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News: Modernlove release new single ‘Ruin Your Night, taken from their forthcoming third EP
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLefIl4TUUY LISTEN HERE https://orcd.co/modernloveruinyournight 2023 NORTH AMERICAN & UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED Ruin Your Night shows the band’s limitless potential, an electrifying indie-pop dancefloor filler thatfeels like a modern missing link between Bloc Party and The 1975. While it rushes out of the speakerswith an instant euphoria, its lyrics capture the …
News: Modernlove Release New Seven Track Ep! Oh My Mind and Accompanying Video to Title Track .
OH MY MIND EP / OUT NOW OH MY MIND / VIDEO / OUT NOW UK & IRELAND HEADLINE TOUR LISTEN TO THE EP HERE WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ON MY MIND HERE Following a wave of highly praised singles over recent months – ‘Don’t Wanna’, ‘Us’, ‘Follow You’, ‘Islands’ and ‘Familiar’ – which have …
News: modernlove – UK & Irish Tour November 2022
Following their recent singles FOLLOW YOU and DON’T WANNA, Irish indie rock outfit modernlove. have announced their first headline UK and Irish tour for November. Pre-sale will be available from 10am on WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL with general sale opening from 10am on FRIDAY 29 APRIL. Pre-sale link: https://mailchi.mp/fcf26ee3fd03/mailing-list Their debut monochrome blue EP, released last …
Track: Modern Love Release new single
Irish band – from Drogheda to be precise – modernlove. continue their ascent as one of the most tipped and exciting up and coming acts in the country with the release of their new single, Don’t Wanna, and accompanying video. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Vj1Q6IN9E Follow their recently unveiled offerings Us and the Valentines Day delight Follow You, …
Track: Otzeki – Familiar Feeling
Fresh from announcing their sophomore album ‘Now is a Long Time’, subversive electronic-punk provocateurs Otzeki return with the video for their new single ‘Familiar Feeling’ which they released on 1st January to streaming services. ‘Now is a Long Time’ is set to be released on 19th March 2021 via Akira Records. Singer Mike Sharp on the song: “After seeing a modular synth band …
TRACK: The Dawdler – ‘Sign Of Growth’: a sad, cruciverbalist shoegaze rush
THE DAWDLER is the low-key musical alias of Tyneside singer-songwriter John Edgar, who describes himself on his Twitter profile as “Ambient pop. Sad.” He’s more than made us sit up to attention with the brace of songs he’s released since signing to London indie Akira Records: the heart-wrenchingly sad “Lava Lamps”, about the collection of …
TRACK: The Dawdler – ‘Crocodile’: a pristine guitar-pop thrill
THE DAWDLER – the brilliant North-East singer-songwriter known to friends and family as John Edgar – has today released a second song from his forthcoming debut EP Sign of Growth for his new home, Akira Records. It follows the heartbreak of last month’s “Lava Lamps”, the elegy for a lost friend which, with T-shirt sales …
TRACK: Mt. Wolf and Solomon Grey – ‘Anna Maria’: adorable first fruits from their joint EP
MT. WOLF, the dreampop outfit who have only just been welcomed back to our ears after three years away, have released a new track in vocal collaboration with emotive duo Solomon Grey ahead of a new joint EP in the autumn. The track is entitled “Anna Maria” and it’s an acoustic-shoegaze swoon, wholly redolent of …
SEE: The Dawdler – ‘Lava Lamps’: a study in beautiful acoustic sadness
THE DAWDLER is the low-key musical alias of Tyneside singer-songwriter John Edgar, who describes himself on his Twitter profile as “Ambient pop. Sad.” He’s just signed to London indie Akira Records and by way of marking that partnership has just released a lovely (and admittedly, sad) little tune entitled “Lava Lamps” in tribute to his …
Track: Mt. Wolf – Tayrona feat. Tamsin Wilson
Dream folk pioneers Mt. Wolf have been quiet for the last few years, but have now teamed up with vocalist and guitarist Tamsin Wilson for a new EP, the first sight of which comes in the shape of a new single, Tayrona. Of the collaboration, Tamsin said “The instrumental track lead me to think of …