Abstract Vision is the second EP from up and coming Swindon shoegazers Rain. Formed in 2015, Rain began making waves a year later, releasing an EP, Symphony Pains. It was three tracks of blissed out shoegaze recalling My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, and received attention in the UK from BBC Radio 1, and KEXP in […]Read More
Ermis Madikopoulos takes a look at 'Circles', the latest EP from Lightscape, which features glossy production courtesy of Oz Craggs (Mallory Knox, Neck Deep), giving it a polished sheen that is built for arenas. Read More
With EP2 Yaeji demonstrates a confident, fully developed sound even this early in her career, writes Jack Hollis.Read More
Beth Kirkbride sinks her ears into the nostalgia-trip of a release, 'Crush' by Birmingham-based band, Quinn. Read More
Ermis reckons the intensity has been ramped up on COPE's latest EP, 'Tooth and Nail'. Read More
Fans have been waiting for Alice Glass to release a solo record ever since she left Crystal Castles in 2014. Jack Hollis interrogates whether her new self-titled EP is worth the wait... Read More
Two Ways Home produce country music with an authentic American sound – a couple of years back they released their EP Better Days, which received critical applause and acclaim all around. Two years have passed and they have now released another four-track collection, the Closest Stranger EP, making it their third release. The folky duo […]Read More
Are you a fan of pummeling hardcore and southern metal? Then All At Sea are the band for you. Emerging from the North East, this band creates a intense sound with heavy riffs influenced by Malevolence to Rage Against the Machine. As well as embarking on a mini-tour in July, the band are making an […]Read More
Suffolk rock band In My Disguise are heavily influenced by Muse and Audioslave, driven by an appetite for big riffs and choruses. The band played at the ‘Independent Venue Week’ festival at The John Peel Centre in Stowmarket. Earlier this year, they signed to Domino PR and this week release their debut EP Achromatic. Achromatic balances the […]Read More
If you happen to be a believer in the cyclical nature of local indie scenes, you may be wondering when the capital will next produce a band that will have you leaping out of your skinny jeans with interest. This is where the shot pans to Secret Cameras. Something of a motley crew of ex-members […]Read More
Seramic has just released his awaited second EP – it’s named I Got You after the song that earned him a nomination for a Berlin Music Video Award, for its unique visual including members of the Great British Olympic Synchronised Swimming team. Seramic makes infectious slick pop music with smooth R&B undertones, and the six tracks which feature […]Read More
Tom Lumley has carved out a reputation supporting established indie artists such as The Hunna and Coasts. This has helped boost his audience, while he’s also been honing his songwriting craft. This has resulted in the release of his new EP Dream City, which came out earlier this year. The EP starts with ‘Done My Time’, […]Read More
It can at times verge on the impossible to tell in our post-physical, PR-saturated music world just how authentic the buzz around ‘that’ new band really is. It’s hard not to question who exactly is whipping up the latest frenzy: label, blogger, friends in the industry or, just perhaps, the band themselves? Vida, a quintet from […]Read More
Steve Lacy has done a lot considering his age: he’s 18 and helped co-produce a Grammy nominated album called Ego Death and produced for many contemporary singers/rappers, including Kali Uchis, Isaiah Rashad and TWENTY88. He’s the the guitarist and vocalist for The Internet, whose members all have solid foundations, together and separately: last month Syd dropped […]Read More
Mellt have released their second EP, titled Visions, and as the name suggests, this 4-track work is one tiny ball of spacey, psychedelic dreams. Based in Vancouver, the alternative-psychedelic-rock band are proper underground at the moment, both metaphorically – relatively low, but slowly expanding following, and literally, due to the fact that the album has […]Read More
