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…

Alpha Male Tea Party – ‘Battle Crab’


After an extended break to concentrate on real life matters, Alpha Male Tea Party have returned with ‘Battle Crab’ – and now added vocals to their mashup of mathy riffs and gripping grooves. There’s a touch of Million Dead or Glassjaw in the aggressive nature, but also touching sensibilities around anxiety and feeling out of…

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Love Rarely – ‘Disappear’


Love Rarely have shared ‘Disappear’ ahead of shows with Sweet Pill and appearances at 2000trees and ArcTanGent Festivals. The melodically mathy song finds Courtney Levitt letting her frustrations about being made to feel shit loose with primal, raw emotion: ‘You said I should disappear’. With quieter interludes and healthy doses of screaming amidst the hardcore…

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Suds – ‘State of Everything’


Suds have shared new single ‘State of Everything’, their first new material since 2023’s debut album ‘The Great Overgrowth’. Falling between Cursive and Sweet Pill, the emo hit finds the band trying to make sense of the internal conflicts over the past couple of years that threatened to tear the band apart. With pulsating drums…

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Orchards – ‘Bicker’ album review


Brighton trio Orchards return with new album ‘Bicker’ (released on Friday 28 March via Big Scary Monsters. Full of bittersweet lyrics about love and losing it, Lucy Evers says about the album: ‘There are sad songs, happy songs, songs of ambivalence and everywhere in between on this record. But it’s back breakingly true. Every word,…

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Orchards – ‘Groan’


Orchards have shared ‘Groan’, the fourth song to be taken from upcoming album ‘Bicker’, which will be released by Big Scary Monsters on 28 March. Inspired by a therapist asking her ‘Why do you feel the need to fix this?’, Lucy Evers weaves between feelings of frustration and catharsis as she realises the only person…

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Michael Cera Palin – ‘Wisteria’


Atlanta’s emo superstars Michael Cera Palin have shared ‘Wisteria’ ahead of the release of their debut album ‘We Could Be Brave’ via Big Scary Monsters (UK) and Brain Synthesizer (US) on 7 March 2025. The song finds vocalist Elliott Brabant trying to make sense of a breakup and the emotional mess it left behind amidst…

Lambrini Girls – ‘God’s Country’


With trademark wit and anger, Lambrini Girls take aim at the state of the nation and the current political landscape in ‘God’s Country’. ‘Great Britain? Are you sure? As the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poor’. Referencing the Daily Mail, the ‘racist uncles wanting their country back’, the unfair nature of…