This week Melbourne’s Icypoles release their debut album My World Was Made For You via Highline Records, featuring enough gems to hang on any decent-sized necklace. The band, born out of Architecture in Helsinki, came together when Isobel Knowles was…
Three years on from her critically acclaimed debut Pen Voyage Chapter One: Singing For Change, Lánre is ready with a new EP. Single ‘Home’ is the title track, and sounds worth the wait. The song combines her experiences from the…
‘Maybe We’ll Die’ is taken from the upcoming album Amid The Flowers from Michigan duo Jane Finkel and Brian Spencer, AKA Less Is More. To celebrate the album’s release they’re planning a nationwide tour of the US with a slight…
Three years ago, the progression of Willy Vlautin’s songwriting reached its logical conclusion with the ambitious ‘musical novel’ The High Country, a concept album in which Vlautin sought to combine his increasingly successful literary career with his first love, music.…
American Nomad isn’t so much a band name for the project of Hassan El-Tayyab and Shiloh Parkerson as a description of the music they make. Country Mile, the title track from their latest album, takes you on a journey through…
The journey from Boston to New York is about three and a bit hours by road or rail, but Justin Dean Thomas did not take I-95 when he headed south west out of Beantown, instead taking the scenic route as…
Husband and wife Simon and Erica Angell met whilst appearing on the same bill in separate bands on different European tours. A chance encounter, which led to Erica falling in love with Simons haunting guitar tone and then him, resulting…
Late April may seem a slightly odd time to debut a track called ‘Winter’, but as someone who last weekend stood outside Piccadilly Records all night in temperatures which dipped to around two degrees can tell you, we’ve not quite…
Last year, Manchester’s Laurie Hulme introduced Songs For Walter, an idea to tell tales of his late grandfather’s life through music. His Meet Me At The Empire EP was perfectly formed for the job, built around stories of his grandparents’…
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