Two of ME - or should that be us? - met at a spiritualist nudist festival so it’s hardly surprising that the debut single by ME should be called Naked. Naked is mini rock opera on the grandest of scales and a song that asks whether life, the universe and everything must always be like this. The band cite The Beatles, The Mars Volta and Led Zeppelin as influences but if we threw Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Rachmaninof and Queen in there you’d start to get scared – so we won’t. Instead we’ll just suggest that ME are one of the most exciting new rock bands to appear this side of the millennium.
The Naturals are a band from Bristol, England. Formed in 2004 before any of them were even in their teens (and are still only a tender 19 years old) the Naturals create a sound that is as textural as it is deafening. They can make guitars sound like anything, and often do; sometimes delicate, sometimes brutal, sometimes sanguine, but always beautiful.
After a sabbatical during which Hugo Manuel released two critically acclaimed EPs under the moniker Chad Valley, Jonquil are back re-formed, refreshed and renewed with a new album in March. A 7 inch/Download of the track It's My Part will be released on Blessed Force/Co-Op on February 27th...
It’s My Part is a fitting introduction to ‘Point To Go’, a record that is in their own words “far more poppy and accessible” than anything Jonquil have previously written.
Citizens! are set to release their debut single True Romance through Kitsuné on Monday December 19th 2011. Having just finished a UK tour with the Rapture, 2012 promises to be a big ear for them. The track comes with a host of mixes, from Database, Cassian and Populette...
CITIZENS! met, tragically, at a house party. Lawrence was trying to chat up the host, Tom was there trying to impress a date. They both failed miserably. But Tom did walk in on Lawrence and Mike sitting, drunk, and, alone, listening to music. They foolishly decided to form a band. So, thanks to a couple of providential female rejections CITIZENS! came into existence.
Theme Park look set to finish 2011 on a high as they announce the release of single #2, ‘Milk’. This particular slice of indie-pop perfection is released through Luv Luv Luv Records on December 5 and paves the way for what’s set to be an exceptional 2012 for the fresh out of the blocks British band.
Following on from the debut double A-side ‘Wax/ A Mountain we Love’ (August, ParadYse), ‘Milk’ is another track cut from the trademark Theme Park cloth....
We last heard from Kele Okereke late 2010 with the release of ‘On The Lam’, taken from his highly acclaimed debut solo album ‘The Boxer’ (June 2010). This hugely successful foray into a world without his Bloc Party band mates delved someway into Kele’s own love of electronic music and his clear talent for producing it....and now a new 7 track EP entitled The Hunter is on its way
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, and currently residing on a canal boat in Camden, England, [Me] are an eccentric and extraordinary talent in the making. Straight off the back of debut single ‘Like A Fox’, 7th November marks the release of new track ‘Naked’, a 4-minute epic that neatly fuses [Me]’s spectacular blend of symphonic pop and opus spaced, stadia filling rock sounds. Another limp wristed indie band this is not, as proven by their all-out-war live show which has been suitably impressing crowds in London, Paris and Hamburg this summer. [Me] will soon be exposing themselves a whole lot more when they escape the studio and take to the road in November for their first ever UK tour.
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Hello Sadness is the imminent fourth studio album from Los Campesinos!, recorded earlier this year in Girona, Spain.
Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back-drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare-bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process. A record whose complexion changed dramatically when, on the eve of recording, the end of a relationship meant every word that had been penned before had to be rewritten.
Following news of their third album and a full UK tour , their first in almost three years, The Subways have announced details of a brand new single.
‘Twisted Soul’ is the new single from Pint Shot Riot, released 25th July, taken from the band’s debut album ‘Spell It Out’. Mixed by Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Temper Trap), the single also features a club remix from fellow Coventry music maker and DJ Paul Morrell, which you can hear above. Telling the tale of a girl who finds out her boyfriend is taking her for a ride, Twisted Soul is a classic example of Pint Shot Riot’s anthemic indie rock.
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