Combining expansive guitar with ascending bass and hushed vocals, the track slowly builds from ambient beginnings into stratospheric shoegaze. Like an ascent into the clouds above, ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ takes the listener on a journey of self reflection; allowing them to immerse themselves in sonic meditation. On the inspiration behind the name for the single, Worm School say:

‘The name ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ came from Liv’s Cornish roots. It’s named after an infamous flight of stairs in Falmouth. The slow delay on the main guitar line felt like a kind of stairway into something beyond. The whole song came together quickly, and pretty soon became a favourite to play live. We think the name ties together the different parts of the Worm School sound – soft and fragile but also epic and atmospheric.’

On the lyrics of Jacob’s Ladder, Worm School say:

‘The idea was that the words are being whispered to you by a mindfulness app, with a kind of predatory sympathy. Like most of our songs, the lyrics evolved gradually after mumbling some random phrases into the mic and feeling our way through it. The song originally had two verses – the second verse’s lyrics were written the day before we went into the recording studio – but we edited it down after agreeing that the world might not be ready for nine minutes’ worth of Worm School heaven, just yet..’

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Five years in the making, new album ‘Dreams Along The Shore’ is principally about memory. Taking the beaches of Archie’s childhood as a steady constant, the 11-track set explores relationships that have drifted, people that have grown apart. It expresses both a longing to return to the past, and an acceptance of what’s changed, all told via the dreamy stylings of dark post punk, melodic dream pop, and ambient beauty.

The second half of the tracklisting follows Newquay beaches along the coastline; an ambitious way to represent the time spent walking across them as a child. The song ‘Towan’ emerged after a night swim in the bay with childhood friends.

“It felt like a special moment when it was happening; lying in the black water looking up at the stars. The track is about feeling existentially lost but finding meaning in the moments that happen with the people you love. It’s about trying to let go of some grand meaning to your life and just enjoying each day as it happens.”

Elsewhere, Archie leans deep into his love of experimental production. ‘Cheaper Than Polaroids’ is a standout, built around intricate tape loops that stretch across rooms, slide over mic stands and degrade beautifully in real time. Using a bank of borrowed tape machines, Archie created and mixed the haunting loops live, manipulating the textures into a drifting, ghostly backdrop that connects this track to the next. Across the album, sounds from real places filter in. Field recordings from Brighton, captured and looped across tape, form the backbone of ‘Across The City’, a track that feels both rooted and surreal.

“I liked the idea of building a soundscape from where I actually live – every bus stop, bit of traffic, or bird call felt like it belonged in the record. Recordings of the sea from across the UK made their way onto the album.”

‘Great Western’, another of the coastline tracks, blends droning guitars with lyrics about long-distance friendships and the difficulty of staying close to people over time. Archie pulled in drummer James Devine best known for work with Brighton’s New // Improved, Shady Baby, and Arcadia Residential – after meeting him while producing for local punk band Slimy Bench.

Most of the album was self-produced, mixed, mastered and recorded by Archie Sagers; ‘Tolcarne’, ‘Fistral’ and ‘Crantock’ feature production from Matthew Gleeson (Welly). This gave Archie complete creative control from writing to production and mastering to make exactly what he was working towards.

“Working to my own deadline gave me the opportunity to create something really ambitious mixing ambient experimentation with dream pop songwriting. It let me create something that captured my experience of moving away from home, living in a city, finding new friends and losing old ones. I started working on the album 5 years ago and I’m a completely different person to who I was then – the record has grown with me as well and now it’s time to let it go.”

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Everytime I look out that window
I think about flying through it
How long would it take
To know that I’m away from here

Sat above the tensing shoreline
With the wind shining bright
Your eyes held in mine
I couldn’t leave if I, tried

Everytime I look for your face
I become lost in the week
Feels like an endless chase
To make me more complete

Sat above the tensing shoreline
Winter sun in my eyes
The sky is held in me
I couldn’t leave if I tried

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Featuring bedroom production and mixing in Sussex Studio A, ‘Columbus’ combines intimate recording with a polished mix. The track’s more stripped back arrangement allows for space to breathe between the layered bass guitar and other instruments. Chorus laden bass VI underpins the driving rhythm as further instrumentation is slowly added.

Lyrically, the track delves into the feeling of uncertainty in your early twenties; the contrast of being a fully grown adult yet never feeling more confused and daunted by the world before you. On the inspiration for the new single Archie says:

‘I wrote Columbus when I felt my most aimless. I was working as a chef in a restaurant where all the other staff were in their teens. Without any clear purpose or future plans for jobs or careers, I felt down and wanted to go away and magically find some purpose. Columbus was an exploration in running away across the sea. The track takes its name from the Kogonada film where the main character is struggling to leave the town and make something with her life – I really connected to the film’s beautiful visuals and subtle storytelling and it was a big inspiration for the music video.’

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Produced by Matthew Gleeson (of Welly) and recorded in a marathon session at Sussex Studio A, this new single finds Archie leaning into the heavier side of his sound with a tight-knit lock groove undercutting the second half of the song. Inspired by dreams of the beach from his childhood, gloomy and deserted, the track utilises darker instrumentation to convey the eerie atmosphere.

On this new single Archie says:
‘Fistral is named after the UK’s premier surfing beach in Newquay (Cornwall) where I spent a lot of time with my family when growing up. I found myself returning in dreams to the beach at night and on my own. I wrote the song inspired by those dreams and that strange haunting feeling of returning to a place from your past that has forever changed. That unnerving feeling inspired the darker and heavier instrumentation; I tried to capture that effect with the bass VI arpeggio that starts the song. In reality the beach is much the same as ever, but I no longer feel as connected to it – more like a tourist in somewhere I used to belong.’

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Archie Sagers – Vocals and Additional Instruments
Matthew Gleeson – Saxophone and Production
Luke J Barret – Bass
Noah Bramley (Ahno) – Guitar
James Ely (ladylike) – Drums
Jasmine Merriman – Backing Vocals

“Tolcarne takes its name from a beach in Cornwall where I spent a lot of summers having picnics with my grandparents, surfing with friends and walking late at night. As I’ve grown and taken different friends and family there, the beach has remained a constant. It means a great deal to me and it’s somewhere I’m not able to visit as often as I’d like anymore. The song ‘Tolcarne’ aims to express these memories and a longing to go back whilst simultaneously showing appreciation for what’s changed.”

“The track was produced by Matthew Gleeson (of Welly) and he really added an extra layer to the original track. The recording process was a lot of fun: we agonised over getting the perfect piano sounds and layering the composition over itself to mimic Steve Reich and we spent time replicating a ‘Smashing Pumpkins-esc’ distortion tone. Matt’s saxophone contributions may not be easily audible, but they add so much to the mix. The decision to get him to produce and mix the track was both because I admired his work and also because I knew we’d become friends in the process”

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Following his self-produced 2021 EP ‘New Colours In The Sky’, co-released by Spirit Goth (CASTLEBEAT, Vansire) and his own indie label Crafting Room Recordings (ELLiS D, Ideal Living, Maximilian), Archie has been working to reinvent himself with a new body of work. ‘Silver Lake’ is the first dreamy offering from that refined selection.

Utilising a six string bass playing chords to start the song, (something he has also been known to do when playing bass with ladylike) Archie combines elements of shoegaze and new wave to create the sparkling foundation of ‘Silver Lake’. On this new single Archie says:

‘I wrote Silver Lake just before moving in with my partner and it’s perhaps the sappiest love song I’ve written. It’s based on the simple idea of creating a place that belongs to both of you – whether that’s a physical space like an apartment or the space you have for eachother, that feeling of comfort when you think of them. It’s about how a person can make you feel as if there is no past or future without them, everything you need is right here.”

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Archie, the track also features his partner Jasmine on backing vocals. Scott Alex Robinson (SPIKEMYHEART, Ahno) also contributes to the track, lending their jazzy drumming technique to the rhythm section.

Drums – Scott Alex Robinson
Backing Vocals – Jasmine Merriman

Written, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Archie Sagers
Art by Archie Sagers

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Maximilian has been a steady force in Brighton’s scene since 2021, cultivating a fanbase that proudly sing along with their favourite songs. Blending raw 90s alt textures with introspective, minimalist songwriting, his sound sits somewhere between Elliott Smith and Big Thief.

Produced by Bobby Smyth and mixed by Yuri Shibuichi (Honeyglaze, Tapir!, Mary in the Junkyard), ‘Long Time Gone’ features a weaving narrative structure that gracefully rises and builds into waves of emotive melodies.

On ‘Long Time Gone’ Maximilian says:

“This song is quite experimental for me. It’s long and strange structure differs a lot from most songs I’ve written previously. Using synths and a harmonica for the first time was really fun and feels very new. I’m really proud to say I played every instrument on this recording. It’s something I used to try and do, but would always wind up banging my head against the wall in frustration, and I found recording with friends more fun than that, so I stopped. So now, this is my little magnum opus. I’ve had the song for a while, it’s very symbolic to a pivotal time in my life, and it’s really turned out well. I can’t wait to share it.”

Lyrics:

Sat beneath the dying sun
in a lonesome world.
Here she comes and there she goes
now I’m all alone.
And It’s a shame that I went there at all.
I don’t know what you’re hanging around for.

Somewhere, somehow
for such a long time
I was out of my mind.
Love me, leave me
It’s so contrived
and it was all one time.
There in the long run
wading through the long easy nights

I don’t know what you’re hanging around for,
disappearing in the dead of the night.
Some things change just like the weather does.

Wearys not the word i’d use anymore
No
Wearys not the word i’d use anymore
No
Wearys not the word i’d use anymore
No
Wearys not the word i’d use anymore
No

Tell me you’ll wait for me when I get back to where I belong.

Such a long time gone,
a long time.
Such a long time gone,
a long time.
Such a long time gone,
a long time.
Such a long time gone,
a long time.
Such a long time gone,
a long time.
Such a long time gone,
a long time.
Such a long time gone.

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Produced by Ben Hampson (Lambrini Girls, Ditz), The 4-track EP serves up a bona fide indie-opera of booming orchestrations and architected storytelling. To be accompanied by a short film and frontman Billy Marsh’s full length debut novel of the same name. The EP explores the power of relationships in helping to understand the human experiences within the confusions of modernity, and how to cope once these relationships are lost.

Defined by their high-stakes rock ensemble of woodwind, strings and brass – and drawing inspirations from sources as varied as Nick Cave, Classic FM, and John Williams cult 60s novel Stoner, Ideal Living are evidently not one to shy away from ambitious concepts. Following radio/press support from BBC Radio 6Music (Huw Stephens, New Music Fix), Radio X (John Kennedy), So Young, DIY, Far Out and Backseat Mafia, as well as live dates with The Murder Capital, Egyptian Blue, Opus Kink and The New Eves, heralding the EP’s release is the Dexys-esque blue-eyed soul manoeuvres of new single ‘March’.

Offering more on the EP as a whole, Billy explains: I view Ideal Living as a big orchestra. like when there’s a play on stage and the band is right there in the pit, bringing the story to life through sound. We’ve always tried to approach the music as something quite theatrical and big, always willing to jump between genres and styles. So it made sense to write something that’s a complete story, an indie-opera, if you will….

Released March 7, 2025

Billy Marsh – Lead Vocals/Baritone Guitar
Austin Prichard – Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals
Jamie Broughton – Trumpet/Drums/Samples
Alyx Ashton – Bass/Backing Vocals
Miles Goodall – Keys/Backing Vocals
Freddie J Watts – Saxophone
Bertie Beer – Drums

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Written and recorded entirely by ELLiS·D himself (aka Ellis Dickson) at Hackney Road studios with Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Jenny Beth), Spill serves up a seven song jetstream of rocket-fuelled, goth-tinged glam-punk, infested with 21st century paranoia.

“The Spill EP is a not so subtle expression of conflict between personality and character. “An uneasy alliance of nervous apprehension and joyful abandon. Throwing myself dramatically onto the funeral pyre one moment, only to get up and frantically twist my limbs about the next.”

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