Some English-speaking folks tend to shy away from songs written in another language, but The Mono Jacks could be your […]
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Candi Carpenter’s single ‘Exorcist’ is an acoustic storytelling masterpiece. There’s much to unpack in this single, but let’s start with […]
Bleach Lab hail from Buckinghamshire originally, though I believe they are now based in South London. However, they have a […]
Arriving on January 6th, Contact is the second long-player from Engines Made From Soup, following up on their 2020 release, […]
Plenty was going on in 2022, and the highlights are all so bright they are easy to pick out. Here’s […]
Throat released Knievel is Evil all the way back in 2002 and what a debut album this was. We’ve dusted […]
Skáld create music based on Norse texts, re-imagined as atmospheric songs with high contrast in the vocals. They often sing […]
Now More Than Ever (stylised as N>E) draw from echoes of Aldous Huxley in their name choice, though it could […]
What the hell has happened here? We thought we’d got Old Neon’s number, but ‘Jump Start’ is full of surprises. […]
There are many routes back to the giant Cawr-Madog, but it matters not whether you get there via Geoffrey of […]
Atlanta power-trio Loud Humans give us an interesting and well-crafted set of songs in their EP See, lioning. At times […]
What a smouldering slice of Americana we have here, a plate of intricately wonderful instrumentation upon which Sara Jean Kelley’s […]
With a melancholic theme, ably enhanced by a piano (shortly to be joined by the full orchestra), Martyn Collins delivers […]
Cassyette’s latest release is a twenty-five-minute long player that gives us a mix of past singles and some new songs […]
Masters of sonically dissonant chops and experimental doomy tones, Just Mustard are on form with ‘Blue Chalk’. Haunting and powerful, […]
Bringing smooth shimmer that mixes acoustic instruments with sparky synths and soft vocals, Cavetown’s long-player, Worm Food, fits snugly into […]
Three months is a long time in terms of listening to music. As much as the weather changes, so does […]
With three really great albums behind them, Asylums are perhaps a little greedy to release yet another long player of […]
Bitters have a knack for a slow-driving rock sound, backed with rich synths and propelled by Claudia Mills’ vocals. Their […]
The keyboards draw you straight into the Foals-esque indie disco of Rachel Chinouriri’s latest single. ‘I’m Not Perfect (But I’m […]
A band, especially newer ones, should have a website to make it easier for new listeners and fans to find them because […]
Woven into the very fabric of the punk movement, the musical arc of Siouxsie and The Banshees is a jaw-dropping […]
Jimmy Eat World return after their tour to give us the follow-up to ‘Something Loud’. For ‘Place Your Debts’, they […]
Flying on screen like Nyan cat and sounding like Passenger crossed with Owl City, Cavetown’s new single ‘1994’ is a […]