‘Old Man’ is a restrained and personal single shaped by the sudden death of Alfredo Salvati’s father in October 2025. Released under his colourshop project, the song was written during a period of intense family grief and recorded in his parents’ house, where he set up a temporary home studioContinue Reading
‘5000 Miles (26 mix)’ takes a familiar touring fantasy and gives it a more bittersweet centre. This new single from Colchester trio KaiserKillers follows an imagined road trip across the United States, loosely tracing Route 66 and playing sold-out shows along the way. On paper, it sounds like pure rock-and-rollContinue Reading
‘November Shadows’ introduces Bad Valentines’ forthcoming debut album with a song that treats darkness as something that can become strangely reassuring. Written by guitarist Pekko Mantzin, the single follows the idea that shadows can offer companionship when the mind feels most isolated. It’s a simple image, but an effective one,Continue Reading
‘Midnight (to Track)’ arrives as a previously unreleased piece from the sessions for St. Divine’s debut album The Devil You Know, brought back into focus because the band felt its political themes remained too timely to leave behind. Originally omitted from the LP because of vinyl timing constraints, the track nowContinue Reading
‘The Light’ introduces Shak-T with a track that connects electronic production to a much longer personal history with dance music. Released as the lead single from her forthcoming four-track EP, the song was written and produced with Jack Gourlay and combines heavy basslines with emotive electronic textures. Its club-facing soundContinue Reading
‘Lamb’ showcases Dutch artist Shortout Kid as someone more interested in pushing the physical language of rock music in unusual directions. Central to this direction is his now notorious use of the “razor belt”, a custom-built instrument developed over almost 15 years and designed to combine the visual and sonicContinue Reading
‘Roadside’, the new single from LA alt-pop project GOODTWIN, takes the familiar image of an open highway and turns it into something softer and more cinematic, pairing warm, driving melodies with atmospheric textures and a distinctly sultry mood. The track began with multi-instrumentalist Brandon Ronquillo, who wrote the original instrumentalContinue Reading
Austin four-piece mozworth return with ‘Why Not’, a single that’s heavier, more forceful and more outward-looking than much of their earlier work, setting the tone for forthcoming album The Mountain & The Wolf with the sound of a band clearly energised by change. The arrival of drummer Mike Hall has altered theContinue Reading
‘Blissin’ Out’ is the kind of song that could only have come from somebody returning to music after life has thoroughly rearranged itself. Charles Griffin Gibson, formerly of the project CHUCK, resurfaces here as Big Winner with a debut single shaped by parenthood, migration, memory and the peculiar emotional staticContinue Reading
Richard Tyler Epperson has always been comfortable moving between intimacy and scale, but ‘One Thought Away’ pushes that contrast into much darker territory. Here, the Salt Lake City songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer begins with piano, exposed vocals and the sense of someone trapped inside their own thoughts. From there, theContinue Reading