We formally introduced you to the solemn and soulful music of Richard Smith back in the short and cold days of early February; and it was a perfect match for those ever-prese ...
In just under three-minutes, Aurora, the new single from A Grave With No Name does exactly what you want the lead track from a new album to do. It prickles the skin, fucks a ...
“Grim Brides we are Denmark band. We found this internet blog on website and see Bristol doing excellent band at this moment. you like “fuck noisy music”?, ...
Time to champion a champion, so to speak. Champion Sound Records to be more precise. The Belfast-based label have been absolutely killing it with their recent releases. Home ...
Just a few weeks ago FatCat Records announced the signing of His Clancyness – the solo project of Canada’s Jonathan Clancy. A cassette EP will see the light of da ...
Big Cosmos | El Palo Alto Big Cosmos have cracked it. After a 90-seconds of pretty synths, meditative percussion and drawn-out vocals, they bring in a chorus that simply swee ...
It would be silly to judge a new artist specifically on the bands they’ve supported; but you can usually get some kind of idea of which branch their clambering along. S ...
Words by Jamie Hallaman. Ooh, PRINCESS, nice. Drones, moans and dulcet tones from Dublin. This sombre bass-led incantation has the feel of a death march (if not a death crawl ...
Über-cool label Kissability continues along its charmingly amiable path with a breezy new single; but all is not quite how it first appears… More a dreamy ode to the se ...
Words by Mark Robinson The Lieblings hail from Helsinki, Finland, which is all the details I have available on them. Luckily a lot can be said for “It’s All Gonna ...
You always take a bands list of influences with a pinch of salt, but when one reads as ‘Fleetwood Mac, George Michael, Bruce Hornsby and Spiritualized‘ it certain ...
“I saw the world, and it was beautiful” sing DC four-piece Paperhaus on Helicopters; the first cut from the bands forthcoming EP. It might not be the most whimsic ...
On May 13th, Neil Halstead releases Spin The Bottle, the second single to be taken from the Slowdive/Mojave 3 frontman’s recent Palindrome Hunches LP. The lead track is ...
Newly signed to Critical Heights, the always-captivating Honeyslide have announced a new double A-side 10″ release. Following on from their sold-out cassette EP, the vi ...
Words by Mel Reeve Atmospheric and dreamy, like something off the Twin Peaks soundtrack, Pure X mix beautiful reverb and equally beautiful guitar melodies on this is a gentle ...
North London four-piece Wolf Alice are certain to see their star rise in 2013, certainly if they continue to conjure up tracks that are as charming and brilliant as Bros. Whi ...
Graves is a BLAST. A marvelous racket of fuzzy vocals, urgent guitar, crashing drums and a repeated lyrics – “So many faces and they’re all the same… why yo ...
Words by Jamie Hallaman. Robin Fisher AKA Salvage My Dream is back! I raved about this wee scamp in June 2012 (Read: TOTD:042), he was so good that it made me a little angry… ...
“I started Ancient Mariner by throwing away everything I had done up to that point, and spent a time without listening to, writing, or playing music. In Solitude was wr ...
Just when we thought our love for the two new Carnivals tracks (featured here) had reached its peak, along comes a new remix from The Soft and we’re awash with gooey se ...
Words by Neil Wood Young Rival are a trio from Canada that create surf-ready songs punctuated with hooks, harmonies and sing-along choruses. Two Reasons – their new single se ...
Some songs are slow-burners, taking repeated listens to squirm their way into your head and heart. Some songs are instant. They just grab you from the off, shake themselves a ...
London trio Dems have released a new song in the form of Desire; a minimal, soulful pop shuffle that offers up a somewhat intoxicating blend of slow-groove beats and soft, cr ...
Upstairs In The Basement is the kind of track that stops time. The official reading will tell you that it lasts for four-minutes and twelve seconds but this isn’t the k ...
