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News: Merseyside band The Mysterines announce new album ‘Afraid of Tomorrow’ and unleash powerful new single ‘Stray’ as a taster.
Merseyside band The Mysterines announce their new album Afraid of Tomorrows, the highly-anticipated follow up to their critically-acclaimed Top 10 debut album ‘Reeling’, is set for release on June 7 via Fiction Records and Virgin Music Group. Alongside the announcement, they have unveiled the brooding lead single ‘Stray’. Vocalist and guitarist Lia Metcalfe has barbed-wire vocals wrapped in gossamer …
Album Review: Palace celebrate resilience in the midst of fear with ‘Shoals’.
“Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?” Herman Melville. If I were to try and capture the essence of empowering narrative behind The Palace’s new album ‘Shoals’, this would be it. A depiction of the inner and outer conflict ; the dichotomy …
Track: Self Esteem – You Forever
Self Esteem today shares her track ‘You Forever’, which is the final track to be lifted from her highly anticipated second album Prioritise Pleasure out now via Fiction Records. Empowering and witty in trademark Self Esteem style, ‘You Forever’ is another standout cut, about which Rebecca Taylor says, “This song is about the bravery of …
Track: Self Esteem – Moody
Self Esteem has shared another track from her forthcoming album ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ due 22nd October via Fiction records. Titled Moody, it will be the fourth track taken from the album. Self Esteem says: “Moody is a song about reclaiming being a moody cow. My whole life I’ve been referred to as mardy (northern for moody) …
See: Another Sky reveal visuals for ‘Fell in Love with the City’
Out via Fiction Records on August 7th is ‘I slept on the floor’, the debut album from Another Sky. Ahead of its release the band have announced a headline show at Earth in London for 11th November, and have released a new video for their new single ‘Fell In Love With The City’. On the …
Track: Self Esteem – Favourite Problem (Alternative Version)
Sheffield’s Self Esteen has announced a new EP, Cuddles Please which is out on May 1st via Fiction Records, featuring alternative versions of three of the songs from her much lauded Compliments Please album from last year, ands a cover of Alex Cameron’s ‘Miami Memory’ The EP features a Sheffield-based choir, Neighbourhood Voices, which was …
Track: Kate Tempest – Don’t Fall In
She’s one of our heroes, is Kate Tempest. Rapper, poet, playwright, novelist – she’s working to get some kind of monopoly on words, so it seems. Following on from her recently-released debut novel, The Bricks That Built The Houses, she’s revealed the companion album to the book, titled let them eat chaos. Released on October …
Track: Kate Boy – Midnight Sun
We finally have news of the debut Kate Boy album – it’s called ONE and is due to be released in November via Fiction/Island/Iamsound. More good news – they’ve shared new track Midnight Sun and it is electro-pop perfection. Maybe it’s just that I’ve been hooked on stories featuring artificial intelligence recently (Humans, Ex Machina…I …
New Video: The Horrors “So Now You Know”
I am an unabashed fan of The Horrors and already enthusiastically reviewed the first release off their much anticipated fourth album “Luminous”, the seven minute long epic “I See You“. The Horrors have now released a new video for another song off the new album, called “So Now You Know”, a visual epic filmed in a deserted …
See: White Lies release First Time Caller Video
I once was sat at the side of the Royal Albert Hall, waiting to play a concert there (I know, and I apologise for the name dropping, but it’s part of the story) as two conductors were arguing over the seating plan. If I remember rightly it was for a concert in the Proms series …