I’m back with a new (gar)batch of music but this time, I’ve decided to leave the team out because they’ve been mostly either pulling sickies or going on holidays.
It’s not often you hit play on a song and immediately imagine it being performed alongside the legendary Jools Holland […]
Royal & the Serpent lands at the heavier end of edgy pop-punk, close to the crossover with metalcore. The sweet […]
Aided and abetted by Ethan Ross, the heavy-hitting ‘Do Or Die’ with scratching, synth, MC-ing, and viscerally emotional vocals is […]
Taken from forthcoming long-player, The Price of Progress, ‘Sideways Skull’ is a great fuzzy slice of Minnesota’s alt-rock legends, The […]
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This is an instant classic from Stand Atlantic. ‘kill[h]er’ chugs, splashes, and rocks its way straight onto my playlist with […]
Matt Pless delivers a folk-country song with warm-hearted cheeky humour in ‘Thirst Trap (Smash Your Like Button)’. It all starts […]
Released two weeks apart, Martyn J Collins has given us two distinctive songs. Let’s start with the most recent of […]
Rachel Chinouriri has an amazing voice, and ‘Maybe I’m Lonely’ is a great demonstration. This song vibrates with shimmering emotion, […]
Every time Magnolia Park surfaces on our playlist, we talk about how great they are. Baku’s Revenge is their second […]
Twenty-five years after his debut album, James Tristan Redding has lived through panic attacks, Lyme disease, Covid, salmonella, a breakup, […]
Starting with a solid EMO riff, Old Neon’s latest single, ‘Autum’, morphs into a fast-paced nod to punk revival. In […]
Die So Fluid are gradually working their way towards an EP or album, and ‘We Are The Virus’ is the […]
Some English-speaking folks tend to shy away from songs written in another language, but The Mono Jacks could be your […]
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 […]