Pomona Park have released their "thought-provoking, youthful optimistic indie pop single" 'Do Not Disturb'. Its a vibrant and hook fueled affair which for a young band has a level of maturity that is palpable. That said perhaps it's can be more simply put as a gorgeous song that deserves to be a powerful hit! Any way onto their background story: “Youthful optimism with lyrical charm” are some of the ways Pomona Park can be described. The Manchester based, Indie-Pop band, create thought provoking story line like songs on a bedding of punchy and memorable music.
Lyrically inspired by Sam Fender and Alex Turner, and guided musically by the likes of The Blossoms and The Smiths, Pomona Park started as a group of friends reconnecting to normality after the UKs COVID19 lockdown. Chris Smith (front man) and Bobby Mears (bassist), friends from school, would bring in respective work colleagues Aaron Wrigglesworth (drums) and James Reid (guitar) to form what became, by the Quays of Salford, to be Pomona Park.
Using the material that Chris had been writing over the lockdown, the boys ventured into the studio in April of 2022, releasing their first studio single Overdrink, which still tops their headline sets to this day. Over the years Pomona Park have released 7 studio singles, covering a range of topics from letting seemingly insignificant “icks” get in the way of finding a meaningful partner to the mindset of changing oneself into an unrecognisable version in an attempt to impress others.
Overdrink saw relative success early on, hitting No.4 on the UK Alternative Chart on release day, and breaking into the UK Main Chart’s Top 100. Following tracks have again been featured in the UK Alternative Chart Top 20, been played on National Radio like Radio X X-Posure show and have enjoyed streams of several thousands most notably with “Stormy Weather” hitting over 10,000 streams not long after release.
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The international super group the Salt Collective have returned with a six-song EP of fresh recordings (May 23rd via Propeller Sound Recordings). The groundwork for the new EP actually dates back to 2000, when Collective leader, Stéphane Schück, first met the late Scott Miller (Game Theory / Loud Family) in San Francisco, seeding the inspiration for the project.
The multifaceted Paris- and North Carolina-based ensemble kicks off the EP with the single “Last Day That We’re Young,” a recently completed, anthemic version of a beloved Game Theory song tracked initially in 2005 with Miller himself on guitar.
When asked about how this recording came to be, Schück explains: “We have to go back to December 31, 1989. The last day of the 80s. My friends and I had an important question to answer: What song were we going to leave the 80s with? We'd entered the decade at the age of 12 and were going to leave it at 22. This question consumed us for 6 months . . . until we all agreed it would be “Last Day That We're Young” by Game Theory. We launched the track at 11:58 p.m. and went into the 90s with Scott!
In 2005, when Scott came to France to produce one of my albums, I told him this story, which made him smile. I think it was quite an unexpected revelation. I couldn't resist asking him if we could play “Last Day That We're Young” together. Scott knew how important that song was to me. . . . We [hit record] and he played these two wonderful riffs."
Also featured on the EP is “Try the Lost and Found,” a collaboration and co-write with Mitch Easter (Let’s Active)—his first release in nearly two decades—recorded during recent sessions at Easter’s renowned Fidelitorium studios in Kernersville, NC for a forthcoming full Salt Collective album, A Brief History of Blindness, due in the fall.
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Too Loud Records and Forgotten Dream are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of “Kids” – a haunting and heartfelt reinterpretation of the cult classic by Current Joys.
Hailing from Cremona, Italy, Forgotten Dream blends the raw emotional grit of '90s grunge with ethereal dream-pop textures and shoegaze atmospheres. With this new cover, the band dives into the melancholic essence of “Kids”, reshaping it through their unique sonic lens: distorted yet delicate, nostalgic yet fresh.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered at the renowned Titans Lab Recording Studio by producer Riccardo Daga, this release showcases the band’s ability to take an already emotionally charged song and infuse it with new intensity and vulnerability – staying true to the original spirit while giving it a distinctive Forgotten Dream identity.
“Kids” marks a new chapter for the band, following the success of their latest album Distorted Karma (Too Loud Records), and continues their exploration of themes like inner conflict, youth disillusionment, and emotional fragility.
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The Northern Territories present a new video single for their Lana Del Rey cover track 'Say Yes to Heaven', which appears on the acclaimed fourth full-length ('Album of the Month' in renowned German Orkus! magazine) of the Swedish melancholic synth duo, that is also being released and started streaming in full on May 23, 2025.
The Northern Territories comment: “The video to our cover of Lana Del Rey's 'Say Yes to Heaven' consists out of footage that we have lifted from our first ever video clip 'Midnight Ambulance', which we shot in Stockholm during the summer of 1994", vocalist and multi-instrumentalist John Alexander Ericson explains on behalf of the duo. "We have not released an album in 25 long years and therefore it made sense to us to include these images as a nod to our past and as a reminder to ourselves and to others about how it all started."
After a record breaking hiatus of 25 years, The Northern Territories are back for good. The Swedish melancholic synth duo has used the time well to hone their musical prowess and to think hard about how they wanted their unique sound to come across in the present.
As a result of this intense thought process, the stunning album "A Star in Orbit Still" combines everything that made the band great and generated a dedicated and loyal following that eagerly awaited their return during all those years with a contemporary sound design. Channeling their trademark melancholy and Nordic knack for captivating melodies, The Northern Territories did not even shy away from covering Lana Del Rey's iconic track 'Say Yes to Heaven' and to make it theirs.
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