The Sea Bites Back from WINTER on Vimeo. W I N T E R is the second stab at a band by brothers Matt and Joe Winter, who disbanded their previous project, moved to opposite ends of the country, and…
#381 W I N T E R – The Sea Bites Back
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#379 Hudson Taylor – Weapons
Dublin brothers Hudson Taylor today release their new single, the affecting ‘Weapons’ complete with a video which stars Irish actor Liam McMahon as the victim of prison guard brutality. The band are working with producers Iain Archer and Mike Einziger…
#373 Little Chief – Mountain Song
From out of Fayetteville, Arkansas come Little Chief, a band entirely unrelated to and not the little brother of Santa Monica’s Chief. They’ve this week released their debut album Lion’s Den, described as the sound of the band that would…
#372 Darren Hayman & Emma Kupa – Look At What You Can’t Have Now
Look At What You Can’t Have Now from Darren Hayman on Vimeo. Apparently, after Darren Hayman recruited Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa for his new song ‘Look At What You Can’t Have Now’, they decided that the record should sound like…
#371 Jess Hall – Maps
Bookshelves by Jess Hall ‘Maps’ is taken from Bookshelves, the debut album from songbird Jess Hall. Although she now calls Oxford home, she hails from North Devon, and it is that region’s famed coastline which gives her so much of…
#369 Jo Hook – Inside Out
Cantebury’s Jo Hook has recorded her debut album Silence Surrounds Me with Geoffrey Richardson, 11 tracks of lush folk-pop which can shift gears from the slow and the beautiful to bright and breezy tunes in a matter of moments. For…
#367 Nick Mulvey – Cucurucu
Nick Mulvey has this week released his third single, ‘Cucurucu’, as the former Portico Quartet member gets ready for the release of his debut album First Mind in May. Besides featuring a mildly addictive title (seriously, try saying it to…
Album | Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans
The Drive-By Truckers’ 10th studio album captures the sound of a group rediscovering the fun in making music. Because the three years since the release of Go-Go Boots have largely been anything but for Patterson Hood and his once merry…
#366 Until The Bird – Nightingales
We’re not entirely sure what a post-apocalyptic alt-folk three-piece is, but apparently Until The Bird are one. With roots in Bristol, Canterbury and Lithuania, they are certainly a cosmopolitan bunch, but their sound is one steeped in folk traditions. ‘Nightingales’…
#365 Terry Emm – Starlight
Terry Emm continues to drip feed songs from his new record, which is due later in the year. ‘Starlight’, out now as a digital single, is the third song we’ve heard from the album of the same name, channelling the…