Tracks Of The Week: Slaney Bay, The Big Moon and more


Slaney Bay by Henry Ager

Slaney Bay by Henry Ager




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Slaney Bay have set their debut EP A Life Worth Living for release on November 11th.

The EP’s lead single comes in the impressive dream rock form of I Could Love You Better – a track which, ‘details uncertainty about sharing your feelings for someone’, according to Cait Whitley.

“You think you’d be good together, but you’re worried about losing the friendship if it goes wrong.”

The Courteeners are streaming a previously unheard track entitled It’ll Take More Than A Weekend Away To Fix This Mess.

It’s one of the bonus songs which are set to feature on the expanded reissue of St. Jude on January 13th next year, a release which will be followed by a gig at Heaton Park in Manchester on June 9th.

“They grow up so fast, can’t believe our darling St. Jude is 15 next year,” frontman Liam Fray has said on social media.

Maximo Park have completed their new double A-side single with the unveiling of Merging Into You.

“Merging Into You’s organ sound reminds me of some of our early songs, which ended up on the flipside of our first singles,” Paul Smith comments.

“The song is a romantic look at the first, tentative moments of a relationship, enhanced by Du Blonde’s brilliant voice. We’re all fans of Beth’s music and she added a different texture to our sound, along with Faye MacCalman’s swooning sax that carries the song to its close.”

Sorry have unveiled their latest single Key To The City after recently confirming Anywhere But Here for release on October 7th.

“It’s meant as a kind of tender ‘fuck you’ at the dying moment of a relationship you don’t necessarily want to end – when it’s hard to reconcile feelings of anger, jealousy, resentment etc with the undeniable love you still have for that person,” Asha Lorenz said.

“That crossover of pride and vulnerability led me to an image of a deer in the headlights. It’s about trying your hardest to retain control when you know you’re exposed emotionally, sexually, spiritually, everything. In the nude of the headlights, in the nude of someone’s love.”

Juliette Jackson has said The Big Moon’s new single Trouble is about, ‘remembering walking over the railway bridge to the hospital to give birth’.

“This is a bridge I cross every day, but somehow in my memory on that day it’s like a bridge over a canyon in a technicolour Wizard of Oz jungle landscape,” Jackson continued.

“Like giant leaves and blurry edges and oversaturated colours. But it’s just a pissy graffiti-covered South London pedestrian bridge. And it’s about learning that memories aren’t always right, and you don’t have to hang on to them and be traumatised by them forever.

Alex G is streaming Miracles from his upcoming God Save The Animals LP.

It’s a record which again features collaborations with Molly Germer, as well as more focus on contributions from his live band during sessions which were completed in various studios around Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, after completing European tour dates including an appearance at Green Man Festival last month, live work is set to resume in October back in North America.

The Big Pink have shared another track from their new album The Love That’s Ours ahead of its release on September 30th.

“These lines sum up the record perfectly,” Robbie Furze said of Safe And Sound. “I moved to L.A. to find my record and I found it, but at a price.”

“I was chased by every temptation known to mankind. I was promised love. I was promised wealth. I was promised the world. Drugs, women, stardom, all the cliches hounding me and biting at my heels.”

Ten years on from his debut, Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir will release his fourth album Time On My Hands on October 28th.

The shuffling jazz background of Like I Am is the new record’s first taste, an example of the music which was inspired by the neutral mind-state of long drives and cross-country running:

“Some of the albums or music that stand out from that time were Caribou’s album Suddenly, Caroline Polichek-Pang, Dijon, Altopalo, Big Thief, Michael Kiwanuka, Sault, Ethan Gruska, Blake Mills and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. This music probably has something to do with how the record came out, combined with earlier influences.”

Ron Gallo has marked his signing with the indie label Kill Rock Stars by releasing the new single Entitled Man.

“I wrote this song after hearing female friends talk about their experiences with men,” Gallo said. “Infuriating, creepy, weird shit they deal with on a regular basis.”

“I tried to get into the psyche of why certain guys are like this because women should not have to, it is not their problem to fix or address. Entitled male thought continues to be at the forefront of regression socially and politically and I just think it’s to everyone’s benefit for men to evolve.”

The Rills are back with their latest single on Nice Swan Records.

Spit Me Out is pointing towards an EP release in the near future after time spent in the studio with Sports Team and Pip Blom cohort Dave McCracken.

“It’s a playful song about love & lust,” the band explain. “It’s got an air of sexy about it, but in an insecure way. It does have a clear story in my mind, but sometimes it’s better to leave things up to the imagination – it’s us ‘showing a bit of leg’.”


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