London to Stockholm to Dublin to Whitechapel: four indie rock acts with very different reference points, all of them making music that earns its place in the room. Let’s jump right in🤿 Monday’s Monsoon – Something New Monday’s Monsoon have made something genuinely excellent with “Something New”: a…
Melbourne meets Sydney in a debut remix that turns personal confusion into a fully realised electronic pop statement, and lands like it has been waiting four years to drop. We ❤️🔥 this. Nicosongs – Insane (sb90 Remix) Nicosongs and producer sb90 have made something brilliant here: a debut…
Four artists, four cities, one shared obsession: the feeling underneath the music matters more than the music itself. This week’s dream pop picks are worth your full attention. Agnes Fred – After Death “After Death” is a stunning piece of Brussels dream pop and shoegaze: fragile, slow, and…
Six-minute hallucinations, nursery-rhyme unreliable narrators, a debut recorded in Lizzy McAlpine’s studio, and an acoustic version dropped on Earth Day: this week’s indie pop arrivals are doing the most, in the best possible way. Jean Noir – Long For This World Jean Noir’s “Long For This World” is…
From Tel Aviv to Cape Town via Birmingham and Exeter, this week’s five rock acts share one thing: a whole lot of conviction. So let’s dive right in, while the amplifiers are hot ❤️🔥 fistpump! – Toyota Hellfire fistpump! deliver a superb debut: Midwest emo tension and release…
Five pop tracks with something driving them beyond the chorus: a cathartic final line, a Deptford dance floor with a point to make, a theatre ballad that earns its tears, and two artists betting everything on the strength of a feeling. Project Rod Williams – So Over You…
Five acts, five bangers, five flavours of guitar-driven indie: Paris soul-funk energy, West London DIY grit, Ottawa dream-pop drift, Ayr anthemic Britpop, and Chicago lo-fi electronica. Not a combination you hear all the time, right? But all worth your time. The Hypnotiks (featuring Wolfgang Valbrun) – Stone Cold…
Two pop rock tracks from opposite ends of the process spectrum. various, an AI-assisted single from St. Louis with a Taylor Swift heart. Rosso Tierney’s Oh Divine, composed on a King’s Cross Station piano during a spiritual awakening. Different roads, same genre. Joe Kandel – I still believe…