Wild Bill

Opus Kink - Wild Bill

Blue Jeans

Anorak Patch - Blue Jeans

Opus Kink - This Train

Good Grief

English Teacher - Good Grief

Pre-order English Teacher's debut EP ‘Polyawkward’ here:
https://englishteacher.bandcamp.com/album/polyawkward-ep

Money Talks - Conor's Mix

The Colline Gate - VLURE Remix

Kynsy - Money

CHALK - The Gate

Avice Caro - At The End Of The Day (Its The End Of The Day)

Shady Baby - Come To Life

Human Interest - Mixing Paint

Yabba - Get By

cowboyy - Gmaps

splint - 145

Saloon Dion - HEY HEY

Prima Queen - Chew My Cheeks

Deadletter - Pop Culture Connoisseur

Kynsy - Money - Edit

Our second release on Nice Swan brings you The Lightning Year and their debut single 'Endless Memory'. Catch the band at our Label Launch Party in Manchester on 10th March.

Stream It: https://goo.gl/FmqoFs
Buy It: https://goo.gl/d8qI0Y

Endless memory

The Lightning Year - Endless Memory

Amsterdam-based Pip Blom has announced details of her new single, ‘Babies Are a Lie’, the first song on a AA single to be released via Nice Swan Records on 16th October.

Pre Order here - http://niceswanrecords.bigcartel.com/product/pip-blom-aa-single-babies-are-a-lie-school

Since first airing her angst-ridden brand of lo-fi indie last year, Pip Blom hasn’t been one to hang around. Four singles released in quick succession introduced her music to listeners far wider than her native Netherlands, with airplay across the likes of American radio station KCRW, BBC Radio One and 6 Music ensuring songs Pip had simply uploaded to the Internet hit hundreds of thousands of streams.

Babies Are A Lie

Pip Blom - Babies Are A Lie

@PipBlom

Check this link for iTunes / Apple Music / Spotify / Soundcloud and the 7" single: http://smarturl.it/pipblomschool

Amsterdam-based Pip Blom has shared the second song on her recent AA-side 7”, listen to ‘School’ here. The song follows the recently aired ‘Babies Are A Lie’ with the vinyl now available on Nice Swan Records (Dead Pretties, Queen Zee & The Sasstones).

Since first airing her angst-ridden brand of lo-fi indie last year, Pip Blom hasn’t been one to hang around. Four singles released in quick succession introduced her music to listeners far wider than her native Netherlands, with airplay across the likes of American radio station KCRW, BBC Radio One and 6 Music ensuring songs Pip had simply uploaded to the Internet hit hundreds of thousands of streams.

Are We There Yet? followed, a three-track EP showcasing the 21-year-old musician’s art for subtle, yet effortlessly catchy melodies. Self-recorded, each track across the release occupies a different headspace and is packed with rough-edged charm; whetting the appetite for what may lie in wait for Pip’s debut full-length.

‘School’ and its flipside ‘Babies Are A Lie’ are next in a growing catalogue of notable releases. Warming guitars and string accompaniment throughout highlights ‘Babies…’, which is centred on Pip’s undeniable gift for a standout chorus. On the flip, ‘School’ is a fuzzier, raucous showcasing of her ability writing great, hooky rock songs.

Pip and band are fresh from a recent UK tour, including a sell-out London show at The Sebright Arms, following a EU festival run, including much-talked about appearances at The Great Escape Festival and On Blackheath Festival, amongst others, along with support slots to the likes of Interpol and The Districts.

See Pip on the following dates:

NOVEMBER
29 – Peer Hat, Manchester
30 – Shacklewell Arms, London

DECEMBER
01 – Sticky Mike’s, Brighton

Pip Blom and Band are: Pip Blom, Tender Blom, Camiel Muiser & Casper van der Lans.

Order vinyl here: http://niceswanrecords.bigcartel.com/product/pip-blom-aa-single-babies-are-a-lie-school

School

Pip Blom - School

Captain of the Rugby Team

Sweaty Palms - Captain Of The Rugby Team

Come Home

Pip Blom - Come Home

Angel Eyes

Fur - Angel Eyes

Fur - All My Dreams

Fur - Love Song For No One

Fur - Where Did All The People Go?

Following the release and significant interest, including playlisting at 6 Music, for “Angel Eyes” at the tail end of 2018, FUR continue their impressive rise with the near perfect pop of their latest single “Him & Her”. Front man Murray says the song is: “about trust and distrust in a relationship. Trying to tell if someone trusts in you and how that can lead to you seeing them in a completely new light. Then, ultimately, the battle of deciding whether you want to be with them anymore.”

The single is the latest to be taken from their self-titled EP, landing February 14th on Nice Swan Records. Nice Swan have quickly become one of the country’s most exciting new labels and landing pad for early releases for the likes of Sports Team, Pip Blom and Sweaty Palms. You can pre-order the band’s EP on limited 12” vinyl.

Him & Her

Fur - Him And Her

Nice Swan Records are excited to announce they are joining forces with the team from RIP Records in launching the new monthly Nice Swan Introduces... series. The two labels have discovered and released debut tracks from some of the finest talent over the past few years including Sports Team, Pip Blom, FUR, Phobophobes, Peluché, Dark Bells (Haai)
& Black Manila (Mellah), Hotel Lux and many more. The series will introduce a new and exciting talent on a monthly basis – spanning genres – and present a stepping stone for acts yet to have any team around them.

The first in the new series comes from South London’s Jelly Cleaver, the latest musical sensation to emerge from the exciting Jazz scene of the capital. Her new track ‘Feeling Fine’ features rapper Shunaji, a graduate of Gilles Peterson’s
Future Bubblers, and Maddy Coombs, a rising saxophonist on the London Jazz Scene. It’s due for release April 28th via Nice Swan Introduces Series.

The self-taught multi-instrumentalist has been playing guitar ever since she was old enough to pick one up and with a wide range of musical influences including classical, soul, “world”, folk and experimental. Jelly’s sound has naturally headed into the musical freedom of jazz with hip-hop elements born from previous projects that included a punk band and an African drumming choir.

This is the second single from Jelly’s innovative new project Reimagined, following on from They Don’t Know released in
November 2019. For this mixtape she has produced tracks based off sampling her last critically acclaimed album The Dream Jazz Manifesto (played on BBC 1xtra, Rinse FM, Worldwide FM and others). Feeling Fine samples her tune
Angela, reimagining it as a chilled-out, old-school hip-hop track. Jelly, who recently won the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award, has previously been called “the next artist to make an impact on the London Jazz Scene” by Supreme Standards
and been compared to Moses Boyd, Esperanza Spalding and Hiatus Kayote, but this mixtape sees a radical departure from her jazz/DIY roots and her first strong statement as a producer and beatmaker. The project has been funded by Help Musicians Do It Differently Fund, and the full mixtape is due for release in May 2020.

‘Feeling Fine’ is a woozy track about the good times, dreaming about summer days and being your best self.

Her two collaborators definitely share in this vibe. Having met as part of the house band for a jam session at Brainchild Festival several years back, Jelly and Vanessa Saul (artist name Shunaji) became good mates and frequent collaborators, with Jelly supporting Shunaji for her Blue Melon EP release and featuring on a track from her upcoming EP. Jelly knew Maddy Coombs though Tomorrow’s Warriors, the jazz education organisation credited by many for creating the current London jazz scene, with alumni including Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd, Shabaka Hutchings, Nerija and Nubya Garcia.

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