Alec Ounsworth had weathered a storm. This, in some fashion, is how every Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album is born. The good and bad of life unfold, and after time and distance, Ounsworth begins making sense of it all in song. Yet as much as Ounsworth’s new songs emerged from grief and confusion and … Read more
With their new album, Gun-Shy,SMILE capture the energy of their live performances on record. Anyone who has seen the band, whose members now live in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Cologne perform live will be familiar with the unrestrained stage presence of singer and performer Rubee Fegan. SMILE recorded Gun-Shy with producer, Olaf Opal and have sucessfully managed … Read more
How Could I Hate You? is the second full-length album from Louis O’Hara written on a secret tour of the US West Coast in January 2026 and recorded in March 2026 at Real World Studios in Wiltshire with James Trevascus (engineer to Billy Nomates, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Young Fathers etc). The record features … Read more
Yoo Doo Right’s music weaves contemplative melodies, rich chromatic harmonies, and manifold effect chains into resilient cadences that anchor a shifting landscape of sounds and structures; Justin Cober (electric guitars, bass VI, synthesizers, piano, tape recordings, voice) and John Talbot (drums, percussion) create a unique sound where “towering monoliths of roaring riffs crash against swarms … Read more
Just beneath the sleek, confident guitar line that powers “Overdrive,” the lead single of Imperial Teen’s seventh studio album All Over You — out October 9, 2026 on the band’s longtime home Merge Records — another guitar marks the time more impatiently, as if the groove its locked into is the timebomb-tightness of a pre-hookup … Read more
Amsterdam 5-piece, The Klittens, are releasing their long-awaited debut album, Have a Heart, combining their love of pop music with a dark sensibility and their own unique punk ethos. Drawing inspiration from a range of artists including The Ronettes, MF Doom, Dry Cleaning and Kate Bush – the band have successfully crafted a sound that is truly and twistedly their … Read more
Brooklyn based, TVOD are releasing their second album, The Farm, on 16th October on Mothland. Less than a year afterthe release of their debut album, Party Time, TVOD were back in the studio, this time in Leeds, recording their second full-length with producer, Danny Blackburn of Adult DVD. The new album finds the band pushing their sound … Read more
Wasuremono is a vehicle for William Southward’s songs, for which he’s now spent the last decade crafting infectious, hook-laden, indie-pop music from his garden shed in Bradford-On-Avon. An independent and autonomous artist to the core, on past albums he has had his hands involved at every stage of the production, from songwriting to mixing and … Read more
For the Sake of Stillness is a slow swoon, all those small moments that make up the real, ongoing process of falling in love: with your life, with sound, with yourself, with the people that surround you. From bassist and vocalist Melanie Radford (Built to Spill, Blood Lemon) Stillness is a solo offering of music … Read more
On the alternate timeline where the Meat Puppets inherited the bulk of the Grateful Dead’s tourheads when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, none of this would be necessary, because Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders are a household name for evolving their own musical space that overlays dusty folk, cosmic jazz, deep psych, free improv, … Read more