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,...
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...
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...
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,...
Worm School emerge with luminous new single “Cradle”
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...
Best New Music & Videos (28/2/26)
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...
“Empathy” showcases Bathing Suits’ sexy industrial trance perfectly
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?...
