Fresh off the back of a UK and European tour with Aldous Harding, Katie Von Schleicher has shared her new single, ‘Life’s A Lie’, taken from her upcoming debut album Shitty Hits (out on Friday 28th July 2017 via Full Time Hobby Records in the UK/Europe and Ba Da Bing in the US). See full […]
Canadian punk quartet The OBGMs have released their ferocious single ‘Torpedo’. This marks the first single off of the band’s debut album to be released for the first time internationally later this summer by Black Box. The OBGMs will have a string of dates later this year, including an appearance at the Afropunk Festival’s London […]
Mac DeMarco released his critically acclaimed third-full length album, This Old Dog, last month with a sold out North American tour and two sold out O2 Academy Brixton shows in London immediately following. Following this, DeMarco presents us with the video for ‘One Another’, directed by former bandmate Pierce McGravy and starring Mac and band […]
Clearer than the lo-fi murkiness of the debut EP but still very much the opposite to the slick pop dominating today’s musical landscape, ShitKid – AKA 24-year old Åsa Söderqvist – released her highly anticipated debut album ‘Fish’ via PNKSLM Recordings on Friday 2nd June 2017. Listen again to latest offering ‘Two Motorbikes’ below, and […]
Kiran Leonard has recently announced details of his new album Derevaun Seraun, set to be released Friday 15th September 2017 on Moshi Moshi. It is the follow-up to 2016’s acclaimed ‘Grapefruit LP’, his first for the label. Lead single ‘Living With Your Ailments’ (listen below) is inspired by Albert Camus’ 1942 philosophy work ‘The Myth […]
Join Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia 2017 for a pan-continental voyage of discovery [at transonic velocities], hurtling towards a new audio-futurism. This year’s congregation is led by headliners The Black Angels (USA); reigniting the psychedelic flame for the PZYK generation, through their impeccable musical output over the past 12 years, and their annual psych-Mecca gathering in […]
Amber Arcades, the moniker of Dutch-born musician Annelotte De Graaf, has recently shared new track, ‘Wouldn’t Even Know’ featuring Bill Ryder-Jones. ‘Wouldn’t Even Know’ is taken from the recently released five track ‘Cannonball EP’ out now via Heavenly Recordings. Annelotte said the following about the track: “This may be the song I’m most proud of […]
‘Immigrant Boogie’ marks the first new material from Ghostpoet since the release of his Mercury-nominated Shedding Skin third album back in 2015. The track also heralds news of a full UK tour in the Autumn – see below for tour dates. Ghostpoet aka Obaro Ejimiwe explains: “It’s a first person account of a difficult journey across […]
Brooklyn based Rips self-titled debut album has recently been announced to be due for release on Friday 16th June 2017 on Faux Discx. Produced by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts, Rips’ debut album is eleven tracks of buzzing guitar riffs driven by a charged rhythm section, taking cues from the moonlighting era of rock, while […]
24-year-old Californian Angelo De Augustine, having recently signed to Sufjan Steven’s Asthmatic Kitty label, has just announced his second album and Asthmatic Kitty debut Swim Inside The Moon, which will be released on Friday 18th August 2017. To celebrate the announcement he has also shared a new track, ‘Crazy, Stoned, & Gone’ alongside a video […]
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ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 25 JULY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!
ALBUM REVIEW - WET LEG: MOISTURIZER
ALBUM REVIEW - BARRY CAN'T SWIM: LONER
ALBUM REVIEW - CORY HANSON: I LOVE PEOPLE
INTERVIEW - CORY HANSON
EP REVIEW - LEI HOPE: INERTIA
ALBUM REVIEW: MADE KUTI - CHAPTER 1: WHERE DOES HAPPINESS COME FROM?
SINGLE REVIEW - ALKALINE TRIO: OBLIVION
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 18 JULY 2025
