West-London fourpiece Joy Room announced themselves back in September with the track ‘Late At Night’, which has since clocked up over 500,000 streams on Spotify, receiving support from Huw Stephens and Phil Taggart at Radio 1 and an Evening Playlist addition at Radio X.

‘What’s Your Number?’ / ‘Down’ is the follow-up release from the band. ‘What’s Your Number?’ is destructively raw yet instantly addictive and b-side ‘Down’ is a cathartic release, colliding and bouncing between reveries, guitars hooks and reality. Both songs were produced by Duncan Mills (The Vaccines, Malcolm McLaren) and mixed by Chris Sheldon (Pixies, Foo Fighters).

The band say; “With ‘What’s Your Number’, we wanted it to feel like a boxing match. Once you enter the fight, all roads lead to the solo - the take off. Lyrically it's an inner monologue, the chorus contradicts the verses. I wanted it to be uncertain, like what happens in my head when I try and make decisions, constantly going back and forth until in the end actions - or the solo - speak louder than words.”

Joy Room have recently supported Sundara Karma and are touring with The Sherlocks and The Bay Rays this month and playing at Live At Leeds in April, with their own headline shows announced soon.

Listen to ‘What’s Your Number?’ here [https://soundcloud.com/joyroommusic/whats-your-number]

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Practice is the alternative pop artist from London that doesn’t want to be disposable. He’s in it for the long run and is working like a dog to gain musical longevity and critical success. He wants you not to sift through songs but to invest time and belief in artists again. He will not follow the party line. He will not be owned. Instead, he wants to be heard. To be eternally thought-provoking. And to be outspoken in the subtlest of ways.

His debut album View-Master is out on May 26 and centres on various themes: the fluoridisation of American waters, the sentencing of Chelsea Manning, Snowden and the censorship of governments. It definitely has an American slant in its outlook and content. The concept of political affiliation, the profiteering from Saudi Oil, child vaccinations scandals, the tyranny and hypocrisy of governments and officials, the division of wealth and the 1%. Taking inspiration from Scott Walker, Elliott Smith, Bjork, Mew and Phil Collins, View-Master is an amalgam of tangential electropop oeuvres, energetically set for the melancholic, contorted dancehall.

The recording process took just under a year, with various sessions in houses in Dalston, Croydon and Berkhamsted. With angry neighbours amassing, he took to wearing headphones and focusing on the best synth pop sounds he could find. A labour of love at every turn, Practice hand-crafted each melody and lyric as well as self-producing and self-financing.