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Connecting Flights

Lost Goals

"Lost Goals" - Jacques Labouchere

Music & Production by Syrel
Photography by Syrel for the Magazine Decoration Chez-Soi 1988

Remainings

The Colours of fall

Take Me To The Place

KIMO - HOME ALONE

Melodic pop/rock upbeat tempo, melancholy lyric

Won't Take My Embrace 2020

Fall of the Big Screen

Old Ways (Radio Edit)

an ode to 2020

‘GONE TO POT’ is the Fourth single since the band’s Dec 2019 debut offering, ‘Snakes’. Of the track, frontman Joe explains; “Gone To Pot is an anthem for the existentially challenged, its sort of a reflection of all the insecurities of moving from your 20s into your 30s. During a lockdown where being social and active has all been but halted, we just tried to celebrate the slow physical and mental decline with a little humour and jubilance”.

Gone To Pot

Original by My Bloody Valentine on the album Loveless (1991)

When You Sleep

Minus Alive are back on the scene with a new single, a choir of storytellers and a rallying cry of hope. Having taken some time away after the successful release of their debut EP Maybe This All Just Ends and a triumphant national tour, the Southampton 3 piece have emerged from a year of intense Zoom-based songwriting with their new single Amen To The Storytellers.     

The band were all affected in different ways by the pandemic, from losing jobs and income to struggles of mental wellbeing. Their main source of emotional support were the nightly remote songwriting sessions with producer Chris Lyndon, where over the course of 2020 they channelled their fears, frustrations and pent-up energy into a series of new tracks that are scheduled for release throughout 2021. 

Amen To The Storytellers is a message of solidarity for the creative community and is a testament of what can be achieved in the face of adversity. Working remotely, each band member recorded their parts from home, with fellow creatives coming together to form the accompanying “Storytellers” virtual choir. Everyone involved filmed themselves recording their parts on their phones, forming the basis for the music video.

Amen To The Storytellers is Minus Alive’s anthemic take on how 2020 affected the creatives of the world, and how the only way to move forward from this is together.

Amen To The Storytellers

Hey there! Thanks for getting this far and listening to our track <3

Flyover

Reuben

2fer, by SIAMESE JEANS

Released via DUSTY'S SWIVEL SHACK (2021)

2fer

Dividends tallying, feel me(x2)

from the forthcoming album 'sacrament'
available on streaming 22.01.21

blood harvest

Artwork by Lucy Calderbank
Mastering by Aidan Hendrickse
All other credits go to Mari



Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHcQA5a-Hl8&ab_channel=Mari
Bandcamp: https://marimusic.bandcamp.com/track/doldrums
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/31lgOxiPo2I5oqcjyXAgac?si=dIJEJyyNR82fUH6RziYeCw 
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/doldrums-single/1547963321

Doldrums

A MILLION HOURS

BABY STRANGE release new single ‘Club Sabbath’, made for the dancefloor of their legendary Club Sabbath night
Glasgow trio Baby Strange are back with a bang in 2021 as they unveil their latest single, the grittily vibrant ‘Club Sabbath’. Vocalist and guitarist Johnny Madden says of the future dancefloor filler: “When we wrote this track we instantly knew we wanted to name it after our club night. It sounds like it was made for a dancefloor. This is one of our favourite songs to date and we can’t wait for people to hear it.

We’re missing Club Sabbath more than ever right now. We started it in 2015 at The Priory on Sauchiehall St in Glasgow and we’ve hosted some really memorable parties. It’s a community spirit with loads of like-minded people. We’ve had live performances or DJ sets from people like Fontaines D.C, Wolf Alice, DMA’s, The Chats, The Magic Gang, Nick Allbrook (Pond) & The Dunts to name a few. The government needs to support independent venues during Covid or there will be nowhere left for new artists to cut their teeth and grow. It’s really important that small venues like The Priory survive through this for that very reason.”

Baby Strange have also announced the release of a brand new EP ‘Land of Nothing’ which features ‘Club Sabbath’ and recent single ‘More! More! More!’ and will be out via Icons Creating Evil Art on 30 April 2020. They’ll be heading out on an extensive UK headline tour in June 2021 under the moniker ‘Land of Nothing Tour’. See below for dates. Tickets on sale now. 
 
With a line-up rounded out by brothers Connaire & Aidan McCann, Baby Strange are about to set out their stall and re-establish themselves as one of the most innovative and uncompromising outfits in the UK. Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2016 debut album ‘Want It Need It’, Baby Strange have toured tirelessly, building an enthusiastic and dedicated live audience, selling out venues across the UK & sharing stages with the likes of Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Slaves, Jamie T & Wavves.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/babystrangemusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baby__strange
Twitter: https://twitter.com/babystrangex
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0rOadSgjgHpAXqcEq4D0xS
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/baby-strange/4674578
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1qbzlCS3K776X5CjgB9tQ

Club Sabbath

Baby Strange - Club Sabbath

Ampersand are a five piece group based in North London currently preparing the release of their debut album. 

Taking their cues from baroque pop of the 60s and the neo classical influences of bands like Talk Talk and Elbow, Ampersand's is a music that doesn't shy away from antiquity. Fusing elements of folk, rock, jazz and classical music, the ensemble forge a sound distinctly their own while paying their dues to the music of the past. 

Taking the opportunity of lockdown to formalise their work thus far, the five piece recorded their debut album remotely over 2020, planning a release for the spring of 2021. 

The release will be preceded by a string of specially recorded live sessions and singles from the album with gigs to follow as soon as it is safe to do so.

Debut single BONES will be released on Jaunary 31st, 2021.

Mark Young (Piano, Guitar & Vocals) 
Georgina Melling (Violin, Synthesizer & Backing Vocals) 
Tom Campbell (Bass & Backing Vocals)
Adam Williams (Drums & Backing Vocals) 
Tom Stone (Guitar & Backing Vocals) 

Instagram: @hereisampersand

Bones

A simple message of hope during these difficult times.

HOPE (Radio Edit)

Ruth wrote Way the Wind Blows when she was 12 years old. The lyrics reflect on missing her dad whilst growing up as he worked as a touring musician. Now 23, she has reimagined the song with her band, featuring guitars from James Cooke, recorded by Mark Lewis at Germanium Studios in Manchester.

Way the Wind Blows

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