Hitchin’s queer indie rockers Brutalligators have released second album ‘Still Here’, a collection of songs about survival, identity and moving forward while grappling with complex emotions, divisive culture wars and everything else life throws at you… The title track kicks off the album in uptempo fight pop style – instantly reminding you of Martha as…
Yorkshire art-rockers Deadletter have shared ‘To the Brim’ ahead of the release of sophomore album ‘Existence is Bliss’ on 27 February, 2026 via SO Recordings. The band said: ‘To the Brim explores the experience of dealing and living with denial and the way in which it will leave you feeling incapacitated and overflowing (brimming!) with…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On his latest (ninth!) album ‘Parader’, Keaton Henson turns the guitars up but still doesn’t hide away from personal issues and ‘what it feels like to be this age and a musician’…. There’s a slow, smoky and atmospheric build-up on album opener ‘Don’t I Just’, a song that finds Keaton asking a number of rhetorical…
Hotel Lux follow up their highly acclaimed 2023 debut album ‘Hands Across the Creek’ with ‘The Bitter Cup’, a song that found them writing in a more collaborative way as they head into their mid-20s in an increasingly tumultuous world. Gentrification, inter-generational divides and battles with mental health are just some of the subjects they…
Camp Trash follow up their 2022 debut LP ‘The Long Way, The Slow Way’ with ‘Two Hundred Thousand Dollars’ – a concept record of sorts that brings together a motley crew of con men, mobsters and cult members with one thing in common: $200,000. They could be spending it, owing it or losing it… Whatever…
Self-described as ‘London prog’, The Orchestra (For Now)’s ‘Plan 76’ EP finds the seven piece attempting to ‘refine rather than complicate’ their distinctive fusion of baroque indie hooks, post hardcore breakdowns and touches of jazz. ‘Impatient’ opens the album in stop-start fashion before delving deep into the avant-garde orchestral dramatics that have served the band…
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