Liverpool indie pop/dream pop/jangle band SPINN have unveiled their summery new single "Home".
About the track, singer Jonathon Quinn explains: “This one’s probably our most shallow track. We went out to create a pop tune with not much meaning behind it, which is different to our other stuff, which usually has some kind of message or secret meaning. You could probably over analyse it if you really wanted to, and hail it as an homage to house party romances or a love letter. But, to be honest it’s just meant to be something that’s good for the ears.”
The song will be released on 3rd March. Stream it below.
London-based dream pop band Novella have revealed the video for their infectious single "Change of State".
The song is part of our current playlist and is the title track of their sophomore album 'Change of State', which came out on February 17 via Sinderlyn Records. Grab your copy here
The video was filmed by Yuki Yamamoto. Watch it below.
Welsh indie pop band The Tates have released their catchy debut single "Electric Girl".
Consisting of Liam Fusco, Tom Ryan, Matt Kilgariff, Jac Robin and Shaun Gwizdak the band absorbed the mainstream, mixed it with the alternative then spewed forth their own unique vision. Influences range from The Libertines’ poetic raw energy, the death disco of early New Order and the euphoric punch of Depeche Mode.
French electro-pop/synthpop duo Juveniles have revealed the video for their infectious new single "Someone Better".
The song is part of our current playlist and taken from their forthcoming new album 'Without Warning', set to be released on March 24. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Rodrigue Huart. Watch it below.
Adelaide, Australia indie rock band Bad//Dreems have shared the video for their latest single "Feeling Remains".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from forthcoming album 'Gutful', set to arrive on 21st April via Ivy League Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Ben Helweg. Take a look below.
Spanish noise pop/psych/shoegaze band Ghost Transmission have unleashed the video for their new single "Kill Your Mark".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming sophomore album 'Echoes', which will be out via EL Genio Equivocado.
The song and the video are a tribute to the golden age of the sci-fi genre.
"Kill Your Mark has been, since we first played, our most cinematic song. During the recording was acquiring a filmstrip of monsters and flying saucers, of film from B serie or Z. The end only asked for a speech, and the queen of the genre PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1956) By Ed Wood, came to mind. Later we decided that the video was also with fragments of this audiovisual jewel." The band explained.
The video features extracts from the film 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', by Ed Wood (1956). Watch it below.
London indie rock/pop band Flyte have released their new single "Victoria Falls".
This the second track taken from their upcoming debut album, which they're currently recording with Burke Reidout in Australia. We have already heard "Echoes".
Switzerland kraut pop/psych band One Sentence. Supervisor have aired the video for their trippy single "Scope Explosion".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their latest album 'Temporär Musik 1 – 13', which was released in October last year via Oh, Sister Records. Grab the single here.
Portland electro-poppers STRFKR have unleashed the video for their current single "In The End".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from the latest album 'Being No One, Going Nowhere', which came out in November last year via Polyvinyl Records. Grab it here.
The video was directed by Chris Birkmeier & Aidan Brezonick. Take a look below.
North London indie pop/alt band Theme Park have announced the release of their sophomore album 'Is This How It Starts?'.
The follow-up to 2013's self-titled debut album will be out on May 5, and is the result of the band’s collaboration with their old friend Ben Garrett who, under the artist name Fryars, masterminded his own remarkable 2014 album ‘Power’ and has also collaborated with artists such as Lily Allen and Mika.
"Without getting too philosophical, you're always looking for stories and meanings in the blank space of life," says Miles Haughton. "Lots of the songs are about the start of relationships, the start of things, reading meaning into things, trying to find the stories."
The band are also streaming their new single "I'll Do Anything", which "is about feeling a connection with someone when they've got a boyfriend," says Miles. "It's nice to write a song from the point of view of a villain."
Pre-order the album here, check out thetracklist and listen to "I'll Do Anything" below.
Tracklist:
01. Is This How It Starts?
02. You Are Real
03. Hello Hello
04. Something Good
05. Dancing With The Other Girls
06. U R Rly Nice
07. L.A. (Is Stealing My Friends)
08. I'll Do Anything
09. 10AM
10. Cocoon
11. Never Ending Story
12. Xbox
24 hours after you heard the first new material from Ride in over twenty years, here's their hypnotic new song "Home Is A Feeling".
The song is taken from their forthcoming new album, due to be released Summer 2017 on Wichita Recordings.
About the track, Mark Gardener says: "‘Home Is A Feeling’ to me is like a slow, wide-screen, sonically, layered, slowed motion warm wash. Like returning home as dawn rises totally exhausted and spangled after a long ..long ...big, great night out’"
Andy Bell says: “Out of all the new songs ‘Home Is A Feeling’ comes closest to the early Ride sound. We felt comfortable going vintage on this tune because the album we are making has a pretty broad sonic scope. It’s a short and sweet, melodic tune, with stacked harmonies, reverbed-out guitars, slowed down drums, and a huge distorted bass sound. Erol put his sage-scented electronic wizards hat on to sample up some of our harmonies and make them into a synthesiser preset, which we ended up using on this and some of the other tunes too. We wanted this song to sound jet lagged, so everything on it was recorded with varispeed, either faster or slower than real time. It’s like 1966 Beatles meets 1988 MBV… in other words, Ride.”
London's neo-psych band Temples have revealed the video for their newest single "Strange Or Be Forgotten".
The song is part of our current playlist and is single taken from their forthcoming new album 'Volcano', set to arrive on 3rd March 2017 via Heavenly Recordings. Pre-order your copy here,
The video was directed by James Beale. Watch it below.
British shoegaze pioneers Ride have released their excellent new single "Charm Assault", their first new music in 20 years.
The song is taken from Ride's forthcoming album, produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by the band's longtime collaborator, Alan Moulder, and due to be released Summer 2017 on Wichita Recordings.
UPDATE 27/02: "Charm Assault" is our new Single of the Week!
About the track, Andy Bell says: "Charm Assault is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country. The tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and Charm Assault feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we'd kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one."
The band's last full-length record was 'Tarantula', released back in March 1996. The band broke up later that year. After a brief reconciliation in 2001 for a live televised performance, Ride officially reunited in 2014.
UK britpop legends Shed Seven have announced the release of their first studio album in 16 years to coincide with our biggest UK tour ever.
The band's last proper studio album was Truth Be Told, released in 2001.
The as-yet-untitled new album can be pre-ordered via their website now, and for those who purchase before 4pm on Wednesday 22nd February you will be given access to purchase exclusive pre-sale tour tickets.
Speaking of the new album, Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter said via YouTube: "We’ve spent the last two years writing and secretly demoing and have more than an album’s worth of material that we can’t wait to share with you.
"We feel that now is the right time to share these with you. We’re looking forward to ‘#Shedcember2017’ where it will be business as usual; you’ll get to hear all the songs you rightly should expect to hear but this time with a light sprinkling of new music to top it all off."
Below, re-visit the band's music video for their classic track "She Left Me On Friday".
And here's the announcement accompanying video:
#Shedcember with Very Special Guests CAST
Fri 01 Dec: Glasgow O2 Academy
Sat 02 Dec: Newcastle O2 Academy
Mon 04 Dec: Blackburn King Georges Hall
Tue 05 Dec: Stoke Victoria Hall
Thu 07 Dec: Cardiff University Y’Plas
Fri 08 Dec: Nottingham Rock City
Sat 09 Dec: Sheffield O2 Academy
Mon 11 Dec: Norwich The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
Tue 12 Dec: Bournemouth O2 Academy
Thu 14 Dec: Bristol O2 Academy 1
Fri 15 Dec: Birmingham O2 Academy 1
Sat 16 Dec: London O2 Brixton Academy
Mon 18 Dec: Leeds O2 Academy
Thu 21 Dec: Hull City Hall
Fri 22 Dec: Manchester Academy 1
London based alternative/garage punk band Sisteray have dropped the video for their energetic new single "00:01:57 Faaast Food".
The song is taken from the band's new recording project ’15 Minutes’, produced and mixed by Rory Attwell (Test Icicles, The Vaccines, Palma Violets) at Lightship 95, East London, and which will be released 14th April on Vallance Records. Pre-order it here.
'15 minutes' takes inspiration from the famous Andy Warhol quote, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.
Brighton based experimental/math pop Tall Ships have unleashed the video for their latest single "Petrichor".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their sophomore album 'Impressions' released this month (February 10) through Fat Cat Records. Buy your copy here.
The video was directed by Ben Phethean (Saidl Leonard). Watch it below.
Yesterday Manchester indie/guitar pop band Horsebeach premiered the title track of their forthcoming new album "Beauty & Sadness", now the band have unleashed their lovely song "Alone".
The album will be out on March 31st release via the Alone Together. Pre-order your copy here.
Finnish synth/pop duo Villa Nah have released the video for their infectious single "Vortex".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their second album 'Ultima', which came out in September last year via Solina Records. Buy it here.
The video was created by the talented mr. Sakke Soini, who has also been VJ on various VN shows. Watch it below.
Australian drone pop/mood rock band Morning Harvey have released their brand new single "Holy Gun".
The song is out now and is taken from the band's forthcoming debut album, due out later this year.
About the track, band's vocalist Spencer White explains: "Holy Gun is another story I wanted to tell. I don’t believe it has any hidden meaning or intent but it does paint a pretty grim storyline which I try to pursue in my lyrics every so often. I find the deeper I dig, the more I realise how much depth and endless complexity there is to making music that stirs and engages me."
Manchester indie/guitar pop band Horsebeach have premiered their atmospheric new single "Beauty & Sadness."
The song is taken from their forthcoming new album of the same name, which borrows its title from Yasunari Kawabata’s 1964 novel, and is set to arrive on March 31st release via the Alone Together. Pre-order your copy here.
UK psych/shoegaze band Afterbloom have shared the video for their new single "Such A Drag".
About the track, bassist Luke Morgan said: "We recorded this track ourselves at our lock up in one all-nighter. We wanted to go for a DIY approach to it and wanted to mix our lofi and huge sounding influences to fit the style of the song.”
“We were inspired to self-produce by bands like Pavement and The Smiths doing the same at points in their careers, but musically speaking, and in the way the song was written, ‘Such A Drag’ is the lovechild of Lou Reed and George Harrison.”
Berlin indie pop/garage pop duo Gurr have released the video for their latest single "#1985".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their debut album 'In My Head', released in October last year via Duchess Box Records. Grab your copy here.
Los Angeles based psychedelic power pop band Froth have unleashed the video for their new single "Sensitive Girl".
The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Outside (briefly)', which will be out on February 24 via Wichita Recordings. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by the band. Watch it below.
