Single Reviews

Taken from forthcoming long-player, The Price of Progress, ‘Sideways Skull’ is a great fuzzy slice of Minnesota’s alt-rock legends, The […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Masters of sonically dissonant chops and experimental doomy tones, Just Mustard are on form with ‘Blue Chalk’. Haunting and powerful, […]

The keyboards draw you straight into the Foals-esque indie disco of Rachel Chinouriri’s latest single. ‘I’m Not Perfect (But I’m […]

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 […]

Arriving suddenly and immediately answering the question of who is wielding guitar, blink-182 have opted for bouncing classic punk revival […]

With this latest release, Willow takes us on a floaty journey with a sliding bass line as each verse communicates […]

Bringing back the grunge, but with added Britpop and power-emo, Daisy Brain are able to arrest your attention fast. This […]

With a plaintive string arrangement at the start, this might not seem like your typical Pretty Sick song, and it […]

It’s been a while since Model Citizen, so let’s not tease here, we’ll get straight down to their latest single, […]

In my opinion, the bleaker your lyrics, the more artfully they must be handled. You might be able to ghost/most/toast […]