The Last Dinner Party has released their highly anticipated and long-awaited new album, Prelude to Ecstasy today. The album launch follows a string of hits from last year, including "Nothing Matters," "My Lady of Mercy" and "On Your Side". One of the outstanding tracks on the first listen is "Portrait of a Dead Girl".
Thirty years ago The Heart Throbs released their debut album Cleopatra in 1990 and one of the outstanding songs from this album was "Dreamtime". There is this interesting fact that the two members of The Heart Throbs, the sisters DeFreitas were actually sisters of the late Pete DeFreitas of Echo & the Bunnymen fame who died in the motorcycle accident in 1989 at the age of 26. Pretty much underrated "Dreamtime" holds in it the best from the two decades and still sounds very contemporary.
Porridge Radio were formed in Brighton in 2015 when they released their debut album Misery Radio. The band’s nucleus is the very charismatic singer, songwriter and lead guitarist Dana Margolin while the other members are keyboardist Georgie Stott, bass guitarist Maddie Ryall and drummer Sam Yardley. This year they have released their second album Every Bad and the first on the new record label Secretly Canadian. The album is certainly going to make it to our year end list as it has a perfect balance between good song writing, sound production and vocals. It tenders to get loud and burst out yet it remains emotional and melancholic. It has been promoted by the series of singles including “Don’t Ask Me Twice” and their latest “Circling”, released in March.
Paul Banks of the Interpol fame is back with a brand new music project called Muzz. The trio consists of Banks, Matt Barrick and Joshua Kaufmann and they have been playing demos since 2015. This year, Muzz have released their self titled debut album and a string of singles. Different to the noisy sound of Interpol, here it softens a bit by the inviting baroque pop notes. Muzz is out this month and this very Interpolish video was produced by the band.
I Like Trains have returned with a new single "The Truth" which is also announcing the release of their fifth studio album Kompromat to be released in August. The music video for "The Truth" was premiered recently and it was directed by directed by Michael Connolly.
The Strokes have announced their brand new studio album for April this year. The album will be called 'The New Abnormal' and will be their first LP since 2013's 'Comedown Machine'. Currently it being promoted with the new single "At the Door" and also with the music video for the song "Bad Decisions" which was directed by Andrew Donoho.
After debuting last year with the Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game", Coves have released their single "Last Desire" and brought some overall indie excitement to Burning Flame. The song was officially released on March 18th through 1965 Records. Hope there is more to come...
The Danish indie rock duo The Raveonettes have released their sixth studio album this week. The album is entitled 'Observator' and it was issued on Vice Records. It features three singles, "Observations" and "She Owns The Streets" were released earlier this summer, while their third single "The Enemy" is due on September 24th.
Island are releasing their fourth studio album this week. The album is entitled 'A Sleep & a Forgetting', lifted from a William Wordsworth poem. The lead singer Nicholas Thorburn explained that the this album is far more personal than any he has made before and added that it deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming. The album is out on ANTI-, tomorrow, on Valentine's Day.
Antwerp based group dEUS have released a follow-up to their album 'Vantage Point' which came out in 2008. Their sixth stidio album is called 'Keep You Close' and it has already reached gold in Belgum. The album will be avaiable in the UK on October 3rd 2011. Listen to the full album exclusively through the band's own SoundCloud page.
White Lies have released their second studio album and a follow up to their debut 'To Lose My Life'. The album is out through Fiction Records and it was produced by Alan Moulder and Max Dingel. The first single from the album, "Bigger Than Us", was released on January 3, 2011. The band is currently on tour supported by Active child and Crocodiles.
'Bubblegum' is the sixth album by Clinic, released today, October 4, 2010. The album was produced by John Congleton and recorded at Elevator Studios in Liverpool and it is a high water mark in Clinic’s career to date. The album was preceded by a beautiful new single "I'm Aware" which was released on September 20, 2010.
The Disappeared is a four piece, indie guitar band form Manchester. The Disappeared reflect the sound of bands like The Clash, Bloc Party and The Cribs. They write songs about the world as they see it – a good, bad, ugly and beautiful place.
The National have released their fifth studio album this week. The album is entitled 'High Violet' and as the previous two, it was produced by the band in their own studio with Peter Katis. The first single release from the album is the song "Bloodbuzz Ohio" which was performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand' is Franz Ferdinand's upcoming third album. It has three different release dates in US, UK and Australia. It is scheduled to be released on January 26, 2009 in the UK. The first single from the album "Ulysses" is going to be released a week earlier on the 19 January 2009. The artwork for the album is a photograph taken by Soren Starbird just after midnight behind the Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow.
"Lucid Dreams" is an expected song, not single, from the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand's as-yet untitled and unreleased third album which is scheduled to be released in January 2009. The song currently streaming on the group's website for the price of an e-mail address.
'Forth' is the upcoming fourth album by English alternative rock band The Verve and will be released on August 25, 2008. It is the band's first album of new material since Urban Hymns was released in 1997, excluding two unreleased tracks on the singles compilation album This Is Music: The Singles 92-98.The album's first single, "Love Is Noise", received its first airplay by Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 on June 23, 2008. The band also released a non-album track, "Mover", as a free digital download a week later.
'Modern Guilt' is the title of the eighth studio album by American musician Beck. It will be released on July 8, 2008 (his 38th birthday). The album will fulfill Beck's recording contract with Interscope Records, while outside of North America, the record will be released by XL Recordings.'Modern Guilt' features two contributions by Cat Power and is produced by Danger Mouse.
'Vantage Point' is the fifth album by the Belgian group dEUS, released on April, 21st 2008. Vantage Point was produced by Dave McCracken and it features 10 tracks including some guest vocals on the songs "Slow" by Karin D. Andersson from the Knife and "The Vanishing Of Maria Scheneider" by Guy Carvey from Elbow. Earlier this year "The Architect" was released as the first single and it was featured on this blog. The second single release was "Slow".
'Go Out Tonight' is the 10th solo album from Paul Haig.The album is going to be released on April 14, 2008. Its release will be supported by his first full live performances since 1989. The first single from the album "Hippy Dippy Pharmaceutically Trippy" has been released a week earlier.