I remember thinking, when I first saw Porridge Radio play live, in a sweaty Lexington on a crisp cold London night, that they were probably the best "band" that the UK had to offer. And I mean band in that slightly redundant, old fashioned sense; a tight-knit group
Chicago's Friko came bounding into the new year with a gutsy, visceral throwback to early noughties indie rock. Armed with an album cover plucked straight from Conor Oberst's dusty old bookshelf, and the kind of warbling, teetering-on-the-edge voice that could shape the weather, their debut full-length
The cover of the new Caroline Says LP, released just last week, features Caroline Sallee caught in a double-exposure, the same face facing the same way but double-tracked, side by side with herself. On 'Always Looking Back', the album's centre-point and most compelling moment, both of
For reasons I don't need to start pulling apart today, I've been thinking a lot recently about the passing of time and how we mark and sometimes celebrate certain occasions. Births and deaths, chapters new and repeated; small milestones in a big old chunk of life.
Welcome to the 99th song of our 3/6/5! Hope you're enjoying the run... Blue Lake, the gorgeous instrumental project of Copenhagen-based Jason Dungan, has announced a new release on the excellent Tonal Union label - home of one of our favourite albums of the year so
While it fits with the ethos of this project to share just one song from RÓIS's new album, doing so doesn't begin to tell the story of all the worlds, and colours, and shapes - seen and unseen - that glimmer under the surface of this
Strange Power! is the latest release from the exquisite Dear Life Records, exclamation mark and all. The fifth record from songwriter and poet Anne Malin Ringwalt, the forthcoming album is released in conjunction with her second book of poetry, What Floods. The album itself weaves a vivid musical tapestry, complete
There's a lot to unpack here, but perhaps it's best to let Fred himself do the talking. His new track 'Embankment' is out right now. It's from a brand new album called Window in the Rhythm which is released this coming Friday.
Samantha Crain, the Choctaw Nation singer-songwriter, has been releasing wonderful music for some 15-odd years now. Consistently delivering songs and albums that gently leave an impression over time, a faded piece of wallpaper where a picture used to hang, her work can be both dizzying and dark, melancholy and untethered.
Hildegard's debut collection was crafted in just eight days, the release capturing the sparking, sparkling energy that emerged in Montreal between singer-songwriter Helena Deland and the more electronic-focused Ouri. Jour 1596, the pairs forthcoming LP, grew from very different roots, tenderly cared for and gently brought to life
"I've never lived in a place called Richmond," Advance Base's Owen Ashworth says in the written introduction to his new song 'The Year I Lived In Richmond'. For those of us already attuned to the small but wonderful worlds he creates in
Thank you for subscribing to three / six / five, I really hope you've been enjoying the posts; both the reading and the listening. We're closing in on 100 songs, which seems wild to me... Anyway, I was walking out in the grey evening last night, realising how