james hoare

‘Backwater Collage,’ James Hoare’s solo debut as Penny Arcade, is out May 3.

“Anyone who has worked with us knows that the partnership at the core of this band has always been a very fragile thing, but due to an irreconcilable breakdown we will no longer be working with each other. ” – Jack Cooper.

UK quartet Novella released their new album Change of State earlier in February via Synderlin, which continues their trek though hazy, motorik territory. (Fans of early Stereolab and late-’80s 4AD, take note.) The band made the album in a Victorian home bedroom studio run by James Hoare of Ultimate Painting…