The VLM Playlist: August 2020
It has been particularly fruitful in the debut album department this August with a number of fearsome first records materialising. Alex the Astronaut blew us away with her stellar debut The Theory of Absolutely...
Lana Del Rey: Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass – The VLM Veridict
Lana Del Rey’s – ‘Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass' released 28 July as an audiobook has Del Rey reading 14 poems to a background of dramatic soundscapes from Jack Anatoff who she worked with on Norman F**...
The VLM Playlist: July 2020
Summer is finally upon us, we nearly had a whole two days of sun in July. Crazy stuff. The month has been pack full of exciting new music - largely inspired by lockdown in one way or another. But that is not to...
Introducing: The Peach Fuzz
Despite having only three tracks officially released, Liverpool band The Peach Fuzz are already creating quite the buzz with their blend of "psych, pop, and rock 'n' roll".
The five-piece have already burie...
The VLM Playlist: June 2020
Usually a month of celebration as Summer begins, June this month hasn't felt quite as warm. Despite not being a month of joy, it has vitally been a month of discussion.
Black Lives Matter protests have force...
🏳️🌈 Inbox Interview: Henry Dell with New Single ‘HOT PINK’ 🏳️🌈
London based singer, songwriter, and producer, Henry Dell, has written a brand new track, 'HOT PINK', for Pride Month. All funds from the single will be going to the charities, Choose Love and Say it Loud Club....
Introducing: Five Days North and Their New Single ‘Take Me Higher’
Five Days North are a five piece from Manchester who have been drip feeding their opalescent blend of jangly guitar riffs and sugary pop melodies since 2016.
The band have announced that their first new musi...
The VLM Playlist: May 2020
May has seen things go from batshit crazy to holy-hell-get-me-off-this-planet crazy. There's really no adjectives left to describe these months anymore, I don't know why I try. Musicians have largely given up w...
Introducing: Pacific and Their New Track ‘Last Life’
Pacific are a Manchester based piano-focused rock band, who are carving their own niche in the industry with their blend of utopian alt-rock and indie nuances. They already have famous fans in Huw Stephens, XS ...
Introducing: Polyhymns with new single ‘Down With The Kids’
The Sheffield group Polyhymns are a blissful, folk-pop and electronic hybrid formed in 2019 from the folktronica collective, Little Glitches, championed by Lauren Laverne, Shaun Keaveny and Steve Lamacq.
The...