Ahead of their debut album Tuesday Paper Club (out October 21 via Play It Again Sam), Brògeal share a new single "Draw The Line" - a tongue-in-cheek anthem about small-town ‘hard men' who think they run the place. Written with an Irish rebel feel, it evolved into a Libertines/The Clash-inspired track full of grit and melancholy. There's another four tracks from the album included in the selection below & all are in Beehive Candy's opinion absolutely worth a listen!
The Independent recently said of Brògeal (pronounced “Bro-gale”),they are a Scottish five-piece placing their proud heritage at the forefront of an emerging new rock scene. Significantly, they are a thrilling and important addition to a fresh wave of bands pushing back against the industry’s fixation on solo pop acts.
In person and onstage, Brògeal are a much-needed blast of fresh air in a scene still in thrall to angsty singer-songwriters, and have already achieved a following despite having yet to release an album.
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| Photo - Bex Aston |
London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe returns this week with the new single 'If I Could Reach You' - out now via Moshi Moshi Records. The new single marks Costelloe's first release since 2024’s acclaimed EP 'When It’s The Time'.
Produced once again by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, LUMP, Anna B Savage), 'If I Could Reach You' is set against a rich framework of gently warped electronics and fuzzy guitars - extending the sonic palette Costelloe and Lindsay began exploring on her 'When It’s The Time' EP - moving further away from her indie-rock origins into a more exploratory art-pop space.
The lyrics capture the aching tension of longing for someone you can’t quite reach - a love song in form, but directed at absence rather than romance, as Alice explains: “The song came from that feeling of trying to connect with someone who was always just out of reach. I wanted the production to carry that distance too. Mike and I even layered in the sound of a New Zealand busy tone as a kind of sonic metaphor. It’s funny and devastating at the same time, which is how that longing often felt.
"I listened to Andy Shauf’s ‘Norm’ a lot last year and really connected to it. There’s a track about desperately wanting to hear someone’s voice, even if you're just talking about the most mundane things - how comforting even that can be when you love someone. Now I’m reading reviews of ‘Norm’, I’m just realising it’s essentially a concept record about a stalker, but I guess I felt I could relate to the feeling of not being able to stop thinking about someone that is unreachable for you. He said about Norm, “I wanted to make love songs that were disconnected from romanticising love,” and I think I was unknowingly doing something similar, I was writing love songs that were mourning the loss of a familial relationship."
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| Photo - Louis Gilbert |
American-born, London-based songwriter Fast Money Music has returned with new single and music video “Round and Round”, a taster from his upcoming self-titled debut.
“Round and Round” is a cycle, a song, a feeling. Self-proclaimed “tough nostalgia,” it’s a brooding teaser from Fast Money Music’s upcoming self-titled debut LP. The track distills the jangle-pop charm of The Cleaners From Venus with the urgency of Guided By Voices, pairing shimmering guitars and melodic basslines with bittersweet vocals. It reflects on the looping pull of love and memory, setting the tone for the album’s sharp, introspective spirit.
Recorded between Hackney Road Studios and Fast Money Music’s own space in Dalston, “Round and Round” came together piece by piece across different sessions – a collage of fragments stitched into a track that feels both raw and refined. The track was produced by Grammy-nominated Mikko Gordon (Thom Yorke, Arcade Fire) and Nick Hinman, with mastering by Grammy-winning Matt Colton (Depeche Mode, Wet Leg, Arctic Monkeys). It also features drums from Oscar Robertson (SHOLTO) and backing vocals from Steffan Halperin (Klaxons).
On the new track, Nick shares, “[It’s] about the feeling of being caught in loops – the ‘Groundhog Day’ of songs. Reliving the same phrases, the same moments, the same pull you can’t quite shake. Bittersweet but driving, it’s equal parts hopeful and yearning, anchored in this key phrase Mikko [Gordon] and I developed while working on the LP: tough nostalgia.”
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Today, Rotterdam/Kent based trio Dancehall have shared their new single 'Modern Age'. The single is the third to be taken from their forthcoming second album, 100% Music, which is due out on October 24th.
'Modern Age' is accompanied by a music video, directed by William Keeler and filmed around Dover and Folkestone. The video features Primal Runners, a local running club that includes asylum seekers and refugees from Gaza and Afghanistan, with whom singer Tim Smithen is directly involved. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of rising anti-migrant hostility in the UK, captured in the refrain “They’re coming to get you”, where right-wing rhetoric, fear-mongering, and flag-waving nationalism (depicted both across the country and in the video) are often masked as patriotism.
Of their new single, Smithen says: “This song covers some ground. From pollution to right-wing mob politics. Misinformation from mainstream media to the youth of today having to pretend to be something or someone different in order to ‘fit in’”
Dancehall have always existed in the margins: too spiky for pop, too self-aware for grunge. On their new album, singer/bassist Tim Smithen, guitarist Craig Sharp and drummer Dave Keeler double-down and sharpen their edges to deliver the band’s most dialed-in, deliberate work yet.
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