[streaming] Adam Scott Glasspool – Pace Car Diver

Taken from the upcoming EP “I Welcome The Flood”. Adam Scott Glasspool first started going it alone in April 2015. After almost a decade in various bands, honing the craft of songwriting, Adam decided to step back from fuzzed up guitars and burbling synths and stripped it all down to just his guitar. The result…

[streaming] Plastic Animals – Burial Party

Track taken from the album “Picture From the Blackout”, out February 8th 2016 via Song, By Toad. To say that things around Plastic Animals tend to move slowly would be an understatement. Apparently they’ve been around in one form or another for as long as Eagleowl, who are a sort of Edinburgh byword for taking your own…

[streaming] The Silent Love – Unloved

Track taken from the album “Whisper”, out Jan 5th 2016 via Beko Disques. The Silent Love is a one-man indiepop band from Jakarta, Indonesia, inspired by Brighter, The Field Mice, Blueboy, The Cure, Pure Saturday, etc. “Unloved” is also featured as the current “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente. https://www.facebook.com/The-silent-love/

[streaming] Kesang Marstrand – Something To Prove You Right

Kesang Marstrand, is a native of Woodstock, New York, got her start performing her songs in pubs and cafés in Greenwhich Village. The Tibetan-Danish singer, inspired by songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Elliott Smith, honed her songwriting skills throughout her early twenties and recorded her debut album, “Bodega Rose” in the fall…

[streaming] Stutter Steps – Set Radio Clock

Everything around us is chaos & panic & impending disaster, but Ben Harrison is keeping it cool. The debut self-titled album from his band Stutter Steps doesn’t spit in the face of death—it gives death a warm hug and invites it inside for a game of Scrabble. Ten songs of sadness and bliss, Stutter Steps…

[streaming] Good Shepherd – There Is A Mountain

Rusted Rail is proud to announce the release of “Her Darke Aspects” by Good Shepherd, the follow-up to his 2012 EP “Ah…Good The Sea“. A sparser but no less affecting outing from Good Shepherd, “Her Darke Aspects” takes in buoyant nautical folk, hushed acoustic confessions and glitch-damaged balladry. Another collection of transmissions from Cambridgeshire, this…

[streaming] Lonesome Leash – Momentum

Taken from “Precious Futures”, out October 30 on Mind Rider Records. Lonesome Leash is the solo moniker of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Walt McClements. Known for previous involvement in the bands Dark Dark Dark, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship?, Lonesome Leash channels all of these musical experiences…

[streaming] Louise Le May – Cassandra

Louise Le May is something different – a unique and very English talent. Sometimes hard to categorise, her music in combination with the luscious, sophisticated arrangements of Louis Philippe, soars. It’s timeless, dreamlike and reflective. Louise released a limited edition EP in 2009 attracting glowing reviews and airplay from Guy Garvey, Tom Robinson (including a…

[streaming] Postal Blue – Bitterness Is Sweet

Postal Blue first started out as a 4-piece in 1998, setting out to be a return to the golden standard of songwriting of the sixties and eighties exemplified by The Byrds, The Zombies, The Smiths and The Go-Betweens. The band quickly attracted a following and the attention of American labels, including Drive-In Records, which released…

[streaming] The Driftwood Manor – Fraction Of A Wolf

The Driftwood Manor mix Irish traditional music and folk with a range of other influences, from Eastern music to alternative rock and electronica. The band have released three albums and six eps since 2008 on a number of independent labels and were voted in The Irish Times’ Breakthrough Acts of the Year for 2011 following the…

[streaming] The Arctic Flow – Daffodils

The Arctic Flow is an American dream-pop band from Myrtle Beach, SC. Formed in 2008, The Arctic Flow has remained the solo project of Brian Hancheck who records and produces all of The Arctic Flow’s music in his bedroom studio. Brian played his debut performance as The Arctic Flow at the 2014 New York City…

[streaming] Urban Wildlife – You Came Along

“You Came Along” is taken from “Ship Of Winter”, third album by Urban Wildlife. Urban Wildlife blends the musical histories of each member to incorporate rock, folk, country, pop, indie and alternative. Urban Wildlife manifested slowly, luring in musicians from all over the Pacific Northwest and California until finally finding its perfect formation in the…

[streaming] The Shifting Sands – Coming Back

Taken from the album “Cosmic Radio Station”, released by Fishrider Records (NZ) and Occultation Recordings (UK) in October 2015. The music on “Cosmic Radio Station” was first beamed into the Pacific ether from a woolshed and a tumbledown house perched on the hills above Port Chalmers near Dunedin during a period of heightened solar flare and aurora activity…

[streaming] My Autumn Empire – The Following

“The Following” is the opening track of the new album by My Autumn Empire, “Dreams of Death and Other Favourites”, out November 6ht on Wayside & Woodland. A darkly beautiful collection of songs, about childhood nightmares as well as the haunted and dislocated experience of returning to the place where you grew up. My Autumn…

[streaming] Hobby Farm – Wrong Things

Track taken from the debut album by Hobby Farm, “Braeside”, released through Osborne Again Music and available for free download at https://osborneagainmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hobby-farm-braeside “Wrong Things” is also featured as the latest “single of the week” of the radio show L’Attimo Fuggente.

[streaming] Alpaca Sports – Just Like Them

Alpaca Sports have released a free digital single “Just Like Them”, taken from their upcoming mini-LP “When You Need Me The Most”, which is out Friday 2nd October on Elefant Records. The band describes the mini album as a “truly international” record with Andreas Jonsson, Amanda Åkerman and Carl Jirestedt originating from Sweden, joined by…

[streaming] Darren Hayman – Nuns Run The Apothecary

Darren Hayman returns with a beautifully delicate and touchingly honest album simply titled Florence after the city in which it was created. This is his very first purely solo album, featuring no other musicians. It was written and recorded between Christmas and New Year at the end of 2014 in the Firenze flat belonging to…

[streaming] The Golden Eaves – No Other

The Golden Eaves’ songs are written by Kenji (The Fairways, Clay Hips) and Joe (The Pines, The Foxgloves). They liked each others’ records so they decided to try to write songs together. Kenji sings and plays guitar. Joe plays guitar. Max plays bass. Marc plays drums and produced the record. They all started recording together…