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Previously we described Leeds’ Green Gardens as a group with impeccable harmonies and charmingly restrained rhythms. The desert rock riff that opens new single ‘Buried in Snow’ downright near sandblasts that restrained tag off. Taken from forthcoming EP ‘Sauna, Teach Me How to Breathe’, the single is frankly dizzying, its waves calming and crashing at […]
A review of BUGS’ debut single ‘Nick Gowland’
A review of Talitha Ferri’s Porcelain
A review of Forever Honey’s new single ‘Twenty-Five’
A review of Francis of Delirium’s single ‘Circles’
‘In The Morning’ is the towering lead single from LA-based artist A.O. Gerber’s forthcoming debut record ‘Another Place to Need’. After a cleansing, revitalising start, the true colours of ‘In The Morning’ shine fiery red, Gerber letting loose in a rage which refuses to simmer until the song burns out. Though balm-like in the beginning, […]
On new single ‘Snake’, Margate-based sound architect BABii realises that the only way to free herself of a bad spirit is to express it through song. ‘A vicious ode to a manipulative spiteful person who has caused me, and a lot of people who are close to me, so much emotional pain’, ‘Snake’ is proudly […]
A premiere of Hollan’s single ‘Wild Man’
It’s funny that Manchester songwriter Alf Whitby’s artwork always features nature. His songs suspend you in a silence similar to that experienced by neighbours looking out at a blood moon, a solar eclipse, a crimson sky. You just stand and admire, watch it play out in front of you. Words cannot suffice. ‘Mountain (For Change)’ […]
A review of Marmalakes’ singer and guitarist Chase Weinacht’s debut single ‘Leap Day’
A review of Tom John Hall’s single ‘Human’
A review of Julia Sophie’s track x0x
A review of Uma Bloo’s single ‘Marguerite’s Novels’
A review of Merce Lemon’s ‘Moon Shots (Demo)’
The premiere of Jane Hership’s new single ‘Scott Carpenter’
A review of Clever Girls’ new single ‘Spark’
I first heard Eilis Frawley on Get In Her Ears’ reliably brilliant Hoxton FM show. Though the heart-rate monitor resembling synths and experimental percussion of her debut single ‘Illusions’ caught my attention, it was Frawley’s on-the-nose lyrics that really stopped me in my tracks, ‘business will kill us / when do you have fun?’ she […]
A review of Lindsay Munroe’s single ‘Mirror’
A review of The Early Morning’s single ‘Artificial Flavour’
If you asked who we hoped for an album from most in 2020, Half Waif (Nandi Rose) would’ve been pretty high up the list. Today, Half Waif has shared details of her new album ‘The Caretaker’, the follow-up to the sublime ‘Lavender’. On lead single ‘Ordinary Talk’, Rose cages you within a claustrophobic atmosphere of […]
Premiere of the first single taken from Greg Mendez’ ‘Cherry Hell’, out February 28 on Devil Town Tapes & Forged Artifacts
Dana Gavanski has marked the announcement of her debut album, ‘Yesterday Is Gone’, by releasing the subtly engrossing ‘Good Instead of Bad’. Her third single in under a year, ‘Good Instead of Bad’ imparts a sophisticated grandeur, you can imagine Dana and band playing it in the corner of a room as party guests waltz […]
A review of Sofia Wolfson’s new single ‘Party Favors’
Hypnagogia is the mental phenomena that occurs in the transition from sleep to wakefulness. When dreams and real-life intersect transporting you to a semi-conscious blur. Bedroom’s (Noah Kittinger) latest single ‘Gulf’ captures that liminality perfectly, its triangulating guitar and Kittinger’s soothing, lethargic vocal lulling the listener into a meditative state. A lightly threading bass and […]
Our review of London band Gold Baby’s new single ‘Dogbone’.
Earlier this month, Josienne Clarke released her charming debut, ‘In All Weather’. ‘Slender, Sad and Sentimental’ is easily its most jovial moment.