Ahead of her new album Mara Simpson shares alt-folk single Serena, an exploration of parenthood, out digitally now on Downfield Records. Artist: Mara Simpson Track: Serena Label: Downfield Records Released: 24 August 2021 Find it: Spotify Parenthood, in all its many forms, is so often seen as a one-way street, down which the traffic of …
Ahead of her third solo album Vanessa Anne Redd leads in with cosmic folk single By The Time, out now on Sharp Attack Records. Artist: Vanessa Anne Redd Track: By The Time Label: Sharp Attack Records Released: 6 August 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify The past may send postcards, but it is a country …
A debut release from Sink Ya Teeth’s Maria Uzor sees her take a healing journey set to experimental dub and electro for Innocence and Worldliness, an EP which thrills from the off. Artist: Maria Uzor Release: Innocence and Worldliness Label: Hey Buffalo Released: 3 September 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify Following on from her …
Manchester-based post-punk trio LIINES re-emerge following lockdown with single Keep On Going, digging deeper into their established sound. Artist: LIINES Track: Keep On Going Label: self-release Released: 3 September 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify In unsettled times there is a certain comfort which comes from knowing what you can expect from a band, in …
Welsh duo Tacsidermi – Gwenllian Anthony from the ‘Welsh Music Prize’ winning band Adwaith and multi instrumentalist Matthew Kilgariff – channel woozy 60’s French pop and pastoral folk on new single Ble Pierre. Artist: Tacsidermi Track: Ble Pierre Label: Libertino Released: 13 August 2021 Find it: Spotify These are the days of a dying summer. …
Go! Go! Go! is the debut EP from Berlin-based three-piece indie rock by way of punk pop Lobsterbomb – out now digitally and introducing the riotous sound of the band. Artist: Lobsterbomb Release: Go! Go! Go! Label: self-released Released: 30 July 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify It was somewhat inevitable that those who managed …
Lifted from recent EP Liminal Brighton-based musical riot GENN release their ‘call to arms’ single Catalyst, along with a live version of Feel. Artist: GENN Track: Catalyst Label: Everything Sucks Music Released: 27 August 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify As everything slowed in a world nudged toward necessary solitude the fractures in society seemed …
Lou Hanman, of Caves and Flamingo50, has released new single Looks Right under the All Away Lou name via Specialist Subject Records. Artist: All Away Lou Track: Looks Right Label: Specialist Subject Released: 13 August 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify Described as ‘a 40 something, queer, English woman living in Philadelphia, PA, still playing punk …
Underground Cork-based alternative rock band The Altered Hours return with wonderfully woozy single You Are Wrong ahead of their second full length album, due out in October on Pizza Pizza Records. Artist: The Altered Hours Track: You Are Wrong Label: PIzza Pizza Records Released: 2 September 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify Love is not …
With a career-spanning compilation out next week London DIY stalwarts th’sheridans release remastered single A Quiet Year on independent label Reckless Yes. Artist: th’sheridans Track: A Quiet Year Label: Reckless Yes Released: 3 September 2021 Find it: Bandcamp | Spotify Perhaps it is the recent times of going through isolation together, or perhaps it has …