Here are some new sounds that have been moving me, maybe they will move you too…
The Small Intestines – Hide In Time (Meritorio Records/Lost and Lonesome, out now)
Tight three-piece harmonies and warm hearted jangle are at the forefront on this Melbourne based groups delightful debut album, featuring members of Chook Race (Trouble In Mind) and Peach Happening. Fans of Felt and The Go-Betweens will find much to love here, as will anyone with a love for beautifully crafted, rough around the edges indie rock with a low-key, homespun feel. Music to fill that Ultimate Painting shaped hole in your soul, with wildly cool cover art to boot.
Fig By Four – Capture Reveal (Bomb The Twist, out now)
Soulful folk stylings and driving indie-rock collide on this debut album from Leeds based multi-instrumentalist Sarah Statham. Drawing inspiration from time spent both in the Lake Distract and working as a music mentor in New York, Statham transcribes heavy themes into highly relatable lyrics, and delivers them with subtle power and grace. Capture Reveal is the far-reaching sound of an artist striving for truth and connection, and it makes for a heady, intoxicating listen.
The Terminal Buildings – Coming To Terms With The Terminal Buildings (self-released, out 17th November)
Inspired by the US indie stylings of Mo Troper and Tony Molina, but with a keen knack for a killer chord change and melodic lilt that is Glasgow through and through, the solo home recordings of The Terminal Buildings really are a joy to behold. Containing songs of various fidelity recorded by any means necessary over the last two years, this compilation is a wonderful introduction to The Terminal Buildings’ prolific output, and totally essential for anyone moved by the unmatched power of the two minute pop song.
Dragged Up – Hex Domestic (Cruel Nature, out now)
Following on from their 2020 debut mini-album D/U, Glasgow slacker-punks Dragged Up are back with a new four song EP for Cruel Nature. In what is a break from the angular, urgent post-punk of fellow Glasgow based acts like Dancer and Current Affairs, Dragged Up approach a similar kind of art from a slightly different angle, cutting through with a garage-psych swagger that unravels at its own pace. The tightest kind of loose, this five piece incorporate shades of 90s US alternative rock into their post-C86 jangle and throb, whilst the proto-punk poetry of closer Blaming The Weather ebbs and flows with a terrible beauty, a band working in perfect harmony amid a very imperfect world.
phoneswithchords – phoneswithBen (Start-Track, out 17th November)
This collaboration between Tennessee DIY artist Arthur Alligood and Ben Sooy from the Colorado based collective A Place For Owls uses the purest of tools to get straight to the heart of the matter. With lyrics and structures shared and nurtured via the internet, the two artists have built a warmly affecting shelter from the storm. Ruminating on the relentlessly inevitable march of time, they frame their thoughts with intimate electronic flourishes and guitars/keys that are sure to move anybody who lets this beautiful music into their life.
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