because poppy

"Horseshoe" is the first single from Withered Hand's album "New Gods," and features a guest appearance from Pam Berry (Black Tambourine) on backing vocals.

Fortuna POP! (UK/Europe) and Slumberland Records (US/Canada) are proud to announce the new album by the Edinburgh based folk-rock troubadour Dan Willson who records as WITHERED HAND. “New Gods” is his stunning second album, following his critically acclaimed debut “Good News”.

Active in the world of visual art and dabbling in music for many years, Withered Hand’s Dan Willson came late to singing and songwriting at age 30, in a period of reflection between the death of a close friend and the birth of his first child. The resultant material, much of which went on to become the album “Good News,” has been praised for its depth and startling honesty.

Withered Hand has been embraced by Fife-based musical powerhouse the Fence Collective (whose sovereign King Creosote guests on the new album), seen his songs picked up on MTV and cult series Skins, and gained a legion of fans including Jarvis Cocker and Rolling Stone Magazine USA (who decreed him “Artist to Watch”).

A prolific live performer, recent Withered Hand shows have included collaborations with Pam Berry of seminal 90's US noise-pop band Black Tambourine and a rotating cast of musical friends embellishing Dan's exuberant and original songwriting alongside fragile and uplifting solo performances.

The long-awaited second album (produced by Tony Doogan – Mountain Goats/Belle & Sebastian etc - and part-funded by arts council body Creative Scotland) features guest appearances from the likes of Pam Berry, Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines and members of Belle & Sebastian and Frightened Rabbit.

The five years since “Good News” was recorded has seen Willson honing his songcraft, building his audience and gaining critical momentum. “New Gods” is a beautifully executed collection of songs from one of Scotland’s most gifted songwriters.

“Beautifully constructed lyrical frameworks ... on this banjo-tinged brand of Caledonian gospel” – **** MOJO

“the UK’s best lyricist” – King Creosote, in The Independent

“Killer melodies ... wobbly folk grooves ... tunes full of warm, woozy sing-song charm” – 'Artist to Watch', Rolling Stone

Withered Hand - Horseshoe

Marx on my Heart

2014 Paper Bag Records
PS I Love You - 'For Those Who Stay'
Album out July 22nd, 2014

Pre-order on iTunes: http://georiot.co/1B86
Pre-order on Limited Edition Vinyl / CD: http://bit.ly/1pF4OJv

www.psiloveyouband.com
www.facebook.com/psiloveyouband
www.paperbagrecords.com

PS I LOVE YOU - For Those Who Stay

Washed Out - Echoes (Little Star Dweller Remix)

Washed Out - Echoes (Lil Stardweller Remix)

Your X by Jawbreaker Reunion, from the upcoming release "haha and then what ;)"

i like it when you say i'm the one
the person that you want to love
you only say it when you're drunk
i don't know where i went wrong

i feel contempt for myself
without you next to me
i feel okay with myself
only when i'm laying with you

you love me when we're alone

Your X

lost n forgot but not no more 

Loop Pedal experiments made with the Boss RC-50 Loop Station 
Recorded 2013-2016

all music written, produced and performed by Tom Stuen 
album art by Jenny Biron and Tom Stuen

released November 14, 2025 

Planet

Lifeline

Phantogram "Don't Move" (from Nightlife)

The third track off their EP Nightlife. V0 quality.

Phantogram - Turning into Stone

Phantogram - Make a Fist

Moonface and Siinai - "Them Call Themselves Old Punks" off the album 'My Best Human Face' out June 3, 2016 on Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar: smarturl.it/moonface_ws
Amazon: smarturl.it/moonfacews_amz
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Moonface and Siinai - Them Call Themselves Old Punks

http://www.thefader.com/2011/11/01/stream-blouses-st-lp/

04 Into Black

Phantogram "As Far As I Can See" (from Eyelid Movies)

Phantogram - 16 Years

Phantogram - Nightlife

'Pittura Infamante' is taken from Girls Names' forthcoming album, The New Life, OUT 18th Feb. 

Buy The New Life here - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/the-new-life/id582840781

Live
February
20th - The Menagerie, Belfast
21st - The Grand Social, Dublin
22nd - The Cockpit, Leeds
24th - Broadcast, Glasgow
25th - The Castle Hotel, Manchester
26th - Sebright Arms, London
27th - Point Ephemere, Paris
March
2nd - Sala Apolo, Barcelona
3rd - Astoria, Torino
4th - Circolo degli Artisti, Rome
5th - Mascotte, Zurich
6th - MuZ, Nuremberg
8th - Magnet Club (Karrera Klub), Berlin
9th - De Neiuwe Anita, Amsterdam
10th - Ateliers Claus Gallery, Brussels

BIOGRAPHY
Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released on 18th February, their second album The New Life is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, The New Life is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

The band’s performance at Primavera festival 2012 provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise The New Life. The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains:

“The New Life is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. Dead to Me literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, The New Life is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. The New Life is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream here - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, The New Life, stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

The New Life will be released on February 18th on Tough Love (UK) and Slumberland (US).


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