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Many Things About…FALSE ADVERTISING
After succeeding triumphantly as the crowned winners in the last edition of #BitterSweetPlaylist, we now satisfy our promise by gifting an exclusive chat with Manchester’s False Advertising. The song which landed them here, ‘Hey You’ – is lifted from their forthcoming EP (‘I Would Be So Much Happier If I Just Stopped Caring’) and just one […]
LISTEN: Other Creatures – ‘Luxembourg’
Fashioning the most familiar sounds of ’90s indie rock, ‘Luxembourg’, the debut single from Dublin-based band Other Creatures plays out as a nostalgic anthem for the introverted teen – a ’90s sound sat in the corner of a 21st century party.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Janileigh Cohen – ‘Sister’
Music which moves to your core and allows you to contemplate the connections you have, feel the warmth thicken around you within the moment, is a magical thing. That’s the enchanting effect of the tunes of Janileigh Cohen, particularly in her latest single ‘Sister’.
SONG OF THE WEEK: CHILDCARE – ‘Getting Over You (By Dressing Up Like You)’
CHILDCARE’s latest ‘Getting Over You (By Dressing Up Like You)’ incorporates Motown swing with sharp ’00s indie pop (recalling the likes of The Wombats). A gentle start to this heartbreak healer surprises, before launching into thrashing guitar and polyphonic delight.
In Conversation With…LOSTBOYCROW
The free-spirited city of Los Angeles awakened something in Lostboycrow that hadn’t existed before; a synthesis of creation soon began. Now three years in, the artist is ready to unleash a debut album. Conscious to current culture but fuelled primarily by a desire to release a larger work, the album will be a joining together […]
WATCH: The Hubbards – ‘Body Confident’
Hull-born, Leeds-based band The Hubbards recently released a new single named ‘Body Confident’, and let me tell you, it’s a gooden.
LIVE REVIEW: Flyte + Humble He + ELANA at The Cookie, Leicester
Fresh from the release of debut album, ‘The Loved Ones’, the prospect of seeing a British act who so seamlessly combine the beauties of vintage revivalism and contemporary culture is truly exciting. However a question is begged of how the live performance will live up to the record.
EP REVIEW: Hannah Nicholson – ‘Breath’
Hannah Nicholson’s debut EP ‘Breath’ is a meditation on the deeper stages of growing, the personal process of finding one’s place in the world and exploring the roots of human love.
LISTEN: My Sad Captains – ‘Don’t Listen To Your Heart’
Ed Wallis started My Sad Captains in 2004 as a university student in London, and the group has maintained a steady output of guitar-led indie-pop over the last decade. Their most recent effort, ‘Don’t Listen To Your Heart‘, whilst by no means revolutionary, is certainly a pleasing little ditty with hummable melodies.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Red Kite – ‘And Yet You Miss The Sea’
Red Kite’s latest release, ‘and yet you miss the sea’, is an almost literary return to childhood, as the melodic London quintet capture the nostalgia and melancholy of vulnerable ways, and seaside holidays.
LIVE PREVIEW: Neighbourhood Festival 2017
Manchester’s inaugural music one-dayer returns Saturday 7th October for another dose of its multi-venue spectacular. Taking place in over 10 of the city’s best venues for an eclectic pick-and-mix of live entertainment, Neighbourhood Festival celebrates up-and-coming talent and offers a chance for fans to catch indie rock’s premier artists up, close and personal. With a billing that […]
TRACK OF THE DAY: Underwater Boys – ‘Everyone You Know’
Reliable south-coast hit factory Cannibal Hymns have pulled another one out of the bag with this one, the debut single from Underwater Boys, ‘Everyone You Know‘.
LIVE REVIEW: Cosmo Calling at Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Cosmo Calling’s single release shows are becoming something of a hot ticket in Manchester. Their debut single show for ‘On The Wire’ hosted by New Street Records was a triumphant evening, and the same has to be said of their Soup Kitchen performance with Scruff Of The Neck. The band are crafting their conquest of […]
LISTEN: Phono Pony – ‘Vacant’
Hailing from Ontario, Canada, garage-rock two-piece Phono Pony come out swinging on their long overdue return to the studio.
CREATIVE PROCESS // Siv Jakobsen on ‘The Nordic Mellow’
Reaching a pivotal marker in her career, Siv Jakobsen released debut full-length ‘The Nordic Mellow’ in August 2017. The glacial collection of ten takes in moments of exquisite voice, narration of great intimacy, and forever emotive evocation. The stories aren’t tales of the imagined, they are photo-frames of the eternally alive – once lived, can’t […]
LIVE REVIEW: Miles Horn + Jonny Olley at Servant Jazz Quarters
A dishevelled landmark, a prospective reassuring vibrancy, standing on the toes of its far trendier brother, Shoreditch, Dalston displays many of the traits the youth have grown to love about the borough of Hackney. It appears even for somewhere so close to the Islington border, Dalston cannot escape gentrification. Living side by side with those […]
Beautifully Unconventional: Wolf Alice Finds New Resonance on ‘Visions Of A Life’
Bitter Sweet Symphonies’ Zoe Peck speaks to Wolf Alice lead guitarist Joff Oddie, ahead of the release of much anticipated second album ‘Visions Of A Life.’ Conceived in the silence succeeding a two-year world tour, the album is the alt-rockers’ answer to their hugely successful 2015 debut album – ‘My Love Is Cool’ which reached #2 […]
TRACK OF THE DAY: Little Grim – ‘Infectious’
Little Grim strikes gold on contagious new single ‘Infectious’.
Many Things About…GREAT NEWS
After succeeding triumphantly as the crowned winners in the last edition of #BitterSweetPlaylist, we now satisfy our promise by gifting an exclusive chat with Norway’s Great News. The song which landed them here, ‘Wonderfault’ – is the first treat to be lifted from their debut album, and just one of the irresistible moments that the band […]