indie rock
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: 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 …
Live Review: Ex Hex Live Review – The Scala, 02.11.2015, plus Gallery
Ex Hex tore through a set of rock ‘n’ roll that lifted the gloom of a Monday night in foggy London. As we’re standing outside the Scala on a murky night in Kings Cross Ex Hex drummer Laura Harris comes running towards us, carrying what looks like her cymbals, and is frantically ushered into the …
EP: United Fruit – Nightmare Recovery
United Fruit have made a triumphant return with their exhilarating new EP. This band are no strangers to creating a lot of noise, having gained a reputation as an unrelenting live act – touring with bands like Twin Atlantic and The Twilight Sad and being a part of the DIY and Dr Martens sponsored #StandForSomething …
See: The Riptide Movement reveal new video for “Animal”
We know all about Irish four piece The Riptide Movement, after they did an exclusive session for us earlier in the year. If you didn’t know, they are something of a big deal in their home country, recently having their album Getting Through nominated at the Meteor Choice Music Prize – Ireland’s answer to the …
Track: United Fruit – Nightmare Recovery
United Fruit announce their (very welcome) return with a dream single. The Glaswegian quartet will release their latest EP, Nightmare Recovery, on 13 November (via Ditto Music) and this title track is the melodic but explosive teaser for what’s to come. The band have been experimenting with post-punk, post-rock and shoegaze influences for the new …
Track: Blaenavon – Destiny’s Mild, plus UK tour dates
Taken from their forthcoming Miss World EP, out on Transgressive on October 30th, comes a new track Destiny’s Mild from south coast trio Blaenavon. Having recently announced support shows with the likes of The Districts, Songhoy Blues and Palace, the band still have youth on their side with an average age of 19, and recording …
Track: The Anchoress – Popular, plus album news
The Anchoress AKA welsh singer-songwriter and multi-instramentalist Catherine Anne Davies has been biding her time. After a couple of singles released in 2014, she now releases her brand new track ‘Popular’. In an industry packed full of girls fighting to be noticed, it takes someone original the stand out. The Anchoress has all the characteristics …
Track: The Bandicoots – Overnight Innovator
We’re Back! claimed the email. We bowed our heads in shame that we’d not just missed the Hamilton, Ontario quartet The Bandicoots, but completely missed whatever it was they were doing before they went away. That shame ran even deeper when we listened to the band (Nicolai Kozel, Andrew Parkinson, Lorant Polya and Justin Ross, …
Track: Travelers – My Fault
Essentially built on this rather plaintive guitar line moving between two chords, with a little added melanchoy, My Fault is the new song revealed by Los Angeles indie rockers Travelers. It has the arid indie pop of a Gomez, but instead with this undeniably catchy shuffle, while over the top the vocal has this misty, …