Ella Clayton: new single “Dolomites” out now

Ella Clay­ton’s sec­ond album Could It Be You? is set for release on 24th April. Mean­while she’s been drop­ping the occa­sion­al track from this new work, and the lat­est is the cap­ti­vat­ing and quirky sin­gle called Dolomites. Record­ed at George Ezra’s stu­dio Hotel Que­bec, Dolomites express­es the desire to be alone. It’s the per­fect vehicle…

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The Orielles release album Only You Left

Hal­i­fax band The Orielles cer­tain­ly can­not be accused of stand­ing still. And with their new album Only You Left, they push the realms of exper­i­men­tal ter­ri­to­ry, con­tin­u­ing a jour­ney that has grad­u­al­ly tak­en them away from their ear­ly indie-garagey pop begin­nings.  That shift became ful­ly appar­ent on Tableau (2022), a gauzy, frag­ile record that immersed…

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Review: Squeeze release their ‘first’ album Trixies

You can imag­ine the scene. Teenagers Glenn Till­brook and Chris Gif­ford are rif­fling through an old card­board box in the attic. Noth­ing much here… but what’s this? Glenn brush­es a few decade’s worth of dust off a cas­sette, snaps it into the play­er, press­es PLAY… and the years melt away. The two are trans­port­ed back…

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Review: new track Full Moon by Luke James Williams unveiled

All the signs are there that ris­ing folk singer Luke James Williams’ upcom­ing album is going to be some­thing spe­cial. There has already been one release, Hol­lows and Branch­es, from the album so far and tonight Full Moon (out March 3rd) is unveiled… to coin­cide with the full moon – just to make it extra…

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Upchuck release new track Last Breath plus tour dates

Fero­cious, explo­sive tunes, fuzzy dirty bass and the out-there ball of ener­gy that is the front-woman KT are the hall­marks of riv­et­ing Atlanta out­fit Upchuck. And new track Last Breath is out today.  The Atlanta band – gui­tarists Mikey Durham and Hoff, bassist Ausar Ward, and drummer/vocalist Chris Sal­a­do, now signed to Domi­no, released album I’m Nice Now in autumn, before touring…

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Anna Calvi to unveil EP: Is this all there is? featuring Iggy Pop

Anna Calvi’s song­writ­ing is pow­er­ful and pas­sion­ate, while her stage pres­ence is intense and quite inward look­ing. She does­n’t go for dra­mat­ics and audi­ence-pleas­ing dra­mat­ics. She does­n’t need to – those astound­ing vocals — oper­at­ic, unwa­ver­ing, and rich with emo­tion are enough. Beyond the impact of her live per­for­mances, she has been shift­ing her focus…

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Jon Hopkins and Biggi Hilmars release the soundtrack for documentary “Wilding”

Jon Hop­kins and Ice­landic film com­pos­er Big­gi Hilmars dig­i­tal­ly released the sound­track of Wild­ing, via Domi­no Sound­tracks, on 16th Jan­u­ary, and there’s a phys­i­cal release due on April 3rd. The doc­u­men­tary Wild­ing was released in 2024. Wild­ing fol­lows the sto­ry of farm­ers Isabel­la Tree and her hus­band Char­lie Bur­rell, who embarked on an envi­ron­men­tal project aimed at breathing…

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Tessa Rose Jackson: new single ‘Built to Collide’ and album to come

A vibrant new sin­gle has just been released this week by singer-song­writer and com­pos­er Tes­sa Rose Jack­son called Built to Col­lide. The track is out just before her lat­est album called The Light­house drops on 23rd Jan­u­ary. Tes­sa calls it her ‘rant song’, which she describes as “A song about accept­ing that some­times you live…

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Juni Habel releases new track and album Evergreen in Your Mind

There’s a puri­ty and sim­plic­i­ty to the delight­ful track Ever­green In Your Mind, just released as a taster from the upcom­ing album of the same name by Nor­we­gian singer-songr­writer Juni Habel. The album will be released on April 10th on Basin Rock and Koke Plate. It’s a song that man­ages to lift you and project…

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