Various Small Flames

It has become a VSF tradition to kick off the new year by reflecting on the one just gone. So here's a piece on some of the releases we didn't get a chance to cover properly in 2023. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/01/10/alb…

I'm excited to share my debut novel Communion will be released in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.

There’s four beautiful short fiction stories by @maganarama available to read on @VSmallFlames They’re written to accompany the songs on her ‘Bad News’ EP.

Lil short stories to go with the EP. These were so fun to write thanks @VSmallFlames for publishing them!

Read here: varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/02/05/mag…

With new EP Bad News out now via @audioantihero, we're sharing four pieces of fiction @maganarama wrote in response to each track.

hi everyone! after a lot of thought we have decided to end Small Albums. we've been doing this for a decade, and now the time has come to move on. THANK YOU ALL so much for all of the support and belief in what we did here! keep listening to new music forever. 🎈🐜

There’s some really nice writing about the new @heyitsfrog and @maganarama on @VSmallFlames today ❄️🐸 varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/01/28/wee…

Kicking off 2025 with a look back at 2024. Here are a few words on a whole bunch of records we enjoyed last year. Link ⬇️

Read our review here: varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/12/06/adv…

"A small town diorama in which [bad memories and old stories] can play out again, change shapes, take on lives of their own" Horrible Occurrences, the new album from Advance Base, out today on @rfcrecords & Orindal Records.

"These songs are about the unlikely connections we make, how they’re simultaneously inexplicable and meaningful" Safe Then Sorry, the debut EP from @Ciaomalz, out today on @audioantihero. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/12/06/cia…

"A collection of nine songs with dirt under their fingernails, equal parts wild and vulnerable as they reckon with the changing tides of love in all its guises" Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild by @MerceLemon varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/11/13/mer…

"Nobody asked you why you did it" Constant Follower share latest single 'Patient Has Own Supply' ahead of forthcoming album The Smile You Send Out Returns To You. youtube.com/watch?v=uiV_c4…

Endless thanks to @VSmallFlames for letting me talk my shit. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/07/25/my-…

"Not only a desire to return to the past and that which is lost, but also for something better in the future. A more beautiful world" The Beautiful World, the forthcoming album by David Allred on @ErasedTapes. varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/10/25/dav…

Read the latest here: varioussmallflames.co.uk/2024/10/28/wee…

Have you been keeping up with Weekly Listening in October? We haven't been keeping up with tweeting about it but these days it doesn't always seem worthwhile.

Thanks @VSmallFlames for this @KordaKorder review xxx