“When we first laid down this track, hearing it back was emotional,” adds bassist Vanessa. “There was a gulp when the first chorus kicked in and that was before the strings were added. I’m so pleased that @iskrastrings.bsky.social Strings reached out, because he lifted the whole song.”

The lyrics provided the title of the new album and also mention the Seven Sisters cliffs – so Etienne and Vanessa from the band paid a visit to East Sussex to make the video.

Whitelands play at @corsicastudios.bsky.social in London tonight, and tour in February...

The new @whitelands.bsky.social single ‘Songbird (Forever)’ is out now.

The song is taken from their forthcoming second album ‘Sunlight Echoes’ (out on January 30) and is available on all digital platforms...

“It digs into the pain of realising we’ve helped shape the very world that confines us,” says singer/guitarist Charlie Hearl. “Yet by the end, a shift begins: a tentative suggestion that the beliefs that bind us might not be absolute, and are beginning to fade.”

Wickedly talented trio Adele Dazeem have shared a new video for ‘Deep Sea Hand’, one of the standout tracks from their debut EP, ‘Metanoia’, which is out on November 21.

It begins as a heavy, post-punk rumble before opening out and speeding up for a stunning two minutes of pure shoegaze release...

Five years ago today, @innerstrings.bsky.social filmed this beautifully simple video for Cheval Sombre’s ‘It’s Not Time’ in Lewes. A couple hundred miles away, I saw the same sunset after my mum’s socially distanced funeral. It remains one of the most profoundly moving things I’ve ever seen.