LUMP is a collaboration between Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay, the founding member of Tunng and Throws. Their self-titled album will be released on 1st June via Dead Oceans. The record is a heady blend of wonked-out guitars, Moog synths and pattering drums, set against droning, coiling clouds of flutes and voices. The duo have shared the first track from the record. A somewhat cynical examination of the … Continue reading Introducing >>> LUMP
Really enjoying this new single from Lou Barlow. Love Intervene is released as a limited 7″ single of 500 copies on bottle green vinyl via Joyful Noise. It is a breezy, jaunty track of folkish rock that has a singalong chorus, and is just one of those instantly likeable toe-tapping, head nodding tunes that is impossible to resist. Watch the video for it below. Continue reading Lou Barlow – Love Intervene
Our favourite surreal DIY punk duo The Lovely Eggs are following up on the success of recent album This Is Eggland with the release of new single Big Sea, which can be purchased on surf blue 7″ vinyl. The track dives deep, exploring the mysteries of the universe, and is a rallying anthem to everyone who wants to live life different. Stream it below. You can … Continue reading New Single & Live Dates From The Lovely Eggs
Dr. Dog – Heart Killer Haley Heynderickx – Rex’s Blues (Townes Van Zandt cover) Beach Skulls – That’s Not Me Mourn – Barcelona City Tour Wedding – Hands In The Till Amyl And The Sniffers – Cup Of Destiny Culture Abuse – Calm E Crocodylus – My Love Jessica Risker – I See You Among The Stars … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Hippo Lite, the new album from DRINKS (Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley of White Fence) is out on the 20th April, the follow up to 2015’s Hermits On Holiday. The latest song to be shared from it is Corner Shops, a typically oddball, off kilter track of skewed pop that somehow manages to be restrained and chaotic at the same time. Have a listen. … Continue reading DRINKS – Corner Shops
Bark Your Head Off, Dog features the familiar sounds that have always made the band allergic to genre: grunge, folk, punk, and power pop all appear, with inspiration from ELO to Elvis Costello to ‘70s girl group vocal arrangements. This time around, they’ve added strings, more intricate rhythms, lush harmonies (featuring Thin Lips’ Chrissy Tashjian), along with a momentary visit with a vocoder. The results … Continue reading Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Americana four piece River Whyless will release their new album Kindness, A Rebel in June. Excellent new single Born In The Right Country is a political folk song, like a descendent of some of the great ’60s and early ’70s protest songs. Frontman Ryan O’Keefe describes it thus, “Born In The Right Country speaks both through the eyes of our president and the narrator. In the … Continue reading River Whyless – Born In The Right Country
Eels – Bone Dry Joan Shelley – The Bridge (Dolly Parton cover) feat Bonnie Price Billy Breakfast Muff – Patient Manchester Orchestra – No Hard Feelings (Avett Brothers cover) Hinds – Finally Floating Laura Veirs – Lightning Rod Medistation – Pool Of Blood Wye Oak – Lifer Eureka California – Mexican Coke Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Riding the wake of critical praise for their debut release The Liar, The Fernweh release their second single, Is This Man Bothering You? which features guest vocalist, Alessi Laurent-Marke (Alessi’s Ark) on the Skeleton Key label. It is out tomorrow. Using three looped drum kits, a wall of overdriven 12-string guitars, flute and Mellotrons in a heart-stopping rush of psych-folk-pop, the band’s distinctly English, coal-fired translation of the acid-soaked … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Fernweh
Steven Adams & The French Drops have shared their new krautrock inspired single Free Will, which is taken from their new album Virtue Signals, due out via Hudson Records on 4th May (pre-order it here). Railing against the iniquities of the world, Adams (the former songwriter/singer/guitarist with The Broken Family Band and Singing Adams) can’t help but be witty and empathetic even as he rages, and … Continue reading Steven Adams & The French Drops – Virtue Signals
The Mad Mackerel 