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Enjoy The Day (single version)

KEEF's latest single 'DAY IN DAY OUT' is based on the monotony of daily life when chained to the repetitive cycle of work and trying to pay the bills. It comes from personal experience of feeling trapped and having the desire to escape the vicious cycle. All of KEEF's songs and lyrics come from their experiences of life and what they experience on a daily basis. They are passionate about their music and lyrics and want to express themselves to a wider audience. Interlaced through their rhythm is the northern mersey beat sound they were all influenced by and exposed to from an early age.

Day In Day Out

The new single by lazy hunter, released 24 March. Out now: https://linktr.ee/lazyhunterrr

Taken from the upcoming mini-album Fast Track to the Peach Blossom Spring, coming soon.

strange times

'a song about finding the courage to leave.'

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Lyrics:
I’ve made up my mind
Darling, I’m not coming back
It’s about time
We let it all go

All I wanted was
Honestly, honestly
And that’s what I told you from the start

We had some high hopes
We had some high hopes
So what have you done, dear, what have you done?
We’re back to where we started from now
When we had some high hopes

I know there are words left unsaid
But I’m too tired of trying, of trying
So I’ll keep them all up in my head, love
What’s the point in fighting now?

We had high hopes but
Honesty’s what I need
So why did you keep me in the dark?

We had some high hopes
We had some high hopes
So what have you done, dear, what have you done?
We’re back to where we started from now
When we had some high hopes

We had a great few months
And I’m gonna miss you now you’re gone
I’m on my way back home now
And this is the hardest thing I’ve done
We had a great few months
And I’m gonna miss you now you’re gone
I’m on my way back home now
And this is the hardest thing I’ve done

We had some high hopes
We had some high hopes
So what have you done, dear, what have you done?
We’re back to where we started from now
When we had some high hopes

High Hopes

I'm With You

'Congo Solar' is the A-side of Grandbaby's debut 7" release, coming out on April 1st (though it's no joke) on Seattle's 'Wax Thematique' label. It's available to pre-order now from www.waxthematique.com.

Written, performed, produced and recorded in an underground WWII bunker ("The Crunch") in the English countryside, Jason Baldock’s “Grandbaby” project isn’t as cuddly as it’s cheeky name would suggest. In fact, it’s a take no prisoners, uncompromising approach to mostly-instrumental songcraft. Grandbaby's debut 7" bursts with feverish energy, formidable synth lines, crunchy/catchy guitars and an unearthly brilliance for drum break expertise most session musicians would kill for.

Grandbaby - Congo Solar

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Stucker

All Fiction

Lowered Rainbow

Winlaton (win-lay-ton) is the third single released by the Ilfords since their 2022 rebirth.

Our David on Winlaton: 'Winlaton was written during deep lockdown. Nothing was open and late night running was the only space I had to myself. I suppose it reflects on what methods you can try to use when you feel lost. On one late night trek however, I realised I wasn’t just lost mentally at that time but geographically as I’d managed to run all the way to Winlaton.'

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Ady Hall and Lee McCarthy of Sugar House Productions
Recorded at Catalyst Studios, St Helens
Mastered by Nick Watson of Fluid Mastering

Winlaton

I Like It

Sliver

Another Lad Insane

Sometimes it all gets too much
And you lose your head 'cause you're losing touch
And you go to the moon and you dance with the stars
'Cause there's pain that remains in the scars

On Mute

Produced, recorded and mixed by PROJECTOR
Mastered by Katie Tavini 
Out now

chemical - PROJECTOR

Ffuglen Wyddonol

Los Blancos - Ffuglen Wyddonol

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Chris and his brother Pete Gibson formed Lazy Hunter precisely to escape the rules which normally govern what indie artists should and shouldn't do. The resulting music recalls alt rock elder statesmen Radiohead and Talking Heads - wilfully bizarre, with melodic sensibility.

"We had been chasing success for a long time," says frontman Chris. Stints in previous bands yielded sporadic victories - a national radio spot here, a television placement there - but they never quite achieved the elusive breakthrough moment. "It was exhausting, we were constantly second-guessing everything, and it was affecting the music." So, burnt out and bored, the duo formed a band with no rules whatsoever: "you want a song with a jazz beat in 13/8 time? Great! There's no-one here to tell us 'no, you can't do that'."

From 2019 to 2021, they knuckled down to write. Gradually building a vault of off-kilter prog-inspired art rock, they quietly released two EPs - paradise and antisocial - in 2021. This was swiftly followed by mini-album Fast Track to the Peach Blossom Spring in 2022, the lead singles of which were positively reviewed in the blogosphere and caught the attention of BBC Introducing in Sheffield.

Now, they are stepping up a gear - taking on the challenge of independently writing, recording and releasing a full-length album in 2023. As paradoxical as ever, they plan to openly share the making of the album throughout the year, allowing fans to see how it's made, whilst also constructing a surreal, obtuse, AI-generated visual world for it to exist in, simultaneously exposing and concealing themselves. It's this penchant for paradox, along with their fearless musicality, that makes Lazy Hunter one of the most interesting alt rock artists in the UK underground scene right now.

The first offering from their album, 'I Want to Save the World but I Don't Know How', will be released on 03 February 2023.

strange times

lazy hunter

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