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Make Me Sorry: Liverpool’s Paul Askew drops delightful 5th single with the romantic gem Connie

Posted on 2 September 2022

Dreaming fondly about holding her tightly in a warm embrace, Paul Askew dedicates his life to a wonderful soul who he cherishes rather sweetly on Connie.

Paul Askew is a 22-year-old Liverpool, UK-based indie pop singer-songwriter and music producer who loves to make his creations from the comfort of his cosy bedroom.

“I’m really proud of not just how the tracks turned out in the end after mastering, but of writing them also. I think they’re really well rounded and concise. I’m also chuffed with the release essentially being my first concept release too, it’s sort of like examining the two sides of how a relationship can pan out. I didn’t realize this until after it was out as well.” – Paul Askew chatting about his new releases

Known best as the frontman for his now disbanded outfit, The Callers, the now-solo Paul Askew has the kind of vocal freshness that will get you feeling like tomorrow is going to be a better day. Declaring his love with such a magnetically natural structure that is hugely uplifting, this is the perfect single to play loud when you need a boost-me-up.

Connie from Liverpool, UK-based indie pop singer-songwriter and music producer Paul Askew is a sweet single all about knowing that the love is there if the feeling is reciprocated. Sung with an exuberant tone that will get you feeling like everything is going to be okay, in an inhospitable world that seems so loveless at times.

When you feel the true love deep in your bones, it’s best to express them before the feeling goes away into the wind forever.

Listen up on Spotify and see more news on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Play The Fool: Robert John Hanson knows that its hard to breathe sometimes in that Crowded Room

Posted on 30 August 2022

After stirring up our senses with a quality performance on Blue Cocktail, Robert John Hanson takes that one-more-dance with someone who will hopefully not leave any mental scars on Crowded Room.

Robert John Hanson is a hugely experienced Liverpool, UK-born, Rhode Island, USA-based indie blues singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer.

”Hanson has lived in L.A. and New York where he played with Spinal Reflex and Grandma Tootle.” ~ Robert John Hanson describing his career so far

Filling our beating hearts with a reminder of what can be if you take a chance sometimes, Robert John Hanson returns with a top single, which will encourage many to speak up when a connection is felt inside that stuffy room. Packed with terrific vocals and his storytelling brilliance that will have you sensing you are listening to an underground legend who deserves more love.

Crowded Room from Liverpool, UK-born, Rhode Island, USA-based indie blues singer-songwriter Robert John Hanson is a late night single for anyone who needs to believe that there is actually a chance. With true love seemingly hard to find, this is a dreamy single that will get you knocking on the door of your heart again, to see if there is anything romantic left in your soul after so many disappointments.

Sung with his signature deep tone that will make many swoon in delight, showing us that classic music still has a place for those who desire something with actual substance.

Hear this fine release on Spotify and see more on his IG page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

We Can Live Like Animals: sleeping together wants this love to last forever on Summer Girl

Posted on 28 August 2022

Produced by Tayte Nickols from Madfox Studio, sleeping together guides us through a gloriously innocent romance that ended rather hastily when it had the potential to blossom rather radiantly on Summer Girl.

sleeping together is a Bury, Manchester, Liverpool and Wrexham, UK-based indie alternative band who shows us that memorable music has the power to change your entire mood for the better.

”Summer Girl was inspired by a short and sweet summer romance. At the end of summer, the couple agreed to go their separate ways. Like the romance, Summer Girl is short, bright and sweet, capturing the highs of a British summer in its emphatic chorus. However, much like the British summer, this romance was rained off too soon. These fleeting glimpses of a love, destined for rapidly approaching heartbreak, are conveyed perfectly through Summer Girl’s climbing vocals.” ~ sleeping together

Thrilling our sweaty bodies alive and tickling our glowing senses awake to what is possible if two souls can combine for a short time, sleeping together shall have us all smiling cheekily at each other. Bringing us all the way to the top of our emotions and then showing us the other side, this is a must-listen for anyone who still believes that true love is real.

Summer Girl from the UK-based indie alternative band sleeping together is a terrific song from a dynamic outfit who just knows how to make you groove rather sweetly. With a soundtrack to those long days that are filled with sunshine and never seem to end for a few months, you will find yourself clicking repeat on this fine song. Teaching us that all good things have to end eventually, this is a striking single that will make you stop and think about how love actually forms.

Love is so kind and so cruel sometimes.

Tune in on Spotify and see more via the IG page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

New Day: Liverpool’s Lizard drop epic lead single from upcoming EP with Back Again

Posted on 27 August 2022

After impressing all of our earlobes with a magnificent display on Innocence in July, the talented lads from Lizard shows us the story about that person who won’t take no for an answer on Back Again.

Lizard is a groove-all-night-until-the-sun-shines Liverpool, UK-based 4-piece indie alternative rock-jazz fusion act who takes most of their inspiration from legends such as Franz Ferdinand and David Bowie.

”Back Again is about someone being interested in you who you have no interest in and do not like, but they don’t leave you alone despite your best efforts to avoid them or shut them down.” ~ Lizard

Guiding us through a movie-like story about someone who wants a spark to be lit that just isn’t there, Lizard is quite fantastic yet again and takes us on a wild journey that involves changing the locks. Wrapped in excellence and thriving with a beat that might cause your feet to tap for ages, taking us on an expedition that might get your heart beating faster than before.

Back Again from Liverpool, UK-based 4-piece indie alternative rock-jazz fusion outfit Lizard is a fresh single that will have you grinning about that human who just doesn’t get it. After trying to hint that you weren’t keen on a romance, the picture just became blurred and packed with regret.

Sung with a tasty style and featuring their signature groovy delivery, this is a song that will uplift your day and get that head nodding with delight.

Hear this nifty track on Spotify and check out their IG for gig news and more.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Sunstack Jones shows us why a tight circle is best on Even Though (feat. Tan Cologne)

Posted on 31 July 2022

Guiding us through a moment that should grab your attention rather quickly as you reflect on your journey so far, Sunstack Jones shows us inside the striking fear of change with a hazy delight to hold you tight with called Even Though (feat. Tan Cologne).

Sunstack Jones is a Liverpool, UK-based 5-piece daydreamy pop-filled shoegaze act that somehow has room for a pinch of reminiscing Americana.

Signed to Mai 68 Records, Sunstack Jones shows us the smokey world in a nutshell right now. Still healing and on a mission to travel (literally anywhere), this is a reminder that through a joint vision, anything is actually possible if the powers mesh together just right. Seeping with an old school feel and never short of cinematic, this is a powerful illusion to bake inside.

‘Even Though‘ (feat. Tan Cologne) from Liverpool, UK-based indie dream pop outfit Sunstack Jones burns through that illuminating sunset which might catch your mind away from the darkness outside. Tinted with a brightened edge that might get you thinking about everything you ever believed before, this is one of those highly memorable records you put on and leave on a loop for hours.

Timeless in feel and enriching to the core is always best.

Hear this new track on Spotify and follow the socials on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Lizard advises us to keep our ‘Innocence’ no matter what the world does

Posted on 28 July 2022

Rattling our eye-sockets with much careful abandon, the lads from Lizard skip their way into our consciousness with a bass-slapping performance to get you into the mood on ‘Innocence‘.

Lizard is a Liverpool, UK-based 4-piece indie alternative rock-jazz fusion band who met while at Uni and has cultivated quite the impressive cult following who pack venues like hungry wolves wherever they go.

When it comes to impressively stimulating new music to wash your scalp with, it doesn’t come more epic than Liverpool’s Lizard, who seems to score like Salah every week with their vibrantly skillful music. There is a glorious anthem here for us all to hold on tightly with, where there is so much gloom and doom everywhere.

‘Innocence‘ from Liverpool, UK-based 4-piece indie alternative band Lizard is an anthem for anyone who has felt a little lost lately. Urging us to close our tired eyes so that we may go back to a time that has only smiles and laughs, this is a rather wonderful song when we needed it most. Pure joy is the ambience here. Rather splendid isn’t it?

Turn this up loud on Spotify and see more moves on their IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

DRCY preserved the timelessness of old school soul in ‘Small Talk’

Posted on 6 June 2022

Pairing old school Olivia Dean soul vocals with contemporary and conversational lyrics, the Liverpool/London-residing singer-songwriter DRCY brought a resonant air of modernity to the timeless style in her latest RnB pop single, Small Talk.

The sophomore single is a natural continuation of the artist’s debut single, Butterflies, which also mused on the honeymoon phase of new relationships. This time, there is a particular focus on the addictiveness of small talk during the early stages of a relationship, where every trivial fact feels like a new beguiling piece of the puzzle.

Her radiant vocals paired with the bass-carved grooves and jazzy instrumentals don’t make for the average 2022 love song; DRCY could never be that unauthentically pedestrian.

In her own words

“For so long I have cared about what other people think of me. Insecurities held me back for so long, I just need to own it now. I want my music to inspire people to feel good in their own skin, to feel sexy in their own skin. And I hope that everyone who listens to my music knows that life is not as serious as you’ve been told.”

Small Talk is now available to stream on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Liverpool rockers Detroit Run speeds away from that haunting reflection that is ‘Chasing Shadows’

Posted on 10 May 2022

With a weighty gallop that is thundering at full pace, Detroit Run are at its electric best with a fearsome display on their 3rd release, ‘Chasing Shadows‘.

Detroit Run is an exhilarating and newly formed 4-piece alt-rock band from Liverpool, UK, that summons the energy from within to make those anthems that are stuck in your head for days on end.

Displaying great poise and refilling our ears with something rather encouraging to ultimately support with much vigour and belief, Detroit Run sprints splendidly with a deft touch and Salah’s sharpness, impressively showing that rock music is certainly alive and well with so much on offer in 2022.

After dropping ‘Drowning‘ and ‘Mercy‘ recently, this is the final release from their gleefully-awaited debut EP, that has local underground fans licking their lips in anticipation.

‘Chasing Shadows‘ from Liverpool, UK-based indie alternative rock act Detroit Run is a fully charged thunderbolt of emotions with spooky lyrics that will have many shivering to their deepest core. This is the striking story of knowing that there is a power greater than what you can comprehend right next to you, that is holding you back from ever being free to true contentment. Sung with fierce determination, this is UK rock at its pulsating best.

Listen up to their new creation on Spotify and see more news via the IG music page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

COW understands that together is best and what nature intended with, ‘On and On’

Posted on 8 May 2022

With an unassuming vibe that has you turning up the volume to witness their sociable soundscape that reminds you of those happy days in the past, COW reminds us that we need to join hands and avoid staying indoors so much even if it feels safer these days with, ‘On and On’.

COW is a Liverpool/North Wales-born indie alternative 4-piece rock band that makes riff-filled music that has you feeling rather nostalgic.

Taking us on a genuine journey of contemplation that so many will wholeheartedly relate to, COW is one of those bands that keeps things nonchalant throughout and show us that ostentatious moves aren’t necessary when you keep the music vibes completely legit.

‘On and On‘ from Liverpool/North Wales-born indie alternative rock act COW is one of those songs that has you pondering what exactly happens to that valuable free time that we seem to waste, instead of seeing those who we truly care about. Sung with a calming air that gets you into a reflective mood, this is a track that shall have you humming along to the chorus for hours. Catchy music just grabs you sometimes, and this is a perfect example of a song made with true love.

Listen up to this new single on Spotify and see more on the IG page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Mike Blue and The Ghosts of Santa Monica help us find that mending genuine love on ‘Battles We Have Won’

Posted on 16 April 2022

With a full album on the way and an unassuming style that has earnt them authentic respect from the UK underground, Mike Blue and The Ghosts of Santa Monica have made 6 minutes and 19 seconds of pristine excellence on ‘Battles We Have Won‘.

Mike Blue is a Liverpool, UK-based indie folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is joined by The Ghosts of Santa Monica on this soul-healing effort.

”He started playing professionally at 16 years of age in various bands and has since toured his own music around the U.K, completing his debut solo tour in late 2021.” ~ Mike Blue

With stunning vocals, intricately performed guitar brilliance, that sweet violin sound and well-made lyrics that might have you stop whatever you were up to before, Mike Blue and The Ghosts of Santa Monica join together as one to show unity when there is so much butchery brewing all over the planet. With a peaceful single that seems to glow so beautifully and take your tired heart into a better place, this is that rare track that will change your mood and bring a ray of sunshine to make everything okay again.

”He is currently embarking on his next full-length studio album with the help of his backing and touring band ‘The Ghosts of Santa Monica” which should be completed in early 2023.” ~ Mike Blue

‘Battles We Have Won‘ from Liverpool, UK-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Mike Blue and The Ghosts of Santa Monica, drops one of the most peacefully intelligent singles you might ever hear. There is nothing flashy here, no tricks and no big egos, only a single assembled by a tight-knit group who are clearly in sync with what the intentions are. The message here? To remind us that finding your tribe is absolutely vital, as you wish for a day when you can feel that true peace in your heart when you meet that special human who somehow takes all your worries away.

You’ll only know when you feel it deep inside your bones.

See this superb track come to life on YouTube and follow Mike’s voyage on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen