Welsh alternative pop artist 'Aderyn' today (September 30) releases her much anticipated and gorgeous 'Hot Pink!' EP and also shares the new 'Victorians' single & video. Beehive Candy have pretty much loved every song Aderyn has released, the new EP really is a breath of fresh air.
Aderyn tells us: Hot Pink! is my colourful, chaotic confessional diary of a life-altering breakup, told through four indie pop songs. It’s an emotional rollercoaster, with each song exploring a different stage of post-relationship grief - from wanting reassurance, to bitterness, anger, rumination and, eventually, acceptance. I wanted to make a record that a girl going through a breakup could put on and feel all the feelings along with me. Following my EP 'Foreverever', it pushes my diaristic songwriting into new and more experimental territory, with swagger, anger, humour and plenty of glitter along the way.
I recorded the EP in West Wales with Gethin Pearson, and we really let the songs dictate where we went sonically. The first thing we did in the studio was create a lo-fi electronic drum beat and Casio synth for Victorians, which completely took us by surprise because my music has always been so rooted in a live-band sound. I loved having the opportunity to push myself into new territory and explore different genres without losing the personality of the songs.
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| Photo - Apiwich |
Swedish-Thai artist and composer Sirintip releases "Lotus" ahead of the new album "White Lilies" (due out October 30). Built around a recording Sirintip made of a Mor Lam ensemble in northeastern Thailand in 2015 for her debut EP, “Lotus” reaches into memory, ancestry, and the spiritual world she grew up with.
For the accompanying music video, she returned to her father’s childhood neighborhood in old Bangkok, along the Chao Phraya River—a place deeply connected to her family for generations. As she puts it, “It felt like the right place to tell a story about where we come from and what we choose to grow into.”
You may recognize Sirintip from her 2018 GroundUP debut, Tribus, produced by Michael League (Snarky Puppy) and featuring Mark Guiliana, or her self-produced Carbon (2022, Ropeadope), which transformed climate data and environmental research into music. That outward curiosity continued into multidisciplinary work exploring the natural world, including Mycelium, her ongoing interdisciplinary project developed through firsthand research alongside plankton and fungi scientists, exploring the connections between microorganisms, ecosystems, and our own lives.
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Canadian artist Addi John unveils his new EP, Love & Misfortunes, a deeply personal collection about loss, family, change, and learning to move forward. Entirely produced, performed, and mixed by Addi himself, the seven-track project emerged from a period of upheaval and ultimately centres around a simple but hard-earned realization: everything changes, and that’s okay.
The larger record began taking shape after Addi lost his father three years ago. Within six months, his mother and brother had moved out of the country and his former band, Lost in Japan, had broken up. Faced with several major changes at once, he turned to music as a way of processing them, writing songs that explore where different members of his family found themselves following his father’s passing.
“I want people to feel as if they’re not alone and to have a sense of hope for the future,” Addi shares. “The hope I want them to see is that change can be scary but, in order for us to grow, we need to accept that everything changes.”
That sense of hope takes a more energetic form on the title track, “Love & Misfortunes,” an indie-pop outlier inspired by an unlikely combination of a wedding and Two Door Cinema Club’s “What You Know.” After hearing the song at the wedding of two close friends, Addi was reminded how much he loved its energy and challenged himself to capture a similar feeling. The resulting song, somewhat ironically, follows a couple in the aftermath of a fight, uncertain whether their relationship will survive.
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Montreal folk trio Steve & Ginie Jackson have released their new single, “Make You Sing,” an uplifting folk anthem inspired by the true story of how Steve Viau and Virginie St-Louis Grégoire met, fell in love, started a band and built a life together on the road.
Driven by warm vocal harmonies, spirited acoustic instrumentation and an irresistible sing-along chorus, “Make You Sing” traces the pair’s journey from meeting at a show and sharing their first drink to forming a band, climbing into a van and traveling mile after mile to bring their songs to audiences around the world.
The song’s affectionate refrain—“I want the whole world to hear your voice / I’d do anything just to make you sing”—captures the encouragement and shared sense of purpose at the heart of both the band and the couple’s relationship.
“Make You Sing” offers another glimpse into Steve & Ginie Jackson’s upcoming album, Nothing Is Real, arriving in January 2027. Produced in collaboration with Pete Bernhard of The Devil Makes Three, the album follows the recently released single “Bloodshot Eyes,” which transformed the humor and regret of an unforgettable drunken walk home into a lively folk sing-along.
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| Photo - Hannah Jane Murrell |
South London duo Sandhouse today announce their second EP Pollyanna, out 30th October via Broke Records, and share new single 'Gasoline' ahead of tour dates with MOULD next month. Fresh from touring with US indie-rockers she's green, Sandhouse’s Anna Sutherland and Caspar Holloway make the familiar feel sinister on 'Gasoline', pairing warped indie rock with strange, visceral imagery to evoke a relationship where affection and cruelty have become difficult to untangle.
The music follows an equally uneasy logic, its opening warmth unsettled by eerie textures and unexpected production flourishes. "I need to fight / but you look so good," Sutherland sings as the track spirals into a prolonged, claustrophobic outro. Produced by Sandhouse's Caspar Holloway and mixed by Nathan Boddy (Nilüfer Yanya, James Blake, PinkPantheress), 'Gasoline' features bass and drums recorded by Ben Hillier (Blur, Depeche Mode, Nadine Shah).
Of the new single, the band said: "Gasoline is about being trapped in a relationship that feeds on the softest, most fragile parts of yourself, and how realising this after leaving tarnishes memories you once treasured.
"Whilst writing this song we spoke a lot about this image of people having a fantastic day at the beach, looking closer and realising that all their food is mouldy, the ice cream is covered in ants, and the seagulls all have the plague. We wanted the start of the song to reflect the feeling of a perfect day underlined with the ominous feeling that something is not quite right. The chorus is meant to be a moment of clarity before the long outro which musically is representing this idea that you’re trapped. Something about it feels good but you also want it to end."
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"A Question of Lust" is perhaps the most fragile and intimate song in Depeche Mode’s catalogue — a 1986 track that balances entirely on the edge between desire and vulnerability.
To interpret it, one choice felt inevitable: Beth Hirsch, whose voice had illuminated Air’s Moon Safari and etched itself into the memory of an entire generation.
In a stripped-back bossa nova arrangement, free of artifice, her voice magnifies the song to its purest core. One of the most beautiful moments on Nouvelle Vague's forthcoming record A Date with Depeche Mode (out October 30 on Kwaidan Records / [PIAS] Recordings).
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