Single: Kid Sistr – Maniac
The huge chorus, with its stadium-ready refrain, feels pleasingly cathartic, but it leaves you wanting more.
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Single: Hubbell Benson – Born To Lose
The New Jersey brothers’ psych rock outfit’s new single is quirkily infectious in the best way.
Single: Carbon City Lights – These Little Things
The melody has a delicate, heartbreaking beauty. It rises and falls with effortless fluidity, before resolving in a wonderfully satisfying way.
Single: LANNDS – Hold My Place
One of the most unique and atmospheric tracks I’ve heard in quite a while; a trip-hop ballad for true interstellar travelers.
Single: Ranting – Snakes & Ladders
Brighton’s Ranting makes highly infectious, riff-driven indie-rock music that is tighter than a new pair of skinny jeans.
Single: Human Barbie – Fantasie
Fantasie is an airy, psychedelic trip that keeps ascending in effortless, joyous ways.
Single: Soft Top – Paving Stones
It really does feel like a lost classic from a bygone era – an evolving story, a sound dripping with honey, and layers of gorgeous melodic details.
Single: Simen Mitlid – It’s Okay
You’ll be defenseless as it lulls you into a false sense of security, hypnotising and seducing you with its straightforward melodic sweetness – before slowly breaking your heart.
Album: kingcaid – Colorblind Quarterback
kingcaid’s new album is a delicious smorgasbord of styles and genres, and is populated by a cast of distinct personalities.
Album: The Mad Mile – Legroom
Legroom is crammed full of chugging riffs and elegant motifs, with more light and shade than a Renaissance painting.
Album: Olive Jones – For Mary
Olive blends her soul, jazz and blues influences to create an album that is destined to become a modern classic.
Single: Red Langur – Crawl
Red Langur distills pop perfection and tragic self-awareness into three minutes that crawl underneath your skin.
Album: Karter AKA – Dangerous Creatures
This is an album that will sink its teeth in and not let go.
EP: Camelot – Four Years Later
These tracks feel warm and alive, radiating a renewed passion and creative vitality.
Single: Stephen Becker – Bad Idea
Dreamy, delicate, and as it burrows directly through your ears and into your brain, you’ll be helplessly under its spell.
Single: Wandour – Seaside Moments
It’s a heady, hypnotic kaleidoscope of electronica that, when it finally fades, leaves a nostalgic tear in your eye.
Album: Daily Worker – Prefab Maverick
With more hooks than a fisherman’s tackle box, Prefab Maverick is an earworm factory.
Album: ka lok – Opium Boy
A triumphant debut which delivers an epic, cinematic sci-fi odyssey full of heart and soul.
