http://youtu.be/1l5LSNijRUc This is the debut effort from Manchester band Whyte Horses. While the video highlights the song’s woozy psychedelic streak, it’s some of the purest, loveliest dream pop we’ve heard in ages. The single is out next month and there’s…
If you don’t know how much we love the Staves, you haven’t been paying attention. You should be able to guess therefore how thrilled we are that there’s a new track for us to drink in. Produced by Bon Iver’s…
https://soundcloud.com/pindrop-publicity/06-cherry-thieves This is Mark Olson, founding member of the Jayhawks, and he’s making beautiful music just for you. Of the track ‘Cherry Thieves’ he says: “Here is quite a bit of ancient water stored under the granite rocks in Joshua…
Menace Beach – “Tennis Court” from stereogum on Vimeo. You wait ages for a great song about a tennis court, then two come along in a relatively short space of time. In truth, we’d never even thought there might be…
Despite being only 20, Maggie Rogers is already on to her second album, Blood Ballet. It documents her life since moving to New York City to attend the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. We love the oppressive feel to…
Kelly Oliver has brought double BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee Luke Jackson on board for this track ‘Diamond Girl’ and you can see why. The harmonies are the stand-out feature of this folk ballad. The duet is the first…
There’s nothing revolutionary about ‘SoLong’ by School, except perhaps the band’s unusual approach to spacing. It is, however, understatedly and insistently lovely, and that’s good enough for us. If anything it’s a touch old-fashioned, with a kind of 90s indie…
Today’s Song of the Day is The Jungle by Esben and the Witch, though to call it a song doesn’t quite do it justice. It’s a 15-minute epic which sits at heart of their upcoming album A New Nature, building…
Kathrin deBoer is a singer and bassist worthy or your attention. If you don’t know why she’s worthy of your attention, you probably haven’t clicked play on the little Soundcloud widget above this writing. Click it. Go on… Okay, didn’t…
We’re pretty confident you won’t hear anything else that sounds like this today. Or tomorrow. Or probably ever come to that. The track came about when Canadian Andrew Sisk unearthed a rare antique book called The Passing of the Buffalo…