With their debut album “Lights Out”, released last year on Mute Records, Big Deal staked their claim as one of the most thrilling and original new acts around. Comprising an American boy (Kacey Underwood) and British girl (Alice Costelloe), Big Deal can arguably be said to write rock music, but certainly not as we know […]
The start of 2012 saw the release of “Ester”, the much anticipated debut LP from Trailer Trash Tracys, and to much critical acclaim too, with a whole slew of press praising its beautifully off-kilter sensibilities and daring sense of experimentation, paired with their unerring instinct for an infectious melody. Now, the band are releasing their […]
After recently featuring in XFM’s New Music Award night at The HMV Ritz, “the Salford lass with the big voice” will release her debut album ‘Through The Night’ on Island Records on 23rd April 2012. The official launch night at Manchester’s Matt & Phred’s on March 7th has already sold out, but she has two […]
Cate Le Bon, the Cardiff-based singer who popped up on Gruff Rhys’s Neon Neon album before issuing her own debut album, My Oh My, in 2010, returns with her second album, CYRK, in April 2012. It follows Le Bon’s extensive tour with St Vincent in the USA, where the album has already been released to […]
One snowy December night at the end of 2010 the then 17 year-old school boy Jack Colleran, aka Mmoths, made two tracks and uploaded them to Soundcloud. Within months the resultant net buzz surrounding his dreamy take on electronica saw him fly to LA for a week of meetings and gigs, remix Interpol and support […]
North London’s finest, Bombay Bicycle Club, have this morning unveiled a beautiful animated video to their new single ‘How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep’, which is released on the 2nd April via Island Records. Created by animator Anna Ginsburg, it has taken six months to build & film and is made even more personal […]
On 17th January 2012 Breton released ‘The Blanket Rule EP’, to celebrate the announcement of a fresh set of dates, including shows in Paris, Dublin and the Mercury Lounge in New York, which will be the band’s first ever headline show. It consists of four new tracks that will not be included on their forthcoming […]
London UK’s dark electronic trio Nedry premiere the first video off of their forthcoming sophomore album In A Dim Light today via Consequence of Sound. In A Dim Light will be released worldwide via Monotreme Records on March 12th, following the March 5th release of “Violaceae” as a single. In anticipation of the album, two […]
Conceived and created by Alistair Legrand for The Masses, the director revealed his inspiration behind the video: “Inspired by the song, I wanted to create something dark and elegant that took place inside of a haunted house. That’s just what the song sounded like to me; a dream-like world of slow motion, macabre imagery. I […]
Following the release of brooding album opener ‘No Future/No Past’ at the end of last year, Cloud Nothings are gearing up for the release of their heavier, Steve Albini-produced album ‘Attack on Memory’ on February 6th. Not content with teasing fans with just the one track, Dylan Baldi & co. are about to fully show […]
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