Tough Love Records
Say Psych: Track Review: Badwan/Coxon – Boiling Point
Badwan / Coxon have announced details of the release of a 12” on Tough Love Records featuring 15-minutes of music over 2 tracks, ‘Boiling Point’ and ‘Promise Land’ set for release on 5 February 2021 as a limited edition 12”, which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available …
See: The Stroppies reveal new video for ‘Look Alive’
Melbourne tunesmiths ‘The Stroppies’ offer up a third taster ‘Look Alive’, the title track from their forthcoming mini album on the ever energetic Tough Love Records. ‘Look Alive’ has all the ingredients that make The Stroppies such an intriguing prospect – the loving jangle, the rhythmic chug, the slacker melody plus in-built surprise keyboard fills …
See: The Stroppies reveal new video for Burning Bright
“Burning Bright is about two people trying to meet in the middle and failing. It’s about shooting for something good and not quite making the mark.” Says Claudia Serfaty of The Stroppies of their latest single ‘Burning Bright’. Having expanded from originally a DIY home recording project of Angus Lord and Claudia, into what you …
Say Psych: News: Girls Names announce new album and share track ’25’
Belfast’s Girls Names have confirmed details of their new album and shared the opening track, along with accompanying live dates. Stains on Silence’ the band’s fourth LP, will be released on 15th June on Tough Love Records and to accompany the news the band have shared the track ‘25’. Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, …
Say Psych: Track Review: Ulrika Spacek – Lord Luck
Hot on the heels of second LP Modern English Decoration last year, art rockers Ulrika Spacek announce they are to release a new EP, Suggestive Listening on 21st April through Tough Love Records for this years Record Store Day. Having always been strong believers in a long play format when it comes to making records, but …
Track: Dublin post-punks Cruising release new single, Safe Corridor
Out via Tough Love Records on 14th August comes a debut EP from Dublin / Belfast four-piece Cruising. The band, Benni Johnston, Claire Miskimmin, Neil Brogan and Sarah Grimes, formed in 2013 as a side project of members from Girls Names, September Girls, Sea Pinks and Logikparty and are named after William Friedkin’s gay exploitation …
Track: Communions – So Long Sun
What is it with Denmark at the moment. Everything it touches, musically at least, seems to turn to gold. Communions – comprised of brothers Martin and Mads Rehof, Jacob van Deurs Formann and Frederik Lind Köppen, are another one off the production line, using the same rehearsal space that houses those other Danish bright young …