Introducing: Merrowfolk

Rooted in folk but drawing on indie rock, gothic noir and theatrical pop, Glasgow’s seven-piece collective Merrowfolk emerged from Irish singer-songwriter Clare McBrien’s solo project, Mima Merrow. Their debut album, Understory, arrives via Iffy Folk Records,

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Nuit Noire

French artist Nuit Noire turns anxiety into electronic lullabies, combining intimate songwriting with modular synthesis. Having previously performed as a keyboardist alongside Chien noir, Oré and Mathilde, she now works alone with a self-built modular synth housed inside an old cathode-ray television.

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Selkie: Introducing

Selkie creates strange, beautiful and deeply atmospheric music built around electric guitar, ambient sound design and a voice used as both melody and texture. Her debut EP inWaves traces a slow process of rebuilding trust in voice and body, shaped through years of live experimentation, movement between continents and an instinct for leaving space around the songs.

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Mercy Land: I'm Your Daughter

Mercy Land share video for “I’m Your Daughter”, another darkly intoxicating slice of synth-pop, balancing sleek electronic textures with a brooding, cinematic atmosphere, the track continues their fascination with identity, family and the uneasy spaces between intimacy and alienation.

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Pet Needs

Ahead of their upcoming UK-wide headline tour, Colchester four-piece PET NEEDS share “Paintballs”, a pensive, emotionally charged new single taken from their latest album Elbows Out! This Is Capitalism. Released via Xtra Mile Recordings earlier this year,

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Introducing: Arienas

Fife four-piece Arienas deal in raw, honest guitar music with a towering atmosphere, chiming guitars, muscular rhythms and a vocal presence that deliver an immediacy and a growing sense they are a band still stretching out and working out exactly how far they can take it.

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Merrowfolk: Video Premiere

Glasgow indie folk-rock collective Merrowfolk share their latest single Let Me Be Yours, the second track to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album Understory, due 15 October via Iffy Folk Records.

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