This visit to the Singles Bar is big on variety. New country sounds meet with a late 50s tribute; contemporary goths take a surprisingly catchy turn, while a well loved track is redressed in a strikingly new way, and a cult act share a perfectly arranged, 90s inspired workout that’s as good an advert as any for their current retrospective disc. With the eight picks exploring a genuinely broad mix of styles and genres, we hope – as always – you find something new to enjoy.
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We’re firmly into autumn and Halloween is just around the corner. Already, the warmer days seem like a distant memory. In Boston, the change of seasons certainly hasn’t hampered anyone’s creative flow, even if a few folks might feel seasonally affected. This visit to the city brings a couple of punkier tracks, numbers that blend country and rock in cool ways, the return of an old favourite and more besides. We hope you find something new to enjoy…
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Back in 2023, The Summertimes released one of the year’s best albums with their self-titled disc. Their follow up release, the ‘Luminous’ EP offers fans (and soon to be fans) more of the same in many ways. Rather than suggesting a lack of imagination, it proves that the Aussie power pop band knows instinctively where their musical strength lies and, as a result, the five songs that make up the short release sit very comfortably alongside the previous LP’s best material.
After forming in 2021, Girl With A Hawk took a rather casual approach to promoting themselves, sharing a number of digital singles over the next four years. Although these quick musical hits gave some indication that this Boston band had a lot of potential, hearing them in three and four minute bursts didn’t quite showcase their full talents effectively enough, even if a “record and release” approach to working seemed far better suited to keeping the interest going in a digital realm and in a world of increasingly short attention spans.
Welcome back to the Real Gone Singles Bar, the place where we explore the more interesting individual tracks that have been sent our way over the past few of weeks. This time out, we have a cult figure from the alt-rock world tapping into some 70s sounds, a couple of very different singer songwriters sharing a couple of very different narratives, a couple of great bits of power pop with a rockier edge, and more besides… As always, we hope you find something new to enjoy.
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