“On A Sweet Summer’s Day” is the new single to be taken from cosmic folk outfit The Hanging Stars’ forthcoming album Songs For Somewhere Else, due out on 9 February 2018 on Crimson Crow. The band have also announced some live dates, including a London album launch at The Victoria in Hackney on 22 February. …

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It’s been a LONG time, but finally Hot Snakes, aka Swami John Reis and Rick Froberg have reconvened, and for good reason too, by the sound of it…“I considered stopping playing guitar on a social media poll after I completely mastered the instrument,” Reis says. “But so many people kept sending me letters and voicemail …

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Who doesn’t like a good Pink Floyd song? Certainly Jack Cooper, also of Ultimate Painting, does because he’s released his own cover of Floyd’s Fat Old Sun. Of the cover he says “I was selling merch at the last show of my US tour and a guy who had bought a record told me that …

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Out via legendary Sub Pop label on March 30th is Vessels, the new album from NYC quartet Frankie Cosmos. From it, the band have released a single, Jessie, in which bandleader Greta Kline works through feelings of worth, being out of place and trying to be more in touch with herself. The track aches and …

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Brighton power pop punks Harker are on the cusp of releasing their debut album ‘No Discordance’, on February 9th, via a host of labels including Disconnect, Disconnect & Future Void in the UK, Shield Recordings and Fond of Life in Europe, Wiretap in the USA and Fixing A Hole in Japan. Taken from it is …

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Lowpines, aka West London singer and producer Oli Deakin is preparing to release his first full-length Lowpines record In Silver Halides will be released on Adventure Club Records on Feb 9th 2018. Written in rural England throughout the winter and recorded in a greenhouse the following spring in unseasonably hot weather, songs that started out …

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Manchester three piece Pale Waves have today been announced as part of the prestigious BBC Sound of 2018 Shortlist, taking the #5 spot. It the latest in a spectaular year for the band, who have been the toast of tastemaker town (I just thought of that, is it too cheesy) with much expected of their …

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Taken from Portland indie rockers Typhoon’s new album Offerings, out on January 12th via Roll Call Records, Darker is a poetic, almost desperate cry for help. Over the top of this murky slice of indie rock, singer Kyle Morton almost pleads with the listener for some kind of understanding and if he’s drowning in this …

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Tijuana-based Mint Field consist of 21-year-olds Estrella Sanchez (vocals & guitar) and Amor Amezcua (drums & synths). They have just announced that they will release their debut album, Pasar De Las Luces on 23rd February 2018 on LA based label, Innovative Leisure Records. With a sound that’s being described as organic, spacious, and inhabited by spectres …

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Liverpudlian Phil Wilson, the genius behind The Raft, is scarily prolific, having released a series of three rather epic EPs over the last six months (see previous reviews here). And what is even more astounding is the quality never suffers: these are a series of brilliant indie pop jingle jangle classics that manages to merge …

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