Indie
NEWS: The Lathums announce Blackpool Tower live stream
WIGAN’S current chosen indiepop few, The Lathums, have announced a return to live performance for the first time since their sold-out February tour when they play the historic Blackpool Tower, just up the M6 in coastal Lancs, with the show streaming in HD audio and video – for free – from 8pm British Summer Time next Wednesday, October 28th. The …
Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’
Spanning their entire thirty career, the new collection of remixes from the legendary Underground Lovers is utterly sublime. It goes without saying that the flesh of a remix is only as good as the bones it is built on, and with the Underground Lovers you are assured that the foundations are phenominal. Many of the …
See: Young Marble Giants live video ahead of Colossal Youth 40th anniversary edition
Out on November 27th via the ever brilliant Domino Recordings Is the 40th anniversary edition of Young Marble Giant’s one and only album Colossal Youth. The Cardiff trio, guitarist-songwriter Stuart Moxham, brother and bassist Philip, and singer Alison Statton, have curated a package that includes the album, as well as songs from Salad Days, Is The War …
Track: Ed Nash drops Toothless moniker and releases new track ‘Think You Feel The Same’
Bombay Bicycle Club’s Ed Nash has resurfaced under his own name rather than his recent moniker Toothless, with a new song ‘Think You Feel The Same’, the first of a collection of new music to be released on his own Bangers & Nash imprint. The song came with a personal press release explaining his decision …
TRACK: Lizzie Reid – ‘Seamless’: a sweet tale of heartbreak from Glasgow
LIZZIE REID is a Glaswegian singer-songwriter with an unflinching eye for detailing the rawer side of our emotional lives. She’s just signed for Essex indie Seven Four Seven Six and in doing so brings a whole new set of initials to a label that’s also home to fellow rising talents Matilda Mann and Matt Maltese; …
Track: Anna McClennan shares new single, ‘Raisin’, from forthcoming full length
Taken from her forthcoming album ‘I saw the light’, out in 20th November via Father/Daughter records, Raisin is the new single from Omaha singer-songwriter Anna McClennan. Of the song, Anna says: “I have long romanticized the idea of jumping off a cliff, and categorized it as the perfect metaphor for letting go. If I could only …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Green Child – ‘Shimmering Basset’: curious and mysterious psych synth-pop second
A clever, engaging pop album, in which The Green Child’s Raven and Mikey hold up a mirror to baroque-psych and synth pop history, smash it with glee, and use the shards to scry it over their shoulders
SEE: The video for Folk Devils’ ‘Forever’ – London noiseniks are back on fine form
SPINNING out of all the gnarl and edginess of West London’s Ladbroke Grove in the mid-1980s, Folk Devils were an outfit that were never appreciated as much as they perhaps should’ve been beyond a hugely loyal fanbase. They released just four singles from 1984 to 1987, their last release being The Best Protection EP on …
NEWS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce new album and tour dates; hear ‘Hesitating Nation’ and ‘Thousand Oaks’
ALEC OUNSWORTH’S superb guitar pop outfit Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are excited to announce a new album for the new year: it’s to be entitled New Fragility, and it’ll be hitting the racks on January 29th. And to ring in the announcement, they’ve released a double A-side: “Hesitating Nation” and “Thousand Oaks”. Do you know what, we …
SEE: Magick Mountain – ‘Cherokee’: low-slung garage punk for a strawberry moon
LEEDS garage trashpunks Magick Mountain are flexing ‘n’ ready to unleash the dirty hip grooves of their debut album Weird Feelings on Friday week with one final sleazy come-hither in the shape of “Cherokee”, which you can dive into below. The power trio Lins Wilson, Tom Hudson and Nestor Matthews, have thrown a quartet of riffin’ beauties out …