"When I Was Your Age" is the first single to be taken from "Hide and Seek", the debut album from Mammoth Penguins, the new band fronted by Emma Kupa (formerly of Standard Fare). The song is gloriously messy and loud, about feeling inadequate about one’s achievements. As Emma explains, "It started off with a birthday card from my granddad saying that he was married with kids at 28 and then I started thinking about what my parents, grandparents and family members had achieved by the time they were my age".

"Hide and Seek" is the debut album from Mammoth Penguins, the new band fronted by Emma Kupa, formerly of BBC 6 Music favourites Standard Fare. Due out on 6 July via Fortuna POP!, the album is an exhilarating collection of indie anthems, with Emma's candid songwriting and heartfelt vocals at the fore. Chugging away like the greatest Weezer record you’ve never heard, the songs are bold, loud and outrageously catchy, with lyrics that hit just the right chord, exploring the burgeoning responsibilities of being in your late 20s/early 30s.

Mammoth Penguins - When I Was Your Age

Track 4 from our forthcoming album 'London's Leaving Me'.  '...This has been a live favourite for the past year and we are thrilled to have realised it into a full studio production.   It's a summer pop song with beach boys harmonies, feedback and a trumpet solo from the fabulous Andy Mellon (Bellowhead, Damon Alburn)…)

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"Worst Kiss" is taken from the forthcoming debut album "Departures" from  Owl & Mouse.

London based 5 piece Owl & Mouse release their debut album, ‘Departures’, on Fika Recordings in July, after winning hearts with their ‘exceptionally beautiful’ EP, Somewhere To Go. 

The quintet are led by Australian songwriter Hannah Botting, sister of Allo Darlin’ bassist Bill Botting. The release of their debut coincides with the bands tour of the UK and Norway, joining American label mates The Smittens.

The boldly open hearted yet delicate songs come straight out of the same school of Australian songwriting as The Go-Betweens, Triffids and Courtney Barnett, with lyrics that draw on the familiar to talk about the universal difficulties of fond farewells, baggage carousels, and missed connections.  

The results manifest themselves in a collection of songs that are both infectious and joyous. Those familiar with the band will delight in the understatedly emotive tales of love and loss, which are enriched by special guests (as well as a brass section, Allo Darlin’s Paul Rains and Michael Collins step in on guitar and percussion) and show the fruits of years of live performances and a greatly expanded line-up. Fans of the Magnetic Fields will delight in bassist Tom Wade’s Stephin Merrit-esque baritone, which leads the heartbreaking ‘Sinking Song’ with bold intimacy.

Owl & Mouse began life as a sister act, with Hannah and Jen Botting, before expanding after recording their last EP, to include Tom Wade (We Aeronauts) and the prolific pairing of Emma Winston and Dan Mayfield (Enderby's Room, Darren Hayman's Long Parliament). 
Singer and ukulele player, Hannah Botting, said: “It’s now been eight years since I moved away from my home town, and it’s getting to that point where you’re not really sure where your home is any more. That feeling of being a bit lost and a bit unsure but excited at the same time, is something that sits underneath all the songs.” 

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Owl & Mouse - Worst Kiss

Model Village are some kind of pop band from London and Cambridge with a form book as long as your arm where previous bands are concerned. None of that matters now though, so come and revel in the model village of the future.

Dan, Ian, Kenny, Kev, Piers, and Lily currently make up the residents' committee.

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