Indie
Track: Sports – Tell you something
Returning from a two year hiatus, Sports – aka Cale Chronister & Christian Theriot are back with a track – Tell You Something, their first new music since their 2018 long player ‘Everyone’s Invited’. Good news is they’re still mixing it up with elements of synth-pop, indie funk and psychedelic rock. Of the track Cale …
TRACK: Karima Francis – Orange Rose
Making a welcome return to the spotlight, the singer-songwriter from Blackpool delivers an atmospheric and elegiac single for the soul, that emerges as her first new material of 2020. Offering wistful rumination on how mental health can send shockwaves through even the most intimate and entwined of relationships, ‘Orange Rose’ sees Karima strike a masterful …
SEE: Appendix back in: Alasdair Roberts revisits his roots
ACROSS a trio of albums for Drag City leading into the 21st century – The Rye Bears A Poison, Daylight SavIng and The Night Is Advancing, Callander’s Appendix Out made some of the gentlest, most spellbinding alt.folk you’ll ever have the pleasure of tipping into your ears. After the release of The Night Is Advancing …
Meet: Scottish singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas
We were very much taken with Glaswegian singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas’ recent Lost Without single, and after reading that he’s been taken on tour as support for both Liam Gallagher and Gerry Cinnamon, and becoming the quickest Scottish artist to sell-out his debut show at the revered King Tuts venue, we felt like we needed …
Track: Oracle Sisters – High Moon
It’s not a rarity to hear traces of the cultural past in a band’s music. In fact, the exception makes the rule here. Sometimes, however, it’s quite apparently reached for (which is never a good thing) and other times it flows naturally through the blood of the musicians. I’ve found that the latter is the …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jetstream Pony – ‘Jetstream Pony’
FOR those who study the form, Sussex/Surrey four-piece Jetstream Pony are serious indie thoroughbreds. Four singles under their belts (should that be their harness?) the band’s self-titled debut LP is out now on limited-press coloured vinyl LP, CD and download. A quick earful and you get punky guitars with bittersweet female melodies, ripe to hook …
Not Forgotten: Black Wire
A band with a ferocious but short-lived output, Black Wire were among the greatest who opposed the 2000’s indie/garage/DIY cluster of clones. They toured with The Cribs during their lifespan, whom they later supported in a one-off reunion show in 2013. Like The Cribs, Black Wire’s discography is light-years from the photocopied groups which flocked amid the post Is …
Premiere: PUBLIKA release new track / video – Falling
We’re delighted to premiere ‘Falling’, the new track from Romanian band PUBLIKA. Although its their first foray into the UK market, they’re very much a fixture at home, appearing on the biggest TV shows and working with multiple labels. Sitting somewhere between Keane and Depeche Mode, Falling has this electro-rock feel about it, with winding …
EP: Jade Imagine – You Remind Me of Something I Lost
Melbourne’s Jade Imagine continue to forge a cool and eclectic path with the release of their new EP ‘You Remind Me of Something I Lost’. Sitting somewhere between shoegaze/dream pop and something more sparse and muscular it is a fantastic and unique journey from beginning to end that defies a label. Opening track ‘Coastal Pines’ …
Meet: Ben Hall (Mr Ben & The Bens) ahead of their Life Drawing album release
We’ve been big fans of Mr. Ben & The Bens since we first caught them in Leeds a couple of years or so ago. Up recently we’ve been more than taken with singles Watering Can and Beast in the House, and with their album Life Drawing coming out on July 10th via the ever brilliant …