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11/11/2025

It's almost time to get rockin' around the Christmas tree, and Music City has gifted us the perfect soundtrack - "Only Home For Christmas" is an instant festive classic, with duelling guitars and a sprinkling of seasonal heartbreak.

"Only Home For Christmas" will be released digitally and as a limited flexi disc Christmas tree decoration - listen & preorder here: https://musiccity.ffm.to/onlyhomeforchristmas

Music City's frontman and songwriter, Conor Lumsden, shares: "We went all in on this one — jingle bells and jangle guitars, baritone saxes, timpani. It’s a proper Christmas song: half Phil Spector, half The Office Christmas Special. It’s the flush of happiness that comes with the acceptance of a hangover and a lean January. It’s got that classic feel — like something you’d find on a charity shop Christmas compilation and assume had always existed. It feels instantly familiar, even if you’re hearing it for the first time."

28/10/2025

WELCOME TO MUSIC CITY!

We're very excited to announce the debut album from Dublin born, London based Music City (aka Conor Lumsden of The Number Ones), whose hook-driven, punk-fired debut Welcome to Music City, will be released on 6th February 2026.

Today Music City also share new single “Common Sense” is a swaggering, hook-laden anthem featuring Tina Halladay of Sheer Mag, delivered with the passion of a 12-year-old playing guitar in the mirror: https://musiccity.ffm.to/commonsense

The album blends wry storytelling with chiming guitars, stacked harmonies, and muscular rhythm sections. “I didn’t set out with a theme or story arc, but looking back the album feels like a constant fight between hope and disappointment,” shares Lumsden. “It’s the peaks and troughs of just trying to get by, in love, against the outside forces, or the ones inside your own head.”

Welcome to Music City follows a sold-out single, the cult favourite “Pretty Feelings” (via Static Shock Records a couple of years ago), which quickly became a wedding-floor staple of punks the world round.

Preorders are now live: https://musiccity.ffm.to/welcometomusiccity

February Tour Dates:

Thursday 5th February - The Social, London
Friday 6th February - Delicious Clam, Sheffield
Saturday 7th February - The Rat & The Pigeon, Manchester
Sunday 8th February - Zerox, Newcastle
Saturday 14th February - Where Else, Margate
Thursday 26th February - The Grand Social, Dublin

10/09/2025

Emergence Collective - the Sheffield group of musicians creating beautiful, improvised soundscapes - return with new album Swimming in the early hours, which also marks the collective's first studio record. The album will be released on vinyl and digitally on 7th November - preorders are now live on our Bandcamp and include a special t-shirt bundle:

https://emergencecollective.ffm.to/swimmingintheearlyhours

Operating in the liminal space between classical music, jazz and folk, Swimming in the early hours sees Emergence Collective continue to develop their unique sound, gently lit with moments of serene softness and quietly hypnotic grooves.

Via a unique concoction of acoustic instruments – one that includes a Swedish nyckelharpa and hammer dulcimer – Emergence Collective create a sound where every detail and movement is emphasised and put under a microscope. Swimming in the early hours is a record that leans into moments that are quiet, slow and delicate, as well as intricate, expansive and propulsive. There are nods to pioneering minimalist composers, such as Steve Reich, but also more versatile and unpredictable reference points that have earned them praise from The Quietus, The Guardian, The Wire and Loud & Quiet.

Listen to the title track "Swimming in the early hours" online now:
https://emergencecollective.ffm.to/swimmingintheearlyhourssingle

Live:
5th October - Sensoria Festival, Sheffield

Previous praise for Emergence Collective...

“10-piece Emergence Collective stir things to life with a beautifully subtle yet hypnotic performance of stripped back instrumental minimalism.”
- The Guardian

“Dislodged from time, fragments of older and folkier traditions seep into contemporary ones in their compositions with seamless grace, ornate patterns ambling through the reverberant space they're enclosed in.”
- The Quietus

"The album unfurls in beautiful patterns, filled with a degree of subtlety, tenderness, restraint and a cohesion that belies its improvisational foundation… it’s remarkably measured and considered music given it is being birthed in real time.”
- Loud and Quiet

“Emergence Collective kick things off in earnest the following night at the cathedral. Ten improvisors circle around repeating modes, constructing seemingly archaic compositions that slot beautifully into the grand architectural setting.”
- The Wire

23/01/2025

Emergence Collective return with new album, Chapel, out 5th February digitally via Bandcamp - pre-order here: https://emergencecollective.bandcamp.com/album/chapel

The Sheffield collective - made up of a revolving line-up of the north of England’s finest improvisers - create minimalist sound worlds that gradually evolve throughout their performance, described as “beautifully subtle yet hypnotic” by The Guardian.

Chapel, the group’s latest recorded music since 2023’s Fly Tower, was captured at the Samuel Worth Chapel, a beautiful and intimate venue set in the heart of Sheffield General Cemetery. With influences including Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Max Richter and Pharoah Sanders, Chapel sees the group refine and develop their sound, creating ambient textures that blend with the atmosphere of the venue.

Watch the performance video of album opener “SWC-1” here: https://youtu.be/_59U-GUoBGs

Album art and photo by Benji Wilson.

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