Liverpool art rockers SPQR have released a brilliantly surrealist video for new single ‘Slowly’. Crafted and directed by drummer Bex Denton and scripted by singer Peter Harrison, the video features a shadow puppet named Timmy who finds himself travelling to the depths of his despair and then back again. Opening with energetic Everything Everything-style melodies,…
Ahead of the release of debut album ‘Revision Ballads’ (out via Lost Map Records on 15 February,) Savage Mansion has unveiled a video for ‘Elwood’ – a piece of Hefner-esque slacker pop that finds Craig Angus confronting a bully from his childhood: ‘Elwood, if I saw you, I would run a mile. I know you…
Norwegian power-punk trio Spielbergs have shared ‘Five On It’, the opening song on from their eagerly anticipated album, ‘This Is Not the End’ (out on 1 February via By the Time It Gets Dark Records – pre-order here). It’s a thrilling anthem from the very first note – managing to combine the snarl of early…
Having toured with the likes of Neko Case and M. Ward (and acting as the drum double in the brilliant film, Whiplash), drummer Kyle Crane is already a familiar figure on the indie scene and now he’s announced details of his debut solo album ‘Crane Like the Bird’ (out 18 January). Moving in front of…
Following the loss of a studio to a mudslide, Santa Barbara musician Erich Tomkinson (formerly Dot Plaza) relocated to Los Angeles and got to work on his new Glossies project. Released via Super Fan 99 Records, the debut Glossies single ‘Popular’ is a playful and irreverent piece of bedroom pop that recalls the great Western…
Indie legends Helen Love have released festive single ‘Glitter Star’ and – following a Twitter feud with Kirstie Allsopp two years ago – dedicated it to the ‘queen of making a pile of useless middle class tat into a popular TV series’ and her ‘tinsel-tasselled followers’. Opening with Bis-style chants of ”G-L-I-T-T-E-R, come and make…
North London’s Gold Baby contacted us after seeing our review of flirting.’s recent RP and we were so delighted when we had the chance to listen to their new song, ‘Maggots’. Flitting somewhere between the grungey nature of Joanna Gruesome and the charm of early Maccabees indie-pop, the song finds the four-piece giving an honest…
We’re delighted to be premiering the new video for ‘Much to Me’ by Marigolds. Signed to our pals over at Beth Shalom Records, the Norwich-based five-piece have come up with a song fans of Delta Sleep, Evan Weiss and TTNG will instantly fall for. It opens with lyrics about trying to find happiness in a…
Jade Bird has unveiled a new video for ‘Love Has All Been Done Before’. It comes ahead of her eagerly awaited debut album early next year and tops off a phenomenal 2018 which found the singer-songwriter performing at major festivals in the States and making appearances on Later… with Jools Holland, The Late Show with…
You never want to wish your life away but the prospect of new albums from Sharon Van Etten and The Twilight Sad – on the same day – in January (the 18th) is making us keen to get the festive season over and done with. Now, the former has released an evocative new video for…
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