Thumping, carefree synth-pop from Amsterdam-based Pip Blom. We’re looking forward to being back in The Lantern, a beautiful, recently renovated space within the Bristol Beacon, which last hosted music back in 2018. This one is going to be special for sure.

Amsterdam-based collective Personal Trainer sound like your favorite indie-rock tracks mashed with big-hearted pop. Joining them are playful pop-punkers Pom Poko, whose sugary, experimental, math-rock-influenced songcraft has received nominations for both the Nordic Music Prize & Norweigan Grammys.

Dublin’s MELTS announce the release of their second album ‘Field Theory’ (pre-order here) and share lead single and album-opener ‘Figment’. Recorded live to tape in Black Mountain Studios in summer 2023 and produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, the album is set for release April 12th via cult indie label Fuzz Club (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Jesus And Mary Chain).

The emotive, cinematic break-beat trio are back, playing music from their exhilarating new album along with songs from their luminous back catalogue. Bursting with the optimism of new beginnings, with a new drummer, a new record label and a subtly updated and developed sound, the band are ushering in a more sonically liberated era.

Snippets of conversations, bird calls, and the clicking of a stove burner trying to ignite, are just a few of the field recordings that San Antonio-based sound artist claire rousay weaves together in her sprawling, meditative music. A composer of “emo ambient” sounds, rousay has released over a dozen projects since 2017, created a Sunday Mix for Crack Magazine in 2021, and toured her cinematic sonic poems internationally.

Simple Things is proud to present METZ live at Strange Brew this November. ‘So it is with METZ, a band once known for blowing out eardrums with songs of joyous rage who have, over their past few records, begun exploring ways to turn abrasiveness into atmospherics, the evolution of their sound not only a reflection of the maturing of the band themselves but also of a changed world that demands nuance and compassion to comprehend and to survive.’