Elvis Thirlwell, Author at So Young Magazine

by Elvis Thirlwell 10 Apr 2025

Listen: Brighton’s The New Eves Sign to Transgressive and Share Single ‘Highway Man’

The New Eves are rising. Signing to Transgressive Records, the Brighton quartet mark their much-anticipated return with furious new single ‘Highway Man’.

by Elvis Thirlwell 11 Mar 2025

Listen: Kissing on Camera Share New Single ‘Lil’ Horse’

‘Lil’ Horse’ sustains the quartet’s deliciously earnest virtues – a thick-cut, doleful Irish accent decrying above a grunge’d up mixture of lugubrious slowcore and fractured emo.

by Elvis Thirlwell 11 Mar 2025

Listen: Manchester’s Truthpaste Release Debut Single ‘See You Around’ via Memorials of Distinction

Released via London independent label Memorials of Distinction, Truthpaste enter a landscape where folk-fuelled-indie is reaching all new kinds of popularity and appeal.

by Elvis Thirlwell 27 Feb 2025

Listen: C Turtle Return with New Single ‘2001’

C Turtle are a band that seem hell bent on taking lo-fi rock to it’s highest fidelities yet.

by Elvis Thirlwell 11 Feb 2025

Listen: London’s Most Things Share Debut Single ‘Shops!’

Most Things’ debut single looks back at London’s already swelled array of pared back post-punk bands and thinks, ‘hmm, there’s too much going on here. Let’s strip it back some more.’

by Elvis Thirlwell 05 Feb 2025

Listen: NYC’s YHWH Nailgun Share ‘Sickle Walk’ and Announce Debut Album via AD93

There are few bands that can unleash such monumental bowel-restructuring passions in such a short space of time. Theirs is a dance like no other; a swaying, jerking writhe that rocks and boulders like a belching wave in the middle of a polluted ocean.

by Elvis Thirlwell 30 Jan 2025

Listen: London’s Memory of Speke Return with New Single ‘Freedom’

London’s Memory of Speke return with new single ‘Freedom’. Belted with all the full-burning passion of an early Dexys Midnight Runners ballad, yet stylised with the kind of toytown rock anthemia that would make the tiny stadium crowds at Minatur…

by Elvis Thirlwell 21 Jan 2025

Listen: London’s Bishopskin Return with New Single ‘Old Sock’

‘Old Sock’ is as succinct and punchy a welcome to the church of Bishopskin as anything the band have hitherto produced.

by Elvis Thirlwell 29 Nov 2024

Listen: Brighton’s Glasshouse Red Spider Mite Share New Single ‘Thorns In My Mouth’

Despite still being so early into their career, Brighton’s Glasshouse Red Spider Mite are already undergoing remarkable evolution.

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