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New sounds: 26/4/24

239 days ago

The Accident Group - Go Away (Please Come Back) There's a handful of bands with what could loosely be described as lyrically comic intent at the moment, a few good, a lot more "we already have Art Brut at home". Manchester's The Accident Grou... more info

New sounds: 4/4/24

261 days ago

Arab Strap - Strawberry Moon Well, here we go again with another chance to remind you that on 10th May the world will contain an album entitled 'i’m totally fine with it don’t give a fuck anymore'. The third single tries to synthesise two... more info

Arab Strap Arab Strap Les Savy Fav Tim Harrington The Lovely Eggs Tunng

New sounds: 27/3/24

269 days ago

Itchy and the Nits - Beat It Bozo! Sydney trio Itchy and the Nits' debut album Worst Of, out this week and from which this is a mere representative track, thoroughly channels the spirit of Thee Headcoatees and their pure dirty garage brethren, ha... more info

Nits Colin Stetson

New sounds: 18/3/24

278 days ago

Campfire Social - Swim Swam Swum North Wales and border's Campfire Social have been around for quite a while, 2017 to be exact, and are only now approaching their debut album, due in the summer. Its first taste synthesises their emo-leant infecti... more info

The New Pornographers Maybeshewill Vampire Weekend

New sounds: 11/3/24

285 days ago

Crumbs - DIY SOS Starting with a name we hadn't heard for a while and one you may never have heard of at all. Leeds' Crumbs are long standers on the northern DIY circuit, releasing an album in 2017, but went quiet as so many did post-Covid. B... more info

Stephen Malkmus Owen Pallett Sublime Sharon Van Etten

New sounds: 23/2/24

302 days ago

Another Sky - Swirling Smoke Fascinating band, Another Sky. Coming towards a second album (Beach Day, 1st March) they never became as big as some thought they would be on arrival or that their skyscraping sonics suggested. The good thing is, they don... more info

The New Pornographers Isobel Campbell Mark Lanegan

New sounds: 14/2/24

311 days ago

Dancer - Change It's this lot again! Etc etc Glasgow etc 10 Songs I Hate About You on March 15th etc a superior slice of askew post-punk that keeps deliberately tripping up over and reordering the constituent parts of itself before getting to its... more info

Slowdive FKA twigs Les Savy Fav Tim Harrington

New sounds: 1/2/24

324 days ago

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive) A new album from the exploratory itinerant expansive sunlight-exposed folk-indie singer-songwriter known to their familiars as Alynda Segarra is always a very good prospect, The Past Is... more info

Swim Deep Pendulum

New sounds: 18/1/24

338 days ago

Adrianne Lenker - sadness as a gift Big Thief are taking a calendar year off, so obviously Buck Meek immediately released a solo album and Adrianne has one, Bright Future, out on March 22nd. Just to make it more confusing the band have been playing t... more info

Sublime

New sounds 10/1/13

346 days ago

Julia Holter - Spinning Holter's sixth album Something In The Room She Moves, out 22nd March, has already been heralded by the shards of light in Sun Girl; now she finds a weird circularity, a looping percussive glitch around which winds plenty o... more info

Julia Holter