Ailbhe Reddy – ‘So Quickly, Baby’


Ailbhe Reddy has shared new single ‘So Quickly, Baby’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Kiss Big’ on 30 January, 2026 via Don Giovanni Records. Ailbhe describes ‘So Quickly, Baby’ as ‘the meltdown song, the album’s neurotic heartbeat. A tug-of-war between grace and chaos.’ Raw and honest with lines like ‘We were two strangers…

Jenny On Holiday – ‘Good Intentions’


Jenny Hollingworth, one half of Let’s Eat Grandma, has shared new single ‘Good Intentions’ ahead of the release of debut solo album ‘Quicksand Heart’ via Transgressive Records on 9 January, 2026. Jenny said: ‘I wrote Good Intentions as a reflection on challenges I’ve faced in the past and how I relate to them in the…

Hiding Places – ‘Holy Roller’


Brooklyn-based indie-rockers Hiding Places have announced they’ve signed to Keeled Scales and shared new single ‘Holy Roller’, a song that vocalist Audrey Keelin describes as having ‘happened with no planning, no ‘trying to write, a pure, detached channeling’. A bittersweet piece of math-tinged indie pop that fits somewhere between Big Thief and Broken Social Scene,…

Lime Garden – ‘Maybe Not Tonight’


Lime Garden have made a welcome return with ‘Maybe Not Tonight’, the Brighton four-piece’s first new material since 2024’s ‘One More Thing’ album. Described by the band as ‘the soundtrack to a woman on the edge of making all the wrong choices’, it’s equal parts woozy indie-pop hooks and Garbage-esque defiant art-rock, albeit with some…

Bleech 9:3 – ‘Jacky’


Following shows with Keo and Shame, Bleech 9:3 have shared their second ever single, ‘Jacky’. The now four-piece were formed when vocalist and guitarist Baz Quinlan met guitarist Sam Duffy at an AA meeting, with Baz becoming Sam’s sponsor. Combining the brilliant Brit rock of the early 2000s (think Hundred Reasons, Jetplane Landing and My…

Pebbledash – ‘Isn’t It Always’


Cork’s alt-rockers Pebbledash have shared ‘Isn’t It Always’, one of the standout tracks on recent EP ‘To Cast the Sea in Concrete’. Steeped in dark atmospherics, synth player and guitarist Cormac Donovan O’Neill says: ‘The environment in which we recorded these songs – a secluded makeshift studio minutes outside the city, but still surrounded by…

SUDS – ‘Hook Me Out’


East Anglian emo rockers SUDS have shared ‘Hook Me Out’ ahead of the release of sophomore album ‘Tell Me About Your Day Again’ via Big Scary Monsters on 21 November. They’ve also announced a tour with Exeter indie-rockers Soot Sprite for early next year. Majestic, mathy and marvellous, ‘Hook Me Out’ combines elements of slow-burning…

thistle – ‘Tied’


thistle have shared new song ‘tied’ ahead of a tour with Humour and what’s set to be a breakthrough year in 2026. This follows shows with Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Upchuck and Westside Cowboy and airplay from the likes of Steve Lamacq, Deb Grant and Nathan Shepherd. Over and done in 95 seconds, the song combines a classic…

Man/Woman/Chainsaw – ‘Only Girl’


Man/Woman/Chainsaw have shared ‘Only Girl’ to celebrate their signing to Fiction Records (The Cure, St. Vincent, The Horrors). Described by the band as their ‘playful love song’, there’s a touch of late 2010s fightpop in the blend of gorgeous violin and crunching riffs while also slotting seamlessly alongside the contemporary batch of chamber-math enthusiasts like…

Theo Bleak – ‘Megan in New York’


Theo Bleak has shared ‘Megan in New York’ ahead of the release of ‘Bargaining’ – ‘A chronological mixtape of my year through the most intense stage of grief I experienced’ – on 18 December, 2025. Against a blend of sampled drum effects and gorgeously glacial yet gothic guitar, the song chronicles a trip to New…