Just beneath the sleek, confident guitar line that powers “Overdrive,” the lead single of Imperial Teen’s seventh studio album All Over You — out October 9, 2026 on the band’s longtime home Merge Records — another guitar marks the time more impatiently, as if the groove its locked into is the timebomb-tightness of a pre-hookup … Read more

Amsterdam 5-piece, The Klittens, are releasing their long-awaited debut album, Have a Heart, combining their love of pop music with a dark sensibility and their own unique punk ethos. Drawing inspiration from a range of artists including The Ronettes, MF Doom, Dry Cleaning and Kate Bush – the band have successfully crafted a sound that is truly and twistedly their … Read more

Brooklyn based, TVOD are releasing their second album, The Farm, on 16th October on Mothland. Less than a year afterthe release of their debut album, Party Time, TVOD were back in the studio, this time in Leeds, recording their second full-length with producer, Danny Blackburn of Adult DVD. The new album finds the band pushing their sound … Read more

Wasuremono is a vehicle for William Southward’s songs, for which he’s now spent the last decade crafting infectious, hook-laden, indie-pop music from his garden shed in Bradford-On-Avon. An independent and autonomous artist to the core, on past albums he has had his hands involved at every stage of the production, from songwriting to mixing and … Read more

For the Sake of Stillness is a slow swoon, all those small moments that make up the real, ongoing process of falling in love: with your life, with sound, with yourself, with the people that surround you. From bassist and vocalist Melanie Radford (Built to Spill, Blood Lemon) Stillness is a solo offering of music … Read more

On the alternate timeline where the Meat Puppets inherited the bulk of the Grateful Dead’s tourheads when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, none of this would be necessary, because Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders are a household name for evolving their own musical space that overlays dusty folk, cosmic jazz, deep psych, free improv, … Read more

“We all know what’s coming,” sings Jocke Åhlund on “Big Flood”, the epic centrepiece to the fifth album from his band Les Big Byrd. The track reckons with Ragnarök, the Norse mythological prophecy of the apocalypse, which is fitting; Ruin Everything is informed by the world around it, and accordingly, it swirls with dystopian portent. … Read more

With a wink towards the body horror auteur, David Cronenberg’s Wife (or DCW) are the house band in the biology theatre at the end of the world. They loop riffs in relentless cycles til they stop being riffs and become psychological conditions; the bass maintains the pulse; the guitars sharpen the knives; the drums suggest … Read more

 Hiding Places started as an almost tradition-like practice; meeting in rural Georgia for a week or two at a time to record and write; to open themselves up to songs that would visit and hone their technical ability to capture them. It makes sense that the band formed while three of its members were DJs … Read more

Darkest clouds have sealed the sky, Powerplant is back and has brewed its strongest release yet. Bridge of Sacrifice emerges from the cauldron – a fun, black metal infused journey through all that is heavy and gothic. Powerplant,the solitary project of Ukraine-born, London-based Theo Zhykharyev, is distinguished by itsgiddy bass, sizzling synth lines and melancholic … Read more