Perpacity - Paco Cathcart - Jo Davie - VANNGO

Perpacity - Lille Flamme.

If there is such a thing as brooding, understated power, then Lille Flamme is all of that. Add in the gorgeous vocals and deep harmonies and Beehive Candy is more than happy to lead with this single today.

The new Perpacity single ‘Lille Flamme’, which also includes the B-sides ‘Sjælekamp’ and ‘Bedrager’ officially releases on all platforms today 2nd of May 2025 through Town And Towers Records.

The new single is the third single release from the upcoming Perpacity album ‘Poverty Of The Flesh’. Sung in Danish, it embraces the band's Nordic roots. The single delves into sibling love, their shared history, and the strength that lies within it.

Two B-sides accompany the single, which are also in Danish: ’Sjælekamp’, which reflects the struggle to escape the abyss of overwhelming hopelessness and despair, and ‘Bedrager’, about that one person no one wants or should ever have in their life.

Perpacity members are Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup residing in the UK and in Denmark respectively. Each has over 20+ years of musical experience, ranging from writing music and live performance to studio work and music production. Perpacity creates haunting melodies and driving beats, characterized by their unique dark electronic landscapes.

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Paco Cathcart - Down on Them (Album).

Paco Cathcart, the longtime New York underground fixture who has previously released a rich discography under the name The Cradle, has now released Down on Them, their first record under their own name.

Where The Cradle records showed Cathcart to be a master of lo-fi solo recording, Down On Them sees them engage with studio fidelity and a full band, composed of Paco bassist Miriam Elhajli, Keyboardist Ellie Shannon, and Drummer Bailey Wollowitz (fantasy of a broken heart, Water From Your Eyes).

The album's release has been preceded by the singles "Bottlenneck Blues" and "Invasive Species," and today Paco is providing a final preview of the LP with the Spanish-language single "Ella Vive Sola."

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Photo - Georgia Peace

Jo Davie - Nothing Comes Free (EP).

Rest your head and listen to the stories Jo Davie has to tell in her debut EP, ‘Nothing Comes Free’, a rich anthology told through gorgeous indie-folk and her spellbinding voice, released today Friday, May 2.

For as long as it’s been around, music has been used to tell stories, and since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium in 2017 with First Class Honours and the University Medal, Jo Davie has been channeling her ancestors, telling tales through songs live on stage at festivals like Woodford Folk Festival (QLD), The National Folk Festival (ACT), and the Caloundra Music Festival (QLD), connecting with an audience and giving them something to bring home with them.

Her focus on human connection has resulted in her earning the Carol Lloyd Award at the Queensland Music Awards, selling out her shows, and supporting ARIA-winning artist Katie Noonan across a variety of venues, all while working on her PHD.

Now, she is releasing her debut EP - a 6-track journey into the wonderland of her mind, played across a variety of instruments from strings to synth. It begins with ‘Throw Me A Rope’, a slow jam woven from a lilting voice that rises and falls with the grace of a songbird and instruments with a noncorporeal nature brought in through the fuzz of the guitar and soft echoing effects. This tells the story of a love left away from harbour but not let out to sea, how it feels to want to either be loved or ‘let go’, but not left drowning in the middle.


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VANNGO - Heartbreaker USA.

Following the powerful anthem We’ll Rise LA! that captured the resilience of a city recovering from disaster, VANNGO returns with a bold, electrifying new single, Heartbreaker USA. Where We’ll Rise LA! served as a rallying cry for survival, Heartbreaker USA dives deep into the wild, impulsive side of love, loss, and longing, all wrapped in VANNGO’s signature raspy vocals, soaring guitars, and southern-tinged rock swagger.

Heartbreaker USA marks a natural evolution for VANNGO, an LA-based indie singer-songwriter whose sound bridges alt-rock grit, soulful storytelling, and raw emotional depth. With cowbells, organs, and a driving beat that feels tailor-made for American highways and neon-lit nights, the track pulses with urgency and vulnerability.

“If We’ll Rise LA! was about rebuilding after the fire, Heartbreaker USA is about the fires we start ourselves,” VANNGO says. “It’s messy. It’s beautiful. It’s about losing yourself for a moment, even when you know the crash is coming.” Written and recorded in the wake of releasing We’ll Rise LA!, Heartbreaker USA showcases VANNGO’s ability to pivot emotionally without losing his fierce authenticity. The song opens with a hypnotic riff that feels part dive bar, part desert highway and a full-throttle ride through vulnerability and reckless abandon.

Produced with a stripped-down sensibility that keeps the soul intact, the track leans into VANNGO’s grunge, alt-country, and southern rock influences without ever feeling like a throwback. It’s classic in spirit, but modern in execution, the kind of song that could sit forever in a jukebox in a forgotten corner of Route 66.

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MORA & the Fabulous Wonderfuls - Mayvie - Raynes - Jo Davie - Sofia Härdig

MORA & the Fabulous Wonderfuls - Tool.

MORA & the Fabulous Wonderfuls bring a unique blend of righteous anger and soul-lifting songs to rouse your spirit and move your feet - combining their passions for music and justice to defy genre with atmospheric prog-protest punk...for the masses!

MORA & the Fabulous Wonderfuls is a unique father daughter duo, of George Guitar Borowski and his daughter, who is gifted with a voice described as “Janis Joplin meets Nina Simone”, MORA performs with her hand-picked top-drawer players; The Fabulous Wonderfuls! Together they have been captivating audiences with pieces reflecting our times, sharing compassion with conviction and shaking the foundations with powerful vocals and unifying anthems. They  quickly found themselves in demand on the festival circuit and will be releasing their first album in spring 2025.

Drawing on a rich musical heritage and an inclusive sense of troubadour camaraderie, MORA & the Fabulous Wonderfuls never fail to raise the voices, hands and hearts of the people they meet and share their music with.

The new single Tool, is released today and is the 4th and final single from MORA & the Fabulous Wonderful ahead of a debut album release next month, is a warped and wavy sonic journey through the aural wormhole into a galaxy of smoking baselines and soaring synth - the latter courtesy of renowned multi-genre maestro John Ellis (studio engineer, producer and musician for this album). A summoning march booms into waves of bouncy lead bends and sultry vocals speaking on the mirages of power and success - this latest single is the final furious fanfare to hail the full album ‘Hot Property’ arriving in May.

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Mayvie - Keep Going.

Admittedly, many claim to know the recipe for a good pop song. But Mayvie can rightfully make that claim. After all, the singer—whose real name is Nadine Nigg and who hails from Bern, Switzerland—has actually published cooking recipes for each of her songs. Since last year, those have even been available in book form.

And because it was so well received—as evidenced by Mayvie’s regular presence on radio, TV, and in print over the past few years the story continues: "Keep Going" the name of her new single is both title and motto. The cheerful soul-pop tune was once again inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan, India Arie, Sheryl Crow, and Jason Mraz.

Mayvie means life. And yes, she’s lived quite a bit: the self-made artist has toured with and without a band to places as far as Berlin, Vienna, and Cape Town, steadily building a loyal and growing fanbase.

To take things to the next level, Nadine studied composition for film, theater, and media at the Zurich University of the Arts from 2013 to 2015. Following several albums and EPs, and her much-acclaimed podcast “Tunes & Coffee Beats”, more singles—and a vinyl album—are set to be released this year.

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Raynes - It's So Quiet Without You.

BottleRock Festival-bound British-American pop act Raynes are thrilled to announce the April 11th release of “It’s So Quiet Without You,” the second single from their highly anticipated seven-song EP, Bloom.

Layering dozens of vocal tracks over a chamber ensemble of strings, the song combines flute textures, sleigh bells, and orchestral chimes with electric guitars and drums to create a hard-hitting rock song, mixed by GRAMMY award-winning engineer Chris Sclafani (Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, and more).

“This song was written several years ago and existed only in demo form until recently,” says songwriter Mat Charley. “Over the years, ‘It's So Quiet Without You’ stayed in our heads. Unlike some of our other songs, this one changed very little from the demo version to the final record—the strings were fleshed out and a few sounds were replaced, but even the title and the lyrics stayed the same (which is rare for us). It felt like a very honest song from the beginning. It's simply about the feeling of distance—specifically, the distance that comes from being apart from someone you love.”

Bloom draws inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement, using its distinctive floral and botanical elements to visually and sonically evoke a garden. The EP is designed to “bloom” from the first song to the last; the opening track has a relatively spare arrangement, and each subsequent track becomes more layered and lush until the EP ends in a full symphony. Bloom will be available everywhere on June 20th.

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Jo Davie - Colder.

Embrace the changing seasons with Jo Davie’s unearthly alt-indie single ‘Colder’ when it came out yesterday Thursday, April 10, and prepare for the best in the wait for her upcoming debut EP ‘Nothing Comes Free’, out on Friday, May 2.

Ever since Jo Davie graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium in 2017 with First Class Honours and the University Medal, her music career has bloomed, becoming a regular on the festival circuit with regular performances at the Woodford Folk Festival (QLD), The National Folk Festival (ACT), and the Caloundra Music Festival (QLD) among others since 2018.

In the last few years, her career has been rising to new heights, receiving the Carol Lloyd Award at the Queensland Music Awards, performing a sold-out solo show at the 2024 Sydney Festival, supporting ARIA-winning artist Katie Noonan across a variety of venues, performing internationally on other projects, all while completing her PhD. Her lilting voice, impressive versatility and technical skill, and masterful storytelling weave together an experience that stirs the soul and lingers in the heart.

‘Colder’ is her newest single, a folk-pop song that feels like a well-worn memory. With kaleidoscopic guitar, heavenly strings, and dreamy riffs, this song builds an intimate atmosphere. Jo Davie’s vocals are powerful yet gentle and vulnerable, perfectly carrying the listener through the story of the song.

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Photo - Jessica Nettleblad

Sofia Härdig - Lighthouse of Glass (Album).

Following a string of successful single releases, Swedish songstress Sofia Härdig drops her highly anticipated 9th studio album Lighthouse of Glass today April 11th via Icons Creating Evil Art and Bark At Your Owner.

Showcasing Härdig's distinctive vocal range and innovative songwriting, Lighthouse of Glass emerges as a portal into hundreds of untold stories, each track representing a crystallised moment from two years of intense artistic isolation."I wrote on my own in solitude for almost two years. I read a lot, wrote a lot, and recorded more than hundred of songs," Härdig recalls. "I was in this cave of writing.”  This prolific period of creation has culminated in what might be her most ambitious and personal work to date. From the brooding piano of ‘Pale Fire’ to the power ballad of ‘Kingdom Come’, each track unleashes the full force of her commanding vocals while highlighting her masterful touch as both producer and songwriter.

Each song on Lighthouse of Glass represents what Härdig describes as "the tip of the iceberg of a long cycle of lyrics, often a novel or short story built in solitude." Her process involved"taping images, fragments of text up on the wall," with many songs starting as half-hour epics before being distilled to their essence. "I think and hope that listening is like dipping your toes into these different fragments of worlds that exists under the surface," she reflects. The album’s centrepiece and title track ‘Lighthouse of Glass,’ emerged as a rare moment of pure artistic channeling – captured in its original form during an improvisational session, with Härdig's initial guitar take remaining untouched throughout the production process. This track became the catalyst for her collaboration with Risenfors, whose contributions helped shape the album's distinctive sound.

The record features an impressive roster of collaborators, including Bebe Risenfors (known for his work withTom Waits and Elvis Costello), who was so moved by Härdig's live performance that he spontaneously joined her musical journey. "It was amazing to open the projects from Bebe when he sent them back to me and see what he had added to my demos," Härdig says. "It spurred me on recording more, building soundscapes." The album also brings together some of Sweden's finest musicians, including guitarists Robert Johnsson (Robert Johnson and the Punchdrunks) and John Essing (Bob Hud), with Grammy-awarded Nille Perned handling the mixing duties.

Sofia Härdig · LIGHTHOUSE OF GLASS

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