Following on from her formative debut ‘Adolescence’, ‘Avalanche’ offers a more focussed worldview, tackling more mature matters of the heart.
Three new releases from legendary Fire acts incoming
A socio-geographic trip along the Sierra in your mind, filled with romantic orchestral sweeps conjuring up an image of a vast landscape disrupted by a singular peak
Cast deep into number theory with occasional quasi-religious touchstones, ‘Flamingo Tower’ bustles with background sounds overlaid with intimate melodies conjuring plenty of suitably strange illusions; a synthetic orchestra plays baroque pop, a guitar is set to auto destruct and Ray Monde’s hushed vocals carry a bracing narrative
The Nightingales release their first studio album since 2022’s much-praised ‘The Last Laugh’. Celebrated in the excellent Stewart Lee-narrated film King Rocker of 2020, where the curtain was raised on the magic of the “long serving punk/alternative rock volunteer” (The Quietus) Robert Lloyd, The Nightingales are as pertinent as ever as they release a poignant tirade on modern times heralded, quite rightly, as ‘The Awful Truth’
Finalised for release with the love & support of his band, his family, and friends
Hazy dream pop track, ‘Sleepwalking’, is a song that was written as a reminder to always be open to the curious and the unexpected. No matter how many rabbit paths present themselves, you can always count on these Rotterdam dissidents to carve out their very own
‘Moonlight Concessions’ is a collection of snippets from everyday life writ large - think Raymond Carver Short Cuts, overheard conversations, recounted happenings and telling one-liners, all sewed together to illustrate the times as they slowly mature, fully peppered with original Muses’ vim and vigour
Legendary postmodern, post punk, post human, past caring collective Mekons return with a brand-new album for 2025. Their first release on Fire Records, ‘Horror’ a collection of songs actually written in late 2022 but providing a horribly prescient reflection of the world in its current miasma and how we got here