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The Rills have set their Do It Differently EP for release on May 6th via Nice Swan and have premiered a video for its title-track.
“Do It Differently is about embodying the spirit of creativity,” they explain. “It’s acknowledging your uniqueness and using it to push against a world that tries to pigeonhole you.”
“The song is inspired by the TikTok generation & how they’ve used a new format to build huge communities in rapid time – taking control of your own destiny is a very punk mentality to us. Right now, TikTok is as punk as it gets!”
London duo Double Helix have released their debut single Rat Rave on Slow Dance Records today.
Patrick Smith and Kim Engelhardt formed the band in July 2021, and have said the single’s video and its juxtaposing themes were inspired by the friend who stars in it:
“We wanted to create this inverted, surreal world where the juxtaposition of pain and euphoria are represented by shifts in colour. The girl in the video is an artist we know who has a hidden disability and crafts these resin sculptures from packaging of pain medication she takes.”
“Poster Girl is a song about fighting back,” Blue Violet guitarist Sam Gotley says of the duo’s new single, written and recorded during sessions PJ Harvey and Bat For Lashes cohort Rob Ellis.
“The character it centers around resists objectification, defends herself from evil and keeps whatever company she sees fit – in the chorus she finds herself the leader of a group of drunken sailors that accompany her on her voyage,” Gotley continues.
“As the writing process went on we felt that a dystopian, Orwellian setting was perfect for the female protagonist: weary traveller, fighter, lover and saviour all rolled into one.”
Speedy Wunderground will put out Lewsberg‘s new single Six Hills in the early spring.
It’s been a long time coming for the label, but co-runner Pierre Hall has said the Rotterdam group were, ‘probably the band that over the years we’ve wanted to work with the most’.
“Me and Dan (Carey) were completely obsessed with that first album,” Hall added. ” For me they were like the nearest thing to a modern-day Velvet Underground I’d ever heard/seen – and we watched them a couple of times on that tour and were just blown away. Especially by the guitarist.”
