Debut Single

DAFFODILDOS – British Queer Punk Trio Rattle And Battle On Debut Single ‘NO PRIDE’

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13 July 2024

Band: DAFFODILDOS
Who: Queer indies from Brighton who are here to shout
about challenging socio-political issues and have a lot of
fun while doing it.

Single: NO PRIDE

The song touches on the fact that people mostly use Pride
as an excuse to party when actually the rest of the year, the
LGBTQIA community suffers from dangerous stigma and
abuse.

Emily Flea (singer/guitarist): “I wrote it when I was on a bus in London
during Pride Month, and I saw shops, banks, police cars with rainbow flags
and I was like, ‘what’s this got to do with Pride’? They’re not with us, they’re
against us!”.

TUTV: Here is an explicit for all LGBTQIA-haters. To hell
with them. Queer-trans-punk trio Daffodildos just entered the indie
scene with sharp-cutting knifes between their teeth and are here to
stay.’No Pride‘ is a fast-forward projectile that rattles and battles for
251 barbed wire seconds.

Flea‘s intimidating vocals, a throbbing drummer, a ripping guitar riff
that pops up now and then, and a proud pride chorus combine for a
loud and clear statement.

“We’re here, we’re queer
We’re never gonna disappear.”

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CITTÀ DESERTA – Italian Indies On A Nuclear Ennio Morricone Trip On Their Spacey And Cinematic Debut ‘THE LAWN’

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New striking strokes

7 June 2024


Photo by Sara Parigi

Band: CITTÀ DESERTA

Who: A new musical project from Italy, born during the pandemic. The sound of the Florentine band could be defined as space-cowboy kraut, inspired by the synths of John Carpenter and by the soundtracks of Italian masters such as Alessandro Alessandroni,
Piero Umiliani, and Giuliano Sorgini.

Debut single: THE LAWN

About: “The Lawn is one of the most representative tracks of Città Deserta’s
musical research, with melodies and sounds on the border between the apocalypse
and the resurrection!».

TUTV: The Lawn resonates like a theme tune for a still-to-be-made spaghetti western,
an apocalyptic one according to the band. It’s a bass/drum-driven, orchestral, repetitive instrumental with Krautrock-like dynamics. Spacey, cinematic and Ennio Morricone are the keywords here. Our cowboy sees doom and gloom at the end of the horizon. Primo debut.

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CD: Instagram

SCHØØL – French Starters Debut With Britpop Flair And Swagger On Their First Single ‘N.S.M.L.Y.D’

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The first one

1 June 2024

Band: SCHØØL
Who: Self-declared rock shoegazers
from France, who got together last year.

Debut single: N.S.M.L.Y.D (Nothing Satisfies Me Like You Do)


Artwork single

TUTV: The song is about being a fan of an idol. I guess these French youngsters are big fans of the 90s Britpop era as they groove with the same confident flair and sassy swagger of the early demo days of rock champs Oasis and The Verve.

N.S.M.L.Y.D has a slow moving flow with a magnetizing effect, a synth riff that dances in your head, and laid back vocals to match the song’s cool slo-mo vibe. Bring on some more stuff, France.

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SCHØØL: Instagram

BEST DEBUT SINGLE OF THE MONTH – April 2024

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29 April 2024

Artist: LEAH MARTEL
Who: Singer-songwriter from Ontario (Canada) who spent her formative
years hard at work training to be a prolific writer, musician, performer, actor,
dancer, activist and cycling through various superpowers via extensive
maladaptive daydreaming.

Debut single: EVERYBODY OUT

Martel: “I wrote Everybody Out at a point in my life when my social anxiety was really at its peak. The thing is, I figured it would have been its worst as a kid in elementary school getting picked on and not, embarrassingly, as a 20something just trying to attend a party of some very nice seeming people from my college program. I had already been out in the working world for a while and thought I was over it and had gained a bit more confidence and social skills but I realized I really just hadn’t been in a group of new people in a while and once that happened I may as well have been 13 again. If I said something I felt like an alien trying to pretend to have a human conversation.

The funny thing is, I really wanted to be friends with these people and there was nothing actually standing in my way except me just not knowing how to be normal in any capacity. So when I finally sat down to write out all the lyrics I wanted to really emphasize the contradictory nature of this kind of anxiety where it has you running for the hills to get away from everyone but only because you so desperately want to connect with people and care far too much about every minor interaction just hoping it will be good.”

TUTV: Social anxiety in motion, uncontrollable emotion, mind-disturbing commotion.
Martel translates all these turbulent sensitivities in a blistering power pop tune
energized by a pounding, one-note piano beat, her raging voice and the exploding
chorus. Wham bam, bloody wham bam. Showtime.

Resistance is futile, there’s only thing you want to do, is hit the street and go berserk
while screaming at the top of your lungs, everybody out, everybody get the fuck out to
loose their marbles until all demons are crushed. Absolute cry out top debut!

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LM: Instagram

SOLITARY BEE – Fresh British Psych Pop Project Welcomes Spring With Brisk Debut Single ‘LOVE WAKES UP’

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The first time

27 March 2024

Band: SOLITARY BEE

Who: A new musical project started
by 3 members British of psych rock act
It’s Karma It’s Cool

“We wanted to do something fresh, new, and slightly more left-field after we released
‘Thrift Store Troubadours’ in June 2023. A writing session soon after bore the fruit of
what would become the lead single ‘Love Wakes Up’. Being huge fans of Death Cab for
Cutie, this is what we’re calling our ‘The Postal Service’, and we’re as pleased with this
and have put as much time, love and attention into it as we have any Karma release”

TUTV: Spring is here. The harbinger of summer, with as much sun as possible.
Is it just me, or isn’t love more active in Spring/Summer than in Autumn/Winter.
Under blue skies and on sunlit days you see more people with a big smile on
their faces and more hearts are filled with joy.

That’s exactly the feel-good vibe you get from Solitary Bee‘s first effort.
Love Wakes Up is a sugary sweet psych-pop gem with sparkling guitars
and crystalline vocals. It’s a gratifying tune that evokes lovey-dovey feelings,
very welcome in these chaotic times we live in. Hear the brisk bee zooming.

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MARTIAL ARTS – Young Manchester Misfits Impress With Knife-Edged Debut Outpouring ‘WARSAW’

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5 March 2024


Photo by Richard Kelly

Band: MARTIAL ARTS (Manchester, UK)
Who: 5 fresh indies who pack angst and art into precision-cut convergences of razored riffs and fleeting oceanic harmonies, the band’s burning intent pours and pools in vast, melodic space then rattles in close, claustrophobic corners.

Debut single: WARSAW

“Warsaw’ was written resisting overanalysis to grasp a more genuine and
unaltered end result. It’s only possible while momentarily freeing ourselves
of doubt.”

Is the song named after Joy Division‘s original band name, that referred to Bowie‘s nightmarish tour de force Warszawa on his 1977 Low LP? Maybe, but I couldn’t
find anything pointing that way in the press info.

TUTV: Are there people in Manchester who are not in a band? The Northern city was
always a most fertile place for rock/punk/pop and still produces spellbinding music
on a very regular basis.

Enter these 5 young misfits with their very first effort. Warsaw is a serrated mid-tempo outpouring that moves up and down, forth and back, from its high-voltage wall-of-guitar parts to more reflective sequences. There’s a blood-curdling tension in the air from start
to finish, heavily accentuated by Jim‘s bone-chilling vocality. Pretty creepy at times, and pretty impressive overall.

Manchester hits again.

Piked post-punk at
its knife-edged best.


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ML: Instagram – Linktree

ESCAPE GOATS – Fresh Glasgow Hit Team Punch You In The Face With Their Debut Single ‘MUHAMMED ALI’

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2 March 2024


Photo by Ross Dunlop

Band: ESCAPE GOATS
Who: Three rockers from Glasgow who only
got together at the beginning of this year.

Why the name Escape Goats? 2024 is the Chinese year of…The Dragon.
But, The Dragon and the Goat make up one of the most compatible love
matches in the Chinese zodiac.

Debut single: MUHHAMED ALI

“Despite the tone of exacerbation, we actually do care about lots of things
and, unsurprisingly, none of us can really fight like Muhammad Ali (who can?).”


Single artwork by Roddy MacNeill

TUTV: This debut is a cranked-up razor-blade uppercut. Hopped-up drumming, blaring guitars and annoyed, ranting vocals storm together through a hefty haze of post-punk dissatisfaction. It feels like a helter-skelter punch to the face. I don’t think boxing icon Muhammed Ali was a punk, but his vicious left/right puissance is all over this outburst.

Bingo!


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Escape Goats: Instagram

SIRIUS VOLTAGE – Garage Punk Frenzy From Portugal With Debut Single ‘FOR YOUR DREAMS’

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New one the scene

20 February 2024

Band: SIRIUS VOLTAGE
Who: Four garage rockers from Portugal

RIYL: Hanoi Rocks, The Hellacopters, Datsuns,
The Hives ,The Mooney Suzuki, The Clash, MC5

Debut single: FOR YOUR DREAMS
Part of their upcoming debut album, slated for release in both physical (LP and CD)
and digital formats in September 2024. Ahead of it 3 more singles will show up.

TUTV: Wow. Smashing debut. Expect aggressive guitars, muscular drumming,
frenzied vocals and a riot gun chorus. Battleaxe punk has no boundaries. Inspired
by the North American and Scandinavian underground rock scenes Sirius Voltage punk
and roll their butts off with dashing speed and a greedy appetite for a lot of decibels.

This first headbutt promises mayhem with what’s waiting
in the pipeline. Keep your ears and eyes peeled.

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SV: Instagram – Facebook
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

SISTER ENVY – Welsh 4-Piece Outfit Excell On Psychedelic Debut Single ‘MOURNING SICKNESS’

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5 February 2024

Band: SISTER ENVY
Who: 4-piece outfit from the North Wales coast. A place of mystery, harshness, and beauty, a place where opportunity is blocked for younger people yet dreams can break through. It’s here that the band met at college, this fast-emerging Alternative Psychedelic rock quartet are a brand new signing to North Wales label Yr Wyddfa Records Snowdonia.

Debut single: MOURNING SICKNESS

“North Walian singer-songwriter Kameron Jolliffe vividly captures the wistful memories of growing up. With his infectious vocals burrowing their way into your head. Possessing a carousel of percussion, a tapestry of beguiling rock sound, that takes influence from the sounds of the 60s and 70s but also the early 90s indie.”

TUTV: Superb debut. Mourning Sickness is a slow-moving psychedelic guitar jam rotating
around an intoxicating riff that creeps under your skin without asking. Think of early Radiohead days. Engrossing and riveting.

There’s an eerie vocal and electrifying tension in the air that makes you wonder when
the song’s intensity will explode. But it moves on like a serpent on a mission and holds your aural attention until the last second. I repeat, superb debut.

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SISTER ENVY: Facebook – Instagram

MANTRAFOX – British Singer-Songwriter Presents His Playful And Yearning Debut Musing ‘I’M NEEDING YOU’

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8 December 2023

Artist: MANTRAFOX
Who: The brainchild of singer-songwriter Robert Freemantle based in
Southampton, UK. Having ‘squirelled songs away’ for years, he has emerged
from the shadows of depression and anxiety to begin finishing/releasing
them at last.

Debut single: I’M NEEDING YOU

“A song about wanting someone you can’t have,
about being unlucky in love.”

‘I’m Needing You’ comes at a fitting time, for all those who’ll be lonely,
lovesick and mellow during the upcoming festive times. It’s a playful,
melancholic musing with subtle guitar sparks, Fab Four harmonies,
Freemantle‘s yearning vocals and a clap along chorus. Whistle, hum,
or sing along, and feel better.

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Mantrafox: Instagram