Music

By Julia Prigmore (@JuliaPrigmore) The Gates, the latest release from Toronto trio Young Empires, is an evolutionary step ahead of their previous output.  Previous EP Wake All My Youth is overwhelmed here with defiant, heavy electro beats and catchy melodic chants, standing tall in the alternative dance and indie pop scene. The sonic fluidity of the album is a reflection of its recording process. Vlahovich has stated that the trio nurtured an experimental, unrestricted atmosphere in the studio, playing each...

By Richard Broome (@richbroome_tog) I am sat in a rather intimate, underground screening room at the British Film Institution. Drinks are flowing, the atmosphere is positive. The head of Spinefarm records stands up and makes a short introductory speech to get the eager audience whipped up for what is sure to be a special screening. This is Rammstein, after all. Expect the unexpected (and singed eyebrows). He sits down, the lights dim and the screen turns black. A single red...

More summer vibes now from Baltimore's Sun Club with their new track 'Summer Feet'. The song sets the stage ahead of the release of their Debut LP The Dongo Durango on 30th October. If Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys got in a time machine to present day and formed a supergroup with FIDLAR (on an upper day) it would probably sound something like this. Sun Club are are also streaming a live session of previously heard track 'Tropicoller Lease' which looks like an...

Their monstrous moniker may have been removed but the monster within remains, if Heck's nuts new track 'Breakers' is anything to go by. Have a listen below. According to the band, the song covers some pretty emotionally-turbulent subject matter. “Some things are better left at peace,” explains singer/guitarist Matt Reynolds. “When posed with a second chance we are teased by the inherent futility of it all. The underlying trust issues never leave and the all-consuming paranoia perpetually pulls each part...

Willie J Healey has announced the forthcoming release of his second EP Saturday Night Feeling  on November 6th. Check out lead single 'Dude Like Him' below for some summer vibes in the vein of Maccabees and Hooton Tennis Club. ‘Dude Like Him’, demonstrates a more direct and punchy side to Willie’s typically hazy and meandering surf-rock persona. He is, in his own words ‘a lover of all things simple, cult films, surf tones and the girl next door’. Willie deals in...

By Kane Power (@ElHeavio) I saw Svalbard live a few months ago doing an admirable job opening for Holy Roar label mates Rolo Tomassi. They are back on my radar with a new release One Day All This Will End, out this week on the 25th of September. I initially thought of Svalbard as a post-hardcore/post-rock crossover band, and I’m not entirely wrong, but with the clarity of recording, their music displays a much more melodic basis. Chord changes and...

Organisers of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay have announced that Biffy Clyro will headline the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2015/16 Concert in the Gardens, joined by Idlewild and Honeyblood in a very strong all-Scottish line-up. This will be Biffy Clyro's one and only UK performance of 2015 and will be the stage from which they will kick off 2016 and what is being lined up to be an absolutely huge year for them. Biffy Clyro said “We are so happy to come out of musical hibernation...

Here at TLE we bloody love We Are The City. Second album Violent was a powerhouse of sleepy-cool synth and conscientious, poetic lyricism that moved our hearts as much as our feet. It didn't hurt that it was also the soundtrack to a beautifully-shot film of the same name which is still picking up awards to this day. Now it seems their third album is on the way, announced with a new track - 'Keep On Dancing' The band self-produced the...

Mark McGuire (who you might recognise from Cleveland noisies Emeralds) has announced his latest album, Beyond Belief, the follow up to 2014's Noctilucence, with the release of new track 'Earth: 2015'. It's intricate, melodic and more than a little bit chaotic. Mark McGuire is also set to play one of our favourite fests, Le Guess Who? Festival, on 20th November, where he will share a line-up with Sunn O))), Chelsea Wolfe, Destroyer and a bunch of other acts. Lucky Utrecht. Each pre-order package...