The Fat Angel Sings

Following up on recent single “Orwell’s Idyllic Future”, Portsmouth based post punks Hallan drop new single “Reruns” – a subversive deconstruction of self-help which will feature of their upcoming Reporting Live From The Living Room Floor EP which is set for release on Wednesday July 16^th via Swan Records.

“I like to think that between the four of us, there’s not a thing we haven’t had a crack at during our “year of self betterment”. And thus over the last year we have become experts on the mundane. We know the things you’re meant to enjoy are not the pleasures they may seem, and we know for certain you’ll get more joy out of watching a watermelon being crushed by a hydraulic press at 30,000 frames per second (at 2AM), than you ever will sweating on an exercise bike. ‘Reruns’ embraces the mundane and we like to think the track is us finding our true calling as self-titled “preachers of mundanity”.

We’re proud to announce the release of our debut EP ‘Reporting Live From The Living Room Floor’ via Nice Swan Records . A prologue chapter within the world we call Hallan, RLFTLRF introduces the 21st century to the Gumshoe Boy. The boy is always the man for the job. He’s the man on the inside. He’s the Agency’s number one frontman and he’s armed with a tape provided by an anonymous source. An undercover operative in a satirical, Orwellian world, RLFTLRF paints a semi-abstract but tangible image of the new decade, holding a mirror up to not only our modern society but our individual selves.

The time is now right. From the corner of his bleak bedroom the boy plans his plan, and from the corner of ours we do the same.

Track Listing:1. Reruns 2. Hands Up 3. The White Boys 4. Orwell’s Idyllic Future 5. Television Show 6. Prime Time Lullaby (Vinyl Exclusive)

See Hallan show off their new EP Reporting Live From The Living Room Floor when they play Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham on Saturday 28th August. More Dates to be added.

Signed to Fat Cat Records, Breathe Panel’s self-titled debut album was released on July 13th 2018.

Meeting 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 Downs, Breathe Panel have crafted their own sound based around the intuitive song writing partnership of Josh and Nick.

Recalling thoughtful days spent outdoors, Nick’s vocals wash across bright, shimmering guitars and intricate drum patterns to create something beautifully expansive yet highly introspective. They combine writing about topics including anxiety, colours, people, memories and the cure of nature with capturing a sound that makes them feel good.

Breathe Panel have announced that their new album will be released on September 17th via the sharing of title track ‘Lets It In’. With members divided between London and Brighton, Breathe Panel come together to produce music that is as effortless as their name suggests. Recorded live to tape by esteemed producer Ali Chant (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey, Katy J Pearson), Lets It In was recorded with no agenda other than the enjoyment of making music together. The resulting album is ultimately positive in outlook, centreing around themes of falling in love, moments in places, light, breathing, walking, urban living and finding beauty in a sometimes heavy environment.

Breathe Panels sonic arsenal with dreamy, reverb-laden vocal hooks and jagged duel guitars. Of the track, the band say “It’s a comment on how the unpredictable changes in nature can be beautiful and sometimes frustrating, and a reflection on how that can mirror in relationships between humans. We decided on this theme as we thought the guitar lines sounded like blooming flowers or plants with a constant underlying tension, so we went from there.”

Breathe Panel by Breathe Panel on Fat Cat Records.

Liverpool indie rock songwriter Zuzu combines her influences from gaming and comic book culture into her music, and today she releases new single “Timing” which paints a vivid picture of the greatest ever romance that never was.

“This song is about what could have been – meeting someone you have an instant connection with but the timing was never right. It’s about those lonely late nights / early mornings when the sun is rising and that person creeps into your mind. You wonder where they are, if they’re thinking of you too. I wanted to capture the nostalgic but also melancholy feeling brought on by those sad longing thoughts for somebody you loved.”

The first single off my debut album is coming out this Friday and is available to pre-save now! It’s called ‘Timing’ and I’m beyond excited to share it with everyone.

This song is the oldest on the album but I’ve never had a version of it that felt right until now. It’s been with me throughout a lot of ups and downs in my life and felt like the natural place to start. It’s about wondering what could have been, meeting the right person at the wrong time.

Kurran and I recorded this track here in our studio in Birkenhead with some of our best friends in the world. I feel so lucky to be doing all this after the year and a half we’ve all had. You guys have kept me going at moments when I felt like I couldn’t anymore and I’ve got so much love and admiration for you all holding on throughout the chaos too. I can’t wait to snuggle you again, I’ve got lots of love dates coming soon I promise!

Rising star Zuzu plays support for Courteeners when they play a huge homecoming outdoor show at Manchester Emirates Old Trafford on Saturday 25^th of September. Plus, you can see her making appearances at 110 Above Festival and NEIGHBOURHOOD WEEKENDER!

“Timing” Planet Z Records Released on: 11th June 2021.

UK South coasters, relocating from West to East: Katja Rackin and Sam Stacpoole have been grafting and honing alone, away from the expertise of music producers and other governors since 2016. The result is unadulterated and unclean, unabashed and uncom- promised. Through their love of artists such as The Kinks, Alex Chilton and The Nerves or any other artist who spends less time with the polishing cloth and more time with the power shower, Holiday Ghosts make music with a lean and primitive rock n roll spirit. Drums are stripped naked to the point of metronome status and no stomp boxes, nor cahons or didgeridoos are found to obscure the energy of guitars at their rawest.

In stories of landlords, steady jobs, wrong turns, short straws, sunny moods and city life, Kat and Sam share lead vocals alongside returning band-mate and song writer, Charlie Murphy, and a host of other musicians from Falmouth, Cornwall where the band began.

Two albums in with Punk Slime Records and a casually bandcamped EP, Holiday Ghosts are back with their 3rd full length – “North Street Air” on FatCat Records (May 2021) – 12 songs of love, hate and everything in between.

Released May 21, 2021

Social Haul first exploded onto the scene just three months ago, announcing their arrival with rip-roaring single “Wet Eyes”, followed by further incendiary songs “The Ease and “This Is All I Need” which quickly attracted a cult fanbase and was the first taste of their upcoming debut album – which has just dropped today!

We were so excited by them, The band leader consists of Leigh Padley, AKA bassist from TRAAMS, Social Haul‘s track ‘This Is All I Need’ is out today and the album is soon to come – out June 11th!

Produced by Daniel Fox from Girl Band, the ten blistering hot tracks are a flurry of rapid riffs (only one song exceeds the 3 min mark!), sped up disco beats and frenetically shouted slogans. Each song is a collection of vignettes illustrated the drunken descent of a central character, broken by a existential crisis.

“‘Social Haul is a collection of songs to get to know us by. The album loosely depicts a protagonist challenging perceived negative aspects of character, particularly in others, attacking in stages or episodes. Not dissimilar to that unfinished Bruce Lee movie.

Including bouts with ignorance, through to rebellion, disassociating, spiritual bypassing, indifference and eventually light-enlightenment. ‘Social Haul’ centres around the middle distance, the place in which we realise that no matter how insignificant or excluded we may feel, we all have something worthwhile to say”.

‘Wet Eyes’ by Social Haul. Taken from the self title debut album on Fat Cat Records

Jeff Tweedy shares a new song written for ‘Parks and Recreation’ band Mouse Rat, ‘Cold Water’ features Duke Silver, the sax-wielding alter-ego of character Ron Swanson,

Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy has shared a new song as Scott Tanner, his character from his Parks and Recreation cameo.

In the show, Tanner was the frontman of local band Land Ho! which Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer successfully reunited for a benefit concert. Tweedy (as Tanner) has now released ‘Cold Water’, a track written for ‘The Awesome Album’, the recently-announced debut album from Dwyer’s fictional band in the show, Mouse Rat.

Featuring on the song is Duke Silver, the saxophone-wielding alter-ego of the show’s character Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) 

‘The Awesome Album’ is a 15-track record and will arrive on August 27th through Dualtone Music Group and Entertainment 720 (the company founded by Aziz Ansari’s character Tom Haverford in the show). The album will also be given a limited edition vinyl run.

“Any creative business coming out of Pawnee is tied to Haverford,” Dualtone president Paul Roper said in a statement.

“From Rent-a-Swag to Tommy Fresh cologne and Tom’s Bistro, not to mention his business ideas not yet formed like the scented phone, talking tissues, contact lenses that display text messages, and the glitter-infused laundry detergent Sparkle Suds, partnering with Entertainment 720’s hype machine was essential. The man is an idea factory.”

In the lead-up to the album’s arrival, Mouse Rat have released the lead single, ‘5,000 Candles In The Wind’, which Parks and Rec fans will recognise from the funeral of Pawnee’s celebrity miniature horse Li’l Sebastian. Two more singles, ‘The Pit’ and ‘Two Birds Holding Hands’, were also recently shared to preview the record.

Back in his real life music, Jeff Tweedy last week shared a cover of Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen’s new collaboration ‘Like I Used To’ with his son Spencer.

Bruce Springsteen and The Killers have released a new collaboration — a pulse-pounding cover of The Killers’ 2009 single “A Dustland Fairytale,” retitled as, simply, “Dustland” . They are expected to make a joint appearance today (June 16th) on “The Today Show,” which airs on NBC television at 7 a.m.  They debuted the official video on “The Today Show” and then made it available online.,

Simultaneously with the Spotify release, Brandon Flowers of The Killers posted a remarkable 566-word message on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. He wrote about late-February 2020, just around the time people were starting to learn about a possible pandemic. He remembered coming home early from a tour, because of that, and getting a text message from Springsteen saying, “Watching Glastonbury. You guys have become one hellacious live band my brother! Love the gold suit! We gotta do Dustland one day.”

He writes about the band’s 2020 album Imploding the Mirage, his parents Jean and Terry (whom he writes about in “A Dustland Fairytale”) and other subjects, but closes with some more thoughts on Springsteen:

Before I really became a fan of his, I was in the business of stadium-size everything. Larger than life EVERYTHING. Certainly larger than the lives of Jeannie and Terry Flowers. But Bruce has written a lot about people like my parents and found a whole lot of beauty in otherwise invisible people’s hopes and dreams. Their struggles, and their losses.

I’m grateful to him for opening this door for me. I’m grateful to my parents for their example to me. Now go find something new out about your dad, give your mom a big hug, and for god’s sake listen to Bruce Springsteen.

In October, Flowers and Springsteen talked with each other on SiriusXM/Apple Music’s “Letter to You Radio With Bruce Springsteen” series.

“Dustland” (featuring Bruce Springsteen):