THIS MORNING WE ARE ASTRONAUTS BY GARDEN OF ELKS

"We are a rock band from Scotland".

More than that, Garden Of Elks are a rock band featuring former members of PAWS, Lady North and Bronto Skylift and they churn out some pretty meaty stuff, laced with reverb and energy. Thrash-pop, they call it.
The debut album came out a week ago and is titled A Distorted Sigh and from it, this is a bloody good track.

Welcome to Song, by Toad's MAGIC BEANZ! This is a wee sampler of six new band's we'll be working with this year - a complete rejuvenation of the label, in many ways. We'll be releasing stuff by our more established collaborators of course, but 2015 will be dominated by the new people. In February we have Le Thug's six-song vinyl EP 'Place Is' - electronic-infused shoegaze with gorgeous, dreamy vocals. Then in April the debut album by Garden of Elks, called 'A Distorted Sigh', which is all short, sharp, punchy as fuck indie rock songs. Picking the singles from this was a bit of a challenge as they're pretty much all singles. Ian Turnbull from Broken Records has his own album coming out too - a beautiful collection of instrumental drone and detail, out as limited run vinyl under the name of digitalanalogue in March. Then in May we have Greco-Portuguese newcomers Numbers Are Futile, whose hypnotic, percussive album of thrumming electronica is called 'Sunlight on Black Horizon'. We're still waiting on a final mix, so we don't have a release date, but either early Summer or mid-Autumn will see Edinburgh's sludgey, shoegazey indie rockers Plastic Animals release their debut album 'Pictures From the Blackout'. And finally, in February we'll be recording some more stuff with Passion Pusher, whose Couch King EP we released in November 2014 on cassette. So 2015 will be all about the new kids at Song, by Toad, but don't worry, Adam Stafford has a new record on the way, we have a Split 10" with Rob St. John and Woodpigeon and Meursault have disintegrated and been re-born again as Supermoon, and Jonnie Common has all sorts of ideas too, so we won't be unrecognisable, just with a youthful spring in our collective step. Enjoy, and have a fantastic New Year yourselves. Cheers, Matthew

The album is out now on Song, by Toad Records. I'd go get it if I were you. And they're on the Twitter @gardenofelks