The New Cue #440 November 15: Divorce, Hard-Fi, Ider, Squid, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mount Eerie, Nadia Reid, Beirut, bdrmm

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In today’s Recommender edition, Ted and Niall pick their favourite new music of the week and Hard-Fi’s Richard Archer takes on our Release Valve queries. His answers are Hard To Beat. Hard To Beat! Get it? Classic. Actually, at the time of writing this intro, his answers haven’t arrived so they might be rubbish but even if they are rubbish we’ll still pretend they are hard to beat, we’re not marketing geniuses for nothing.

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Recommender Pt. 1

Niall Doherty

The Nottingham quartet DIVORCE like to stylise their name in caps but their new single is much more of a lower case vibe. Their last song, the brilliant All My Freaks, was a yearning indie-pop epic that sounded like The Sundays going all Friday night, 9pm. Antarctica, released this week, is a lot more first thing Monday morning, all hushed Elliott Smith-style vocals and Americana-ish strums set against what sounds like the drum machine from The Strokes’ Hard To Explain about to break down. Or maybe it’s me that’s about to break down. Either way, lovely stuff.