NYOKABI KARIÜKI

NYOKABI KARIÜKI

SA RECORDINGS

NOK CULTURAL ENSEMBLE

SA RECORDINGS

AMOR MUERE

SCRAWL

JOSIENNE CLARKE

FLORE LAURENTIENNE

RVNG INTL

DAVID ALLRED

ERASED TAPES

LAURIE TORRES

TONAL UNION

ECHO JULIET

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PEDRO THE LION

POLYVINYL / BIG SCARY MONSTERS

DOT ALLISON

SA RECORDINGS

ADVANCE BASERUN FOR COVER RECORDS / ORINDAL RECORDSOwen Ashworth used to release his lo-fi keyboard pop under the name Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, but these days he calls it Advance Base. Walking the line between electronic music & tradi…

ADVANCE BASE

RUN FOR COVER RECORDS / ORINDAL RECORDS

ALEX REXNEOLITHIC RECORDINGSAlex Rex is the nom de guerre of Alex Neilson - drummer to some of the most innovative musicians on the international underground, including Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Shirley Collins, Jandek and Current 93. Alex has synthesi…

ALEX REX

NEOLITHIC RECORDINGS

RODDY WOOMBLE (IDLEWILD)Roddy Woomble is a Scottish singer, songwriter, writer and the lead vocalist of the indie band Idlewild. His latest solo album ‘Lo! Soul’ is due out in May 2021. Produced and mixed by recent collaborator Andrew Mitchell (aka …

RODDY WOOMBLE (IDLEWILD)

JOEP BEVING

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

ALICE HUBBLEHAPPY ROBOTSAlice Hubble has announced her new album Hexentanzplatz, to be released on September 10th, 2021 via London-based electronic-pop label Happy Robots. Described as the work of ‘one lady at home with her enormous collection of synthesisers’, Alice Hubble mixes melancholic pop, layered vintage synths and elegant vocals, reminiscent of Ladytron, Jane Weaver and Goldfrapp. Her debut album Polarlichter was released in September 2019 to much critical acclaim. Her new album Hexentanzplatz, named after the German mountain steeped in magic and legend, translates literally to mean Witches’ Dance Floor. An apt title for an album that dances its way through themes of illusion, love, feminism and protest whilst maintaining glistening, 80’s synth-pop sensibilities.

ALICE HUBBLE

HAPPY ROBOTS

LEWSBERG

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD

POLYVINYL / DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY

DILETTANTE

LAUNCHPAD+ / EMI NORTH

ASTRID SONNE

SA RECORDINGS

WHO SHOT SCOTT

TINY LEAVES

Sunna Margret

SUNNA MARGRÉT

NO SALAD RECORDS

BALMORHEA

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

DAMSEL ELYSIUM

SA RECORDINGS

SISTER WIVES

LIBERTINO RECORDS

YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN

SA RECORDINGS

Oceanator Polyvinyl Big Scary Monsters

OCEANATOR

POLYVINYL / BIG SCARY MONSTERS

EYDÍS EVENSENXXIM RECORDS (SONY)Once a member of the world-renowned choir whose former choristers include Björk and members of Sigur Rós, Eydís Evensen also fell into a successful modelling career in New York and London after scrapping her plans to become a concert pianist in Vienna. However Iceland never left her, and its glacial beauty runs deep throughout her stunning debut album Bylur.

EYDÍS EVENSEN

XXIM RECORDS (SONY)

MAN ON MANPOLYVINYL / BIG SCARY MONSTERSMAN ON MAN (also M.O.M.) is a new gay lover band made up of Joey Holman (HOLMAN) and Roddy Bottum (Faith No More, Imperial Teen, CRICKETS, Nastie Band). Their upcoming self-titled record, MAN ON MAN, is infused with indie-rock distortion and soaked in gay pop confidence while still maintaining the dry acerbic sense of humor they both share. M.O.M.'s music videos take their magical collaboration to another level with otherworldly cinematographic dimension, and of course, the subversive playfulness of two gay lovers unmistakably flirting with their audience and each other. Upon the release of their debut single, “Daddy”, their video (chock full of the pair dancing seductively in their white briefs) was removed from YouTube for violating their “sex and nudity policy.” At this moment, the band solidified their political visibility as queer artists who are not ok with being silenced or removed from history because of their age or size. Bottum told Rolling Stone, “There’s enough representation in the gay community of young, hairless pretty men." Roddy and Joey’s love for each other and their own bodies, histories, and truths are what make this project so tender and lovable.

MAN ON MAN

POLYVINYL / BIG SCARY MONSTERS

BREATHE PANELFAT CAT RECORDSMeeting at University, Josh Tyler, Nick Green and Benjamin Reeves sprung out of a vibrant scene of musicians playing and gigging together. Between writing in a shared house basement and taking long walks on the South Down…

BREATHE PANEL

FAT CAT RECORDS

Mabe Fratti

MABE FRATTI

ADWAITH

LIBERTINO RECORDS

Oram Awards

ORAM AWARDS

ALEV & JAS 

Lara Jones

LARA JONES

KNIFE GIRL

SOLITI RECORDS

Fer Franco

FER FRANCO

YNYS

LIBERTINO RECORDS

MARTHA

SPECIALIST SUBJECT RECORDS

ILLUMINATI HOTTIESBIG SCARY MONSTERSIlluminati Hotties debut record ‘Kiss Yr Frenemies’ brought illuminati hotties critical acclaim and tour dates alongside contemporary heavyweights Pup and Lucy Dacus, pulling lead vocalist and songwriter Sarah Tud…

ILLUMINATI HOTTIES

BIG SCARY MONSTERS

SHABASON & KRGOVICH

IDEÉ FIXE

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKSBIG SCARY MONSTERSFirst emerging a group of 20-year-olds in 2009, with their exciting debut These Four Walls, the four members of We Were Promised Jetpacks went on to release two further widely lauded albums throughout their ‘20s, 2011’s In the Pit of the Stomach and 2014’s Unravelling. Each band member recently turned 30 and felt like vastly different people to the four 20-year-olds that they were when they first started releasing music. Having spent ten years almost consistently writing and touring, it was time to decamp home to Scotland and take a breath. They reverted back to their original four members and dealt with several behind the scenes changes. They celebrated a few marriages and tried to remember who they were when not on the road. A decision was made. No more touring until a new album had been written.

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

BIG SCARY MONSTERS

TARA CLERKIN TRIO

SA RECORDINGS

GWILYM GOLD

SA RECORDINGS

MARA SIMPSONDOWNFIELD RECORDSUK multi-instrumentalist and story-teller Mara Simpson has announced her new album In This Place will be released on September 24th, 2021. A heady blend of alt-folk, analogue synth and classical composition, In This Place is a tale of quiet rebellion, and taking back control. Fittingly, the new album marks the start of another new journey for Mara. In This Place will be the first record to be released on Downfield Records, a non-profit imprint set up by Simpson, placing artists at it’s centre. “I want to try and promote transparency and equality, assist other artists to get public funding and to ‘pay’ forward the time and resources I’ve benefited from,” she says. The label’s mission is to see musicians paid fairly and release records through a creative and joyous process.

MARA SIMPSON

DOWNFIELD RECORDS

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