘Break Me’. Written by Peter the day after Tom Petty died, the song tries to ‘capture how tough he…
Hayden Thorpe has shared ‘Earthly Needs’, the third song to be taken from his upcoming solo album ‘Diviner’ (out on Domino on Friday 24 May – pre-order here). With its synths, programmed drumbeats and deeply personal lyrics (‘I cannot unlove you’), the song opens in a style that brings to mind ‘Digital Ash’-era Bright Eyes…
Annabel Allum has shared ‘You Got it Good’, the first single from her forthcoming six-track EP on Killing Moon. Recorded with Adrian Hall (Anna Calvi, Goldfrapp) in his garden shed studio, the song was inspired by a cathartic conversation Annabel had with a close friend during a really low moment and focuses on the importance…
Seattle trio Dude York have announced details of their new album ‘Falling’ (out on Hardly Art on 26 July – pre-order here) and shared the awesome animated video for the title track. With a slow build leading into a melodic combination of power-pop guitars and big-sounding drums, the song finds Claire England recalling how it…
New Saddle Creek signing Ada Lea has shared the video for ‘the party’ ahead of the release of her debut album ‘what we say in private’ on 19 July (pre-order here). Hailing from Montreal, Ada’s sound is both intimate and powerful and this slow-building song offers the perfect introduction. Recalling the emotional atmospherics of early…
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