NÉONHÈART - Comatose
NÉONHÈART are a two piece electronic group from Los Angeles. Their debut single is called Comatose. You don't know it yet, but you're about to fall deeply in love with it.
Pink Film - Gut Wrench
Pink Film are a London-based quartet who announced themselves this week with the swaying, careening Gut Wrench. Playing a game of how many variations on a near-perfect opening riff can you fit into just over...
Trails and Ways - Jacaranda
Jacaranda is the third single taken from Pathology, the debut album by Trails and Ways, out now on Barsuk records. Channelling some of that Tahiti 80 summer-cool, this is the sound of people younger and...
Gengahr - Heroine
Heroine is the third single to be mined from Gengahr's imminent debut album A Dream Outside. Long before it arrives, you sense it’s building to a guitar crescendo of some grandeur.
As Seen On TV
With David Letterman recently signing off after over thirty years on The Late Show, now seems like a good time to celebrate a few great, terrible, interesting or awkward musical TV appearances.
Joy Atlas - Dismount
Dismount is the beguiling debut future-pop single from Joy Atlas. One for fans of everything wonderful and effervescent.
Matthew and Me - Kitsune
With their second single Kitsune following the success of last years debut Patterns, Matthew and Me are quickly showing they have a knack for balancing still centres inside beautiful storms.
Ten Years of JackInABox by Turin Brakes
Unbelievably, JackInABox - the third studio album by Turin Brakes - is ten years old this month. In order to give the album a bit of love (and perhaps some well-deserved renewed interest), it was...
Music and Memory
I’m not someone who necessarily looks that deeply into how music is produced or even conceived, although I possibly should bearing in mind that I was studying to be a sound engineer many moons ago....
Musique Le Pop - Same About You
Leaving their homes in the south of Norway behind, the members of Musique Le Pop headed North to write and record new single Same About You. Stopping only when they reached Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county,...
Is the single a thing of the past?
'Is the single a thing of the past? The choice of single was once extremely important to an artist: it was the hook to get people excited about what was to come so it had...
Trails and Ways - Say You Will
Trails and Ways have announced a new track from their forthcoming album Pathology. Say You Will was written by bass player Emma Oppen; the original inspiration for the song came from falling in love with...
Vanbot - The Way You Say It
Vanbot has put out a third track from forthcoming second album Perfect Storm. It is almost, but not quite, a straightforwardly massive slice of euro-synth. And it's that "not quite" that makes The Way You...
Ella Janes - Mechanical Mind
Mechanical Mind is heavenly acoustic folk, built on Janes' pure vocal, with no more instrumentational embellishment than is required from a bit of guitar here, a few notes on the piano there. A superb track...
Yukon Blonde - Como
Catchy, catchy, catchy. Pretty much sums up the defining characteristic of Como, the new single from Yukon Blonde. Taken from their third album, On Blonde, due out next month, Como is splendidly effervescent indie pop...
Tessera Skies - Out of Sight
The members of Tessera Skies have backgrounds in speech, sound, science, classical music and jazz. On their latest single Out of Sight they whip delicate peaks out of those ingredients
The Bluetones Reunion - Interview With Adam Devlin
Literally a few days after we published a piece on their final album A New Athens, the news came through that The Bluetones had reformed and would tour later this year to celebrate their 20th...
Urso Polar - It's Official I Hate Ramsgate
It might seem strange for a Brazilian indie-rock group to be singing about a Kentish seaside town, but don't get distracted for too long by that quirky detail - instead be sure to let the...
Saltwater Sun - Habit on my Mind
It shouldn't be possible, really, for a band to appear out of nowhere with a debut track that appears to have been constructed from just the right elements in exactly the right size and quantity,...
New Music Round-up
'New Music Round-up #20 brings you the best new music from C. Love Detectives, Cartesian Jetstream, Cosby, The Danes, Dot Dash and Inti Rowland.'