Mar 17

New song by Marianne Faithfull plus RSD release

Sen­ti­ment around the new 4‑track EP by Mar­i­anne Faith­full called Burn­ing Moon­light is cap­tured by Mar­i­an­ne’s son, Nick Dun­bar. He says, “As we grieve the loss of Mar­i­anne, we are pleased to announce the release of these songs which she worked on dur­ing the year before her death. Mar­i­anne lived to cre­ate and per­form music…

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Mar 4

Constellations For The Lonely by Doves

By some weird chance, the first time I heard Rene­gade, I was step­ping off the tram and cross­ing the sad waste­land of Pic­cadil­ly Gar­dens to meet a friend in the North­ern Quar­ter. Omi­nous, thun­dery synths and an echoey piano note fade to Jim­i’s famil­iar vocals describ­ing a bleak and tor­tured land­scape, both emo­tion­al­ly and physically.…

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Chose Sauvages band
Mar 1

Choses Sauvages release new single Cours Tourjours

We’ve become fans of French-Cana­di­an band Choses Sauvages with their upbeat brand of dance-punk. Their sin­gle called ‘En joue’ caught our atten­tion last year. Now a new track just released called Cours Tou­jours offers anoth­er glimpse into the Fran­coph­o­ne band’s sound. There’s a touch of Steely Dan to the open­ing notes before the track breaks…

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Feb 22

Parastatic release powerful new Brutalist themed album Concrete Reborn

The North East-based band Parasta­t­ic are back with a tweaked line­up and an intrigu­ing new album, Con­crete Reborn on Workie Tick­et Records. It’s a son­ic explo­ration of archi­tec­ture, specif­i­cal­ly Bru­tal­ism, which coin­ci­den­tal­ly hap­pens to be enjoy­ing its own cin­e­mat­ic moment. I was sur­prised to realise that near­ly a decade has gone by since I last…

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Feb 19

Pale Blue Eyes: new album, ‘New Place’ out 7th March

We’re excit­ed to dis­cov­er Pale Blue Eyes are to release their third stu­dio album on 7th March. Titled New Place, to be released on the band’s Broad­cast Record­ings label, the work reflects a sub­stan­tial shift in the band’s lives, both geo­graph­i­cal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly. The lat­est album includes two guest musi­cians who have fea­tured in the…

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Feb 10

Goldkimono releases new track Lifetime plus video

Dutch artist Gold­ki­mono (Mar­ti­jn ‘Tienus’ Koni­j­nen­burg) has just released a com­pelling new sin­gle called Life­time via Camp Kimono Records. The over­all feel of Life­time is decep­tive. Gold­ki­mono presents us with an uplift­ing track infused with a pleas­ing­ly chunky rhythm and sun­ny riffs but there’s a brood­ing lay­er of more seri­ous thoughts going on behind the scenes.  Says…

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Jan 30

Sparks release single, reveal album and tour

Sparks fans have plen­ty to be hap­py about in 2025. The broth­ers Ron and Rus­sell Mael have a new sin­gle out and there’s news about a tour and album to come. Tick­ets go on gen­er­al sale on Fri­day 7th Feb­ru­ary. Pre­sales start Wednes­day 5th Feb­ru­ary. Sparks new sin­gle is called Do Things My Own Way – by way of…

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Jan 26

Daylight music: coffee, cakes and one hot chip

Gigs dur­ing the day­time are such a great idea. Instead of the usu­al beers and warm white wine, at an event run by Day­light Music you can enjoy a cup of tea, deli­cious home made cakes, plus quiche and sausage rolls – there’s also a selec­tion of chil­dren’s drinks too. Then spend a cou­ple of…

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