Lael Neale reveals new album Altogether Stranger plus film and tour

Lael Neale uproot­ed her­self from her idyl­lic rur­al life in Vir­ginia and relo­cat­ed to Los Ange­les – and it’s a move she has made more than once, due to lock­down. Such an extreme shift has pro­voked feel­ings of alien­ation and dis­con­nec­tion. Lael’s new album Alto­geth­er Stranger, her third with Sub Pop, delves into and tries…

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Magnetic Skies unveil new single and shows

Syn­th­pop, dark­wave band Mag­net­ic Skies have been work­ing on a new sin­gle for spring. A Place on Earth is released on Fri­day 4th April and there are two upcom­ing shows. The sin­gle fea­tures Mag­net­ic Skies’ sig­na­ture vin­tage synth sound over­laid with vocal­ist Simon Ken­t’s dra­mat­ic and doomy vocals. There’s also a strik­ing mono­chro­mat­ic video – below.…

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Review: Seattle band Great Grandpa new album Patience, Moonbeam

Five-piece Seat­tle band Great Grand­pa may not be a house­hold name in the UK but hope­ful­ly their next album out 28th March called Patience, Moon­beam, on Run For Cov­er records, will help rem­e­dy that. Great Grand­pa are a reward­ing band to lis­ten to. That’s part­ly down to Alex Men­ne’s warm, coun­try-lean­ing vocals that ani­mate the…

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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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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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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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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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Ambient Folk Artist We Are All Fossils Set to Release ‘Rapture’

South African artist Deist Oelofse, known by his stage name We Are All Fos­sils, cre­ates music described as ambi­ent folk. He is set to release a sin­gle on Jan­u­ary 24th, offer­ing lis­ten­ers the first peek of his third album, sched­uled to debut this sum­mer. The new num­ber, called Rap­ture, was inspired by the Dur­ban born…

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Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions release Cold Blows the Rain

The ‘dark side’ of the Calder val­ley allows no light dur­ing win­ter, and its drain­ing effects on the human soul are more than just myth. There’s a bleak­ness that is all-encom­­pass­ing, set­tling over the moors and deep val­ley sides, while res­i­dents hun­ker down and await spring. But draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from the stark beau­ty of this…

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Fat Dog unleash single Peace Song plus video

The lat­est track to drop from ebul­lient ravey band Fat Dog is Peace Song – arriv­ing just in time for, yes, Xmas, and that’s our first men­tion of it this for this year. Direc­tor James Ogram over­sees the video with the band start­ing out in the pub just before an apoc­a­lyp­tic announce­ment on TV… and…

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