The Last Dinosaur – Lonely Fans (single)

We’ve always loved the music of The Last Dinosaur, Jamie Cameron’s project known for its atmospheric, intimate, and spacious arrangements — piano, acoustic guitar, viola and strings, minimal electronics, layered vocals, and ambient textures. Comparisons to artists such as Talk Talk, Penguin Café Orchestra, and other experimental ambient-folk hybrids have always felt apt and revealing. Now, five years after the extraordinary Wholeness, his last solo album, and more than two years after Black and White Memories Ignited by the Scent of Springtime Explode in Colour — his delicate and experimental collaboration with Lila Tristram — The Last Dinosaur returns with a song that redefines everything we thought we knew about Jamie Cameron’s sound. Closer in spirit to Not Not Cool, his recent collaboration with Will Clapson, Lonely Fans is a disconcerting yet thrilling new single that pushes Cameron’s songwriting into unexpected territory — and you can preview it here. Once again, Cameron proves that restraint and experimentation can coexist, reaffirming his place among the UK’s most eclectic and innovative songwriters.

Continua a leggere

Logan Farmer – Manhattan (single)

Logan Farmer

From Fort Collins, Colorado, Logan Farmer crafts music that lingers in the quietest corners of folk — intimate, slow-moving and heavy, with atmosphere. Soft guitars, murmured vocals, and the subtle drift of ambient textures that suggest distance, memory, and decay. Farmer’s writing often turns on the small collisions between the personal and the universal, tracing how environmental and emotional fragility echo one another. After early experiments under the name Monarch Mtn., he released his debut as Logan Farmer, Still No Mother (2020), a stark, quietly urgent meditation on isolation and climate dread. A Mold for the Bell (2022) followed, refining his sound into something even more spare and cinematic, with contributions from Mary Lattimore and Joseph Shabason adding a fragile shimmer around his voice. His most recent work, the Butchers EP (2025), turns inward again, pairing field recordings and minimalist instrumentation with lyrics that read like fragments from a fading diary. Farmer’s music occupies a rare register: contemplative but unsentimental, rooted in the folk tradition yet open to drone, ambient, and experimental gestures. Each release feels like a small, self-contained world — an invitation to listen closely, and to sit with the uneasy beauty that remains when everything else has quieted down.
Nightmare World I See The Horizonhis third album, will be released by Western Vinyl on January 16th, 2026. The first single is Manhattan, which is out now. 

Continua a leggere

Fran Carlyon – Living Your Last Chance (Single)

Fran Carlyon (©Julia Chouffot)

Fran Carlyon is a songwriter from Southend-on-Sea, England, crafting quiet, home-recorded lo-fi “folk for ages”. Since beginning his musical project in 2023, Fran has shaped a sound that feels both intimate and unguarded -songs that seem to drift from a late-night room out into the wider world, blending quiet strums with gentle storytelling. Away from his recordings, he is very active in the underground independent scene, writing for HeavyMetalKids.uk and DJing at Ship Full Of Bombs, Southend’s alternative radio station. He released seven singles -including, in 2025, Ten Years (demo), Freedom (Or Control) and Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky) / Running On Emptiness – which carry a sense of calm observation, offering moments of stillness that quietly stay with you. Karina Gill (of Cindy, Hospital and Flowertown) said about him: “Fran Carlyon gives his songs space for his own meaning and for us to make our own while not depriving anyone of something pretty too.
His latest release is Living Your Last Chance, a new single written and recorded at his home between March and April and released just a few days ago. It’s the most beautiful song Fran has written so far. And since he plans to spend the winter in retreat to write more, we’re sure there’s some fantastic news to come.

Continua a leggere

Constant Follower – Happy Birthdays (video premiere)

Just a few days ago, we openly admitted our deep love for Constant Follower and their latest album.
Clearly (though we had no doubt), we’re not alone!
This morning, the news broke that Constant Follower’s album The Smile You Send Out Returns To You (released by Last Night From Glasgow in February of this year) has been longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY Award).
To celebrate this milestone, Constant Follower are releasing a new video from the album. It was directed by Martin J Pickering, and accompanies the album track Happy Birthdays.
And, perhaps because of our lifelong love for them, Constant Follower have chosen TRISTE© to present the world premiere of this amazing and moving video.
We are flattered and thrilled.

Continua a leggere

Tulpa – Let’s Make A Tulpa! (Single)

Tulpa consist of Josie Kirk (vocals, bass), Daniel Hyndman (guitar), Myles Kirk (guitar) and Mike Ainsley (Drums), and are based in Leeds. Daniel was lead guitarist and songwriter in esteemed post-punk band Mush.  Tulpa are nothing like Mush, and yet… all the energy, ambition and inventiveness of that earlier group are still here: it’s just that the creative power has been diverted into the service of a set of pop songs in love with melody. 
Tulpa are very new: yet, before even releasing this debut digital single, they attracted the attention of Marc Riley & Gideon Coe, who invited the band to record a live BBC6 Music session this summer.  Around the same time, Skep Wax Records were sent the finished album and knew they had to release it.  Meanwhile, in the creative hotbeds of the UK’s DIY festivals and indie venues Tulpa are quickly gathering a loyal following.  They have recently supported Throwing Muses, Pale Blue Eyes and Bug Club and will be playing a series of headline gigs in October and November 2025.
Let’s Make a Tulpa!, the debut single, is out today and is an upbeat crunchy pop song that explodes into a huge chorus, somewhat in a Breeders vein, that will encourage sober people to throw themselves around their living rooms. Their debut album, Monster Of The Week will be out on November 28th via Skep Wax.

Continua a leggere