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Track: NYC Trio The Wants Share New Single ‘Data Tumor’
NYC trio The Wants showcase a gritty blend of post-punk and nu-wave on ‘Data Tumor’. Taken from the upcoming sophomore album Bastard, due June 13th, the new single bridges the intense math-rock-come-atmospheric-indie urgency of their 2020 debut Container with broader and more cinematic soundscape. Tight live drums, accentuated by little drum machine flourishes and surrounded …
Track: Jesse Will Unveils Stirring New Single ‘Puddles’
Following a string of critical acclaim and a growing international fanbase, Jesse Will returns with the intimate new single ‘Puddles’. An emotive and warming soundscape of piano, reverb drenched percussion and gradually growing backdrop, strings and deep bass. Emotionally-charged through its cinematic arrangement and heartfelt, considered vocal performance the track is comparable to the likes …
Track: Pop Riser Ines Rae Delivers Vibrant New Single ‘Miniature Man’
Rising pop solo artist Ines Rae shines on the new single ‘Miniature Man’. Capturing an essence of benny blanco through its tight blend of clean guitar tones, bright synths and radiant melodies, the track opens as an elegant slice of bedroom pop, before bursting into an expansive, anthemic chorus which hammers home the commercial appeal. …
Track: Indie-Folk Riser James Lloyd Smith Shines On Elegant And Lo-fi New Single ‘Lake Walk’
Kent-based indie-folk songwriter James Lloyd Smith releases the elegant and understated ‘Lake Walk’. Bringing an instant lo-fi warmth comparable to Sufjan Stevens from its opening, the track quickly introduces its layered arrangement of intricate guitar piano, double bass and boxy distant drums. Organic and natural, the track manages to capture the earthy sound of Bibio, …
Track: Take Fazerdaze’s ethereal ‘Motorway’ to a dreamy world of love and anxiety, with tours ahead.
The sun always shines brighter and the general misery of the world dissipates somehow when there is new material from the luminescent Fazerdaze (the nom de plume of Amelia Murray). Fazerdaze has just unveiled a new single, ‘Motorway’, out through Buttrfly/Virgin Music Group, a track that is delivered over fuzzy driving insistent guitars before heavenly synths drift in …
Track: Indemon – Necessary Evil
Finnish thrashers Indemon are set to release their debut album ‘Reclaiming Chaos’ on the 27th of June via Inverse Records. The band have shared the second single ‘Necessary Evil’, which follows the album’s first preview with the title track ‘Reclaiming Chaos‘ The band comments: “The album’s slowest, but perhaps heaviest song, deals with a very specific and dangerous …
Track: ‘I’m On The Border’ – MF Tomlinson faces challenges of loss and alienation in a shimmering single.
Australian-born UK resident MF Tomlinson will be releasing a new album entitled ‘Die To Wake Up From a Dream’ on 11 July via PRAH Recordings. The new single of the album, ‘I’m On The Border’, is a deliciously melancholy observation of finding stability, infused with the feelings of alienation and anxiety as a palimpsest for the resilience of …
Track: Mimi’s Revenge Release Delicate New Single ‘Dire’
Atlanta’s Mimi’s Revenge blur-genres on the beautiful and atmospheric new single ‘Dire’. Bringing together elements of bedroom-pop, R&B and alternative-rock, the single builds chorus tinted guitar lines, and swelling sub bass around the soaring central vocal melodies to create a dark and ethereal soundscape. Intimate thanks to the stripped arrangement with no drums, the track …
Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates
A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more personal. Unsurprisingly, the track is a masterclass in shoegaze’s more delicate corners: layered, intimate, and full of restraint. It’s a noticeable shift from the chaos …
Track: Merpire shares the gorgeous yearning ‘Leaving With You’ off her forthcoming album ‘MILK POOL’.
Naarm/Melbourne Merpire, the exquisite work of multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt, continues to dangle sonic enticements ahead of her album ‘MILK POOL’ due out on 4 July 2025. Next cab off the rank is the soaring lush sounds of ‘Leaving With You’, exhibiting a delicate yearning romanticism over the rich guitars: I only stay in …