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dust have got an impressive preview to share from their upcoming ‘et cetera’ EP.
“I wrote the lyrics in quite a turbulent and emotional time, collating lines that would come into my head or writing down things that people in my life had said,” Gabriel Stove has explained of ‘Joy (Guilt)’.
“Lines that I thought were meaningful, funny or melancholy. Although unintentional, I think the lyrics come from an observational perspective or describe what my beliefs were at the time and remembering things that had been said to me in the past to shape those beliefs.”
Kat Duma is streaming Fated from her upcoming Real Life LP which is due on April 21st.
“The song was written while away at a remote cabin we had rented to focus on finishing the album,” Duma says.
“I remember one day having an overwhelming feeling that something bad was about to happen. I was saying out loud how palpable it felt. That night, a series of events forced us to uproot, with all our recording gear and instruments, and spend the next few weeks totally untethered in a foreign environment.”
Tribes have released their first new music in a decade after the band’s reunion continued at a sold-out Dublin Castle in London on Wednesday.
Following 2013’s Wish To Scream album, the new single is entitled Hard Pill. Johnny Lloyd has had this to say about it:
“The song landed without warning or invitation the day after we met back up and kickstarted a whole new era of the band. The song is about broken relationships, healing and coming back together.”
Body Type have shared their new single Holding On – a track which lead vocalist and guitarist Sophie McComish has said evolved, ‘into a personal mantra of sorts’:
“I’m a quadruple Virgo so I find it a challenge to relinquish control and embrace uncertainty. Sometimes the only thing that’ll get you through though is the passing of time, and it’s cool to just submit to that and trust that the outcome will be the right one.”
“This song is a product of writing at a distance,” bassist Georgia Wilkinson-Derums added. “Just like that time ends up passing very discreetly until what you’re left with are quiet, hopeful memories that arm you for the future.”
Anish Kumar has posted his new track Praise, ‘very much the prelude to the next chapter of my music’:
“And for that reason I wanted to start by putting something out that sounds different to anything I have released previously,” he’s said.
“It is a collage of horns, organs and vocal harmonies driven by a live bass guitar. It samples a gospel piece and explodes with exuberance right off the mark – a promise of what is to come from me this year.”
Baba Ali are streaming their new single Hold My Head ahead of Laugh Like A Bomb’s release on April 28th via Memphis Industries.
“I just kept singing it until I could really feel the depth of the words, and my eyes started to water,” Baba said.
“We stopped the session there and I knew something had finally stuck. I realised that it was this intense emotional place in myself that I needed to tap into as we continued writing the album. The moments of feeling worn out on tour ended up being a real inspiration for the song. The opening line ‘sew me up’, in fact, came from a time when my trousers kept coming apart at the seams when performing.”
The Japanese House has shared her new single Boyhood.
“When Katie and I were young and in love, we fantasised about riding off into the distance on her horse Bam Bam, away from all the problems that came from being gay and in love back then,” Amber Bain has said.
“This song talks about how sometimes, however hard you try, you can’t help but be a product of the things that happened to you or held you back earlier on in life. But also, and more importantly, it’s about hope for overcoming those things. Look at us now: not riding away, but towards…something.”
Lankum have shared their latest False Lankum preview ahead of its release on March 24th.
“We learned this song from Seán Fitzgerald of The Deadlians, whose mother Pauline sang it to him as a child,” they’ve said of Newcastle.
“The tune was first published in ‘The English Dancing Master’ (1651) where it is simply entitled ‘Newcastle’, while the words may be related to a broadside ballad printed in 1620 and entitled ‘The contented Couckould, Or a pleasant new Songe of a New-Castle man whose wife being gon from him, shewing how he came to London to her, & when he found her carried her backe againe to New-Castle Towne.”
Cucamaras have released their Cotton Wool single after recording sessions at York’s Young Thugs Studios with producer Jonny Hooker.
“Cotton Wool is a story of admiration, whilst feeling like you’re in someone’s shadow,” vocalist and guitarist Olly Bowley said.
“There’s this clumsy individual who’s running into all sorts of problems, whilst the other is sleeping peacefully – the former isn’t ready to lose that persons influence on their life.”
The Murlocs will release their new album Calm Ya Farm on May 19th.
Following last year’s Rapscallion, it was recorded at the band’s home studio with the aim of creating their niche in the country-rock genre.
“It’s about recognizing the need to start taking responsibility for your life instead of always living in the now and killing all your brain cells along the way,” Ambrose Kenny-Smith said of lead single Initiative.
Mega Bog has shared Love Is as the latest single from her forthcoming End Of Everything album.
The track was written by Austin Jackson of Dragons, who Erin Elizabeth Birgy said is capable of, ‘some of the most shameless and relatable love ballads of all my friends’:
“I’ve played a dance version for myself at small, secret shows for years, and finally felt like it was time to share my version with the world.”
Dutch vocalist/songwriter Laura Chen and British multi-instrumentalist James Attwood have released their debut Zo Lief EP, entitled Believe What You Believe.
“The EP largely revolves around the topic of alienation, both socially and romantically,” the duo said. “This possibly stems from our position in the world as young adults, a time when relationships with those around you change.”
“Some people become more important, whilst others you were once close with fall away. Perhaps through no fault of our own, but simply the fact of coming of age.”
Surya Sen has teamed up with producer Mafro on his new single Care Less.
“Care Less came about when me and Mafro decided to get in the studio, ”Surya said. “We wanted to make a song that was about believing yourself and not letting negative energy in that might take away the joy of just being yourself.”
It’s his first new music since 2022’s At What Cost? mixtape.
The Teskey Brothers have shared Take My Heart ahead of the release of their third studio album The Winding Way on June 16th.
“When you open your heart up to someone, like really show them all the layers of yourself, and you spend a big part of your life with them, it doesn’t matter who it is, they become a part of you and no matter what happens a part of them always remains in your heart and creates your life story,” Josh Teskey said.
“And the same to them, they take a piece of you with them. I think this about all the important people in my life, some of whom I still see, some who I’ve lost touch with and some who are no longer with us. They all played a part of who we are, and I’d like to think we played a part in their lives too.”
Bloxx are back with their first single in two years.
Described by the band as, “A love/hate-letter to the lack of reality in the so called reality of TV and social media’, it’ll lead their new EP Modern Day when it’s released on August 11th.
“I wrote it about being addicted to my phone and shit TV over lockdown. I had to take a step back and think I’m being sold a dream that isn’t reality, at all,” Fee added.
