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...
Author: Matt
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....
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,...
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...
“Thanks A Million” makes the personal universal on DIVIL’s debut
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...
“The Fall” announces THEATRE as a band already fully formed
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...
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...
thistle unleash searing new track “pylon”
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...
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...
