Interview with Isle of Wight band As We Leave

Four-piece band As We Leave has just released their new sin­gle via Abbey Records called Sto­ries We Tell – it’s a shim­mery and nos­­tal­­gia-laden ode to sum­mer, replete with the feel­ings the sea­son can con­jure. The band’s mem­bers all grew up on the Isle of Wight where they formed their strong friend­ship bonds at school…

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Poetic drama: Sylvette release album Stiller than Still

I have to cred­it Chris Hawkins’ ear­ly morn­ing show on Radio 6 Music for intro­duc­ing me to the Man­ches­ter band Syl­vette. The slinky, crys­talline notes of their new sin­gle Kelpius cut through the ear­ly morn­ing blur and I was instant­ly wide awake. Music as caf­feine.  The album Stiller than Still, the band’s sec­ond album, was…

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HENGE release Exo, first single from album ExoKosm

Atten­tion Earth! A brand new sin­gle beams down today cour­tesy of HENGE. Exo is the first and title track from the space rock­ers up and com­ing new album ExoKosm. HENGE’s new release Exo is a fur­ther explo­ration of the band’s Cos­mic Dross sound – a psy­che­del­ic prog rock mix with dance and elec­tron­ic ele­ments thrown…

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New single Light Me Up by The Coronas

The Coro­nas’ thir­­teen-year jour­ney has def­i­nite­ly been unique. With a hand­ful of mul­ti-plat­inum sell­ing albums and a huge fan­base in their native Ire­land, the band were just about to embark on a 6‑month world tour when a cer­tain unfor­tu­nate­ly named virus tried to spoil the par­ty. Thank­ful­ly, the band are back with the new album. “The…

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Sparks and ‘The Existential Threat’ video

Sparks release a new video for The Exis­ten­tial Threat to coin­cide with the phys­i­cal release of their lat­est album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip. Cre­at­ed by the ani­ma­tor Cyr­i­ak, known for his sub­ver­sive and sur­re­al work, the video pre­mieres today. Said Sparks broth­ers Ron and Rus­sell Mael of the video: “The incred­i­bly man­ic and overwhelming…

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Powerful video for Heartachers by Luca Wilding

Luca Wild­ing has cre­at­ed a pow­er­ful new video for his debut sin­gle Heartachers.  The video is made by award win­ning film mak­er Patrick Fileti. His full short ‘Infer­no’ has won mul­ti­ple awards (includ­ing Best Short Doc­u­men­tary | Palm Springs Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val 2019) and Patrick has re-edit­ed it espe­cial­ly for Heartachers.  The video for Luca Wild­ing was filmed in…

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Sweet and sad times: an interview with singer songwriter Luca Wilding

On the release of his debut sin­gle Heartachers, Luca Wild­ing took time out for an inter­view. Released today via Abbey Records, Heartachers is a poignant and emo­tion­al song with a strong depth of feel­ing. It is described as ‘dream folk’ which does go some way to pin­ning a genre on to Luca’s unique and thoughtful…

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Interview with Leeds art-rock band Fehlt

The first track I heard by art rock­ers Fehlt was Clo­sure and it had an instant appeal. Lik­ing that first lis­ten can go one of two ways: it might stick with you or it might just be a brief flir­ta­tion. For­tu­nate­ly it’s the for­mer and the con­fi­dent, expan­sive, sound­scapey lush­ness of Clo­sure, out now via…

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Modern Studies: The Weight of the Sun

One Sat­ur­day after­noon last Decem­ber I made my way to east Lon­don venue Stu­dio 9294 for Fire Records’ chilled, friend­ly Christ­mas event called Out­er Lim­its. With a ros­ter of about sev­en per­for­mances, it unex­pect­ed­ly turned out to be one of my top gigs of 2019. One of the new (to me) bands who were an…

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