Animal Collective are having a busier year than usual – as well as single releases Love on the Big Screen and Buddies on the Blackboard, they will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark sixth studio album Feels with two new limited-edition formats via Domino: Feels 20th Anniversary is a reissue of the original album with a bonus disc…
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Hot Chip share two new remixes of Ready For The Floor – their highest charting single yet – by UK producer Mella Dee. On the Mella Dee Dub version, Mella Dee teases out the track to seven minutes focusing and slowing down Alexis Taylor’s singular vocals: “Do It Do It Do It Now.” whilst the Spanglecore Dub…
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Releasing his first new music in three years, UK musician Joe Hicks channels grief and confusion into the dramatic single Time is a Thief out 29th August. Having built his profile in the years leading up to his 2022 debut album The Best I Could Do at the Time, Joe Hicks has been praised for his solid songwriting…
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Celebrating 10 years as a recording project, Hello Cosmos return with a flurry of activity. They are back with a refreshed lineup and a lead track called Grind into the Shrine. There’s a second studio album on the way for release sometime in autumn. Check out their live shows too. Grind into the Shrine is the…
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It’s welcome news to hear of a brand new record label and the prospect of more emerging artists finding a foothold in the music industry. The label in question is Belfast-based label Confused Panda Records and they’ve announced their first signing, a young alt‑pop artist from Belfast called Wild Valentine. Rather than marketing himself via social…
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Synthpop band Magnetic Skies launched their dramatic single Back To Life on 25th July. Their spring release ‘A Place on Earth’ was the first new track from the band since their debut album Empire Falling. Now Magnetic Skies unveil Back To Life – a powerful number that blends their signature synths, darkwave textures and euphoric beats. Sublimely anthemic, with…
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Eight studio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever and today they announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Repetition, to be released September 5th. Joy In Repetition – the title alludes to both the lyrics of their career-defining track and one of Alexis Taylor’s favourite Prince songs – captures something elemental about the band: a…
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Merpire’s highly anticipated second album, Milk Pool, drops today July 4th, featuring the previously released single Bigger. Melbourne based Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt – aka Merpire – first impressed music fans with her 2021 debut, Simulation Ride, and she’s back to take things even further. Fluid and metaphysical as the tides, Milk Pool is for “the romantics, the daydreamers,…
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UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED NOW:Thursday 12 Feb Green Door Store, BrightonFriday Feb 13 London. CHANGED TO MOTH CLUBSat Feb 14 Hare & Hounds, BirminghamSunday Feb 15 Brudenell Social Club, LeedsTuesday Feb 17 The Rum Shack GlasgowWeds Feb 18 Yes Manchester Excitement is at record levels at Gourmet Gigs Towers as word has winged its way…
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Always inventive, with a unique and expansive world view, the international, female-led Snowapple collective has released a new album June 13th titled Utopia, blending music, theatre and activism. And they will be playing at Glastonbury festival on 25th June. The Snowapple collective evades pigeonholing into particular genre; instead they embracing and bring together different genres in…
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