While there’s quite a bit of exciting new music happening at the minute, not much of it is coming from good old fashioned UK guitar acts. Save for reliable old hands like Richard Hawley and seasoned campaigners like The Maccabees, guitar music is in a bit of a lull and in desperate need of young…
Manchester-based, Berlin-born producer Holy Other has announced he will be releasing his debut album Held on 27 August through Tri Angle Records. The album follows on from his highly acclaimed debut EP With U, which he released last year, and if lead single ‘Love Some1’ is anything to go by, will feature a lot of…
Seriously starting to like these secretive Mancunians. You may remember I featured their single ‘Heartbreaker’ not long ago. Back then I didn’t know much about NO CEREMONY/// (the capitals and slashes seem to be mandatory!), except they made brilliantly unsettling and darkly melodic electro stuff. I still don’t know much about them – they don’t…
I’ll be honest, these guys first grabbed my attention because of the cool name (that kind of thing does make a difference when you’ve got an inbox full of new music to work through) – but then I realised they were named after the Rugrats character, which kind of spoiled it for me. Luckily, their…
Bursting out of Manchester sounding like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club covering The Killers, we predict big things for the gloriously names The Slow Readers Club in 2012. Their self-titled debut album is due out this summer, but for now here’s their brilliant new single ‘Feet On Fire’ for your delectation: Caught somewhere between joyful youthful…
What do you get if you cross the howling vocals of Caleb Followhill with the effortlessly delicate rhythm of The Police? Thanks to hotly tipped new band Masters In France we finally get an answer to this age old question, in the form of their new, free to download single, ‘Fall Down’: The more we…
Now that’s what we call a band name! We already loved A Place To Bury Strangers before we even heard them, and after we heard their new single ‘So Far Away’ we loved them even more. Their music is as dark, brooding and cool as their name suggests, and reminds us of that other brilliantly…
Seasfire – ‘Falling’ Bristol band Seasfire are fast making a name for themselves with their brand of soulful post-dubstep, which has already seen them championed by the likes of XFM’s Mary Anne Hobbs and 6 Music’s John Kennedy. After one listen to new single ‘Falling’, it’s not hard to see why – the cold and…
Introducing you to Ideals, a London four-piece who make brooding, powerful and melancholic music in the mould of Interpol and The National. Their new single, ‘Altar’, is released on 26th March by Intruder Records, and was first featured on last years mini-LP Let Your Anger Leave You, which you can listen to here: http://soundcloud.com/intruderrecords ‘Altar’, which…
The Darlingtons – ‘Bats’ Taunton band The Darlingtons are fast becoming our favourite new band. After their devastating debut New Independent EP, they’re now on the run-up to the release of their debut album on indie label Ordered Records and have released ‘Bats’ to whet our appetite, which you can listen to right here: ‘Bats’…
