Plucked harps, guitar climaxes, and retro, European disco. Sonically rich and impressively realised: Harvest Of Gold is the highly anticipated debut album from Melbourne’s Gossling, 10 tracks of gorgeous pop songcraft, the gifted musicianship of singer/songwriter Helen Croome.

With Gossling’s boundless talent and that dreamy, startling voice, Harvest Of Gold marks the arrival of undoubtedly one of 2013’s best Australian releases. “Hopefully with this album the people who’ve only heard my singles will realise the extent of my songwriting,” says Helen, who signed to Dew Process in September 2012 following three acclaimed independent EPs: 2009 debut If You Can’t Whistle, 2010’s Until Then, and 2012’s Intentional Living. “I want listeners to stick with me as an artist, and enjoy the progression I’ve made.”

Front and centre across the Harvest Of Gold LP is Gossling’s magical voice – used to devastating effect on the heart-wrenching “Vanish”. Written in response to the death of Jill Meagher, Helen’s vocals were recorded at home, the intimate take capturing the effect the tragedy had on the singer. “I was angry for a long time,” says Helen, of lines like, “Should we see what he wrote on her face?”. “The security footage… I was affected by the fact that we saw some of her last moments. It was good it was put out there, but it also felt wrong, intrusive.”

Much more upbeat is vivid opener “Big Love”, with its joyous pop chorus, its lyrics spilling out in one hit from start to finish – “Probably my favourite song on the album,” Helen admits. The lazy lounge romance of Lee and Nancy-style “Songs Of Summer” is a co-write with Steve Parkin, and features Sparkadia’s Alex Burnett. Disco makes an appearance on “Challenge’, the first song written for the LP, while the baseline swagger of “Accolade” was crafted with the help of Alexander Gow, who Helen teamed up with during a stint at a writers’ retreat in Byron Bay.

Heartfelt, diverse, and seriously enchanting, Gossling’s debut album is the sound of an artist fully coming into her own. Easily one of 2013’s finest releases, Harvest Of Gold leaves an impact all its own.

Tickets for her headline show are on sale HERE

After recording his debut album in Nashville with members of Ryan Adams’ band, The Cardinals, Harry Mundy is set to release his new EP, Back To The Country, with a special show at The Sebright Arms on the 15th October.

The Alt.Country singer/songwriter recorded with his band and acclaimed producer Iestyn Polson to capture a raw and honest record built out of classic songwriting and great musicianship. The result is a pedal steel infused, organ grinding, gritty Country record that also retains Harry’s roots in Folk and Americana music.

Harry Mundy will headline The Sebright Arms on 15th October, tickets here

Nick Hakim has recently released his debut EP ‘Where Will We Go Pt1′ which divulges five tracks of modern soul from this young Brooklyn-based musician.

“Nick Hakim’s sweet soul plays like hymns from the stuff of nightmares” – The FADER

Born to Chilean and Peruvian parents and raised in Washington, D.C. Nick grew up in a household overflowing with a diverse taste in worldly sounds which ranged from hip-hop to go-go via soul and folk, Nick became a self-proclaimed musicphile. An early admiration for Marvin Gaye and Harry Nilsson can be deduced from the atmospherics of the songs on the EP, his introductory recordings.

Nick Hakim: “I was caught in a hazy gloom, alone in my room, filled up with booze while writing this music. I would write very early in the morning after nights of no sleep. Dunkin Donuts coffee was my friend. I would set up a mic, record, and later make sense of whatever came out.”

It’s intoxicating stuff, and this EP introduces Nick Hakim and his pitch-perfect grain and expression somewhere distinctly left of centre.

Tickets for his headline show are on sale now here

Following the release of his ‘Let It Go’ EP and a sold out show at Dingwalls, James Bay announces his next London headline show at St Stephens Church in Shepherds Bush.

Tickets on sale Thursday 17th at 9am HERE

George Ezra today celebrates a top 3 chart debut for his album Wanted On Voyage by announcing a full UK tour for October. The dates follow sold out tours in February and June, including a recent show at London’s Electric Ballroom that sold out in a week. See below for the full list of upcoming UK tour dates, with new shows in bold. Tickets for the October shows go on sale at 9am on Friday 11 July, see georgeezra.com for details:

George Ezra – UK shows

12 July – Balado – T in the Park

20 July – Southwold – Latitude Festival

10 August – Newquay – Boardmasters

16 August – Chelmsford – V Festival

17 August – Stafford – V Festival

16 October – Leeds Met University

17 October – Newcastle University

18 October – Queen Margaret Union

20 October – Manchester Ritz

21 October – O2 Academy, Bristol

22 October – Pyramids Centre, Portsmouth

24 October – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London BUY

25 October – The Institute, Birmingham

26 October – Cardiff University Solus

 Last weekend, a year after his debut festival performance on Glastonbury’s BBC Introducing Stage, Ezra returned to headline the same tent to a capacity crowd, before a set on the John Peel Stage the following day which, according to festival organisers, brought in the most people for an afternoon gig on that stage ever. His debut album Wanted On Voyage was released the following day. Recorded late last year in Clapham with producer Cam Blackwood, Ezra plays guitar, bass and keyboards on the album. The record’s lead single Budapest is currently in the top 10 in 10 European countries and spending its third week in the UK top 5.

Free and edgy, operatic and immediate, Sound Mirror sees Syd Arthur lighting out for the territory, reconfiguring contemporary psychedelia with a harmonic interplay of deeply felt songcraft, collectivist performance, and limitless invention.

Their second full-length outing, the album sees traditional borderlines obliterated as elements of free jazz improvisation, floor-filling funk, and bucolic folk fuse with the band’s most concentrated and emotionally direct songwriting thus far. From the tantalizing “Garden of Time” to the prophetic “Sinkhole,” Sound Mirror expands and refines Syd Arthur’s already uncommon sonic multiverse into a brave new space where focus and concision is as essential as freewheeling abstraction and genre-shattering creativity.

MOJO called them “Canterbury’s dazzling new sons.”

www.sydarthur.co.uk

Following his first sold out show at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 2nd October, we’ve added a second date on 3rd October.

Vance Joy recently received the Apra Song Of The Year award for his catchy break through hit ‘Riptide’.

Tickets go onsale tomorrow Thursday 3rd July HERE

Following details of their forthcoming album  ‘Sleeping Operator’ due for release on October 6th. The Barr Brothers have announced a competition where you can win entry to a special performance at a secret North London location on the evening of 16th July 2014.

To be in with a chance to win entry to this special evening where the band will be previewing songs from their new album ‘Sleeping Operator’ , just click through the link  HERE and fill in your details.

Winners get 2 tickets, signed poster + download of ‘Even The Darkness Has Arms’, from the new album. Competition closes 9th July at midnight. All successful entrants will be notified via email.

Fyfe‘s forthcoming single ‘For You’ sees release on July 21 and has already been Zane Lowe’s Next Hype on Radio 1 and gone top 3 on Hype Machine. He has also signed with Believe Recordings, and is currently putting the finishing touches to his self-produced debut album. This follows a breakout year for 24-year-old Paul Dixon, with tracks like ‘Solace’ and ‘Conversations’ picking up over one million plays on Soundcloud, a hat trick of Top 10s on Hype Machine, and additional support across Radio 1, 6Music and XFM. Having supported the likes of London Grammar, Foxes and Cloud Control, Fyfe will headline The Social on July 21.

‘For You’ is a thrilling step-up in the musical evolution of Fyfe. A prodigal young talent, his childhood was spent learning the violin, piano, trumpet and playing in youth orchestras. Having gotten his hands on his brother’s Logic set-up, Dixon shifted from classical compositions to writing his own songs under the alias of David’s Lyre whilst studying Economics at University.

  “Paul Dixon might be a name familiar to some…but none [are] finer than this new project, Fyfe” NME 

“Grandiose…erupts into a warm, forceful patter and swelling horns like the onset of a tropical rainstorm” Pitchfork

“Fyfe is rapidly blossoming into something quite special…off-kilter pop music with a bittersweet heart” Clash

“Tugs at the heartstrings before becoming more rhythmic and symphonic…[Fyfe] is still proving hard to categorise”  Guardian

“All of a sudden, London has become a hotbed for additive, glitchy R&B…our favourite purveyor happens to be Fyfe” Nylon

www.thisisfyfe.com

Tickets on sale Friday 19th June at 9am HERE

Following the success of debut album Built On Glass, Australia’s Chet Faker releases 1998, on 28^th July through Future Classic and Opulent.

Built on Glass, which came out early 2014 melds Faker’s luxurious RnB vocals with analogue instruments and sounds of early dance music. Last single Talk is Cheap enjoyed extensive media support including BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music plays, plus the video has had over 2.5million views on YouTube. New single 1998 pulsates with soul-fused vocals coupled with the sounds of early house records – bringing to the table substance with style, rather than style aching to be considered substance. Check out the video for 1998, which nods to the role Keith Haring played in early house graphics and features a morphing Chet Faker moving through the passage of a relationship. http://youtu.be/EIQQnoeepgU

Chet has had a dream run since the release of his Gold-selling EP Thinking in Textures; sell-out shows across Australia, the US, UK which included London’s KOKO and a series of heralded collaborations with Say Lou Lou, Kilo Kish and Flume. He has also been nominated for two Rolling Stone Awards for Best New Talent and Best Independent Release, winning Best Independent Release. His Flume collab, single ‘Drop the Game’ and Lockjaw EP, was certified Gold within weeks of its release and polled at #5 in the 2013 Hottest 100.

Faker will be performing at countless EU / UK festivals this summer before headlining a tour in November.

DATES

11^th July – Bilbao – BBK Live

12^th July – Lisbon – Optimus Alive Festival

13^th July – Montreux – Montreux Jazz Festival

17^th July – Dour – Dour Festival

18^th July – Berlin – Melt! Festival

19^th July – Ostrava – Colours of Ostrava

20^th July – Salacgriva – Positivus Festival

8^th August – Haldern – Haldern Pop

10^th August – Oxfordshire – Wilderness

14^th August – St. Polten – Frequency Festival

16^th August – Biddinghuizen – Lowlands

17^th August – Hamburg – Dockville

19^th August – Frankfurt – Zoom

20^th August – Kassel – Kulturzelt Kassel

21^st August – Katowice – Nowa Muzyka Opening in Cathedral

10^th November – Berlin – Astra

11^th November – Brussels – Botanique/Orangerie

12^th November – Amsterdam – Paradiso

15^th November – Strasbourg – La Laiterie

16^th November – Lille – Le Grand Mix

18^th Novembet – Dublin – Academy

20^th November – London – The Coronet TICKETS

21st November – Manchester – The Ritz

22^nd November – Glasgow – Art School

www.chetfaker.com