As the legend goes, halfsour started out as a Guided By Voices cover band but now boast a much harder edge to their sound. Later this month they will release their debut album titled tuesday night live. it is an album where the songs are generally short and punchy – only a few times do they pass the three-minute mark – blasting you with catchy … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 28 – Halfsour
Taking their cues from bands such as The Black Lips and Fidlar, London-based garage-punk three-piece Virgin Kids play frenetically energised rock‘n’roll that draws from sources such as post-punk and the ’70s West Coast. Their debut album Greasewheel is due in March, and the lead single from it is the scrappy swagger of Cracks In A Colour. Stream it here. 100 Posts in 100 Hours … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 27 – Virgin Kids
The Casket Girls is a three-piece band hailing from Savannah, GA. Comprised of Ryan Graveface (Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Dreamend), who writes and plays all the song structures and Elsa and Phaedra Greene, who write and perform all of the vocals. The Casket Girls happened – as most things do – by accident. Ryan was visiting his future home, and in walking … Continue reading 100 Songs in 100 Hours: 26 – Casket Girls
North Texas musician Jacob Metcalf will be releasing his first full-length solo effort, Fjord, later this month. And while fans of his two longtime groups, Fox and the Bird and Dallas Family Band, might expect a similar rootsy update on rural American music, the sparsely orchestrated cinematic folk that sweeps through the eleven tracks on the record provide an often-breathtaking collection of compositions that range from … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 25: Jacob Metcalf
This is the debut single from Manchester’s False Nines. Can’t Afford To Wonder is an infectiously energetic slice of indie-pop boosted by a swoopingly harmonic middle-eight and a rambunctious driving rhythm. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 23 – False Nines
You Don’t Know Me is a powerful and infectious single from singer-songwriter Vinten’s debut EP What Has Been. The furiously strummed track showcases his characteristic raw vocal and passionate delivery style. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 22 – Vinten
Brooklyn indie-pop duo Outside World’s second single from their debut self-titled album mixes ’70s NYC art-rock guitars with soaring, Peter Gabriel-esque hooks, creating an anthemic blast of pop-rock. Listen to This Ocean below. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 21 – Outside World
Tangerines are a London-based quartet who deal in chugging guitar lines straight from 77 era Talking Heads, accompanied by frontman Gareth Hoskins’ signature drawl of direct and often intrusive lyricisms. Skin Dives is a brilliantly uncomplicated and catchy example of what they are capable of… 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 20 – Tangerines
Following the success of their debut EP, alternative folk collective Snowpoet have returned with their new single Mermaid, which is taken from their new album due out later this month. The song is textured by vocalist Lauren Kinsella’s soft mixture of speech, song, whispers and breath. As well as being inspired by the natural world, the composition reflects a wide range of influences from across the artistic … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 17 – Snowpoet
Venerable Scottish indie-popsters The Hermit Crabs released their latest album back in November titled, In My Flat. Lead track Bravado and Rhetoric is a tale of punk rock gigs put on by girls—two minutes of magnificent guitars, chugging drums, and ace harmonies and one of the catchiest Hermit Crabs songs written to date. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 16 – The Hermit Crabs
The Mad Mackerel 