Following the January 2026 release of “Let Me Go,” Montreal singer-songwriter Libby Ember returns with “News at the Party,” an energetic yet emotionally heavy indie-pop single that captures the dissonance of heartbreak unfolding in real time. Upbeat and instrumentally vibrant while lyrically raw, the track explores the quiet isolation of receiving life-changing news in a room full of people.
Inspired by a real experience, “News at the Party” reflects on the moment Ember learned that someone she cared about had begun seeing someone else and the emotional performance that followed. “For the rest of the night, I just had to pretend to be okay with that and act like I never cared in the first place,” she explains. “But the second I was alone that night, all I could do was start crying.”
While the song was written the same night after returning home from the party, its evolution stretched far beyond that initial moment. The recording process marked a shift in energy, bringing together a full band arrangement featuring jazz guitarist Baron Tymas and drummer Thomas Sauvé-Lafrance. The result is a layered and kinetic soundscape where flute, piano, guitar, and drums intertwine, mirroring the emotional overwhelm at the heart of the song.
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Just released, the first single, “The Ether” from the long-awaited full-length debut of Los Angeles duo TANGIENTS, Embers, arrives with a nocturnal pulse. Dreamweaver Chelsea Ray evokes ethereal sweetness with her vocal delivery, landing somewhere in between Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser’s lush murmurs and modern alt-pop icon Aurora’s soaring call. A nostalgic, romantic feeling whisks the song into a dreamy splendor. Seriously glittery guitars send the track swooning into the stratosphere like stars hanging speechlessly in the sky, leaving ample space and pause to reflect between pulses. The interstellar transmission is situated atop a laid-back yet tightly knit percussive backbone.
“The Ether” is the first single from the upcoming full-length album Embers, out May 1, 2026. "Embers is about self-discovery and the one thing we all must do: survive. To me, it is a reminder to live in the now.”
The music video for “The Ether” enchants with an evocative fantasy quality, featuring vocalist Chelsea Ray’s sweetly delivered siren calls from a celestial milk bath adorned with flower petals. Surreal cracked-skin effects on both band members lend additional vulnerability and surrealism to the aesthetic. Layers of dreamy gauze create more interdimensional immersion — and a nebulous state of consciousness where reality meets the immaterial, and experience transcends the ordinary.
TANGIENTS are a Los Angeles-based duo comprised of multi-instrumentalists Chelsea Ray and Be Hussey, who craft modern nu-gaze gems inspired by ‘80s post-punk, ‘90s shoegaze, and dream pop. Combining Chelsea Ray’s dreamlike vocals with a melodic sonic wall of blissed-out guitars, the duo melds together dreamworlds of gazed-out delight. After releasing 2018 single “White Foam” and 2019’s “Hazel,” the band carved a name for themselves amongst fans of dreamy post-punk and ethereal wave. Now, they return with the contemporary yet timeless collection of songs that make up their hotly anticipated debut full-length, Embers.
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Glasgow wonk-rockers The Foot & Leg Clinic (fka The Wife Guys of Reddit) return with Sit Down for Rock and Roll (released via Bingo Records), a raucous, restless, and unexpectedly tender debut album led by the urgent new single ‘Where did all the fruit go?’. The Foot & Leg Clinic — Niamh R MacPhail, Arion Xenos, Angus Fernie and Elise Atkinson — arrive at this album following what MacPhail describes as “a bit of a shiter the past couple years.” Written and recorded across illness, close bereavements, and a year-long break from live shows, Sit Down for Rock and Roll is the sound of a band forced to slow down and discovering they benefit from it.
With a new name and a deliberately slower creative process, the album marks a clear turning point for the band, grappling with adaptation — personal, societal, and bodily — using humour, surreal imagery, and sharp hook. “We were kind of forced to work at a slower pace,” says MacPhail, “but probably for the better of the final product.” Xenos agrees: “It still feels eclectic, but it’s a little bit more focused. We definitely thought about this as an album project when working on it, as opposed to other things before.”
Sit Down for Rock and Roll balances humour with weight, absurdity with emotional clarity. Side One opens with folk-rock curtain-raiser ‘Intro – Showtime’, before darting through the jaunty menace of ‘The Early Bird’, the skittering anxiety of ‘Hot Air’, and the stream-of-consciousness rush of ‘Dear Bongo’. Genre is treated as something elastic rather than fixed, moving easily between bossa nova absurdism (‘Worms 2’), early music textures (‘Music for Baby Fairy’), and 90s jangle (‘I’m living in the…’).
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After Midnight Sessions, Dark Beats & Electric Soul is the second release in the Bluestronica series. Here the blues is pulled out of its comfort zone and wired into modern electronics. Gritty vocals, overdriven guitars, and dirty harmonicas collide with heavy beats and dark, hypnotic grooves.
Featuring artists like Boo Boo Davis, Byther Smith, Mississippi Big Beat, BLu ACiD, ElectroBluesSociety, Rivherside and miXendorp, this compilation bridges deep-rooted tradition and contemporary production. The focus stays on feel, grit and groove. These tracks don’t polish the blues—they rough it up. Tradition is the backbone, but the sound is restless and electric. This is blues that sweats, growls, and refuses to sit still.
The Album features: The Snake – Boo Boo Davis (miXendorp remix) -- Go For A Ride – Big George Jackson (miXendorp remix) -- Hurricane – Mississippi Big Beat (Tibor Bicskei remix) -- Deep Slide – miXendorp -- Sorry Baby – Boo Boo Davis -- Same Thing On My Mind – Byther Smith (miXendorp remix) -- Elektrance – miXendorp -- Georgia – BLu ACiD feat John Blake -- Big Mama’s Door – Mississippi Big Beat -- SixSixtySix – Turnip Greens (miXendorp remix) -- Back Door Man – ElectroBluesSociety feat Boo Boo Davis -- Come Over Here – Rivherside -- Dirty Dog – Boo Boo Davis (miXendorp remix) -- A Lie – BLu ACiD.
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Dream-rock trio Keeley, fresh from their recent UK headline tour, present the latest video from their acclaimed third album ‘Girl On The Edge Of The World’.
"Trains and Daydreams" features a rousing backing vocal from special guest Simon “Sice” Rowbottom, singer of Brit-Pop heroes The Boo Radleys, a band much admired by the Keeley camp, and with whom the band has toured in the UK. The video was filmed and directed by Glasgow-based film-maker Laura Meek using vintage VHS techniques, and the results are both dream-like and visually sumptuous.
Singer and songwriter Keeley Moss notes… “this is the most out-and-out pop song on the new album, it possesses an ethereal dreaminess but also a biting fuzziness and a pure pop melodic buoyancy in addition to a bittersweet poignancy. The song tells the story of my muse Inga Maria Hauser on her first train journey in England in late-March 1988 when she travelled from Harwich International Port to London”.
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