The Separators - Shooting Star

Shooting Star is taken from Sixes & Sevens. the debut EP from The Separators. They may be young (18, 19 and 20) but there's an impressive assurance to their sound, and the way they're not...

New Turin Brakes Album - Interview with Olly Knights

Turin Brakes went back into the studio earlier this year - we spoke to Olly Knights to find out what they've been up to, what to expect from a new album, and what he's been...

Why We Run - Ignites

Ignites lives in a soothing dream-world that it shares with why We Run's previous release, Comfortable Lie. Nothing here is too hurried; every instrument finds its own musical space - apart from, but tessellating with,...

Radiohead - The Bends

I've read quite a lot of articles recently as **The Bends** by Radiohead is 20 years old this year.  It has always been an album that I've loved and it was the one that got me...

Once a Tree - Take Me

Once a Tree are Husband and wife duo Jayli Wolf (singer) and Hayden John Wolf (producer and husband), who grew up on the rural West Coast of Canada, some way from their current Toronto home....

Philco Fiction - June 17

'This is not the summer of 1992', sings Turid Alida on June 17, the new single by Philco Fiction, wishing for days gone by, days of better weather, better raves, deep house and good times....

Flyte - Closer Together

After six months holed up in their rehearsal space and recording studio, Flyte are back with a first taste of their forthcoming debut album. Closer Together showcases Flyte's unerring sense of sparkly indie-pop, this time...

Pearl and the Beard announce break-up, final album

After nearly eight years together, Pearl and the Beard have announced that Beast, due for release on July 21st, will be their final album. In a statement, the band also announced a farewell show at...

Babe - The Warbling

Babe have released a video for their track The Warbling, taken from their The Hereaftergo'ers EP. In it, the track's glitchy, disorienteering clipped beats are matched by on-and-off visuals, streams of lights offering occasional respite...

Shmohawk - Everything I Want Is Nothing I Can Own

Full of Big Star / Teenage Fanclub jangle and hooks and a timeless sound, Everything I Want Is Nothing I Can Own is a delight from start to finish, never more so than in the...

Red Cabin - Patterns

Patterns is a new track from Red Cabin, the recording project of Long Island singer-songwriter and producer Jon Foster. It follows a debut album, Right This Way, in 2014, and previous singles Wander, I Feel...

Electric Litany - Silence

'Silence is one heck of a moody, twisty electronic tunnel, a hyperspace flight collecting the last thirty-five years into an orbiting, shifting mass of new wave, synth and echo: Wild Beasts twirling around Talk Talk.'...

Marriage Material - Fresh Air

Fresh Air is the first release from Marriage Material. Taken from their eponymous debut EP, released in May, it's a delicious indie-pop moment that takes twee female vocal indie-pop and re-imagines it bigger, bolder, better....

Bronx Cheerleader - Pell Mell

Pell Mell, released today, is the new single from Ontario's Bronx Cheerleader. More mellow than previous single Mad Sam is Dead, it still drips with the same 100% pure, melted cool.

Danny & The Champions of the World - Clear Water

Clear Water is the new single from Danny & The Champions Of The World. Taken from their fifth album, What Kind of Love, it's a celebration of love fuelled by horns, slide guitar, solos, and...

Canyons - Iso

Iso is the debut single from Canyons, a four-piece band formed in Newcastle in the Summer of 2014. At times reminiscent of Teenage Fanclub in the late 1990s, at others like a robust take on...

Alvvays - Adult Diversion

Listen and close your eyes. If you were to try to imagine the video for this song, it would be a hazy summer’s day, the beach maybe, a picnic perhaps, delivered via grainy, retro, filtered...

Thee Cee Cees - Solution Songs

You know what the music industry needs?  A political super-group. Yep, you heard me right. Well, in Thee Concerned Citizens we appear to have found exactly that. Formed in order to bring down the government using...

Many Things - Burn Together

Many things have announced their second single, the follow-up to Holy Fire. Burn Together, the title track from their forthcoming debut album, will be out on June 22nd, via Australian label Dew Process.

City Calm Down - Rabbit Run

Rabbit Run is the first release since the band returned to the studio to work on their first full-length release. If you're into New Order-esque bass and synth-driven indie-rock with a lyrical delivery and frenetic...