"Within the grassroots circuit of London and beyond, the release of the Slow Dance Records curated compilation at the start of each year is more often than not an indicator of what's to come. Set on uncovering the best new lo-fi, experimental and alternative music from London and beyond, the compilation not only represents a label with its ear constantly to the ground, but also predicts new avenues, and key artists from various scenes and spaces outside the industry."

Export Import, a 10-piece ensemble from Canning Town, has carved out a peculiar niche in London’s underground music scene. Known for hosting “Life Passage Ceremonies” such as weddings, funerals, baptisms, and exorcisms, the group performs at venues like Venue MOT, Colour Factory, and The Windmill, as well as unannounced appearances on London’s streets.

Featuring Polish counting games, toybox textures, traditional Indonesian instruments and spates of harsh noise, ‘345’ exists in the hinterland between waking and dreaming; sumptuous melodies and twinkling harps vye with the tensions of an unpredictable, constantly-shifting musical landscape, a collection of songs written while cycling around London, or hiking along Polish mountains or Indonesian Volcanoes.

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Uma is pleased to share her first new single of
2024, ‘Nothing Without You’, in collaboration with Slow Dance Recordings.
Recorded in Uma’s home studio in the rural town of Catalunya, near Barcelona,
‘Nothing Without You’ pairs hypnotic R&B percussion with understated vocals: a
beguiling introduction to a year in which we’ll hear plenty more form Uma.

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From forthcoming Midnight Snacks Vol. 2, Save it for the Rave explores the whole mixtapes theme of friendship. Specifically how the differences between two people can be the very things that draw them together, and how those differences can create a tension that causes friendships to grow and also fall apart.

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Drawing inspiration from lovers across the centuries; from the love letters between Heloise and Abelard in medieval France to Bonnie and Clyde's romantic partnership in crime in 1930s America, the New Eves bring you something that feels both modern and ancient. The songs’ refrain, ‘Many are the stars I see, but in my eyes no star like thee’ can be found on a 17th golden ‘poesy’ ring that is housed in the British museum, once given as a love token. The line embodies the feeling of the song, of a love that is both fated and cosmic.

Now into its 8th edition, the release of the Slow Dance-curated compilation at the start of each year is usuallyan indicator of what's to come.

Uncovering the best new lo-fi, experimental and alternative music from London and beyond, with tracks every Monday and Friday till the 6th of Feb.

n.o. Art Ensemble is a recording and performance collective based in London. Their debut release, Death and Entrances, started as a lockdown project, after which they have organised a series of gigs performing their music. They hosted a 50th anniversary concert commemorating Tony Conrad’s legendary Outside the Dream Syndicate, as well as staging an experimental opera they wrote, boasting a 50-piece orchestra. Their newest record E V ER Y RU N G O N TH I S L AD D E R TO G OD, featuring Charlemagne Palestine (a close collaborator of Conrad), was recorded over the last year in different bedrooms and studios in London and Glasgow and is rooted in exploring the possibilities of drone-based music.

STEPS is the 23 year old Londoner’s third EP and features six new tracks that recollect her personal experiences of sexual trauma, albeit painted and portrayed with unexpected splashes of colour, character, and Sarah’s ability to own those experiences through her own strength and power.

STEPS EP is about moving forward into the unknown. I never intended to create a project around sexual trauma, but making these songs at the time played a big role in helping me process a way of accepting and taking ownership over some things that have happened. I hope it brings a distinct vulnerability and perspective to the subject matter….Steps is ultimately about ‘making it through’ to define new versions of ourselves after such experiences.

‘Missing June’, which is to be Jude’s only release of 2023, represents another left-turn for the mercurial songwriter. Built upon atmospheric synths and shoegazed-drenched guitar chords, the slow-burning track comes in a just over two minutes. Low Loudly (Drug Store Romeos’ singer Sarah Downie) joins on guest vocals.

A very different version of ‘Missing June’ was going to be on Jude’s debut album, Signal, before it was omitted and re-written in January as a retrospective piece on the year that had just passed. “I want ‘Missing June’ to have different meanings for whoever is listening,” Jude says, when pressed for context on the track. “But, for me, I was writing as a means of finding meaning from things that happened to me last year.”

Uma announces 'Jai'

The debut mixtape is written and produced by Uma and Luke Bower, mixed by Salpa (AKA Luke Bower)  releasing on 15th September.

“Jai is a collection of ideas and memories set to sound for my friends to wear on their ears as eclectic jewelry. It is a project full of love, playfulness and the joy of the mundane. Following in the steps of my first and second ep’s introverted nature, Jai is a deeper dive into some of the things that shaped who I am today.”

The mixtape captures the mood of turning nostalgia for the past into nostalgia for the present, weaving early memories with inner-child wisdom and reflections on parental advice. Exploring the parallels found between her itinerant life as a professional artist and the borderless, romantic and creative upbringing that her parents blessed her with, both at Can Obert and across three continents.

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The band is fighting a biblical battle between shame and pleasure, body and mind, good and evil. The lyrics are poetic and unapologetic. “Throw away my fading halo and start dancing” is the type of line that’s calling to be written on the bedroom wall of teenagers up and down the country. This is the song Eve would have written if she had an electric guitar.”

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The first love song written longtime collaborators and partners Uma and Luke Bower aka Salpa fka Lucy Lu is released todayUma also has announced a string of Autumn dates around Europe and UK supporting Puma Blue! 💧

Her latest song, ‘Filthy Rich’ comes out today and in Uma’s words “is the product of frustration and sadness, feeling helpless in a crumbling world. But it is also the drive to change things and bring those who take too much and care too little to justice”.

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Today, barcelonas genreless and intercontinental uma releases the resplendent new muay thai, a romantic and life-affirming single which, in her words, is the second half of [2022s] granada. A love letter to my parents. Like its predecessor, muay thai turns nostalgia for the past into nostalgia for the present, weaving early memories with inner-child wisdom and reflections on parental advice. In the mid tempo ambient groove, uma explores the parallels she finds between her itinerant life as a professional artist and the borderless, romantic and creative upbringing that her parents blessed her with, both at can obert and across three continents.

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Audio-visual duo Glows are excited to share ‘Wake Up To The World (Ghost Print/Kill mix)’ an extended 7 minute cut featuring vocals from Asha Lorenz of Domino band Sorry. GG & Felix will be closing the chapter on their debut LA, 1620 mixtape with an open collaborative studio event and the release of the LA, 1620 visual catalogue.

Uma always incorporates conviviality and creativity into her music-making, and the birth of her latest alt-pop groove "Tārā" is no different, produced with her partner in their self-made studio in Barcelona.

Slow Dance ‘22 is the London label and collective’s annual showcase of their previous year’s top picks and hidden gems of new talent. The 13-track compilation is characteristically genre-fluid, spanning compositions and collaborations from emerging bands, producers and songwriters that have been carefully selected by the boutique label. With the label releasing one 3-tracker single every other day from Friday 13th January 2022 until 25th January, when the entire opus is out on all streaming platforms

While his previous works found space between genres, with elements of indie, ambient pop, hip-hop, Uk garage and noise, his debut self-produced album Signal - rejects the limitations of genres altogether while anchoring his music firmly in the sounds of his native South London.

To Repel Ghosts’ floats upon a raft of sparse guitar chords, and searches for truth in a dishonest world; a clean start without the generational lies we perpetuate in politics and history. Jude expands: “It’s quite an abstract song, but it’s about the falseness of the world, and how the future will mirror the past unless we change the present.”

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Today, GRAMMY-nominated, South London trio PVA have released their critically-acclaimed debut album “BLUSH” via Ninja Tune. The album’s release follows closely on the heels of the band’s incendiary live performance alongside the likes of Burna Boy, Marcus Mumford, Loyle Carner, and The Big Moon on BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland last weekend.

‘Make Love talks about how hard it is to maintain feelings of desire in long-term relationships, infidelity and the guilt that follows, and the pain of detaching from the past and embracing the new.’

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Glows new mixtape ‘LA, 1620’ is a collection of material spanning the last 6 years. Voice notes, demos and rehearsal recordings resampled and fused together into a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age soundtrack which flows between the melancholic lights and lows of complicated youth.

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‘WYDWMTB’ demonstrates Jude experimenting with sampling to repurpose and reimagine narrative. Cuts from Steve Reich and Lee Moses are mixed with some 808 bass and a contributory verse from Delaware rapper Zeke Ultra, alongside Jude’s own unmistakable vocals.

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A breakup song at its heart, ‘Pull’ is a murky and distorted exploration into the emotional dragging to and throw as a romance turns sour, and the burden of trying to keep something sacrosanct in the face of collapse. The track’s labyrinthine sound bed conceals hidden audio memories and breadcrumbs throughout, echoes and mementos frozen for prosperity. 

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This is a song about a lover who sheds so many tears the salt turns her skin to scales and she becomes a crocodile hiding in the shallows.

The message in ‘No Angels’ is about more than lockdown specifically,” Jude says of the track. ‘Community and solidarity is the most important thing, and will always be in conflict with the forces of capital and money.’

With knowing nods to sonic movements that are so deeply associated with the capital’s working class neighbourhoods, the track’s chorus hook says it all in its simplicity: “you say the money doesn’t matter too much / you say the love for your people is enough.”

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Glows return with ‘Chaser’ the first track from their debut mixtape ‘LA, 1620’ coming in Autumn. The first track that GG Skips birthed under the Glows moniker, ‘Chaser’ remained hidden away until being reworked with childhood friend Felix BH after he became a fully-fledged part of the project. The track was produced alongside friend and collaborator Saint Jude and is part of a collection of material 7 years in the making.

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Whilst living in N. Italy, Mela was given a cassette of unreleased of demos recorded in the 80s, she enlisted the help of Steve Pringle & Miles James (Tom Odell, Little Simz, Foals, Plan B) to re-create the synths & drums machines used. They dialled up the sounds by ear to recreate a cosmic journey into Italo Disco whilst contemporarily veering off into other realms

South London artist/producer Saint Jude is proud to share ‘Feedback Song’, featuring the ethereal vocals of Sarah Downie (Drug Store Romeos).

A delicate slow-build of a single which is nothing short of celestial, ‘Feedback Song’ sees Saint Jude (Jude Woodhead) bridging the worlds of minimalist electronica and dream pop. The resulting sound is one which pangs with a gossamer delicacy whilst propelling itself forward like a charming dream sequence.

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With three compilation singles and two "prom songs" out over the past few years, @platonica_erotica collaborated with @deathcrashdeathcrash (King Of New York), @jerskinfendrix(Holy Holy) and @saint.jude_ (production) on these five tracks, out now on Slow Dance Records. With equal parts melodrama and fragility, this body of work is something we've been excited to share for a while now

‘Blue’ the new single from South London songstress Sarah Meth is out now, it is the first single from her new EP ‘Leak Your Own Blues’ which will be out on the 12th May via Slow Dance Recordings.

Young North London musician Sarah Meth is excited to share a new audio/visual project, the Midnight Snacks mixtape. It’s Meth’s first output of 2022, and a preview to new music incoming later this Spring.

Sharing its name with the sporadic live events that Meth books in South London where fellow friends and collaborators play out unreleased music at midnight, the mixtape merges a series of short, and curiously out-of-step musical vignettes with rolling visuals created in collaboration with Sarah’s housemates and creative director, Lula Russon. 

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Slow Dance ‘21 is the London label and collective’s annual showcase of their previous year’s top picks and hidden gems of new talent. The 13-track compilation is characteristically genre-fluid, spanning compositions and collaborations from emerging bands, producers and songwriters that have been carefully selected by the boutique label. With the label releasing one track per weekday from Monday 17th January 2022 until 3rd February, when the entire opus is out on all streaming platforms.

‘High Tide’ is the result of a year-long collaboration between Skips and heka, who started working together during the creation of her ‘(a)’ EP. The track calls to mind the call of a siren song, wading through the water to be lost in the depths. heka has written a poem to accompany the track:

Bestias is a Honduran based musician known for her usage of sound collage and improvised synthesizers, experimenting with free jazz, musique concrete, psychedelia and trip hop creating mysterious songs about dreams and out of world experiences.

London-based musician and singer-songwriter contributes the beautifully husky lullaby ‘Dexter’ to the compilation. She describes her style as “mercurial depending on the project, but mystically charged & lyrically earnest”. The self-produced ‘Dexter’ is an ode to temptation, written over lockdown & reflecting a more current sound than her first 4-track release ‘Old Tapes’.

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McCabe are a neo-soul group from South London who play with hip-hop production techniques and incorporate elements of various different genres in “Supermodel”. The track is immediately appealing and smooth-sounding, reminiscent of Prince.

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Hoping to spend their summer playing festivals, they also feel happy to be a part of the Slow Dance Compilation; “It is a record label we both admire and respect.

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In Tongues is a London-based group who focus on building sound-worlds and telling stories - some of which make sense, others which just make music. ‘Dressed Down’ is their first released recording, and early 2022 will see them release more. They run a monthly event where they perform under the Westway, outside their rehearsal studio, and have written a collaborative track written as part of a film score that is also set to be released this year.

Export Import LTD is the collective that encompasses both bands Export and Import: 'On Scene' is a release from the group’s Export. This, they’ve described as “The inverse twin of Import: serene transcendental stillness. The darkness of this track is all-encompassing, with samples of wailing vocals and a plodding trip-hop style beat driving it forward steadily.

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Formed in July 2021, London duo Double Helix have been developing as a word-of-mouth sensation over the capital with their visceral merging of underground punk energy and the unifying rave subculture of the 90’s.

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Playing in various bands together since the age of 18, Teeth Machine came to life through the longstanding musical experimentations of Gray Rimmer and Arthur Bently.

Working with a sound that contrasts intimacy with explosive, energetic outbursts, Teeth Machine generates a kinetic force that translates across both their live shows and recorded work. The project carries the ethos of DIY and collaboration at its core; much of their inspiration is rooted in early punk and grassroots processes, and their world of music and imagery has grown through a closely knit network of similarly-minded friends and collaborators.

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Ebyan Rezgui is a Tunisian-German flute player and producer based in London. In this project, the organic and the synthetic are blended together from the micro to the macro, exploring how melody as well as subtle artefacts can bring a song to life.

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MAY is the project of London based solo singer, writer, and producer May Robson. For the compilation, the bouncy and elastic self-production of ‘LUCKY’, playfully wraps up a strange discomfort. Created at home in her bedroom studio, this song highlights feelings of frustration, disappointment, thankfulness and love. In 2022, MAY will be releasing her Debut 5-track EP, of which the last track was aired on.

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Gate Song is part of DIY-project Bara & Isa’s EP ‘pink sphere’, which they self-released in October 2021. They’ve found that the introspection of their music has led it to be described as a 'disturbed lullaby' (“ Someone told me they took a nap to our music and I love that”), 'morning music' and 'chest of interludes with pockets of beauty'.

London artist Saint Jude is back with his new single ‘Alright, All Tied’, an electronic indie trackcrammed full of soft hooks and a distinctive, intimate vocal delivery. For an artist asmany-layered and sonically acrobatic as Saint Jude, every new release is somewhat of asurprise: and this is no different, while in the process of finishing his debut LP set to be releasednext year, Jude pulls a tune from the vaults, an autumn indie earworm to ramp up the excitement.

Uma shares new AA single ft. Amy May Ellis - Maybe We'll Wake Up & Nebula and is Announced as main support for Puma Blue’s European Tour with Lucy Lu.

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Hold Hold is the second track from Glows rollout of material this summer as an officially formed duo. Whilst still taking inspiration from a web of conceptual and anthropological references, the track marks a departure from the personal narratives of the JL HOOKER EP. Led by an interest in communal gathering and the shared experience offered through dance music and club culture, it’s the first track from a new phase in which their kaleidoscopic approach is geared towards a more outward focus. Following the often melancholic JL EP and the underlying hum of anxiety on latest single Tropics, Hold Hold still maintains and channels these emotions. It’s release marks the decision to wrestle them up and outwards towards a frantic yet euphoric intensity.

New track Tropics marks the beginning of a phase in which the duo roll out the database of material they developed in this period of incubation. It’s the first track from a collection of material spanning different phases over the last 6 years, resampled, looped and fused together. Engaging conceptually with the idea of timelines, looping, resampling and the conventions of music releases themselves. Beginning with the Tropics, featuring Asha Lorenz deals with the scattered and overwhelming heat of city life.

Platonica Erotica presents “I Can’t Be Your Everything” is its wistful sibling to debut single ‘Marriage Of Convenience’, referred to by Platonica as ‘the last of my prom music ... I wanted a very clean, dreamy number with a veiled threat in there. I wanted to rip the carpet from underneath that person who didn't want me - to say, "Oh, you don't like a part of me? Well, I'll disappear from you completely."’

Roscoe Roscoe make ‘searing hot neo-psychedelic rock for the rain’ - NME

‘Wow! A British answer to Tame Impala’ - John Kennedy on Radio X

With their explosive debut single, “Brain Retrieve” out during the height of 2020’s pandemic-tarnished summer, East London based five-piece Roscoe Roscoe return to a tentatively optimistic Spring with their dreamy new single “Jacob’s Ladder”, out on Slow Dance Records in partnership with US label Missing Piece on 25th May 2021.

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Terror Peaks (‘TP’) is a vast world, but you often can’t see much of it. Wherever you go, you are showered in, and forever fatigued by, an overbearing light. This light does not reveal things as they are, but behaves in an obscurant way, like an anti-haze which blinds all that it illuminates. 

Only rarely does the light behave normally, like a beam. Mostly, it acts like a volatile weather condition, like a blizzard or sleet storm. Occasionally, it gives observers a cruel fright, morphing in and out of sight as though it were a living entity. Nobody knows it where it comes from. There is no sun. The sky appears as a vaguely off-white void, if it can be made out at all. Your eyes are bathed in it, like an afterimage taunting the visual field. It’s difficult to know the limit to its brightness. It simply floods more light that existed there before. Light enshrouds extant light.

‘I bet someone told you that I’d be a bad wife, I can’t be your mother, I couldn’t do that right, I bet you read Updike and think one of these nights I might drink your gin and drown our baby’ Platonica Erotica opens her debut single “Marriage Of Convenience” with venomous words, delivered in honeyed, silk-smooth tones, over the pious notes of a church organ.

Self-described as ‘the Greek god of singing karaoke to your crush (in your imagination)’, she lavishes listeners with cultural references whilst always spooning in a healthy dose of humour, name-dropping John Updike and Socrates. Scarlett O’Hara gets a mention, too - “Melanie” is a quote from Gone With The Wind and the name of the woman who runs into the arms of her former lover.

His vibrant second EP, Bodies Of Water, is out physically and digitally 16th April 2021, with the teasing of his debut album on the horizon. Alongside this EP marks the beginning of a partnership between his long-term UK label and collective Slow Dance Records and US label tmwrk Records (Grady, Molly Payton, Herizen, Onyx Collective)

Song of Innocence and Experience, is named after a William Blake set of illustrated poems. Aga has a love of poetry and literature that can be felt in her lyrics. Her sound follows the contemporary folk cannon of Bjork, Múm, Eivør, CocoRosie and Current 93, blending traditional folk with minimal avant-garde production methods and Eastern instrumentation. Her glacial vocals, underpinned by the delicate plucking of an Indonesian sasando and golden passages of gender barung, make her EP a beautiful homage to two very different places that are close to her heart.

Announcing her debut EP ‘Songs Of Innocence and Experience’ Aga Ujma shares lead single ‘Night.’ Inspired by Pauline Oliveiros’ Sonic Meditations Aga Ujma’s ‘Night’ was formed from a poem written in response to the listening exercises. Number 5 meditations instructions are as follows: “Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears”  - “ I would walk, dance by myself on the street, imagine I am dancing on the rooftops and on the top of cars and phone booths. There is this beautiful sports centre where me and my housemates would sneak into and roam around when coming home from a night out, it is such a breathtaking space when no one else is around”

A quiet, temperate plane. Feelings of ‘overbearing’ rapture are common here; visitors are ecstatic in the moment, but later second-guess their feelings as dangerous. The ground is soft and pliable, often described as feathery, like avian plumage. A colossal but reclusive angel is known to live here: on several occasions it has been seen bursting violently from the ground before flying off. No confirmed sightings have been made recently.

Aga Ujma signs to Slow Dance Recordings and releases debut single ‘In The Ocean’ paired with a short animation by New York artist Gabriela Sibilska. She A captivating individual, both her music and personality brim with a childlike openness but also a hint of a fairytale darkness

beneath the autumnal warmth.

‘In The Ocean’ is a delicately textured track that combines her soothing vocals with syncopated rhythms and abrupt changes in tone performed on her other instrument of choice, a gendèr, which is a Gamelan instrument used in Balinese and Javanese traditional music. It is paired with a music video by experimental animation artist Gabriela Sibilska, Polish-born but based in New York.

“Altitude” came from a place of solitude and seems somewhat fitting to be released during these current times of widespread isolation. Referencing days ‘spent inside’ and being tormented by a ‘violent moon’ evoke how many of us experience day-to-day life in lockdown, despite being written a few years ago. Jude reminisces on the time of writing that ‘a lot of my friends had left London, I had come out of a relationship and it seemed like I had lost a bit of the sense of community that I had for the few years before that’.

The debut single from Terror Peaks released on our new imprint MOTR, a home for the musically absurd.Terror Peaks is a musical project dedicated to extremity, blinding light, impressionistic visions, and emotional outpourings. It aims for sensory overload, and the space found between stabbing heights and euphoric calms.Terror Peaks (‘TP’) is a vast world, but you often can’t see much of it. Wherever you go, you are showered in, and forever fatigued by, an overbearing light. This light does not reveal things as they are, but behaves in an obscurant way, like an anti-haze which blinds all that it illuminates.Only rarely does the light behave normally, like a beam. Mostly, it acts like a volatile weather condition, like a blizzard or sleet storm. Occasionally, it gives observers a cruel fright, morphing in and out of sight as though it were a living entity. Nobody knows it where it comes from. There is no sun. The sky appears as a vaguely off-white void, if it can be made out at all.

Written on a boat in London with fellow musician and friend Amy May Ellis, Nebula is a galactic breath of fresh air.

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From the unanimously detested 2020, a year characterised by chaos, stasis, cancellations and postponements for the music industry comes one final gem: Slow Dance ‘20. The London label’s annual collection is a 16-track smorgasbord of of characteristically genre-fluid picks, spanning all manner of electronic music from harsh techno to expansive ambience, lo-fi bedroom productions, some of the most exciting new bands and solo artists selected from every corner of their network and beyond. With the label releasing one track per day throughout January with the entire album out on 26th January, 2021 begins with its own advent calendar of surprises. Previous compilations have been a disclosure of what's brewing in the UK underground, previously featuring early tracks from otta, Khazali and Lynks, as well as solo debuts from members of Sorry, black midi and Goat Girl.

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Dream collab from friends and producers Glows and Jude Woodhead, a cover of Molina off Glow’s JL HOOKER LOVE PLEASURE FOREVER Ep, upping the energy and diving deeper into its exploration of the death of Songs:Ohia’s Jason Molina from Alcoholism. Jude adds vocals from his biography and explodes the track into a postpone cacophony of noise.

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A passionate, swirling sound of a romance between Lucy Lu and Uma over their lockdown in Spain. Recorded where Uma spent her teenage years making music with Puma Blue & Nilufiya Yanner, the affinity of her peers bleeds into her music. Delicate & moody vocals of lovers yearning & pulsating beats skip between the duo’s ballad, recalling trip-hop drenched in humanity and vulnerability.

Following off her debut EP ‘Brave,’ Fran Lobo drops remix from duo Glows of the title track ‘Brave’. The track is the second following a remix from Loraine James in a series of remixes for a forthcoming remix EP out at the end of the year.

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Uma’s current collaboration with Lucy Lu began when he flew to Spain at the beginning of the pandemic: “it was the first time in years we had the time and space to write together. Learning to share a creative space has been a real lesson in loving someone, being honest and having a sense of humour.” 

Newest offering ‘Bring Me The Mountain’  shows the duo combining their distinct vocals and creating a blend of delicate, yearning pop with subtle strokes of percussion, “there’s definitely an exploration of acoustic and electronic sounds,” Uma explains, “I think that is a result of the balance of Luke’s style and my own.” 

The eclectic compilation features musicians from black midi, 404 Guild, Goat Girl, Sorry, Powerplant & Curl Recordings. For the album, six hand-picked groups of musicians improvised songs with original instruments sculpted by artists. The groups had six hours each to record their tracks, with the whole album being recorded over the course of a week.

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Fresh off her debut EP ‘Brave,’ Fran Lobo has enlisted fellow experimentalist and IDM producer Loraine James for a remix of the title track. The track is the first in a series of remixes for a forthcoming remix EP out at the end of the year. Loraine James released her debut album ‘You and I’ last year to critical acclaim. The Quietus named it the best album of the year, along with RA and Pitchfork, who featured her recently praising her ‘Fearlessly queer take on the sound of South London’. 

Brain Retrieve is the debut single from Roscoe Roscoe. Their unique sound brims with glowing guitar tones and melodic, shimmering synths, self described perhaps slightly tongue-in-cheek as ‘a warm, floating dream’, as they are often on the edge of veering to something far heavier. “Brain Retrieve” certainly sets them out with a bang, and the track sounds massive right from the opening guitar riff.

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‘Bodies Of Water’ is the latest offering from Saint Jude following on from his widely praised single ‘Keep The Light Inside The House’, released on Slow Dance Records in March 2020. Forest Hill based bedroom producer Jude Woodhead first assumed his pseudonym in 2019 with the release of his debut eponymous EP.

Life is not a feature film, when the drums sound you feel a real emotion. Corinne Nora sings this with a vocal skill close to Beth Gibbons - shortly before "KOAC" sinks into a dissonant sound avalanche. - Artnoir

The debut EP from Uma. Understanding Uma’s childhood is essential in comprehending her work. Born in Catalonia in 1995 to a British mother, trained in Performance Art, and a Thai father, working in a hospice in the slums of Bangkok, Uma’s upbringing of travel and diversity in encounters has inspired chords of empathy and the affinity to those around her bleeds naturally into her music. Her music is defined by its emotional depth and fragile strength.

‘Keep The Light Inside The House’ is the latest offering from Saint Jude. The bedroom producer from Forest Hill, South London, first assumed the Saint Jude pseudonym in 2019 ahead of releasing his debut self-titled EP in October.

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South London experimental artist GLOWS returns with ‘Easy a perfect distillation of the “post-club, bedroom-pop” sound he has been honing since emerging on the scene with ‘PERLA’ back in 2018.

In her first solo body of work North London’s Fran Lobo, looks to the sounds of the city’s club scene joining together a heady mix of melty yet powerful vocals, drum machines, and analogue synthesizer for a truly individual piece of work.

The EP details difficulty in overcoming addiction and grief and acknowledges the pressure women often feel to ‘save face’ or be seen as ‘brave’. Looking at the utility of breaking down and rebuilding, reclaiming and redefining identity,  Brave is that loud glow and confident glisten after it’s rained all night. - Love Letters

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“Her first EP, Bel·li (Slow Dance), will be released on April 16, Uma moves in between experimental folk and ambient music, creating with her warm voice a unique and absolutely personal aura."

u primer EP, Bel·li, saldrá el próximo 16 de abril en el sello británico Slow Dance, y en él, Uma se mueve entre el folk experimental y la música ambiental, creando con su cálida voz un aura única.

-IndieSpot