With a smoldering atmospheric goth alt/metal sound, The Yagas get everything right in their debut single, The Crying Room’. Distant […]
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When you first hear Cartographer, the precision of it all catches your ear first. Sonically, this band has overwhelming layers […]
Arriving with the news of a new album called Fire In Heaven, ‘Dead Roses’ provides an unexpectedly shimmering track from […]
Along with the announcement of a March 2025 release of their debut album, Hot Shock, this single from HotWax confirms […]
A new single just arrived from Belfast crunchy bubblegrungers Wynona Bleach, and ‘I Deserve That’ is one of their best […]
The Good Terms discography has been a series of precision emo tracks, so ‘Mask’ is a departure with a seriously […]
Reflecting the sadder moments of their Disintegration and Wish era, ‘A Fragile Thing’ is a wondrous and abstract story where […]
Magnolia Park bring a solid chunk of heavy melodic metal in their latest single, ‘The Void’. Yes, we used to […]
Yes, admittedly I said: ‘We might get another single or two before it lands.’ It turns out I was entirely […]
Pale Waves assaulted us with a flurry of stunning singles before giving us Smitten, so there was a risk that […]
Heroine Honey bring a grunge edge to their power rock sound in ‘Dive Doll’. The song has lots of rich […]
Cartographer are developing into something special. They always had an impressive tightness, but their sound gets sharper with every release. […]
Okay, so you probably don’t need an introduction to The Cure. If you didn’t fall in love with them in […]
This latest release from Deceits is an urgent and full-bodied post-punk/goth rock track. The bass and drums open things up, […]
Short but epic, Lastelle’s new single ‘Pine’ tops the new Exist Vol. I EP, and gives us all the huge […]
Yes! Smitten is out and we’re getting to it. In the meantime, we’re going nowhere… just for tonight! ‘Kiss Me […]
We’re just about one week out from Smitten and ‘Thinking About You’ is here to join ‘Perfume’, ‘Glasgow’, and ‘Gravity’ […]
When Die So Fluid launched their crowdfunding campaign, it was quickly apparent that people had been waiting for a new […]
You can tell when a band has something special when a new single drops and you get a butterfly of […]
The Rifles are a band who regularly invade the indie charts with their album releases, but Love Your Neighbour benefits […]
It took a while, but we can finally say the words aloud: Linkin Park is back […]
‘Bliss’ is the seventh song we’ve heard from Cartographer and it’s another powerful djent track with awesome rhythmic swish. My […]
There’s no doubt that One More Time is a special album and after a resurgent headline set at Reading Festival, […]
Fontaines D.C. delivered an absolutely extraordinary album we’ll be talking about […]