Once again we’re reaching another culmination of sorts, the last 12 months have been testing and life-changing in many ways but equally it has been a great year for new releases and fresh exciting talent, with the likes of Black Foxxes making a storming entrance with a groundbreaking debut record, assuring all that British rock […]
‘Joined At The Lip’ is the new single from Sheffield four-piece High Hazels. Their music expertly combines both great craftsmanship and attention to sonic detail, and this is no different.
Imagine Mac DeMarco rocking up to to Real Estate‘s band practice and everyone just gets on great. Then you’re part of the way to imagining ‘Off the Ground’ by floaty beach-rockers Labradoor, a tune as laid-back as your favourite recliner, and as summery as having a mini-milk in the park.
For Bryde, (aka. Sarah Howells) 2016 has been a defining year, taking the music project to new heights and travelling down new sonic pathways. EP2 spurred many first’s for the artist: from recording a track in L.A, collaborating with brilliant Bill Ryder-Jones (of The Coral fame), a partnership with Tipping Point Records and the introduction of a […]
Cult trio Happyness are on fine form. They’ve been lapping up their growing popularity on their recent tour, and dropped an excellent new EP. Now, with the release of ‘Falling Down’, it seems the band are making the most of 2016’s last death-addled gasp to sneak a new track into the dizzying cluster of new […]
To end off the year, Leeds band Team Picture emerge once more from deep within a genre pick ’n’ mix bag, of lo-fi white noise laden guitars, tranquil vocals, thick synthesis and math rock riffs. ‘Potpourri Headache’ is an exemplary performance of genre-mixing, starting with an atmospheric standstill, where nothing moves nor breathes. Nothing but […]
“Awake a nation fallen, England we cannot sleep” – these lines alone have the power to stir something deep within the listener, drawing not only on personal unrest, but a time of political uncertainty. Music offers an assurance – in the new single ‘Divide’ from Temples of Youth – the electronic duo from Winchester show that […]
Brighton rockers Grymm can be a behemoth of growling intent – riling and shaking with aplomb – then again the next minute, they turn around in gentle surrender, and what results is a beautiful reflection of the bipolar nature of their music. Take new single ‘OCD’ as the prime example, romantic tugs of guitar simper and tussle […]
London indie garage-punks Childcare are a devilish delight, only two tracks make up their online presence as it stands but this is soon to change in the new year, upon release of a brand spakin’ new EP, due out via Lost in the Manor Records. In a series of snaps captured by Wolf James at a […]
Opening with whirling synths and an aggressive pushing bassline, Manchester three-piece W.H Lung’s debut track ‘Inspiration’ is a 7-minute psychedelic odyssey that relentlessly travels from motif to motif, yet never straying too far as to be unable to return.
The Pickle Factory lies somewhere down a backstreet on the border of Hackney. Tucked away from the chaos of London town, it feels all too quiet on this brisk Monday night. With a capacity of only a couple of hundred people, tonight’s venue seems a world apart from the stages Ed Nash will be used […]
London/Wales based four piece Luna Bay are back with more of their moody undertoned indie-rock in the shape of latest release ‘Smoke and Mirrors’. A majestically eerie track with immense radio potential in which lead singer Connor O’Mara’s vocals are soft, powerful and still as distinctive as ever.
Brighton rabble Grymm have begun to seep into the very core of our consciousness over the past year. With each new reveal, taken from the recording studio and brought to our ears, we have become privy to the sounds of a band that are ferociously hungry and loaded with potential, new single ‘OCD’ works to further […]
Originality is easy to come by when an artist listens to their gut. Repetition and mirroring, on the other hand, are harder to avoid, so succumb at your peril. Today’s band in the spotlight need not worry because the music that Orchards craft is vivaciously and impressively of their own making. Only on their second […]
SuperGlu are a promising band hailing from Manningtree in Essex. When the collective initially formed, only one of the four had actual ties to music, but like the stars aligning when the foursome came together it was a match made in heaven. SuperGlu combine the uplifting joy of Clean Cut Kid‘s indie pop with the raw punch […]
Brisbane based Roy Gordon is operating under the moniker of Opaeka, his opening induction requires little coercion. The sublime widescreen electro-pop of ‘Risk’ will 100% get the blood pumping.
Fiction Records signings The Big Moon have announced the release of their debut album, ‘Love in the 4th Dimension’ (due April 7th) and to celebrate they’re streaming live highlight, the by turns vulnerable and imperious ‘Formidable’. Verging on the epic, ‘Formidable’ is the most sincere take so far from the London garage-rockers, baring more resemblance […]
Sydney’s Big White let us join in on the fairytale, as they uncover new visuals for single ‘Down At The Beach’. Filmed on location at an abandoned castle in Belgium, the quintet take a tour through its scared halls and vast grounds, it may not be the seaside spot of the title but it sure is breathtaking.
Live albums are tricky in many ways. Firstly, they’re tricky to do well: their purpose is essentially to capture a performance that was as much experienced through eyes as through ears, and make it almost as satisfying as a solely aural experience. It’s essentially the artist saying, “If you went, you can attempt to relive […]
Cloves is a singer-songwriter with something magical up her sleeve. The track ‘Better Now’ opens with a simple acoustic melody, topped with her emotive vocals. The loose half-rhyme of ‘happy’ and ‘just for a moment I’m free’ lure us into what seems a folk-tinged reflection on self-identity and a relationship. A character who is ‘better […]