‘Bubble’ is a 13-part cerebral mystery that unravels on songs that bring to mind the gruff sentimentality of the late Kris Kristofferson, Lennon’s ‘Jealous Guy’, Eels at their most troubled and the American Gothic sketches of David Ackles; the perfect soundtrack for a Raymond Carver book club.
This deluxe Medicine Show reissue arrives as an expansive 4xCD box set, collecting 42 Dream Syndicate tracks that span rare live recordings, radio sessions, rehearsals, demos, and previously unreleased material from 1983 to 1984
Evan Dando from The Lemonheads teamed up with our friends at Verdant Brewery to celebrate the band’s first new album in almost two decades! The result is 'Marauders Of The Sea', a 6.5% hazy IPA brewed at Verdant’s Penryn brewery with Evan rolling up his sleeves and getting stuck into brew day. Inspired by a track from their upcoming record 'Love Chant'
'Long March Through the Jazz Age' is the last recorded work by Chris Bailey and The Saints. It’s a moving farewell - a testament to a restless, uncompromising artist who always moved forward, one of rock’s great lyricists and iconoclasts
'Diary of a Candle' is a consoling, melodic suite – with tender woodwinds and richly-layered strings touched by the hazy atmospheres of 1970s/1980s films. Its understated heart-on sleeve romanticism follows the rhythm of nature: it bends in the breeze, drifts through the air, and settles on the ground. The ambiance is not an escapism, but the re-focusing of a lens through which humans are no longer the protagonists. Instead, a landscape's intimate details become the central figures
New single 'Kassandra' showcases a band unafraid to merge experimentation and traditional songwriting, a microcosm for their new album. Throwing you in at the deep end with an introductory electronic gurgle, 'Kassandra' has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday, chiming its way through ever-spiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals - all tinged with the band's signature lo-fi bite
Whitney K's new single 'Something Strange' at once welcomes you with a warm, fuzzy embrace. Its progression is familiar and intuitive, like a childhood memory uprooted by some recognised scent, as you pass by muffled vocal samples and faintly squeaking synthesizers also caught in its current
A lo-fi psych-pop ballad about the moment love disappears and the guilt, shame and fear left in its wake, ‘Hold It’ is the brand-new single by isle of Eigg-based Scottish psychedelic electronic-pop ogre Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail. The first new Pictish material since his acclaimed 2022 album Island Family is produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP)
'The Key of Victory' is all slow motion and soft shadows — a modal, meditative piece anchored by Apollo Nove’s winding guitar and Erin Rae’s spectral harmonies. Written with David Ashby (Rum Shebeen), its vocal was recorded at Abbey Road. Stamped with a profound lightness and beauty, 'The Key of Victory' is indicative of the songwriting diversity at play on Love Chant.