Essential Music Playlist (6/6/26)
Hi there, here’s another wonderful week of song recommendations for you below that also feature on our much longer Essential Music Playlist (see Spotify link) 3 hours of new tunes! So, here’s a curated...
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Cutscene announce debut EP and share urgent new single
Manchester-based four-piece Cutscene have unveiled their latest single, “Shrine (Give Me A Chance)”, alongside details of their debut EP A Piece Of Life, due for release on July 10 via Heist or Hit. The track...
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Best New Music (30/5/26)
Yes there’s another jam packed week of song recommendations for you below and on our longer playlist (see Spotify link) So here’s a curated roundup of what we think are the best new releases worth...
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Best New Music (22/5/26)
We’ve got another packed week of new songs for you with a strong lean toward crossover sounds. Guitars are still here, but they’re colliding with club textures, industrial edges and global influences more than...
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THEATRE mine more hazy pop gold on “You Are”
Only two releases in and Limerick five-piece THEATRE already sound so effortlessly cool and assured, their latest track “You Are” adds another compelling piece of evidence that they’re here for the long haul and only just,...
Mouth Ulcers continue their rise with expansive new single “Space”
London goth revivalists Mouth Ulcers have shared their gripping new single “Space”, the latest preview of their forthcoming debut EP Silent Pictures, arriving July 10 via LAB Records. Emerging from the capital’s shadowy corners the...
Is Boards of Canada’s “Inferno” the soundtrack of the end times we deserve?
For decades, Scottish brothers Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison, of course much better known as Boards of Canada, have occupied a strange and sacred space in electronic music. Their sounds are perhaps too emotionally...
Patrick Wolf unleashes a defiant new single, “The Beast”
Patrick Wolf has returned with thunderous and dramatic (of course) new single ‘The Beast.’ Arriving ahead of his extensive US tour this June, the track blends baroque instrumentation with the icy electronic pulse that...
mmj goes solo with sweetly haunting single “nobody knows”
Megan James, better known as one half of Purity Ring, has embarked on a new solo project. The vocalist and songwriter has now unveiled mmj with the release of her first single, ‘Nobody Knows’....
Westside Cowboy announce debut album “It Goes On” and drop new single “Kick Stones (The Boys)”
Manchester quartet Westside Cowboy have finally confirmed details of their long-awaited debut album It Goes On, landing August 21 via Island Records — and they’re kicking things off with the release of towering new single “Kick Stones (The Boys)”...
Chloe Slater turns doubt and insecurity into indie gold on “Ugly”
Vulnerability rarely sounds this sharp. On new single “Ugly”, alt-pop firestarter Chloe Slater takes the kind of thoughts most people bury in the group chat and blasts them through a speaker stack with fearless precision....
Cutscene release taut single “Concrete Line”
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...
Mouth Ulcers get darker on “Closer To You”
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...
Alphabet dial up the tension on new single “Pressure”
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...
New German Cinema shares bewitching new single “Eyes”
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,...
