The song will be out tomorrow (January 1). Buy it here.
Take a listen below.
Friday, December 31, 2021
New Entry: The Presets Return With New Single "You Belong"
Watch: Baby Strange Share New Single/Video "Midnight"
The song is out now via Icons Creating Evil Art. Get it here.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: The City Gates Release Live Video For "Le Silence"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their album 'Age of Resilience' (included in our 100 Best Albums of 2021 list), released in June last year via Velouria Recordz and on Icy Cold Records. Grab your copy here.
Watch the video below.
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Monday, December 27, 2021
Watch: don't get lemon Premiere "Industrial (Amusement) Park (Revolution)"
The song is taken from their forthcoming debut studio album 'Hyper Hollow Heaven', which will be available on March 29, 2022 through à La Carte Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
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Friday, December 24, 2021
Italia 90 Air Previously Unreleased Track "DINO (Dangerous In Name Only)"
From the band: "Merry Christmas from Italia 90! Here's a previously unreleased track recorded way back in 2019 and played maybe three times live."
Get it here and watch/listen below.
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Watch: Shambolics Reveal Music Video For "If You Want It"
The song is part of our current playlist and came out earlier this month. Buy it here.
Watch the video below.
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New Entry: Vagina Lips Drops New Single "Fuck Fear"
From Zimmy: "Before the release of my upcoming album in 2022
I deliver a track that was finally left out of it."
Get it here and stream it below.
Get it here and stream it below.
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Thursday, December 23, 2021
New Entry: Age of Distance Shares New Single "Destination Nowhere"
Watch: The Haunted Youth Unleash "Gone" Music Video
The song is part of our current playlist and came out earlier this month (Dec 9) through Mayway Records. Get it here.
Watch the video below.
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Watch: Placebo Unveil Music Video For "Beautiful James"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming eighth studio album 'Never Let Me Go'.
Beautiful James, is a celebration of non-heteronormative love, and was written in an unconventional manner. During a period of insomnia, singer/guitarist Brian Molko and bassist Stefan Olsdal first came up with the vibe through images and the song’s title, and then began work on the music after.
“If the song serves to irritate the squares and the uptight, so gleefully be it,” says Brian. “But it remains imperative for me that each listener discovers their own personal story within it – I really don’t want to tell you how to feel.”
Take a listen below.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Watch: Koalra Share Music Video For "Flatline"
The song is taken from their forthcoming fifth studio album 'Love Songs to Remind Us That We Can't Stand Each Other', which came out in October 22 through Gigantic Noise Records. Get your copy here.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
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Monday, December 20, 2021
Watch: Stay Lunar Air Music Video For "Anywhere/Everywhere"
The song is part of our current playlist and came out last month (November 17) via SAM Records. Grab it here.
Speaking about it, frontman Harry Leith said: “As we headed towards winter 2020 it felt as though the bad news was multiplying and nothing was going in our favour. With the bad weather approaching and lockdown looming, the only way I knew how to escape was to try to make light of the situation through music. I imagined my home filling with all these bad luck omens like some sort of weird Disney movie, and joked ironically with the idea that maybe if I just start breaking mirrors, putting my umbrella up inside and walking under ladders then that will somehow trick the universe into malfunctioning and providing good luck and summer weather. It didn’t work, but in ways it did, because ‘Anywhere / Everywhere’ was born.”
Watch the clip below.
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Friday, December 17, 2021
Watch: Art d'Ecco Releases "Good Looks" Music Video
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from his album 'In Standard Definition', released back in April through Paper Bag Records. Grab your copy here.
"Good Looks" highlights the artificial world of online dating between crystalline Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre style 80s synths whilst.
Watch the video below.
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Watch: Ash Code Reveal "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" (Bauhaus' cover)
A tribute to the wonderful Bauhaus' song, Ash Code spiced it up with 80s beats and a soft Xmas taste. Grab it here.
Watch/listen below.
New Entry: Plastic Estate Drop New Single "Change Your Mind"
The song is taken from their forthcoming debut studio album 'Plastic Estate', which will be available on February 4, 2022 through Avant! Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Take a listen below.
Take a listen below.
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Watch: Sea Girls Unleash Music Video For "Hometown"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming second studio album 'Homesick', set to be released on January 14th 2022 through Polydor Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about it, vocalist/guitarist Henry Camamile says: “‘Hometown’ is one of the most important songs I’ve written. It defines my philosophy.
“While writing songs for the new album, I had this intense love for life. ‘Hometown’ is about people I knew growing up that aren’t around anymore. I’m saying ‘I see you’ – it’s a nod to them. I’m grateful for life and I am not going to jeopardise it in any way.”
Watch the video below.
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Watch: Mitra Mitra Unveil New Single/Video "By Your Hand"
Vienna minimal synth/electronic/synth wave outfit Mitra Mitra have unveiled their new single "By Your Hand", alongside an accompanying music video.
It is the first track taken from their forthcoming album 'Hands Remain', set to arrive on January 2022 through Polytechnic Youth.
'By Your Hand' also features on the new digital EP with five additional non-LP tracks, out today. Get it here.
Watch/listen below.
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Thursday, December 16, 2021
Watch: The Empty Threats Share "Sightseeing" Music Video
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their self-titled EP released last month (November 19). Grab it here.
Watch the video below.
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Watch: M83 Airs Music Video For "My Tears Are Becoming A Sea"
The limited 10th anniversary vinyl edition of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, will be available April 15. Pre-Order here.
The video for “My Tears Are Becoming A Sea” is a prequel to the record’s magical and captivating video trilogy comprised of “Midnight City,” “Reunion,” and “Wait.” Watch the video here.
The initial trilogy chronicled the adventures of supernatural children on the run from forces wishing to capture them in order to study their powers. This new video is directed by Sacha Barbin and Ryan Doubiago and produced by Division.
Reflecting on the prequel’s concept and revisiting the trilogy’s storyline, Barbin and Doubiago say, “this story takes place 10 years earlier in order to highlight the first moment one of these children uses their supernatural gifts. On the way to the hospital and moments before his birth, the child’s parents are victims of a horrible car accident. The unborn child is forced to use his powers to save them from within the womb. The idea was to show the literal birth of a superhero. We wanted to place this story in a realistic and universal setting. We think that the panic created by this magnificent moment speaks to everyone. We also wanted to pay homage to the mothers who are too often absent from the mythology of superheroes. And finally, to go beyond the codes of the genre to carry a symbolic message of hope where future generations would come to save us from a dark fate.”
Watch it below.
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Watch: slo/tide Reveals Music Video For "Neck High"
The song is part of our current playlist and came out last month (November 18). Get it here.
Teaming up on songwriting with alt darlings Sir Sly, slo/tide pulls from a unique blend of influences from acclaimed indie peers fused with the spirit of his hard rock roots to create an impressive body of work that is at once enlightening and arresting.
At times an instantly-listenable perfect poolside soundtrack channeling the classic alt-pop stylings of Foster The People and Tame Impala, while at others diving into dark layers of musical experimentation a la Pink Floyd and Radiohead, slo-tide’s new single should impress both long-time fans of Chamberlain and a whole new audience who are about to discover their new favorite band.
Of "Neck High", Chamberlain comments, "I’ve been writing music since I was a kid and 9 times out of 10 it’s not the heavy music the world knows of me. slo/tide was an idea I started in 2015, but the songs started coming together in 2019-early 2021. "Neck High" was created after jamming with my friends in Sir Sly for over ten hours - the last song I wrote before the pandemic and the first taste for the listener to see how the other side of my brain works. In this song I’m singing to myself in a hopeful tone about how no matter how bad things seem, I’ve always found a way to swim through it. So here's "Neck High" - I hope you enjoy it.”
Watch the video below.
New Entry: Flu Flu Release New Single "Dead Star"
The song is taken from their forthcoming Flu Flu EP out soon through Shore Dive Records. Get it here.
Take a listen below.
Take a listen below.
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Rats On Rafts & Palmbomen Premiere New Single "Cashmere Carey"
The song was created and recorded at Utrecht music venue EKKO in celebration of their 35th anniversary. Get it here.
Stream it below.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Watch: Parquet Courts Drop Music Video For "Zoom Out"
The song is part of our current and is taken from their sixth studio album 'Sympathy for Life', which came out in October via Rough Trade Records. Buy it here.
Watch the clip below.
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Watch: Pom Pom Squad Unleash "Popular (feat. Nada Surf)"
Featuring Nada Surf singer/guitarist Matthew Caws, the new video took place at the Bayonne High School, the same place where the original “Popular” took place
“Working with Nada Surf was such a dream,” Mia Berrin said. “They’re such an incredible group of individuals and were so kind to everyone in PPS during our time out on tour together. It’s hard not to be inspired by their career, so to intersect with their legacy even a little bit is really special.
“I think the video is amazing! I love how it feels like a shot-for-shot recreation at the start but quickly takes on its own totally new character,“ Caws said in a statement of his own. “The original was shot in 1996, looking back at previous decades, while this one feels set in the present day, looking inwards and towards the future… another really cool aspect of the video is that the cheerleader character feels more and more sincere and human as the story develops. By the end, she’s much more than a player in a high school creation, she’s a person in the world and the singer of the song. To me there’s a “closed film” sense about Pom Pom Squad. Meaning that even if you could trace influences in their music, it feels as if they’ve invented it all themselves. They are their own world. That’s a trait I’ve felt in all my favorite bands: they’ve created their own reality.”
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New Entry: Visions In Clouds Unveil New Single "Kept My Eyes Shut"
The song is taken from their upcoming album which will be released in April 2022 via Little Jig Records / Icy Cold Records. Get it here.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Watch: Band of Horses Share "In Need of Repair" Music Video
The song is taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album 'Things Are Great', which will be available on January 21, 2022 through BMG. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch The video below.
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Monday, December 13, 2021
Watch: IDLES Air "When The Lights Come On" Music Video
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent album 'CRAWLER', which came out last month (November 12) through Partisan Records. Buy your copy here.
Watch the video below.
The Blinders Release "The Killing Moon" (Echo & The Bunnymen cover)
The band's new EP 'Electric Kool-Aid (Part 1)' will be out on January 14th.
Speaking about the cover, singer Thomas Haywood said: “You attach yourself to particular songs and marry them with moments of your own life. It’s a collective favourite of the band and one of the best songs that’s ever been written.”
“We recorded it live at Parr Street in Liverpool, which was the same studio Echo & the Bunnymen recorded the original song. That made it even more special. I hope we didn’t butcher it! We always wanted to get in there and do something. It’s since then been shut down so we’re pleasedwe got this one in the bag.”
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New Entry: Cheekface Reveal New Single "Featured Singer"
The song is out today, December 13th through New Professor Music. Get it here.
Speaking about the track band member Greg Katz said: "One day, mid-pandemic, I was thinking about how hard it is for a band to reach people, especially in the middle of the pandemic, and my daydreaming led me to thinking about how much easier it would be if I just did an uncredited featured vocal on an EDM song by a famous DJ, and that song became super famous without me having to do anything other than sing into a microphone. Like, I could be that faceless voice! I wouldn’t even have to do anything! I started laughing at myself for this stupid wish, and writing a little poem about it. A few days later, Mandy sent me this nasty bass-line over email and I just started reciting the poem over it. And so there was this song, about warehouse raves and frat parties, written via email, made at a time when there were no warehouse raves or frat parties."
Speaking about the track band member Greg Katz said: "One day, mid-pandemic, I was thinking about how hard it is for a band to reach people, especially in the middle of the pandemic, and my daydreaming led me to thinking about how much easier it would be if I just did an uncredited featured vocal on an EDM song by a famous DJ, and that song became super famous without me having to do anything other than sing into a microphone. Like, I could be that faceless voice! I wouldn’t even have to do anything! I started laughing at myself for this stupid wish, and writing a little poem about it. A few days later, Mandy sent me this nasty bass-line over email and I just started reciting the poem over it. And so there was this song, about warehouse raves and frat parties, written via email, made at a time when there were no warehouse raves or frat parties."
Stream it below.
Watch: Twin Tribes Drop Music Video For "Heart & Feather"
Watch: Factice Factory Unveil Music Video For "Weimar"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their fourth studio album 'Figments', which came out in May via Holy Hour Record. Get your copy here.
Watch the video below.
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Watch: NNHMN Unleash Music Video For "Magic Man"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their mini-album 'Tomorrow's Heroine' released in July this year via their own k-dreams records. Get it here.
Watch it below.
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Friday, December 10, 2021
Watch: Holy Youth Movement Air "Tranquilizer (Feat Andrew Innes)"
The song, produced and mixed by Jagz Kooner (Primal Scream / Sabres of Paradise/ Andrew Weatherall), is out now.
The band take inspiration from the likes of The Stooges, Primal Scream & Underworld.
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: Desert Ships Return With New Single/Video "Fire On The Moon"
The song will be out on Friday 17th December and is taken from their forthcoming third studio album ‘Heavy Soup’, out next year.
Watch/listen below.
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New Entry: Krooked Tongue Release New Single "Freaky Love"
The song, produced, mixed and mastered with Josh Gallop (Phoxjaw, Mother Vulture) at Stage 2 Studios in Bath is out now and is taken from their debut EP 'No Vacancy Hotel', which will be available in February 2022. Get it here.
Lyrically it sees the band exploring the conversation of individualism and "celebrating the weird". Freaky Love is "a haven for the outcasts, acting as a hub to confide in the 'freakiness' of each other's deep desires", explains lyricist and vocalist Oli Rainsford.
Stream it below.
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Watch: One Sentence. Supervisor Air "Don't Let Go" Music Video
The song is the title track of their recent EP 'Temporär Musik 15-19’', released last Friday (December 3) via Irascible Records. Get your copy here.
Watch the video below.
Watch the video below.
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New Entry: Palace Drop New Single "Where Sky Becomes Sea"
The song is taken from their highly anticipated third studio album 'Shoals', which will be out on January 21st 2022 via Fiction Records. Pre-order your copy here.
From the band: ‘Where Sky Becomes Sea’ is a song about the heartbreaking thought of being separated with the one you love when you die, but one day finding each other again at a place beyond the sea, reunited forever."
Watch/listen below.
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Watch: The Assist Unleash "Irrational Movements" Music Video
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their highly-anticipated debut album 'Council Pop', which will be out on April 8 2022 featuring their new single . Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about it, Mikey said, “With a catalogue of images available at our fingertips it is very easy to conform to the ideology that life is all about materialistic possessions. It is important that now more than ever people do not succumb to the unrealistic lives that so many public figures unfairly depict. There are far more important things in life than trying to impress people with things we can’t afford, life’s too short to live the lie that comes with that.”
Watch the video below.
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New Entry: Foals Unveil "Wake Me Up" (Gaspard Augé and Victor Le Masne Remix)
The song came out last month (November 4) via Transgressive/Warner Bros. Get the remix here.
Frontman Yannis Philippakis explains: “With ‘Wake Me Up’, I just wanted to write a song about transporting yourself to a better, idyllic situation. I think we all had that feeling of the last eighteen months being like a weird fever dream that felt surreal but very affecting. I think we all wished we could have woken up somewhere else at various points.”
Watch/listen below.
Watch: TWINNINETYSIX Share Music Video For "Concert Square"
The song is part of our current playlist and came out last month. Get it here.
Watch the clip below.
Watch the clip below.
Thursday, December 09, 2021
Watch: SLIMEX Air New Single/Video "Offline"
The song is taken from his upcoming EP 'Easy Money', which will be available on January 7, 2022 through Spared Flesh Records.
Watch/listen below.
Watch/listen below.
New Entry: The Haunted Youth Release New Single "Gone"
The song is out today (Dec 9) through Mayway Records, and it's a fascinating slab of Psych/Dream Pop reminiscent of the best of DIIV, Beach Fossils, The Cure or Spiritualized.
Get it here and take a listen below.
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New Entry: Blanketman Return With New Single "The Signalman"
The new double A side 7″ titled “The Signalman / Yard Sale”, will be release on 11th Feb 2022 via [PIAS]. Get it here.
“The Signalman” is an introspective look into the day to day life of guitarist Daniel Hand, inspired by the 1976 BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens’ The Signal-Man. It is a merging of stories real and fictional, but both equally frightening.
Take a listen below.
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Watch: Bloc Party Reveal Music Video For "Traps"
The song is taken from their forthcoming sixth studio album 'Alpha Games', which will be out on April 29, 2022 via Infectious/BMG. Pre-order your copy here.
Watch the video below.
New Entry: Two Door Cinema Club "Dirty Air (Fort Romeau's City Slicker Mix)"
The song features on their latest album 'False Alarm'(2019). Get the remix here.
Stream it below.
Wednesday, December 08, 2021
Black Doldrums Announce Debut LP 'Dead Awake', Stream "Sad Paradise"
Produced by Jared Artaud (The Vacant Lots, Alan Vega), the 8-track record will be available on March 11th 2022 through Fuzz Club Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Originally a duo founded by Sophie Landers (drums/vocals) and Kevin Gibbard (guitar/vocals) but now recently fleshed out to a trio with Matt Holt joining on bass, Black Doldrums deal in a dark, shoegazing psych that melds gothic post-punk with a leather-clad rock’n’roll spirit.
Originally a duo founded by Sophie Landers (drums/vocals) and Kevin Gibbard (guitar/vocals) but now recently fleshed out to a trio with Matt Holt joining on bass, Black Doldrums deal in a dark, shoegazing psych that melds gothic post-punk with a leather-clad rock’n’roll spirit.
Having already cultivated a die-hard following in the psych underground, Kevin and Sophie set to work on their long-awaited debut album in 2020. Their original plans were to travel to New York to record the album with Jared Artaud of fellow label-mates The Vacant Lots however the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns and travel restrictions inevitably put a stop to that. Instead, they recorded the album in London with Artaud producing and mixing the album remotely from Brooklyn. “It made for an interesting collaboration as the distance could have been an obstacle”, Sophie recalls, “but it actually helped creativity as we were more inclined to stay in touch and have really decent phone calls at length discussing the songs in a lot of detail. We really enjoyed those conversations with Jared about music and all of our influences. I think you can hear on the record that it is a full collaboration.”
The more collaborative effort of ‘Dead Awake’ finds Black Doldrums switching gears and adopting a cleaner, more precise creative approach than that of their earlier material: “The idea was to be absolutely brutal with our songs and cut them down to what we only felt was necessary. Up until this point we had been experimenting and were happy with what we had created but we no longer felt the need to hide behind too much reverb and an excessive amount of guitars. It still sounds like us but it has all the elements needed to stand the test of time.” The result is an album that feels colder and more stripped back – the effects are still there but stripped down to their fundamentals so that the songs themselves take precedence over any wall-of-sound deliria.
Check out the album's tracklist and the video for their new single "Sad Paradise" below.
Dead Awake Tracklist:
01. Sad Paradise
02. Into Blue
03. Sleepless Nights
04. Now You Know This
05. Dreamcatcher
06. All For You
07. Runaway
08. Sidewinder
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Watch: Justine Forever Drops Lyric Video for "Vague Feat. LALO"
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from her debut album "𝐹𝐿𝐴𝑆𝐻", which came out last in October through Her Majesty's Ship. Get it here.
Watch the clip below.
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