DUBLIN’S indie rocker IANN BRENNAN has just released debut album ‘Start As You Mean To Go On’ (AGR Records), with lead single ‘Game Over’ inspired by a tale of love seemingly lost. “’Game Over’ came to me one night leaving a concert I was attending in Dublin,” he said. “I was on a tram on…
Read articleMANCHESTER alt-punks THE EMPTY PAGE are back with new album ‘Imploding,’ via their own ‘Vociferous Records.’ And it’s been a long time since uncompromising band first unfurled their debut album ‘Unfolding,’ way back in 2016. But it was never their intention to leave it that long. However, founding member and original drummer Jim Cattell left the band…
Read article(Photo (c) Jesse Hudson) NO LONGER PRIMITIVE, no longer frenetic. Now the music breathes, there’s space for everyone to be heard, space for everyone to be silent, an album devoid of cliché, an album of loves lost, of hopes, dreams, and aspirations. And relax, that trademark Farfisa sound hasn’t gone away – it’s been joined…
Read articleOUT NOW from Oxford’s indie outfit THE EXACT OPPOSITE (via Dental Records), new single ‘Look at Him Go!’, oddly reminiscent of Secret Affair….and Joe Jackson. The duo, singer/guitarist Jamie Stuart, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell, have an impressive pedigree – together in underground indie outfit Dive Dive – and separately in Dustball, Unbelievable Truth, and Frank…
Read articleLIVERPOOL four-piece YOBS have just released their self-titled debut album, via Fuzz Club. The band deal in hard-edged, primitive, garage-punk salvos with last month’s single ‘Wasted,’ providing a glimpse of the hedonistic assault that was to follow. The album’s songs have been hardened by the band’s riotous live shows which have transferred easily onto the record. Lead single…
Read articleFRESH from a sellout appearance at London’s ‘Slaughtered Lamb,’ Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter PEARL CHARLES has just released the sultry, sensuous, ‘Smoke In The Limousine.’ And the track arrives in conjunction with the announcement of her biggest UK headline show to date, returning to the capital’s ‘Omeara‘ club in October. “‘Smoke In the Limousine’, like a…
Read articleCO-WRITTEN by James Morrison, ‘Come Together #2’ is the lead single from forthcoming LiVES album, ‘Let Them Eat Cake.’ Along with his drumming brother Alex, UK solo-artist LiVES (aka Peter Chisholm) was the singer and guitarist with ‘The Sea’ who supported Muse, The Kills and James Morrison, releasing three studio albums. “I was in James’s…
Read articleJOURNEYING into dark, twisted, Killing Joke ‘Banshee territories, London-based GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS have just released their third album, ‘Sublimation,’ via ‘Own It Music.’ Recorded at Norfolk’s ‘Sick Room Studios’ by Owen Turner, the sessions marked the first time they had worked with an engineer from the recording process onwards. The retreat to rural Norfolk, and…
Read articleCHALLENGING VIEWERS to consider the West’s complex web of involvement in armed conflict the world over, Irish indie-pop outfit SODA BLONDE have released a video to accompany latest single, ‘Why Die For Danzig.’ The idea behind the film – directed by the band’s Adam O’Regan – was born from their decision to withdraw from SXSW this year,…
Read articleGLASTONBURY-bound JESSIE REID has released yet another remarkable, beautiful, song, with ‘Your Story’ a heartfelt tale of an intimate celebration of the power of human interaction, inspired by the open and compassionate conversations of strangers late at night. “One night on the train I met a middle-aged woman who had recently lost her husband,” explains…
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