Still Parade has revealed a new track, details of an upcoming EP – and his until-now secret identity. The act, who unveiled two acclaimed tracks last year, has been unveiled as Berlin-based songwriter and producer Niklas Kramer. Kramer has now…
We’re always excited to hear about an artist doing something a bit different, so the latest album from Thomas Truax really caught our attention. Trolls, Girls and Lullabies is a soundtrack to a German production of the Henrik Ibsen play Peer…
Bona fide music legend Kate Bush is to play a series of London shows this summer. Bush, who has not toured since 1979, has announced a run of 15 dates at the Hammersmith Apollo from August 26 to September 19.…
What is a modern love song? That’s the question Alva Leigh asks in her debut single, which is out later this month. Leigh, who is out of Nashville via north London, uses an appealingly restrained palette of handclaps, piano and layered…
In certain quarters (at least one of which is tucked away inside FFS Towers) Neil Young has near godlike status, so covering one of his tracks could be considered a risky strategy. With this version of ‘Heart Of Gold’, which…
If you’ve ever been unsure of quite what ‘dream pop’ means, the debut self-titled album from Lapland should leave you in little doubt. With everything slightly hazy and off-kilter, echoey and wading-through-treacle slow, if you got to the end of…
From Melbourne comes Gossling, giving us a shimmering and understated brand of folk-pop. Following on from her UK debut single ‘Wild Love’ last year, Gossling – or Helen Croome, if you want to be less poetic – brings us the…
Kishi Bashi’s second album Lighght is due out in May on Joyful Noise Recordings, and it’s possible that a label’s name has never been better suited to an artist’s sound. Frankly we would struggle to think of a better term…
South Carolina trio NEEDTOBREATHE release their latest album in April, with this track ‘The Heart’ a taste of what to expect. Slickly produced but with enough rawness to maintain a rootsy charm, this is stomping-good Southern-tinged country rock. Rivers In…
To say the Rachel Sermanni-fronted Middle Of Nowhere Recordings is on a roll at the moment would be something of an understatement. After swoonworthy recent releases from Sermanni herself and Colin Macleod, the Highlands-based label now presents Candian singer-songwriter Mo…