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 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…
Night Swimming have announced they’ve signed to Venn Records and shares new single ‘Submarine’, a deeply emotional three minutes that tries to make sense of grief – and how people ‘who have experienced loss will often notice it in others’. Hauntingly beautiful with layers of shoegaze guitar hooks, there’s a fragility in lyricist Meg Jones’…
With Mark Hoppus and Matt Healy amongst their fans, The Maple State’s 2018 comeback album ‘The Things I Heard at the Party’ was a long-awaited triumph. Now, after a not-quite-as-long wait they return with the aptly titled ‘Don’t Take Forever’. ‘Winner Part II’ kicks off the album with Ben Folds-esque piano as the band sing…
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…
The Twilight Sad have made a welcome return with ‘Waiting for the Phone Call’, the band’s first new music in over five years – and it features The Cure legend Robert Smith on guitar. While the lyrics remain typically dark and despairing – ‘There’s a pain in me no one can see, gather around, come…
itoldyouiwouldeatyou have returned with ‘Wonderful Life Pt 1’, the first song to be taken from new EP ‘We Were Having Such a Nice Day’ (out on 28 November, 2025). There’s a touch of Delta Sleep in the intricate guitar work and slow-burning intro before Joey Ashworth pours their heart out to help a loved one…
The Jarman brothers have shared ‘A Point Too Hard to Make’, the second single to be taken from their upcoming new album ‘Selling A Vibe’ (released on 9 January, 2026) – complete with a Stars in Their Eyes/Cabaret-esque video. The song – which the trio say is about ‘All that 2000s damage, basically’ – features…
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