NEWS: JOHN GRANT – NEW VIDEO FOR ‘GLACIER’

Its been yet another incredible few weeks for JOHN GRANT. Pale Green Ghosts figured highly in the Top 10 of most Best of 2014 lists, including the Guardian, Q, Uncut, MOJO and the Sunday Times, as well as being Rough Trade’s album of the year. Last week saw him nominated for International Male Solo Artist at the Brit Awards and his Roundhouse show […]
PINS share a brand new video for their song ‘Waiting For The End’, the final single to be taken from their Bella Union debut album, Girls Like Us. Shot at the newly renovated, historic Manchester pub Gullivers, it features helpful karaoke-style on screen lyrics throughout so fans can sing along. Several luminaries of the Manchester music […]

NEWS: PINS SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘WAITING FOR THE END’

NEWS: PINS – CHRISTMAS SONG ‘KISS ME QUICK’ + LIVE DATES

PINS are excited to share their Christmas song ‘ Kiss Me Quick’, a song taken from a Christmas compilation curated by the band, featuring the likes of Shinies, September Girls, Brown Brogues and Post War Glamour Girls, to be released on their Haus of PINS label. Proceeds from the compilation go to SWAP, an organisation […]
Having started in 1999 and already been through a roster of line up changes, Antiphon is the fourth album from Midlake. Arguably with the most important line up change to date, this album is the first without frontman Tim Smith. Unlike many bands who lose a front man, Midlake have not broken up and fallen […]

Album Review: Midlake – Antiphon

NEWS: PINS – NEW VIDEO FOR ‘GIRLS LIKE US’

PINS have unveiled a video for the title track of their hotly anticipated debut album Girls Like Us. Directed by Sing J. Lee, a filmmaker much in demand since his work on the Manchester four-piece’s early videos the video for ‘Girls Like Us’ perfectly captures the band’s girl gang mentality. To say there’s excitement for Girls […]
This week Landshapes release their new single ‘Insomniacs Club’ through Bella Union. Accompanying the single we have a brilliantly eerie new video directed by the very talented Ian Pons Jewell. A mix of live footage and stop-frame animation cut together from the unnerving and darkly comic short film 1/4” fits together perfectly with the song. Landshapes Facebook Twitter Soundcloud

NEWS: LANDSHAPES – NEW VIDEO FOR ‘INSOMNIACS CLUB’

Album Review: Lanterns on the Lake – Until The Colours Run

Lanterns On The Lake is a five-piece band hailing from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Consisting of Hazel Wilde, Paul Gregory, Ol Ketteringham, Sarah Kemp and Andrew Scrogham, they have had a successful debut album and are now signed to Bella Union. They have performed at numerous music festivals, including Glastonbury, SXSW and Bestival and even toured with Explosions […]
Money, The Shadow of Heaven, wealth and religion, the twin asteroids of humanity’s destruction, grand topics for an equally grand album. When you listen to this debut from the Manchester 4-piece it certainly seems that they are looking to encompass the city, the earth and stars and everything inbetween. Money mainman, Jamie Lee, expands in […]

Album Review: Money – The Shadow of Heaven

NEWS: PINS SHARE BRAND NEW SONG ‘LOST LOST LOST’ + TOUR

Manchester four-piece PINS have unveiled a brand new song from their Bella Union-released debut album Girls Like Us. A lithe two and a half minutes, the echoing monotones of ‘Lost Lost Lost’ induce chills like a PJ Harvey mantra. The song perfectly showcases the stark, analogue sound of the album, and the MP3 has been made […]
With her last album comprising a collection of songs for children and having recently given birth to her second son, it would be an easy assumption that Laura Veirs’ latest material is characterised by more insular themes. However, this is hardly the case at all. After the lofty, scientific subject matter and metaphors of Carbon […]

Album Review: Laura Veirs – Warp and Weft