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News: The Coral to release new album and announce UK tour in 2016 – watch teaser
After a five year hiatus, Liverpool’s The Coral return with a new album, a tour and a new member. Their eighth album, Distance Inbetween, is out on March 4th via Ignition Records. The follow up to 2010’s Butterfly House, it was recorded in Liverpools Parr Street Studios with co-producer Richard Turvey, where the band worked …
See: Night Games release Video for “Signals”
Night Games is London electro duo Constance and Paul. They’ve been honing their craft behind closed doors for a while, until breaking out with their track ‘Nine Days’. Following on from that they’ve appeared live at London’s Lexington and today they release their new single, Signals. Slow burning and delicate, Signals shuffles along at the …
Track: Drones Club – Soul of a Spaceman
Following shows with HEALTH, the canny people at PMR have snapped up mysterious London collective Drones Club, who state that their starting point is ‘the belief that humans are numbed and alienated by modern structures of control’, and that they want to act as ‘a pan-social solution to the 21st century problem’, and to demand …
See: Coves release new video for “Stormy”
The adulation with which Coves debut album ‘Soft Friday’ was received last year make their soon to be released second album something that’s regarded with almost psychotic excitement (maybe thats just here). Talking about the new album, Rebekah Wood says its about “The transition between Leamington and London – how our life is now compared …
Album Review: Throw Down Bones – ‘Throw Down Bones’
photo by chromaticism at Fuzz Club Records Festival Throw Down Bones are, Frankie Frankie, (so cool they named him twice!) : Guitar/Synth/Vocal/Effect, Dave Cocks: Bass/Percussion and James Aparicio: Producer. Throw Down Bones is “Noise Militia, Amnesia haze kraut and Philosophical drone”. Risen, phoenix-like from the ashes of Piatcions, “THROW DOWN BONES is the answer, a personal therapy, a rehab …
Track: Tors – Good Times
Planting their feet firmly in church of melodic indie folk are Devon five piece (now relocated to London) Tors. Included in their number are brothers Matt and Theo, grandsons of Burt ‘Guitar Wizard’ Weedon, who recorded with the likes of Adam Faith and Billy Fury, toured with Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland and influenced, through …
Track: Snowpoet – Waves
London folk collective Snowpoet are led by lyricist and vocalist Lauren Kinsella and Chris Hyson, backed up with Matthew Robinson, Nicholas Costley-White, Josh Arcoleo and Dave Hamblett. Ahead of the release of their forthcoming eponymous debut album, the band have released a little taster in the shape of a new single, Waves. Although dealing with …
See: Promise and the Monster reveal new video for Time of the Season
Taken from her forthcoming third album Feed the Fire, out January 22nd via the ever brilliant Bella Union label, Promise and the Monster – aka Stockholm’s Billie Lindahl, has released a new video for ‘Time of the Season’. It’s a complex and dark pop record, driven by this repetitive and bewitching backing, swirling around the …
See: King Charles reveals video for Gamble for a Rose / announces 2016 tour dates
Ahead of the release of his new album, Gamble for a Rose, which drops on 22nd January through Buffalo Gang, via Kobalt Label Services – King Charles, aka West London singer-songwriter Charles Costa, has announced a bunch of UK tour dates for next February, and releases a new video for the title track. Talking about …
Track: Fatherson – Always
Indie-rock trio Fatherson have just completed a mammoth UK tour with synth-pop pals Prides (read our review of the Sheffield show here) but they’re not slowing down yet. They’ve just released a new single called ‘Always’, a sincere offering which burns with life from the very first note. This is the first musical release from …