Little Arrow - Poetically Diseased(Live In Four Bars 18/12/14)

It’s been 10 years since Little Arrow emerged with their debut album, ‘Music, Masks & Poems’ way back in 2011. In marking this monumental milestone, we also celebrate the life and music of frontman, William Hughes, who we sadly lost to cancer in December 2018. 

Available for the first time on vinyl, and accompanied by a raft of bonus digital tracks, ‘Music, Masks & Poems’ completes the collection of existing fans, but also acts as the perfect introduction to a stellar, much-missed songwriting talent.

Little Arrow - People Of The Volcano (Live Greenman Session, 18/08/2014)

The Gentle Good - 06. Meddyliau Distaw'r Nos

The Gentle Good - 07. Yfed Gyda'r Lleuad

Quiet Marauder - MEN - Volume 1 - Man

Quiet Marauder - MEN - Volume 1 - The Internal Monologue Date (feat. John Mouse)

Quiet Marauder - MEN - Volume 2 - Eggs!

Quiet Marauder - The Best Gift Ever...

My Name Is Ian - Spooky Holiday

Ivan Moult - I Know I'll Never Be Born Again

Datganiadau

Books

Bingo

Success

Bach A Dwl

Cockapoo

Offended

Ceredigion

HMS Morris - Balls

HMS Morris - House

Ivan Moult's Debut Album 'Second Guessing' Out 9th September, 2014

Ivan Moult - Lazy Day

Over the last five years, the band have accumulated more EPs and albums than most bands achieve in several lifetimes, blurring garage rock, lo-fi, anti-folk, prog, psych and pop into one almost indefinable expanse. More than any of these previous releases, In The Best Case… incorporates the songwriting input of James Buzzanca (bass) and Joe Coleby (drums) resulting in epic, tight, bass-rich sonics akin to Mystery Jets, The Wave Pictures, Herman Dune and Arcade Fire. On top of these sit the abstract, everyday lyricism of frontman Reginald Foxwell charting topics ranging from the relative speed of slugs to death to love to the end of the world.

MY NAME IS IAN - In The Best Case Scenario We'd Die At The Same Time

Little My - It Was Christmas When I Fell Apart

Rhodri Brooks - Saw You In The Winter

My Name is Ian and Quiet Marauder cover Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures 'Orange Juice'

My Name is Ian & Quiet Marauder - Orange Juice (Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures)

My Name is Ian - Cincinnati Cola

Taken from the album 'Music, Masks & Poems'

Little Arrow is the latest musical venture and brainchild of William Hughes, ex singer, guitarist and songwriter of Cardiff Indie-Folk heroes Fredrick Stanley Star.

William spent much of 2010 in the wilderness of West Wales where, inspired by his surroundings, he continuously wrote and recorded songs with friends and family members. The result is this rich and enchanting debut album, which exhibits an accomplished, enigmatic artist at work.

Little Arrow - Boat

Following on from tracks featuring The Gentle Good​ and Maddie Jones - Band​, the next in our staggered monthly reveal of Charlie Francis​' Songs For Singers album will be 'Touch These Hands'. The track features the naturally emotive tones of Bubblewrap's own Ivan Moult​, lending his thoughtful delivery to the lyrical concerns of homelessness, dislocation and social empathy.

Charlie Francis - Touch These Hands (feat. Ivan Moult)

Perfect Body formed in Cardiff, early 2017, inspired by the sonic experimentation of bands like My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Their earliest performances took place in Cardiff’s underground, often in practice spaces and house parties: So, by the time Perfect Body emerged on the music scene, they had already sculpted a distinctive sonic identity. The attention gained from their first single, ‘Getting Cold’, saw them supporting the likes of Jen Cloher, Slowcoaches, and The Wytches.

Perfect Body’s sound is characterized by it’s noisy, psychedelic guitar playing; icy, ethereal synthesizers; and a muscular, yet dynamic rhythm section. Their three vocalists, each with their own style and identities, ensure that Perfect Body’s performances are varied and engaging. Perfect Body is a wall of noise, hazing over and obscuring what is, at it’s core, pop-oriented songwriting.

Perfect Body - Fields

Despite being only 19, Zac White has been playing on Cardiff’s live music scene for over five years. Alongside his early days performing with FUR and part of Lily and White, Zac has been honing his own sound based on influences such as Wilco, Loose Fur, Sonic Youth and Broadcast.

His 90s/00s off-kilter indie sound has grown from minimal arrangements with drummer Ethan Hurst into a rollicking, reverb-drenched, garage-psych experience. For his live shows and upcoming EP, accompaniment comes from Tom and Ed Rees of Buzzard, with whom Zac also plays.

Zac White - Spent On You

Quiet Marauder enter the Covid-19 cultural content wars with their latest single, Eggs!, out on 17th June 2020. A long-time live favourite initially hatched on their 2013 record-baiting debut album, MEN, this re-imagined version turns the dial up to the figurative '11', maybe even higher. Eggs! captures QM in the midst of one of their bass-heavy, drum-smash performances from times when we could all stand close to one another in the same room. Featuring the full Cardiff live band, Eggs! will be familiar to anyone who has captured QM in their full pomp over the last few years. Lyrically concerned (almost exclusively) with the origin and nature of eggs, the song's protagonist is a man slowly loosening their grip on reality through an unhealthily deep and logically irrational obsession.

Eggs! forms part of Quiet Marauder's forthcoming release, Tiny Men Parts; a collection of 9 tracks upgrading a small fraction of their massive, 111-song deconstruction of toxic masculinity, MEN. Gone is the skittish charm of the lo-fi bedroom bangers. Entering instead are the full-on living room floor fillers . Engineered by Tom Rees (Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard) at Rat Trap Studios, Cardiff, Tiny Men Parts will be in the Autumn before another subsequent full album, The Gift, scheduled for later in the winter.

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