Following the ‘Attic Space’ EP (released by Fox Food Records earlier this year), Alyssa Thomas’ Fairy Godmother project makes a return with ‘Spit It Out’. Based around the pain of a break-up and the comfort that comes with moving on, the EP is full of darkly melodic bedroom pop songs in the vein of Rilo…
Ivor Novello Award-winning Conor O’Brien’s Villagers project returns with fourth album ‘The Art of Pretending to Swim’. A huge favourite with Spectral Nights ever since we first heard ‘Becoming a Jackal’ back in 2010, this record promises a fuller sound than his previous album = the sparse and intimate (yet no less special) ‘Darling Arithmetic’.…
Bristol three-piece Sœur have unveiled the video for the title track to their upcoming ‘Fight’ EP (self-released on 17 November). The song’s intro recalls some of Reuben’s more reflective moments as Tina and Anya ponder past mistakes and question why they followed something so blindly – and how they’re now determined to rise against it:…
Failure by Design and Alcopop! Records co-signings itoldyouiwouldeatyou have unveiled details of their debut album ‘Oh Dearism’ and released a video for lead single ‘Gold Rush’ (directed by Chevy Blazer and produced by Clumsy Bodies). The song opens with a thrilling combo of Tellison-style melody, clattering drums and midi keyboards before Joey Ashworth delivers a…
Fatherson release their third album, ‘Sum of All Your Parts’, on 14 September. A festival favourite at the likes of 2000 Trees and T in the Park, their brand of anthemic indie-rock has won the Scots a huge army of fans and on this record they promise a different kind of sound while retaining the…
My Little Empire Records signing Pip Hall has unveiled ‘Mary’, the first single from her debut album ‘Everything Before’ (out 9 November). Opening with a burst of Wolf Alice-style grunge-pop guitar, the song is Pip’s ode to the joys of being young and careless and finds her recalling fond memories (‘You took me to the…
We saw Pizzagirl play the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading Festival the other week and his eclectic brand of electro-indie pop-meets-cabaret performer had the whole crowd dancing. Now he’s announced the release of the ‘season 2’ EP in November via Heist Hit Records (Her’s) and unveiled the opening jam, ‘Highschool’. With a complete DIY aesthetic…
Following their widely acclaimed debut album ‘From Caplan to Belsize’ and countless tours around the UK sharing stages with everyone from Los Campesinos! to Jeremy Corbyn, Muncie Girls have made a welcome return with ‘Fixed Ideals’. Once again produced by Lewis Johns and with a title taken from a Sylvia Plath poem, the Specialist Subject…
‘Megadead’ is the new album from now Melbourne-based polymath Benjamin Shaw. Released through Audio Antihero in the US and UK and Kirigirisu Records in Japan, it’s a concept album of sorts about a party where everyone is having a good time except you (as a teetotaller, that’s something I can associate with only too well)……
Following shows with the likes of DZ Deathrays, Dream Wife and Idles and ahead of a nationwide tour, Leeds-based DIY art punks Dead Naked Hippies have released the riff-heavy ‘Rare’. Opening with a disgustingly catchy riff, the song finds Lucy Jowett letting rip at the way advertising companies use the general public’s discontentment to make…
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