You don’t need us to tell you how much brilliant music has been released over the past 12 months to make things a little more bearable. Here are five of our favourites… Martha Hill – ‘Summer Up North’ (EP) Recorded entirely in lockdown, Summer Up North found Martha examining her mental health struggles, past actions…
With a mantra of ‘Minimal takes, minimal instruments, simple songs’, Uncle Luc’s surprise mini-album was recorded in lockdown after discovering the 1960s and ’70s recording equipment in his parents’ Surrey house still worked. All of the songs on this new record centre around an old Revox 2 track tape machine, a trusty 1965 Gibson LG-0…
Named after a Nick Lowe song, Born Fighters are London-based Luke Barham (who you will know from Stagecoach/as Uncle Luc) and Los Angeles native Peter Maffei. Although the friends live over 5,000 miles away from each other, their shared love of power pop inspired them to write ‘Little Green Tree’ during a meet-up while Luke…
Following 4 years spent focusing on releasing bands via his Super Fan 99 Records label, Uncle Luc (aka Luke Barham) makes a most-welcome return with the 8-song album ‘Sticking to the Rules’. ‘Plateaux’ opens the record with some ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ guitar strums and Luke singing the words ‘Don’t look back’ over and…
After 4 years spent focusing on bringing out incredible bands on his Super Fan 99 Records label, Uncle Luc (aka Luke Barham) makes his return with new album ‘Sticking to the Rules’. Here, Luke talks us through some of the bands and songs that have influenced the record, which you can pre-order here. So I…
Uncle Luc – ‘Plateaux’ After a couple of years focusing on Super Fan 99 Records, Uncle Luc makes a welcome return with this American-tinged slice of power-pop – complete with handclaps, DIY keyboards and a cute sense of playfulness. Luc sings about keeping notes in his iPhone telephone and considers how he doesn’t always believe…
We love Christmas songs. You love Christmas songs. They’re the soundtrack to the most wonderful time of the year. From the ones you can’t escape from around the supermarket to the more underground hits by the likes of Los Campesinos! and Grandaddy, there’s just something so warming about music that celebrates the special day. Our…
Two of our favourite people – and two of the most exciting independent labels around – Super Fan 99 and Alcopop! Records have collaborated to come up with a very special release for Cassette Store Day 2015. Featuring a track each from The Orielles, Zooz, Cotillon, Helen Love, Get Inuit and The Spills (that’s three…
A band that seemingly came out of nowhere and is already NME favourites, Zooz are signed to our friends over at Super Fan 99 Records and ‘Surf in Stereo’ is their debut EP. There’s some Shins-style melancholia in ‘Another Day in the Sun’, the opening song which is breezy and full of rhetorical questions, culminating…
Already well on the fast-track to finding true romance with the music-adoring public, we reckon you’ll fall for the charms of Zooz and their next single ‘True Love’. Signed to our friends at the ever-impressive Super Fan 99 Records, the limited-edition 7” has already sold out but that won’t stop you from enjoying this psychedelic…
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