“Darren Hayman (Hefner / The French / New Starts) shares one of his earliest solo releases to accompany your rainy Summer holiday”
Beautifully fragile indie-pop incoming: Liberty Belle delivers "the most beautifully fragile indie-pop you can imagine" — jangly and McLennan-esque in the best possible way. Darren Hayman unearths his earliest solo work with ukulele-strummed dispatches from the North Devon Coast, perfect for rainy summer holidays, while his Chants for Socialists adapts William Morris with warm fuzzy guitars and dented brass — "songs of hope to comfort aging lefties." Barrelly Ego offers a campy, grungy take on doomscrolling and FOMO, and som som pulls you from the gutter with lo-fi noise-pop bliss.