ELASTIC SLEEP | Slip

Elastic Sleep’s bucket list may have been realised for 2014. Not only did the Irish shoegaze/dream pop outfit receive gracious recognition from some of the biggest U.K. music media outlets this year (NME and BBC 6 Music included), but they also recently received a personal visit to one of their Dublin performances from My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm O’Ciosoig – one of the band’s biggest musical influences. Off the back of their Big Tea Record EP release, Leave You, the band close the year with one of their most chaotic and weighty tracks yet.

SILVER ARM | He Of The Slow Creep

Tipped as being one of the UK’s bands to watch in 2014 by independent music and culture magazine God Is In The TV, post-punk quartet, Silver Arm, have begun their musical insurgence with their first physical release, He Of The Slow Creep, following on from their 2013 debut. Pairing with new London-based indie label, Big Tea Records, has been a welcomed partnership as the band’s sound is at home with their current punk/rock roster of artists, including Irish shoe-gazers Elastic Sleep and Seattle punk outfit Absolute Monarchs.