Gaz Coombes, Sunflower Bean, The Strypes and many more added to SXSW 2018

Gaz Coombes, Sunflower Bean and The Strypes are some of the new names confirmed for this year’s South By Southwest Festival.

Hundreds of acts have been added by organisers to an already typically huge list of names who’ll be tirelessly exploring a few blocks of downtown Austin, Texas this coming March.

Sunflower Bean are due there just before the release of their second album Twentytwo In Blue, while Coombes will be waiting a little longer to put out World’s Strongest Man, his follow-up to one of Live4ever’s albums of 2015, Matador.

“The haunting, atmospheric ’22/20′ complete with trademark Gaz ‘ooohs’ is a forward-thinking effort with echoes of Radiohead whilst retaining his distinguished songwriting hallmarks,” we said of it.

“It’s a sound dabbled with on the debut solo album ‘Gaz Coombes Presents: Here Comes The Bombs‘, but here it is fully realized, its chorus explodes into a euphoric climax that’s begging to soundtrack a dramatic space film scene.”

“‘Buffalo‘, a song already previewed, shares ’20/20’s grandiose appeal and picks up where tracks like ‘Bombs‘ left off on the first album, whilst elevating it all to a new level.”