SHADER Announce Debut LP 'Everything Is Connected'

North Staffordshire indie rock band Shader have announced the release of their highly-anticipated debut full-length album 'Everything Is Connected'.

The album was produced by Gavin Monahagan (Editors) with additional production from Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers) and Tom Longworth and will be out through Run On Records on 28th October.  

SHADER are known for delivering an eclectic swirl of huge melodic guitar riffs & northern grooves colliding with addictive arena-sized choruses. 

The record features new single ‘Streets Tell Stories’ (set to arrive on October 14), as well as 11 other new songs which includes the already slated second key radio single, ‘Figure It Out’ which will follow the release of this single. Earlier in SHADER’s career demo version of tunes that would later form the core of ‘Everything Is Connected’ had caught the ear of none other than Clint Boon ex -Inspiral Carpets in his late radio presenter role, with Clint taking the opportunity of playing some unreleased SHADER to none other his radio studio guest at that time, Noel Gallagher famously a long time roadie with The Inspiral Carpets in his pre OASIS days.    

Speaking of the track Stu states ‘Streets Tell Stories’ “is a song about the social anxiety of decadence slowly creeping into a person's life. The inspiration began when Daz and myself were in my car outside our old practice room in Stoke. We witnessed a workman in a hi-vis walking out of a bookies covered from head to toe in blood pouring from his nose. He walked down the street and stopped at a cash point to draw out money. He then walked back into the bookies. That said a lot about his situation in 30 seconds and the idea of 'Streets Tell Stories' was born. The lyrics are about that incident but then expand on how easily someone can become that person dealing with their struggles in an unforgiving world. The outro lyrics 'Let me go' is a plea to escape your situation or town or both. The feeling of the song pushes against the stark reality of the lyrics and gives the feeling of not giving up and fighting against your state of mind or situation. It's essentially a song of faith in moving forward.”

Watch/listen a snippet of "Streets Tell Stories" below.

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Emperor of Ice Cream Drop "I See You Everywhere" Music Video

Irish indie rock/dream pop band Emperor of Ice Cream have dropped the video for their latest single "I See You Everywhere".

The song is part of our current playlist and came out last week (September 23) via Fifa Records.

From the outside ‘I See You Everywhere’ is a vivacious, end of summer, indie pop song but it in fact deals with the extremely serious topic of Parental Alienation; the process through which a child becomes estranged from a parent as the result of being wrongly influenced or through psychological manipulation by the other parent, and current efforts in Ireland to have the laws pertaining to it changed. Whether executed wilfully, or unwittingly, Parental Alienation is heart-breaking, and can be akin to torture for the alienated parent, but also have detrimental effects on the innocent child if they are forced to suffer long term separation from all those who love them. 

Watch the clip below.

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Deathsport Unleash New Single "TAXES"

German indie rock duo Deathsport (comprised by brothers Tom and Mike Zitzelsberger) have unleashed their new single "TAXES".

From the duo: "Taxes is a poem about the end of the world and our first world mindset when we think about this apocalyptic scenario. Maybe someday we will all face consequences for how we are treating each other and then we’d be happy to pay our taxes, too."

Take a listen below.

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Pennine Suite Air Music Video For "Far"

York indie rock band Pennine Suite have aired the video for their latest single "Pass On You".

The song is part of our current playlist and came out in July. Get it here.

Watch the video below.

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Nile Marr Returns With New Single "Lonely Hearts Killers"

Manchester singer/songwriter Nile Marr has returned with his new single "Lonely Hearts Killers".

Following on from 2020's debut album 'Are You Happy Now?', Manchester's Nile Marr returns with Self Care, the first track off his sophomore LP 'Lonely Hearts Killers'.

"I wanted to this one to feel different to my previous album. Songs came out quickerand I mostly recorded it at night in the Mill, I just tried to go with the late night vibe" says Marr.

"I got back into listening to all the bands that made me want to write songs in the first place, like the Lilys and Neil Finn. I guess the whole album was trying to focus on song writing, and because I couldn’t play live during lockdown, I focussed more on song writing rather than ‘I know this works at our live shows', so I feel like this one differs in every wayfrom my previous album".

For fans of Broken Social Scene, Big Star and Elliott Smith, 'Lonely Hearts Killers' is released on vinyl, Friday 3rd February 2023, on Oldham Street Records.

Take a listen below.

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FEET Share New Single "Can't Get In"

Coventry, UK indie rock band FEET have shared their new single “Can't Get In”.

The song is out now via their new label home Nice Swan Records and follows-on from their EP ‘Walking Machine'. Grab it here.

“’Can’t Get In’ explores the stages of fear and hope when trapped outside your safest space” explain the band. “That little dance with survival, that ultimately resolves itself with common sense.”

Mellor Reveal Music Video For "Battle Hardened"

Reading indie rock band Mellor have revealed the video for their latest single "Battle Hardened".

The song is part of our current playlist and came out on September 16, it is taken from their upcoming debut album 'Problematic Passions', which is set to be released on the 11th of November via Triple B Records.

Watch the video below.

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L'objectif Return With New Single/Video "The Dance You Sell"

Leeds indie rock band L'objectif have returned with their new single "The Dance You Sell" and its accompanying video.

The song is out today (Sept 28) through Chess Club Records and follows the release of their EP 'We Aren’t Getting Out but Tonight We Might', back in June. Get it here.

Frontman Saul Kane says: “I noticed that some people, including myself, can desire for a past that didn’t serve them at all. It’s like a yearning for a place of comfort but that comfort can depress you. This is something I’m learning and I guess you can see it in the narrative of the song, going from words of passion and love to just a general distaste. You convince yourself you need to be ‘stuck’ in this place, even though you feel completely different to how you used to. It’s this comfort we find in dullness that sometimes stops people from moving forward.”

Watch/listen below.

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Gathering of Strangers Unleash "Red and Gold" Music Video

Manchester indie rock band/alt Gathering of Strangers have unleashed the video for their latest single "Red and Gold".

The song is part of our current playlist and came out last month (Aug 19), get it here. Described by the band as being about “having the time of your life with your lover or your family. Simply dancing from sunset to sunrise all night long”, that sense of sheer elation is palpable across the track’s runtime.

"My absolute favourite time of the day is just after sunset, and you have about five minutes when the sun has disappeared, but it has turned the whole sky a golden red. I wanted to capture my feelings during those 5 minutes and put it in a song" explains frontman Conor Rabone.

“Having come out of the pandemic and not being allowed to go anywhere. We felt this was absolutely necessary to write an upbeat, feel-good track to go hand in hand with this beautiful summer of freedom.”

Watch the clip below.

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Stanleys Share Music Video For "Time Waits For No One"

Wigan indie pop/rock four-piece Stanleys have shared the video for their newest single "Time Waits For No One".

The song is part of our current playlist and came out on Sept 9, grab it here. “I think it’s a massive step up in terms of production, song writing and most importantly our performance as a band. The last 5 years of hard work and perfecting ourselves have culminated in this release,” the band said.

Watch the clip below.

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Western Column Drops New Single "Club Orange"

Glasgow dram pop act Western Column, the solo project of Dutch Wine guitarist Christopher Devine has dropped his new single "Club Orange".

The song is out today, September 23 via Negative Hope Records and flits between a pulsating head bopping basement indie dance energy and a hushed beauty, all the while maintaining that sun-washed dream pop vibe Western Column built with his singles to date.

Moving from strength to strength ‘Club Orange’ feels fuller and more confident than Western Column’s previous outings, Devine’s vocals come across more self assured yet maintain an almost settling hazy wonder, while the imaginative guitar work teeters a fine line between shoegaze wonder and star gazing bedroom pop.

Western Column is the DIY solo project of Christopher Devine, and sees the Dutch Wine guitarist go down his own path, while his band continue to build their own name, threading a dancey, sun kissed element to his an optimistic shoegazey sound going on instincts alone to create a sound true to himself.

“With ‘Club Orange’ there is a general feeling of everything that was going on at that time, it’s more an atmosphere than a specific topic.

“I've always liked really upbeat tunes that are still kind of sad, so it’s got a dancey groove with the drums and bass and then put some dream poppy guitars over it so it'd be like a kind of nice clash.

“I purely go off off a feeling, so everything I'm listening to combined and then whatever is exciting me, there's no other parameter or filter that it has to go through. I don’t ask myself would other people like this? Or is this cool? It’s purely, do I feel something for this?”

Stream it  below.

Courting Reveal New Single/Video "Famous"

Liverpool post punk band Courting have revealed the video for their new single "Famous".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their debut album 'Guitar Music', out today,  September 23 via Play It Again Sam. Grab your copy here.

Going on to speak on the album Murphy-O’Neill said: “Guitar Music is the opposite of our early releases in that it is very emotional. The stories told may be from the perspective of other characters at times, but these songs are always filled with actual feelings. We're no longer trying to hide that.

We felt that Guitar Music as a phrase was reductive and therefore decided to create a record with the intention of it being a body of work that could redeem being a “guitar band”, by pushing it to different boundaries. To us, this record is a statement piece, it felt very exciting to make, to us, it feels a lot more special than we’d originally expected it would be.”

Watch/listen below.

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Emperor of Ice Cream Share New Single "I See You Everywhere"

Irish indie rock/dream pop band Emperor of Ice Cream have shared their new single "I See You Everywhere".

The song is out today (September 23) via Fifa Records, and was mixed/produced by Graham Finn. 

From the outside ‘I See You Everywhere’ is a vivacious, end of summer, indie pop song but it in fact deals with the extremely serious topic of Parental Alienation; the process through which a child becomes estranged from a parent as the result of being wrongly influenced or through psychological manipulation by the other parent, and current efforts in Ireland to have the laws pertaining to it changed. Whether executed wilfully, or unwittingly, Parental Alienation is heart-breaking, and can be akin to torture for the alienated parent, but also have detrimental effects on the innocent child if they are forced to suffer long term separation from all those who love them. 

This song sees The Emperor’s sound continue to evolve, while maintaining their trade-mark basslines, raw and melodic guitars, topped by elegant, lush vocals and harmonies. The band bring in a fresher and raw sound as heard on their last single ‘Weather Vane’, letting the parts speak for themselves rather than enveloping the sound with pedals and production tricks.

Stream it below.

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Petty Cassettes Air New Single 'The Call'

Glasgow indie rock band Petty Cassettes have aired their new single "The Call".

The band finished 2021 strong with the release of 2 singles; Rydo & Julianne and Smells Like Teen Spirit, which put them firmly in the public eye receiving encouraging reviews and literally thousands of national and global airplay. They ended the year performing at the legendary Barrowlands as support to Scottish 80s icons Hipsway, and hit the ground running in 2022 with their first sold out hometown show to promote Good Enough. 

Their songs vary from energetic tunes to mellow ballads. Neck deep in their origins, they are the soundtrack of choice for any party night. Influenced by different genres, the result is an explosive mix of upbeat-indie-rock songs and marching ballads, a song for everyone...a song to everyone!

On the single, the band explains: "We are the people enslaved by the weight of society. Riches and politicians thrive while on the street a choice between food and shelter have to be made. The Call is the song born from the people who are in need of setting things square. We are the muscle of society and we want to be heard, to be respected. We are not cattle, we are not machines! We are men and women and we will answer to the call."

Get it here and stream it below.

Holy Ship Releases "Hail Haze" Music Video

Stockholm based indie rock/psychedelic/shoegaze artist Jonatan Westh aka Holy Ship has released the video for his newest single "Hail Haze".

The song features as one of out Best Tracks of the Week and is out now via US label Declared Goods ahead of the full new EP 'Sun Macabre' out soon. Get it here.

‘Hail Haze’ is a driving rhythmic track blending shoegaze and fuzzy psych rock riffs, for a now signature sound that is Holy Ship.

For Holy Ship’s new single ‘Hail Haze’, Westh’s lyrical themes touch on breaking free of personal traps, how one navigates in a world that is being more and more polarized where it feels like things are moving backwords instead of progress. With roots of late 90’s electronic driven psych rock, and shoegaze, Westh’s ‘Hail Haze’ is a welcomed new rock energy.

Watch the video below.

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Circa Waves Announce New LP 'Never Going Under', Stream "Do You Wanna Talk"

Liverpool indie rock four-piece Circa Waves have announced the release of their fifth studio album 'Never Going Under'.

The 11-track record will be out on January 13th, 2023 via Lower Third / PIAS, and sees the band continue to push themselves into new territories and effortlessly cement their place in the scene. Pre-order your copy here.

Speaking about the record, frontman Kieran Shudall says: “Never Going Under speaks to that uniquely modern phenomenon of genuinely not knowing what type of world our kids are going to find themselves in in 30 years. Physically, environmentally, politically we are completely in the unknown. That scares us all but ultimately we know we can never give up on the future because how can you? The songs on the album are written differently from the previous work we’ve put out. They are written from the perspective of my son and also from my own current experience of the climate today. Circa waves have always had a certain world view, but now it’s through that lens of being a father and still not knowing what the hell is going on. Never Going Under is a snapshot of the fear we all feel today and the resilience we will need to get through it.”

The band have also released the driving new single “Do You Wanna Talk”, an instantly infectious indie banger, DYWT is the perfect Circa Waves song – combining upbeat lyrical delivery with raucous, rousing instrumentation, culminating in a late contender for song of the summer. Accompanying the track is a video directed by the band’s own Joe Falconer, which offers an early insight into the visual identity of Never Going Under as a project.

Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "Do You Wanna Talk", below.

Never Going Under Tracklist:

1. Never Going Under

2. Do You Wanna Talk

3. Hell On Earth

4. Your Ghost

5. Carry You Home

6. Northern Town

7. Electric City

8. Want It All Today

9. Golden Days

10. Hold On

11. Living in the Grey

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Sports Unveil Music Video For "Get a Good Look"

Tulsa indie pop/indie rock duo Sports (aka Cale Chronister and Christian Theriot) have unveiled the video for their latest single "Get a Good Look".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their album 'Get A Good Look', released earlier this year (February 12). Get your copy here.

Watch the clip below.

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October Drift Release Music Video For "Waltzer"

Taunton indie rock/alt four-piece October Drift have released the video for their latest single "Waltzer".

The song is is taken from their upcoming second album 'I Don't Belong Anywhere', set to arrive on October 14th via Physical Education Recordings. Pre-order it here.

Frontman Kiran Roy explains: “I guess it's mainly about the fog of depression. It’s a kind of focus lens on my lowest and darkest thoughts, as well as a reflection of people I love and care about who have themselves battled with these kinds of things.”

Watch the video 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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Candy Coffins Share New Single "Seaside Girls"

South Carolina-based post-punk/indie rock outfit Candy Coffins have shared their new single "Seaside Girls".

The song is taken from their forthcoming new album 'Once Do It With Feeling', set to be released on  October 21. Pre-order your copy here.

“Once Do It With Feeling” chronicles a relationship from the onset of the first crack to its complete crumbling dissolution. All the feelings and emotions of tumult are captured here, from both persons’ perspectives. The record showcases the mature strides the songwriting has made and relates these themes via the vehicle of the band in its confident, cohesive current form.

Emotionally and sonically saturated, their music boasts Cure-esque textures and melody, as well as the thematic elements and visceral delivery of The Afghan Whigs.

Speaking about he single, frontman-songwriter Jame Lathrensays: "When the pandemic hit, I decided I would not write a dark song as the first one written during the period. It seemed too easy given the times. It took me three months, but we got 'Seaside Girls' from the effort, which is an upbeat sun-drenched rocker on the new album, 'Once Do It With Feeling.' It’s all the rage."

Stream it below.

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