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On their striking new single “Concrete Line,” their debut since signing to label Heist or Hit, Manchester based foursome Cutscene prove themselves adept cartographers, mapping out an emotional terrain that feels both suffocatingly familiar and...
Dublin trio DIVIL tap directly into an electric buzz of reality and personal history with this, their debut single. “Thanks A Million” arrives lived-in, carried on the weight of many shared years and experiences...
There’s a certain kind of debut that feels less like a shout for attention and more like a quiet arrival. “The Fall,” the first single from Limerick five-piece THEATRE, lands squarely in that rare...
If Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine had a baby today, you’d fully expect the resulting offspring to sound like thistle. Merging the combined gene pools of slacker alt-rock and blinding shoegaze noises into...
London-by-way-of-Brighton four-piece Alphabet return next week with “Pressure,” a striking new single that sharpens their growing reputation for emotional intensity wrapped in immersive sound design. Due for release on April 8, the track captures...
There’s a quiet confidence to Jessica Weiss stepping out alone. As the voice and songwriter behind Fear of Men, she’s long dealt in emotional precision, but under the moniker New German Cinema, that instinct sharpens into something colder,...
London four piece and goth rock relative newcomers Mouth Ulcers recently announced their debut EP “Silent Pictures”, due for release via LAB Records on July 10th, and share their latest single “Closer To You” now. For anyone unfamiliar the...
Manchester’s underground rarely stays quiet for long, and Worm School are the latest to rise from its densely packed gig circuit with something worth paying attention to. Following on from the bands debut release...
Members of the Placeboworld mailing list have been teased with the promise of a special, intimate show taking place in London on 27 March. ”Something is coming” the link announces, simply and starkly. Places...
It’s almost spring in the UK. Can you feel it? After months of storms a dreariness we have have had sunlight peaking through this week. Apologies if your part of the world is still...
Leeds’ electro-noise quartet Bathing Suits have dropped an epic seven minute industrial trance track “Empathy”, the first release on newly established Underplay Recordings. There’s a radio friendly three minute edit available too, but why would you deprive yourself?...
Rising indie outfit Glixen from Phoenix, AZ return with their brand new single “Unwind,” that feels like taking a deep breath after a long night out. It’s a track that captures the band leaning...
Bristol’s MOULD have long been favourites of ours and now the post-punk three piece have announced their debut album ‘Hoping As A Coping Mechanism’ and shared a brand new single “Falling Posture.” “Falling Posture” mixes cacophonous noise and rattling...
Belfast’s post-punk/electronic maestros CHALK have shared a brand new track “Tongue” ahead of their forthcoming debut album “Crystalpunk”, which is due for release on March 13th via New York headquartered label ALTER Music. Just like previous...
“Fresh Linen” arrives as a new taster of the band’s debut EP “It’s A Pleasure Of Mine, to Know You’re Fine” for label Heist or Hit. The EP drops digitally on March 13th with the physical...
Following last month’s “Honey” Canadian singer/songwriter Ora Cogan has this week dropped one of her boldest statements. “Division,” is the latest single from her eagerly awaited new album Hard Hearted Woman, and it stirs up...
Lala Lala has always sounded like an artist in motion, but with Heaven 2, Lillie West’s restless energy takes on a new clarity. The Chicago-based songwriter’s Sub Pop debut arrives February 27, and its latest...
The holiday hangover has been left behind now and the music releases keep coming with renewed vigour so here’s what we think are the best new songs and/or videos from the last seven days...
Art School Girlfriend has released “Doing Laps,” the third preview of her upcoming album Lean In, due March 11 via Fiction Records. The London-based, Wrexham-raised artist and producer, born Polly Mackey, uses the track to...
Chicago-based composer and songwriter Gia Margaret has announced a new album, Singing, due April 24 via Jagjaguwar, marking her first full vocal record since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer. To introduce it, she’s shared a quietly striking...
For more than a decade, Scattered Purgatory (破地獄) has existed in a self-made border zone: not quite drone or folk and not quite kosmiche rock. instead they’ve been something ritualistic and weathered that’s risen...