TEEEL Reveal "Dreamers Never Sleep" Music Video

New Jersey electronic/synth pop/synth wave outfit TEEEL have revealed the video for their latest single "Dreamers Never Sleep".

The song is taken from their brand new album 'We Live Here Now', released last month (August 22). Buy your copy here.

Watch the video below.

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The Early Mornings Drop New Single "It's Not What You Want"

Manchester post punk/guitar pop/art rock band The Early Mornings have dropped their new single "It's Not What You Want".

The trio take inspiration from bands like The Breeders, The Raincoats, The Feelies, VU and The Fall, the band share a love for both angular guitars and pop melodies. 

The song is out now, get it here and take a listen below.

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LIFE Unleash "Shipping Forecast" Video & New Track "Hull Sky"

British indie rock/pop band Life have unleashed the video for their latest single "Shipping Forecast" and the b-side track "Hull Sky".

The song is taken from their upcoming new album ‘North East Coastal Town’, released last month (August 19). Buy it here

Of the tracks, the band say: “‘Shipping Forecast’ is a track that is awash with Hull’s nautical heritage,” the band’s Mez Green has said of the track. “The music channels the power of the waves somewhere between Dogger and Humber.

“It’s an urgent and powerful track that grapples with the need to get home and pins themes of toxic social media and control to its mast.

“The track was one of the first to be written from ‘North East Coastal Town’ and its energy and mood very much set the scene of our recording process.”

“‘Hull Sky’ sneers, stomps and powers along with themes of romance,” Mez says. “Whilst it didn’t quite fit the feel of ‘North East Coastal Town’, we’re excited to release it as the b-side to one of our favourite songs off the new album.”

Watch/listen below.

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Acid Dad Unveil New Single/Video "Get Me High"

NYC psych-punk band Acid Dad have unveiled their new single "Get Me High", alongside an accompanying music video.

In 2021, while continuing to independently produce all their own music, art and even building their own guitars, Acid Dad produced their second LP 'Take It From The Dead' and spent time building a studio space in Queens, NY. Unfortunately that studio was lost in a catastrophic flood brought in by Hurricane Ida later that year, but thankfully its energy and soul were captured with the bands live film and album ‘Levitation Sessions,’ recorded only a few months prior. 

In 2022 the band is set to release their new 7” single ‘Get Me High’, featuring an otherworldly video by Acid Dad visual artist Webb Hunt. The B-Side “Brain Body” was recorded live at Shaky Knees Festival in April 2022.  The band will tour all of October supporting Australia’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets across the entire USA with festival stops including both Desert Daze and Levitation.  

“Since our studio was destroyed by the hurricane Ida floods, our music has been heavily influenced by the nature of water. ‘Get Me High’ is about trying to grasp a breath after unexpectedly losing everything. Inspired by children’s cartoons, pipe systems, and fluid dynamics, we created Ding Ding, creatures who find themselves lost in a foreign psychedelic world.” - Acid Dad 

Watch/listen below.

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Hotel Lux Announce Debut LP 'Hands Across The Creek', Stream "Common Sense"

Portsmouth/London post punk/pub-rock five-piece Hotel Lux have announced the release of their debut full-length album 'Hands Across The Creek'. 

The 10-track record was produced by Bill Ryder-Jones and will be out on January 27th via The state51 Conspiracy. Pre-order your copy here.

New single 'Common Sense' takes songwriting influence from The Beautiful South and lyrical inspiration from RMT strikers and trade union leader Mick Lynch. The use of direct and plain-English reveals an incisiveness and a considered contemplation of modern Britain in 2022. 

On the single, the band say, "Common Sense is  about how the media are aware that apathy is the greatest enemy of social shift, how we are being taken for fools and we’ve become numb to it.”

Once contenders for the mantle of Britain’s most self-conscious band — guilty, by their own admission, of pandering to audiences’ tastes following their move from Pompey to London — Hotel Lux have crafted a bold and bright identity that is truly their own on their brilliant debut album Hands Across The Creek. All it took was for their wildest dreams to be dashed.

 

Early, clattering pub-rock singles had received widespread acclaim, but “there was always that little voice in your head,” says bassist Cam. The anxieties were hardly quelled when the band’s big break in America proved a non-starter in 2020 after SXSW Festival was cancelled. The announcement came just as Hotel Lux completed the fundraising incentives for their planned appearance in the wake of the ‘Barstool Preaching’ EP release. “We were gutted,” vocalist Lewis Duffin remembers.

Lewis and Cam, alongside guitarist Sam Coburn, drummer Craig MacVicar, and new members Max Oliver (guitar) and Dillon Home (organ; violin), were left stumped: “it was the most fragile we’ve been”, says Cam. With touring off the cards, the dream of releasing an album was what kept them going – even though it took “a long time” and “a lot of arguments” before they settled on a sound to call their own. “Craig and Sam got hooked on ESG,” Lewis explains — referring to the ‘80s NYC post-punk band known for their funky rhythms and simple refrains. “I hated that. It was doing my head in.”

But with new guitarist Max (of fellow South London band LEGSS) bringing a “harsher, more tone-y Telecaster sound” with him in 2020, the roots of Hotel Lux’s transformation were soon in place. The band’s classic influences — Dr Feelgood, The Stranglers and Ian Dury — meshed with the sounds of artists like Neil Young, Brian Eno and The Waterboys, and, in the end, Hotel Lux found themselves “doing the whole ‘haha, that’s what the fourth album will sound like’ thing” on their first, says Cam.

They decamped to The Wirral, near Liverpool, with Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral; Arctic Monkeys) as multi-faceted influences, £20 Casio keyboards and marauding song structures fell into place. Since the recording was completed, Hotel Lux have already found some vindication: they managed to make it to SXSW this year, after being invited back by the organisers. Now, Hotel Lux look set to become something their early critics might have not foreseen: a band full of confidence, with the ability to transcend their peers and carve out their own corner of the British music tapestry. “It feels really important,” Lewis concludes. “We spent a lot of time worrying.”

Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Common Sense", below.

Hands Across The Creek Tracklisting:

1. Old Timer 

2. Common Sense 

3. National Team

4. Eastbound and Down

5. Strut 

6. Morning After Mourning 

7. An Ideal For Living 

8. Points Of View 

9. Easy Being Lazy 

10. Solidarity Song

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Ghost Car Premiere New Single/Video "Selfish, Spoiled"

London-based international punk quartet Ghost Car have premiered the video for their new single "Selfish, Spoiled".

The song is taken from their upcoming debut album ‘Truly Trash’, set to be release on October 28th via One Little Independent Records. Pre-order your copy here.

Speaking about it, the ban said: “we’d definitely found our groove writing together collectively, this one’s about that person in the creative industry (I’m sure everyone knows someone) who is so overly privileged getting pay outs from their mega rich parents, while other artists from working class backgrounds have to work so much harder for any type of ‘exposure’ while doing their day job. 16% of people in creative jobs come from working class backgrounds according to PEC”. 

Ghost Car worked closely in the making of the satirical video with art director Claudia Torán who tells us; “The story behind the video is that dinner guests played by the band represent ‘the system’ itself, (politicians, bourgeoisie, etc. portrayed in an exaggerated, ironic, sarcastic way) whilst ‘enjoying’ what appears to be a lavish dinner party. With fake attitudes and ungrateful behaviour. They don’t want to face any problems or injustices. Only interested in their egos. It’s later revealed that the dinner party, like ‘the system’, is rotten. Nothing is what it appears to be. Everything is now chaotic and the characters destroy everything, transforming into crazed guests, challenging the camera, trying to get the message through “will you ever open your eyes?” 

They continue; "This feels particularly relevant in the current climate, in recent times what feels like a nationalistic fervour has been unleashed. An oppressive media imposes its own narrative, and doesn’t reflect a country where millions of people are not able to eat and heat their homes.” 

The video also sees them teaming up again with videographer Simon Eaves and artist Maria De La O Garrido who created the extravagant props and set design.

Watch/listen below.

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Stealing Sheep Release "Never Gonna Live Up" Music Video

Liverpool-based indie pop/folktronic trio Stealing Sheep have released the video for their latest single "Never Gonna Live Up".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent album 'WOW MACHINE', which came out on June 24 via Both Sides Records. Get your copy here.

Wow Machine is a special commission album inspired by electronic music’s female pioneers that takes a deep dive into the realms of electronics, sampling, splicing , looping and reversing.

“It’s about the overwhelming feeling of wanting to give up and the anger and frustration that arises as you keep striving but never get anywhere, wading through the mud pushing against the machine”, says Emily.

Their new video, the first they've directed, produced and edited themselves, depicts floating human heads lost in the ether, malfunctioning, glitching out and loosing their humanity.

“Synthetic everything’ surrounds us, face filters, virtual realities, perfected avatars…we’re living in the deep fake. How is this affecting our mental state? How does it control our next move? How will our mortal imperfections ever live up to that of the machines?”, says Bex.

Although the depiction is distopic, the overriding feeling is of empowerment and that nothing can replace human idiosyncrasy, that true beauty lies in imperfection.

Watch the video below.

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Bleach Lab Air New Single/Video "If You Only Feel It Once"

South London-based indie/dream pop four-piece Bleach Lab have aired their new single "If You Only Feel It Once", alongside an accompanying music video.

The song is taken from their forthcoming third EP 'If You Only Feel It Once', set to arrive on 4th November via Nettwerk. Pre-order your copy here.

Watch/listen below.

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TVAM Reveals New Single/Video "Semantics"

Manchester psych/electronic musician Joe Oxley, aka TVAM, has revealed the video for his new single "Semantics".

The song is taken from his forthcoming new album 'High Art Lite', set to be released on 28 October via Invada Records. Pre-order your copy here.

Featuring 11 brand new tracks inc. ‘Double Lucifer’, ‘Piz Buin’ and ‘Semantics’, High Art Lite takes a different tilt to its predecessor by emphasising the immediate and the personal. The colours are blown-out and the brightness is cranked up. TVAM’s take on such things as role models, fictional movie character tropes, and fables of good and evil, are all tackled with the same suspicious cynicism but this time with an urgent belief in the human condition.

Watch/listen below.

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Chappaqua Wrestling Drop New Single/Video "Wayfinding"

London via Manchester indie/alt band Chappaqua Wrestling have dropped the video for their brand new single "Wayfinding".

“‘Wayfinding’ is a song to guide you through the ups and downs of doing something you really believe in,” they explain. “However glossy-eyed you are on a weekend about life, the mid-week lull can come to ruin it. The monotony of work, the routine of debt via rent and pub eating at your soul.”

“Sometimes you gotta be strong and ignore the present depressing times, and think about how generally things are moving in the right direction. You have to believe.”

The song is out today (September 21) via EMI, grab it here. and watch/listen below.

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Indigo Bay Unleash New Single "Say What You Wanna Say"

Grimsby, UK indie rock/indie pop/alt band Indigo Bay have unleashed their new single "Say What You Wanna Say".

The song is out now and is taken from their forthcoming debut EP ‘After Dark’, set to arrive on November 9th via Heist or Hit. Get it here.

vocalist/guitarist Callum Minks explains: “’Say What You Wanna Say’ is upbeat, summery, and talks about coming together and helping each other. It’s about holding onto your dream and chasing it. I have a bad habit of comparing myself with others which stops me from enjoying things, so the first verse is about having this dream but then feeling overwhelmed with how fast life seems to be flowing. Everyone else appears to be taking it in their stride, whereas I seem to be struggling to keep my head above the water.”

“The second verse is about reassurance. It mentions a light at the end of the tunnel and that people are around to help you get through tough times. So the song is a pick me up to make your voice heard and do what you want to do!”

Watch/listen below.

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