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Cucamaras have shared Winner’s Chapel as the first taste of their forthcoming new EP.
“This one is a track about taking and regretting advice from didactic characters who are in no position to teach, but you somewhat buy into the ideas that they’re selling,” Olly Bowley explains.
“It’s a disorientated story as far as the song flows – walking and bumping into this person, hearing them out, acting on what they said but ending up worse off from the encounter.”
The build-up to a new Tim Burgess album has begun with the release of Here Comes The Weekend.
It’s accompanied with a video directed by Kevin Godley, who expands on the themes of modern technology keeping people together:
“This idea, about physical separation versus virtual connection, had Tim, Rose and Dan delivering impeccable performances throughout a pretty physical day, spent bending real people and live projections into a film that seems to blur the lines between joy and anxiety,” Godley reveals.
Belle And Sebastian’s new A Bit Of Previous single Young And Stupid has come with a note from Mad Men actor Jon Hamm.
“In 2015 at Bonnaroo, Belle and Sebastian invited Zach Galifianakis and me up to the stage during their set to toss gummy bears in each other’s mouths,” he says.
“Then Stuart got into the fun and demanded a catch as well. It was dramatic, stupid, and done with style and grace. I know I can speak for Zach when I say ‘I want to thank them for their inclusion of us into their show’.”
Gently Tender have returned with their new single Dead Is Dead.
It’s the first new music from the band – consisting of Sam Fryer, Will Doyle, Peter Mayhew of Palma Violets together with The Big Moon’s Celia Archer, and guitarist Adam Brown – in three years.
“Dead is Dead is a positive mantra on the subject of death,” Fryer explains. “I’m speculating the destiny of the human soul – how we may all connect and where that might be after death.”
