Smut – the Chicago-based band of vocalist Tay Roebuck, guitarist Andrew Min, bassist/synthesist Bell Cenower, guitarist/synthesist Sam Ruschman, and drummer Aidan O’Connor – have just released their new album How the Light Felt. On How the Light Felt, they meld the songwriting sensibilities of Oasis with the vocal delivery of the Cocteau…
Rising South London four-piece Bleach Lab have released their brand new EP If You Only Feel It Once. The fusing of inner-dialogue with external commentary is a recurring motif across the If You Only Feel It Once EP. Continuing on themes from their earlier releases - there are still clear references to…
Chicago’s Jackie Hayes shares her long-awaited debut album Over & Over, via Pack Records. Produced with longtime collaborator Billy Lemos (Omar Apollo, Binki, Dua Saleh, Lava La Rue) and mixed by Henry Stoehr of Slow Pulp, it's the follow up to Hayes’ 2021 EP There’s Always Going To Be Something. Over &…
Out now, A.O. Gerber shares new album Meet Me at the Gloaming via Hand In Hive/Father Daughter Records. Here, she carefully grapples with the constraints she was taught as a child to reach for the flourishing that comes when we look past the black and white, and into the gray gauze of…
New Jersey's Christina Ward has a knack for writing songs that inspire feelings of both nostalgia and renewal. A stirring blend of electronic infused psychedelic folk, the rising singer-songwriter has been making a name for herself since releasing a string of one-off singles in 2020. That was followed by a pair of…
Introducing your new favorite surrealist folk outfit: Youth in a Roman Field. The project was spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist, artist, writer, and activist Claire Wellin, known for being a full-time member of the Brooklyn-based indie rock powerhouse San Fermin and her time touring with Delta Rae and Once The Musical. Youth In a…
Little Destroyer are a weird noisy alt-rock band from Vancouver who’ve got a penchant for telling it straight. Hot on the heels of their exhilarating singles, feminist protest anthem 'Hitman' and euphoric 'Love and Anarchy', the trio come thrashing onto the scene with their disorderly new single 'Only Way Out' alongside their…
Featuring current and former members of PINS, Girls Names, and September Girls, today GRAVE GOODS release their debut album TUESDAY. NOTHING EXISTS. via TULLE Collective. Earlier this week they shared the final taster of the record with 'Die', which followed previous singles 'Source' and 'Come'. ‘Die’ is about so many things. It's…
Brighton-based band Inky Nite began as a lockdown project with husband-wife duo Flick and Jim West making dreamy alt-pop anthems in their seaside flat as the weeks blurred indistinguishably into one. While their melody-rich songwriting takes cues from Fleetwood Mac and Kate Bush, the hazy backdrop is a vibrant cocktail shaker of…
London-based country singer-songwriter Simeon Hammond Dallas has released her highly-anticipated second EP Make It Romantic. She also announces a London headline show at The Lexington on August 22. Following the success of her previous two singles ‘A Hundred Lovers’ and the title track ‘Make It Romantic’, Simeon doesn’t hold back with the…
