Symbol Soup (known to family and friends as Michael Rea) has shared ‘Miniatures’ via Sad Club Records. With themes of detachment at its core, the song finds Michael looking at his own life as if it were a miniature model world. This feeling of being out of control is delivered against a crescendo of guitars…
Friendship, friends of MJ Lenderman and Wednesday, have shared ‘Resident Evil’ ahead of the release of more new material in the near future. Written while crashing at MJ and Karly Hartzman’s home in summer 2023, the song is an introspective piece of anthemic alt-folk with plenty of self-deprecation about where life takes you – despite…
Inspired by former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s infamous interview where he claimed to know what poverty was like because he grew up with no Sky TV (join the club), Those Fucking Snowflakes return with the appropriately titled ‘No Sky for Rishi’. A singalong, old-school punk anthem with gonzo drumming, stop-start riffs and witty lyrics explaining…
Militarie Gun have collaborated with Dazy again on new single ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’. It follows the the joint release of ‘Pressure Cooker’ in 2022. Focusing on ‘the bigger they are, the harder they fall’ mantra, the song is packed with danceable beats, slacker hooks and a touch of Guided by Voices-meets-Cake wit and…
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…
Exeter’s Soot Sprite have shared new single ‘Vicious Cycles’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon’ via Specialist Subject Records on 16 May, 2025. A reflective and slow-burning piece with gothic atmospherics that bring to mind Anna Calvi or Hovvdy – but with the edgier emo stylings of Sweet…
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…
HLLLYH (formerly the Mae Shi) have shared their debut song ‘Dead Clade’. Following 2008’s cult classic ‘HLLLYH’ album, the Mae Shi went dark… Leaving an incredible legacy but fans wondering what had happened. In 2022, Mae Shi founding member Tim Byron decided to get the band back together and record one last album. This ending…
New York City’s indie-rockers Slow Fiction have shared ‘When’ as part of the Speedy Wunderground Speedy Singles series. The song, which opens with some ferocious drumming that partly recalls The Walkmen’s ‘The Rat’, is a captivating and intense piece of power pop about trying to stay positive in the midst of adversity and disillusionment: ‘There…
Jo Bartlett has shared the video for her synth protest song ‘These Simple Things’. A timely piece that comes just two weeks after the release of ‘Time and Time and Again’, the song finds Jo talking about how everything is ‘fucked up with all these things’ and how ‘the billionaires are stealing from our hands’…
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