Pictish Trail (Johnny Lynch) has shared ‘Slow Memories’ ahead of the release of fourth album ‘Thumb World’ on 21 February, 2020 (pre-order via Fire Records here). The quirky piece of Mercury Rev-style indie pop is described in the PR as an ‘out-of-this-world ode to heavenly surrender’ and it finds Johnny in reflective mood: ‘In the…
Jamie Tipson’s Second Hand Poet project has shared the stunning video (starring his son!) for new song ‘Dust to Dust’. Already a favourite with BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio, Frank Turner and Jonah Matranga, this song was recorded at Jamie’s home before being passed on to collaborator Mark Beazley (Keaton Henson) who mixed, mastered and added…
Bellevue Days have shared the video for new single ‘Shotgun’ and announced details of their eagerly awaited debut album ‘It Can’t Possibly Go Wrong Ever’ (out 22 November – pre-order here). Already a live favourite, ‘Shotgun’ was the result of a jam session that the band describe as ‘sludgy as hell’. Sitting alongside contemporaries including…
Fell (the alias of Nicolas Burrows and his band mates Jon Rulton, Dav Shiel and Matt Giraudeau) has already been praised by Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft and our friends over at For the Rabbits. Now the Lost Map Records signing has shared the video for the psychedelic ‘For the Pickling’ – the title track from…
Sløtface’s new single ‘Sink or Swim’ finds the band in pensive yet powerful mood as they look into the devastating affects of climate change and our attitude towards the environment. The accompanying video highlights the work of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Rich Horner and Caroline Power, who have been documenting the littering of the…
Benjamin Shaw has announced details of his first ever live album. A cult artist who now resides in Melbourne, Australia, the performance was his first in five years and took place at a church in Krems, Austria for donaufestival 2019. Throughout the record, Benjamin reimagines material from his extensive back catalogue with glitches, synthesisers and…
Quiet Lions have shared a video of a special reworked acoustic performance of their ‘Absenteeism’ album favourite ‘Youth in Question’. Filmed in the stunning Two Woods Estate in Pulborough, Sussex, the band have added a string section to the song while also managing to strip the sound right back offering more focus on Michael Williams’…
Toronto musician Dana Gavanski follows up the excellent ‘One by One’ with new single ‘Catch’. Available as limited edition 7″ via Dana’s Bandcamp, the song was produced by Mike Lindsay (a member of Tunng and Lump alongside Laura Marling), Dana describes the song as ‘an attestation to the daily struggle to be inspired and how…
Soccer Mommy has released her first new song since 2018 with ‘lucy’. Described by the Nashville musician (known as Sophie Allison to her family and friends) as ‘a song about struggling with inner demons and your own mortality, but I masked it with this scenario of being seduced by the devil’, it opens with Smiths-esque…
Seattle dream pop duo Night Hikes have shared ‘Avila’ ahead of a West Coast tour. Named after a beach in California, the song finds Olivia Godby celebrating the joys of everyday acts of love (‘You’re the only one who ever made my coffee right, you’re the only one who saw the magic out of sight’)…
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