The Cords are a new indiepop duo from Scotland, comprising sisters Eva and Grace Tedeschi. They started playing drums when they were little kids. They found that they liked 80s and 90s indie music more than their peers did, and so formed a band, just the two of them, with Grace on drums and Eva on guitar – and the songs started to flow. With only a cassette and a flexi single (Bo’s New Haircut / Rather Not Stay) released so far (both of which sold out in a matter of hours), Eva and Grace honed their skills by playing a whole series of gigs with some of the biggest names in Scottish pop.  Their first show was with The Vaselines, and since then they have played with Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, BMX Bandits and others, while also sharing stages with the new generation of indiepop stars: the Umbrellas, Chime School, Lightheaded. The Cords were invited to record a session for Riley and Coe on 6 Music on the back of their early releases, and have now recorded their eagerly-awaited debut album, which will be co-released by Skep Wax (in the UK and Europe) and Slumberland Records (in America).  Fabulist is out today and it’s the first single taken from the debut album.
Enjoy the sound of Glasgow in the summer!

The Slow Summits are a quartet (from Linköping, Sweden) of more or less fagged out dreamers from Sweden, whose melodic and jangly indie pop is inspired by bands like The Go-Betweens, Orange Juice, Felt, McCarthy, Housemartins, Prefab Sprout and Dexy’s Midnight Runners. “We write songs in the key of midlife crises, that can accompany the pathologies of everyday life. Hopefully the songs can make you smile and nod in recognition, or clench your fist, or even shed a tear. At best, they make you dance like crazy. The lyrics may seem judgmental, sung from the backs of high horses, heckling in a way that would make Statler and Waldorf blush, but the barb is directed at the band members themselves as much as anyone else.” The Band is composed by Anders Nyberg (Vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion), Mattias Holmqvist Larsson (Bass, choir, percussion), Karl Sunnermalm (Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, piano, keyboards, choir vocals) and Fredrik Svensson (Drums). After a wonderful debut e.p. out in 2019, Languid Belles, (on two of the songs Amelia Fletcher does some stunning backing vocals), some jangly pop songs (Safe And Sorry, Not The One, (Just Another) Holy Night and Time’s On Your Side), a 7” single, Budge/ Then Again on the French label Too Good To Be True in 2022, another song, Oh Me Oh My in 2023, and Yore Songs, a compilation album on Subjangle out in May 2025, the band will have Every Intention, its debut album, out tomorrow, 4th of July, again on Subjangle. Today we are excited to share with you Not That Hard, a second single from the album, as an exclusive premiere here on TRISTE©.

After spending the best part of 15 years living and getting slightly lost in Berlin, Germany, Lukas Creswell-Rost decided it was time to come home. That being Yorkshire, England. Born in Leeds in the mid-eighties, he now spends his time driving up and down the A1, playing guitar with various projects, and trying to form his ideas into slightly over ambitious songs. After two records, Go Dream in 2014 and Gone Dreamin’ in 2018 (a reimagined version of his previous album), his latest batch have been a while in the making, but the densely layered songs now emerge to form the album Weight Away. Most of the songs were written when he lived in Berlin, but weren’t able to be finished until he moved back to the UK. Having tested them out and about at various gigs in Berlin, he recorded the bare bones of many of the tracks live to four track cassette machine with just voice and guitar. Then one of the key components came from long term drumming collaborator and friend, James Yates (epic45, Majetone) whose drums make a notable appearance on pretty much every track. Some songs began as sessions they played live together, which Lukas took away and moulded into the song’s form later on, and some were sent back and forth. A few other friends helped complete the picture, with Danny Laycock on some bass/fretless bass and his wife Emaline Delapaix lending backing vocals. Weight Away that will be out next Friday July 4th on Wayside & Woodland Records, but today we are honoured to have More Jam Than Bread, a third single from the album, as an exclusive premiere here on TRISTE©.