Susannah Sail - AVES feat. Olivera - The Stanford Family Band - Dennis Ellsworth - Argonaut

Photo - Maisie Mary Marshall

Susannah Sail - Are You Alright? (Album).

We had the pleasure of first featuring Susannah Sail back in March and were really impressed by the broad range of musical genres they were influenced by and the resulting creativity and originality they deliver (something we are always on the look out for). This weekend the band have released 'Are You Alright?' featuring six very different songs, each one taking the listener on a musical journey that from our point of view does not disappoint, Susannah Sail are definitely worth checking out.

The background: Susannah Sail is a four-piece band from Cornwall, blending soul, jazz, and alternative indie with the intimacy and spontaneity of a live jazz ensemble. Drawing inspiration from past relationships, their music captures raw human emotion while offering hopeful glimpses of the future. Close friends both on and off stage, they craft songs that are heartfelt, dynamic, and deeply resonant.
 
Susannah Sail’s debut album, Are You Alright?, was recorded at the calf house, Morvah, West Cornwall by Louis King, and brought to life in Chile by Fresco Fresco. The band travelled to Santiago de Chile to take part in the production, where they also recorded two new tracks for a future release. 

Upcoming Live Dates:
London 16th June @ Below Stone Nest
Bristol 18th June @ The Old England
Falmouth 19th June @ The Cornish Bank
Penzance 28th June @ Golowan Festival.

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AVES feat. Olivera - Nobody Here Knows

Nobody Here Knows is a Finnish summer pop contender with an unusually strong international team behind it.

The song is melodic, radio-ready electronic pop built around a big chorus, a clean emotional arc and modern production. It tells a story about identity, secrets and the liberating feeling of starting again somewhere no one knows your past. Olivera brings both softness and strength to the vocal, while AVES frame the song with a cinematic pop sensibility that feels built for a wider world.

The team behind the track includes Lenno, whose productions have gathered more than 150 million Spotify streams, Olivera, who has worked with Tiësto, and Alpo Nummelin, whose credits include SANNI, Ruusut, Chisu, Vesala, JVG, Pyhimys and Anssi Kela.

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Photo - Milo Costelloe

The Stanford Family Band - Feeding The Beast.

Brighton (England) C86-inspired, retro sunshine pop quartet The Stanford Family Band release ‘Feeding The Beast’ from the upcoming sophomore EP Go Again (out July 17th via Krautpop Records). A vibrant, pleasingly vintage,and musically inventive offering that captures the melodic charm of Beach Boys whilst leaning into the vintage aesthetic akin to the likes of Lemon Twigs and Drugdealer, ‘Feeding The Beast’ showcases the instantly recognisable sound that shapes the upcoming LP release. 

Layers of bright guitars, tight drums, and buoyant melodies create a melancholic, whimsical radiance. Delivered through vintage, warm, and reassuringly analogue production, the track feels like a long-lost gem discovered on an old cassette. Speaking about the track, Laurence from the band explains: “Feeding the beast was a really fun one to write and record, I wrote it last summer and then we cut it live really soon afterwards which is a rare thing for us, we added a wall of guitars and tambourines after. I was listening to a lot of XTC and power pop stuff at the time and really wanted to capture that classic Rickenbacker jangle as so many of our favourite records have done in the past.”

The Stanford Family Band extends the musical lineage of lost pop music, threading together the bittersweet glow of 60s airwaves and open-field festivals, with the glammed up intimacy of 70s singer-songwriters. Music that aches and shimmers in equal measure, carrying a sense of longing that feels both timeless and vividly alive.

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Dennis Ellsworth - Every Second, Every Day.

Canadian songwriter Dennis Ellsworth is excited to announce his new album ‘Living’ due for release on September 4th on Tonic Records. Dennis heads to the UK in September for a UK tour, which includes dates in London, Cambridge, and Sheffield. The first single from the album, the laid-back, soulful ‘Every Second, Every Day’, was released yesterday Friday, 12th June and is a perfect introduction to the new album. 

Musically, Every Second, Every Day came from a heavy blended period of Dennis listening to ’60s soul music and exploring the wild sounds of George Clinton. Lyrically, he explains, “It’s a declaration of love to my family and feeling saved by their love. Incidentally, since the day I wrote it, it’s been my daughter’s favourite song of mine.”

Prince Edward Island native Dennis Ellsworth's songwriting career started in high school, filling notebooks with lyrics and poems. He grew up on the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Kris Kristofferson, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. His tastes evolved in grade 6, and he began collecting cassettes. His personal music collection is stylistically expansive. Some might call his love for music an addiction, but whatever.

Dennis’ expansive career as a songwriter, performer, sideman, and record producer includes 10 solo albums including 2014 album release ‘Hazy Sunshine’, which received support from BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris; 2015’s Romantic As It Gets; Modern Hope released in 2024 which was nominated for Solo Recording of the Year at the East Coast Music Awards and most recently, Hardcore Freewheelin in 2025 produced by Canadian songwriter and producer, Jim Bryson. Dennis has also released 2 full-length albums with his previous group, Haunted Hearts, and an album as a duo with Kinley Dowling.

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Argonaut - Interrupted (Album).
Argonaut have released their new album 'Interrupted' on Criminal Records. No stranger to the wider landscape and having gained the support of BBC 6 Music, NME, Radio X, London experimental indie band Argonaut are back with a brand new album 'Interrupted'. The record follows on from their self-titled debut and sophomore album TRY, however instead of leaning towards a commercial crescendo the album heads deep into the void, featuring ten songs from the past year's abyss, documenting "breakdown, burnout, dementia, depression, memory, hope and healing".

Making music for fans of Sonic Youth, Pavement, Velvet Underground, Dodgy, The Stranglers, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Huggy Bear, Japan, Le Tigre, Garbage, Hole and The Pixies, their sound is completed by the super sweet vocals of Lorna Lyons.  The new record sees eighties synth influences creep in alongside syncopated bass, fuzzed up guitars and heartfelt harmonies.

Lead-off single 'Sugarfree' however, was somewhat of a wildcard on the album as Nathan Lyons explains: “I was staying at a friend's house and couldn't get to sleep. It was then I realised that this is what happens when you give up sugar... I recorded the vocals as a guide track not intending to keep them, but they worked and stayed, with Lorna and Deb adding back the sweetness.”

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Alex Dupree - Yea-Ming and The Rumours - Forget Them Wendy - Maddie Zahm - CattSue - Jenny Gillespie Mason

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Alex Dupree - New Meaning.

Alex Dupree has announced his new album 'Talking to the Dog which is due for release on August 14, and this week shares "New Meaning" from the album. Quote from Alex: "Songs don’t often reach me fully formed, but this one did. I sensed the whole shape of it right away: bright and brassy and Big Star-ish. It had the tumbling feeling of coins spilling out of a slot machine. Then I just needed language with the energy to match. The song is essentially working its way up to a “come all ye” type folk lyric: “people gather round, I got new meaning…”

Hank Williams once said that writing a song is just talking to the dog. That little piece of absurdist wisdom has become a title and guiding principle for Alex Dupree’s latest LP. What does it mean? Hank was likely just promoting his then-hit single “Move It On Over” to a radio interviewer. But Alex’s answers veer quickly into the mystical and visionary. He is a poet of rare composure and grace, and maybe for the first time in his 20+ year career, he’s found the band, the chords, and the arrangements to inject an almost inconceivable richness of color into his musical ideas. 

The result is a legitimate mid-career masterpiece that announces Alex as a talent capable of equaling the brilliance of Cass McCombs, Bill Callahan, Neko Case, Ryan Davis, Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham, and other leaders of modern song.

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Photo - Corey Poluk

Yea-Ming and The Rumours - Residue (Album).

Bay Area indie pop band Yea-Ming and The Rumours return with their fourth studio album, Residue. With Yea-Ming’s signature heart-tugging lyrics and Nico-esq voice, she continues to explore the rawness of human experience and emotions. While 2024’s I Can’t Have It All signified a time of change and transition for Yea-Ming, Residue embraces the reset and the examination of reality after a storm, grappling with the overbearing nature of memory (remembering and forgetting) while submitting to the coarseness of love, intimacy and regret.

With the help of long-time collaborator Eóin Galvin (Hoxton Mob, Readyville) on lead guitar and lap steel, Ryli colleagues Rob Good (The Goods, Ryli) on bass and Luke Robbins (Ryli, R.E. Seraphin) on drums, Yea-Ming takes us on a journey of regrowth, with songs like Paper Doll where she admits inauthenticity in a world where one has been taught to please everyone around them to survive. In Treasury of Loved Ones, Yea-Ming explores the permanence of memory, or what appears to be permanent even as time moves on and erases moments out of our lives. 

It’s a sweet and sad ode to remembering our loved ones, especially those we have lost to in time and in death. In Fine Afternoon, we are confronted with the reality of a tainted rebirth as Yea-Ming sings “in this life renewed, you’re my residue” (here we find our album title) and we remember that resets are never clean. The Rumours explore a little bit musically this time as well, which you hear in uncharacteristic danceable numbers like in the catchy but vulnerable and sensuous St. Etienne-like single Sweet Opiate. 

While Good served as the band’s skilled recording engineer, Yea-Ming mixed the album at home; her vision realized through exploring texture, rhythm and sound, making Residue a Yea-Ming production through and through. 

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Forget Them Wendy - Wise Guy.

Forget Them Wendy are an indie pop/grunge duo made up of Newcastle-based songwriter Laura James, and Edinburgh-born producer and guitarist Oliver Price, now living in London. The band take their name from a line in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: “Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.” Shaped by their shared love of 90s records from bands including The Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins and The Breeders, the pair combine indie pop melodies with grunge influences and playful, self-aware songwriting.

Their latest single, “Wise Guy”, captures the duo’s humour, honesty and reflective songwriting style. Written on Olly’s birthday last year and released on it this year, the track playfully explores the idea of growing older without necessarily becoming wiser. “‘It’s your birthday, look at you, so grown up it isn’t true…’” Laura sings, before the chorus turns more introspective: “‘Then you act like a wise guy, cos you don’t feel smart, why do you act like a wise guy?’” The song acts as a self-deprecating tease while touching on insecurity, identity and the pressure to appear more certain of yourself than you really feel.

Sonically, “Wise Guy” starts subtle, understated and intimate before changing gear unexpectedly into a soaring finale. Laura’s delicate, soft vocals sit alongside melodic guitars and a slow-paced beat, giving the track a calm, relaxed atmosphere. Its muted instrumentation and playful lyrics keep things feeling warm and low-key, while still carrying the reflective themes running through the song, before erupting into a powerful crescendo that brings the track to an uplifting close.

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Maddie Zahm - Everything All The Time.

Alt-pop singer/songwriter Maddie Zahm announces her stunning sophomore studio album, Everything All The Time, arriving September 25, 2026, via MNRK Nashville. Rather than treating growth as a final destination, Everything All The Time embraces it as an ongoing process, one rooted in curiosity, compassion, and the continual journey of coming home to yourself. 

Across the album’s 12 tracks, Zahm channels a warm, kaleidoscopic sense of wonder, crafting a record that is candid, funny, heartbreaking, and deeply human. She recalls growing up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – the show became a north star for Zahm, opening her mind and allowing her to simply be without self-judgment. She looks back on the freedom of this childhood awe, reminding herself to embrace the strange, beautiful flood of becoming yourself on your own terms.

Now, Maddie shares the title track and lead single, “Everything All The Time.” Through her transcendent vocals, she reminds us that tapping into the full breadth of the universe isn’t always easy. The track opens with delicate piano keys before cracking wide open to make room for sweeping acoustic guitar and thunderous toms, her voice rising to the moment, a totemic beam lighting through the clouds. 

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CattSue - A Whisper on the Wind.

We have the deeply moving new release from country singer-songwriter CattSue. Her new single, “A Whisper on the Wind,” arrives today June 12th and it’s already connecting strongly with radio listeners through its honest storytelling and emotional sincerity.

Inspired by the loss of her mother at just four-and-a-half years old, the song reflects on grief, memory, healing, and the quiet ways love continues long after someone is gone. Blending country, pop, and contemporary singer-songwriter influences, CattSue delivers an intimate performance that feels both personal and universally relatable.

Following the success of her debut single “Come Home to Me,” which earned UK iTunes chart recognition and Independent Music Network charting, CattSue continues to establish herself as an artist whose music resonates through authenticity rather than spectacle. “A Whisper on the Wind” is more than a song—it’s a tribute to family, resilience, and the invisible threads that keep us connected to the people we love most.

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Jenny Gillespie Mason - Rungs of Love.

“Rungs of Love” is an intimate folk song from my upcoming album In the Safety of the Light, produced by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart). I wrote the song on a 1976 Martin guitar after a period away from songwriting, inspired by the spiritual folk lineage of Bert Jansch and Vashti Bunyan. The song explores the idea that ordinary human love can be a ladder toward higher consciousness. Sonically it’s warm, spacious acoustic folk with subtle psychedelic textures and a devotional tone.

After more than a decade exploring psychedelic pop, jazz, and electronic textures through her project Sis—most recently as Sis and the Lower Wisdom—Jenny Gillespie Mason returns to the folk music she first began writing and recording as a teenager. Her new album, In the Safety of the Light (out 6/12/26 on Native Cat Recordings), was produced by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart) and recorded in spring and fall 2026 at a private studio in Los Angeles.

Sonically, In the Safety of the Light draws on the pastoral glow of 1970s British folk, with echoes of Catherine Howe and Fairport Convention, while sailing at times into  atmospheric sounds inspired by the ambient music of Hiroshi Yoshimura and the more cosmic folk ballads of Beck. Most of the songs were recorded live as an ensemble, allowing the arrangements to breathe and shimmer around performances by Mason on acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer, and vocals, with Josh Miner Adams on percussion, Todd Dahlhoff on bass, Benny Bock on synthesizers, Gabe Noel on cello, and Alex Budman on woodwinds.

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Asara - Twilark - Murkage Dave & Ryan Yard Act - Kate Waters - The Bankes Brothers

Asara - With Love.

Following "Cute" and "Thank You, Thank You," Asara unveils a third track from her debut album "028 Crises" today June 11th: the minimalist "With Love." Set against a minimalist drum machine and a clean piano line, Asara's delicate vocals captivate. Asara is the solo project of Paris-based French-Moroccan artist Sarah Pitet, a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, and video director whose debut album 028 Crises will be released on July 3rd via French label Géographie. After spending four years as a member of Dog Park, moving fluidly between guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, she now steps into a more intimate and personal space with her first solo work.

Having played music since childhood, Asara grew up through various band projects before joining Dog Park, alongside Erica Ashleson, Isabella Green Catani, and Jean Duffour. Together, they released the album Festina Lente in 2024 on the same label, Géographie. That collective experience now feeds a more introspective form of songwriting and a deeply personal approach to creation.

Written throughout 2025, 028 Crises unfolds like a near-documentary sonic diary, tracing the emotional landscape of her twenty-eighth year. Voice takes center stage throughout the record, balancing raw vulnerability with sharper rhythmic momentum. Her debut single Cute draws from the textures and pulse of hip-hop drum machines, while Thank You, Thank You stays rooted in a melodic, stripped-back bedroom pop aesthetic. On With Love, Asara blends upright piano with French touch-inspired electronic elements, while the rest of the album leans toward a darker, denser, and more organic form of rock. From her apartment studio in the Paris suburbs, she writes, produces, and shapes the entire visual and sonic identity of the project. 

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Photo - Layde Jane Vickers

Twilark - The Deeper I Fall.

Released today we have "The Deeper I Fall," from Twilark's forthcoming album Never Learned the Tide, arriving September 11. Framed as a love song to the night, "The Deeper I Fall" drifts along like a gentle lullaby waltz for fellow late-night wanderers—those quiet hours when inspiration, reflection, and possibility seem to feel a little closer at hand. For longtime listeners, the track also serves as a beautiful bridge between Twilark's earlier work and the richer Americana textures that define Never Learned the Tide. It feels both familiar and forward-looking, offering a glimpse of where the project is headed while retaining the dreamy intimacy that first drew so many of us in.

Quote from Canon Pence (Twilark): The sentiments of this song should resonate with night owls everywhere. There can be a rich creative beauty in the quiet hours of the night, in spite of - or perhaps because of - the knowledge that you're borrowing happiness from tomorrow.

Graceful, evocative, and approachable, Never Learned The Tide is the second full-length from Raleigh, North Carolina’s Twilark, the fledgling project of songwriter Canon Pence, whose articulate and wry but tender approach to Americana-inflected indie folk places him securely in a long list of similar artists. But this music is too personal, too full of Pence’s personality, to be anything but his own work, totally unique in its vivid character. Past work has been called “enchanting” by The Big Takeover and “an absolute delight” by Tonic Grain. And Never Learned The Tide is another, even more surefooted step forward.

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Murkage Dave & Ryan Yard Act - Gabriel.

Thirty years after Roy Davis Jr. and Peven Everett, two titans of Chicago house music, created one of dance music's most beloved and enduring records, Murkage Dave and Yard Act's Ryan Needham have joined forces to reimagine 'Gabriel'.

Born from countless hours spent sharing music on tour buses, in dressing rooms and after-show hangouts while Murkage Dave toured Europe with Yard Act, the new version transforms the original's euphoric house pulse into something more intimate and reflective. Led by Dave's unmistakable vocal and Needham's guitar-driven production, it is less a straightforward cover than a conversation with a song that is woven into the fabric of both artists' lives.

The single arrives following the release of Dave's acclaimed third album Brut Thoughts in March (6Music playlist, Radio X playlist, #11 Independent Album Breakers Chart, #14 Album Downloads Chart, #38 Independent Albums Chart, #2 Apple Music All Genres) and will feature on a deluxe edition of the album set for release on October 30th alongside a brand new original track, '10 Pints For The Culture'.

Originally released on Chicago's Large Records in 1996, 'Gabriel' became a defining record for UK dancefloors after the aptly named ‘Live Garage Mix’ was embraced by the emerging garage scene and later reissued by XL Recordings. Over the past three decades its influence has stretched far beyond any one genre, finding its way into jungle, speed garage, dubstep and grime, while remaining one of the most cherished songs in British sound system culture.

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Kate Waters - Words.

Kate Waters has announced her sophomore album ‘Some Comfort,’ self-produced and recorded at Red Tree Recording Studio in Magnolia, Texas, is to be released August 21 independently. 
 
Opening of her soulful Americana collection, “Words” examines the complicated dissonance of self-expression—a desperate ache to share one’s self, and the feeling that it’s impossible. Her honeyed vocals spill through wailing guitars, urgency sizzling from a  frenetic mandolin. It’s an angsty entrance into the album, tight and gripping like humidity before a storm, tension before release. 
 
Waters wrote her first album ‘Near’ in response to her mother’s death. Released in 2024, it’s as much a loving daughter’s ode as it is a practice in processing grief, a touching display of Waters’ bold willingness to be vulnerable. Whereas ‘Near’ dealt with the agony of endings, Waters’ follow-up and first studio release ‘Some Comfort’ celebrates the inspiration they can provide. “Just before my mother died, she published her very first book of poetry,” Water says. “Seeing it in her hands, the culmination of her life’s dream, propelled me to finally pursue my own.”

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The Bankes Brothers - Aaliyah.

Victoria, BC indie rock outfit The Bankes Brothers share “Aaliyah,” a warm and melodic new single that transforms personal devotion into something universally resonant. Built around fingerpicked acoustic guitars, soaring melodies, and heartfelt lyricism, the track captures the feeling of holding onto hope while navigating distance, uncertainty, and the passage of time. Equal parts intimate and uplifting, “Aaliyah” finds the band leaning into one of their most emotionally sincere recordings to date.

The song began long before its title arrived. Written initially around a series of chords and evolving song sections, “Aaliyah” existed without a clear centrepiece for quite some time. A temporary lyric, “farewell Maria,” occupied the space where the hook would eventually land, but never felt quite right. “It wasn’t until my girlfriend was saying how she wished she had been named Aaliyah because it’s such a beautiful name that it clicked and it all came together,” Nelson Bankes explains. “In the end, the song is dedicated to her.”

At its core, “Aaliyah” reflects the optimism that has long guided The Bankes Brothers’ songwriting. While many of their songs grapple with uncertainty, growth, and change, they often arrive at a place of resilience rather than defeat. “Writing music has always been a very therapeutic thing for me,” Nelson shares. “I hope that people listen to most of the songs and get the sense that they're optimistic. There's enough bad emotions in the world. We try not to put more out there.”

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Schizo Fun Addict - French Films - Simone White - Georgian - Silke Bischoff

Schizo Fun Addict - Desolate Ecstasy (Album).

Schizo Fun Addict New Jersey’s finest and the first band ever to grace to grooves of Fruits de Mer Records bring you their new album, ‘Desolate Ecstasy’. Is it dreampop? shoegaze? drone? maybe a bit of all three - you'll have to have a listen a judge for yourself. (A limited edition vinyl release happened today 10 June, however it was sold out on pre order a while back).

Over to Jet Wintzer from the band to explain the background to the band/album “Desolate Ecstasy a concept album about the 27 year career of Schizo Fun Addict. We were the first band on Fruits de Mer Records prophesied to be "a label of love" by Ian McCan reviewing us in Record Collector. 

We were Mark Barton's favorite band (see his liner notes to our lp "The Last Wave"). Greg Healey gave us 5 stars twice in Shindig! Brian Bordello is our biggest fan. Everett True said we were as good as The Stone Roses in Mojo. Prog compared our "El Shoegaze Bossa Nova" lp to Jobim and Brasil 66; Dave Thompson in Goldmine told everyone we were "the greatest musical secret of the 21st century." Another prophecy which remains true..." It’s true, the band stepped in to record covers of George Martin’s ‘Theme One’ and the intro theme to ‘Ogdens Nut Gone Flake’ back in 2008 when the label was all but dead in the water before we’d even learned how to doggy-paddle.

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French Films - Dearly

The return of French Films continues with Dearly, the band’s second comeback single. After almost ten years away, the new material has brought French Films back into the conversation around Finnish indie music. Helsingin Sanomat recently published a major interview on the band’s return, and this weekend French Films will play their first live show in years at Kesärauha Festival in Turku.

In the 2010s, French Films toured across Europe and Asia, played Roskilde, and became one of the most notable Finnish indie rock exports of their generation. Their biggest song has passed one million Spotify streams, despite being released in an era when CD was still a central music format.

Dearly is not nostalgia cosplay. It sounds like a band reconnecting with the thing that made them matter in the first place: bright guitars, romantic urgency and a little bit of northern restlessness.

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Simone White - Fortunately Gone.

Simone White has teamed up neo-classical composer, cellist, and producer Brent Arnold, and the pair have conjured-up a delightful take on The Breeders’ “Fortunately Gone”. Stripping away the grunge-infused stylistics of the original and replenishing them with bright string sections and crisp vocal duets; the result is a refreshing revision of the 1990 ‘Pod’ album classic.

As Simone White says of the track: “With pulsing plucked strings launching into a playful and soaring arrangement, this delicate short duet is sweet and like two swallows flying on a spring day, suddenly gone.” Tying-in neatly with her new album release ‘Letter To The Last Generation’, the producer of "Fortunately Gone”, Brent Arnold worked with Simone on the stunning recent single “Blueprint”, which preceded the record. "Fortunately Gone” is streaming on all services now.

Hawaii born singer-songwriter Simone White has released eight albums spanning simple acoustic folk, Americana and electronic indie. You may remember her from her records on the UK’s Honest Jon's label: I am the Man (2007) , Yakiimo (2009) and Silver Silver (2012) all critically acclaimed by Der Spiegel among others (MOJO, Uncut). German Rolling Stone made a five page focus piece on her in 2009 calling her "one of the really great American songwriters".

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Georgian - Medusa.

Manchester-based Georgian have shared the final introduction to their forthcoming EP ‘Crackled Grounds’ with focus track ‘Medusa’ ahead of their debut full-length release on Friday. via Heist or Hit (Westside Cowboy, Her’s).
 
Formed in 2024 and with three previous singles in their musical catalogue, Georgian are a five-piece outfit comprising Georgia McKiernan (vocals, acoustic guitar), James Poole, James Polglase (both lead and rhythm guitar, BVs), Connor Alder (drums) and (bass). Together Georgian have an expansive sound that reflects each of the band’s tastes, retaining a modern approach, but keeping the sound of their influences alive. Wrangling ‘60s pop, country, folk, shoegaze, psychedelia and further-flung traditional styles, their songs tell tales of navigating harsh emotional environments and lived experiences.
 
The debut ‘Crackled Grounds EP’ was laid down with producer Arno Stols at Magenta Studio in the peaceful Amsterdam countryside. Taking a leaf from Brian Jonestown Massacre’s melodic revivalism, Georgian began emulating the warm, unsettling, mysterious 60s-70s production of artists to which they had mutually become accustomed. Lyrically taking the listener to a place of escapism, the songs tell of battling the elements, female empowerment, and deep-rooted nostalgia.

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Silke Bischoff - Northern Lights.

For far too long, the artistic legacy of iconic German dark wave and synthpop act Silke Bischoff has been withheld from the world. This will change soon with "Tears - A Collection of Silke Bischoff Songs", which is the first step in making these important milestones of the goth scene officially available to the public again. The compilation album with carefully remastered tracks and even a new song will be released on September 4, 2026.

Silke Bischoff comments: "The track 'Northern Lights' was conceived during one of our creative forays into the Netherlands", Axel Kretschmann recalls. "We had rented a beach bungalow in Zandvoort to dive completely into our music for a while. Even all our studio gear and the instruments got carted there by our label, which meant that we were working under near perfect conditions. By the way, the song title, 'Northern Lights', had quite a profane origin. It was the name of our favourite brand of 'funny cigarettes' at the time. And yes, they were quite helpful and inspiring our creativity back in the days."

Silke Bischoff were an iconic band that left a massive legacy and were mournfully remembered far beyond the electronic and goth scenes that they championed particularly in Germany during the 90s. Their albums are regarded milestones until today, but internal friction, legal issues, and most of all the tragic passing of one of its founding members, Felix Flaucher, has left their works in a limbo for many years. The compilation "Tears - A Collection of Silke Bischoff Songs" is the first step in making their oeuvre available to the public again.

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Izzy Oram Brown - Chris Pellnat - Alex Amor - The Gods They Made - Burning Bouquet - Pomelo

Photo - Nico Hedley

Izzy Oram Brown - I Believe.

Released today, we have the third single "I Believe" from the forthcoming debut full-length by Brooklyn singer-songwriter Izzy Oram Brown. The latest single follows on from her excellently reviewed EP Mess and a split EP with The Bird Calls and a run opening for the acclaimed guitarist Julian Lage. As a fixture in the Brooklyn indie scene, Izzy Oram Brown has been featured as a collaborator in rising bands such as Why Bonnie and Youbet. 

Stepping into her own with her full-length, What I Want is full of unexpected surprises and moments of instrumentation and sound design that go way beyond a singer-songwriter affair. There is a sense that even as the songs on What I Want always foreground an “I,” they are not primarily written for Brown herself. She has the rare ability to crystallize emotional states and broadcast them on the most universal possible scale, both in word and musical DNA, with the invitingness, familiarity, and discipline of radio rock heroes like Tom Petty and the pop acumen and emotional intelligence that galvanizes fans of Phoebe Bridgers and Sabrina Carpenter alike. 

It might have already become clear from the description, but these songs are staggeringly beautiful—the kind that quickly silence a small rock club, that nearly any listener who has lived even a small slice of adult life can find an input for. Brown’s cocktail of timeless songwriting influences, lovingly rendered guitar moves, sensitive arrangements, and unabashedly vulnerable writing give What I Want a singular charge. It’s bound to stick long after the personal experiences onto which we may map these songs fade into history.

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Chris Pellnat - Reign Down (EP).

It's an ongoing pleasure to feature new music from Chris Pellnat, whether it's a solo release or with The Warp/The Weft where he is a guitarist and to quote him "half of the duo, Teeniest." His new EP 'Reign Down is well worth a listen, there is an overall feel to the collection of songs and yet each track stands on it's own merit with variations in style and instrumentation adding to the depth of this release, we have included both the video releases and the Bandcamp EP, Chris tells us some more below.   
  
"Reign Down" is a six-song EP of folk(ish) rock music with an infusion of vibraphone, clarinet, accordion, etc. "Reign Down" is the title track of the EP - it's a play on words since it's about wanting to be being showered with the "rain" of love. But people also yearn for the "reign" of love, so it works both ways. The varied feelings I was having over the past two years are apparent in this EP: from despair, anger and even fear as evil shows its face in the world, to determination, hope and faith that it will be overcome.

Accessible sound; weirdness intact: I worked on the "Reign Down" EP for the past two years while releasing one-off singles with Arabic and Japanese lyrics /flavor in collaboration with other singers. While I've returned to English lyrics and Western sound, you can be assured my weirdness remains intact. For each of the songs on the EP I created a music video in VR (no AI was used).


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Alex Amor - Avalanche.

Scottish singer-songwriter Alex Amor today releases her latest single 'Avalanche' a new glimpse of her forthcoming debut album 'Heavenly Bodies' which is  out 21st August via New York independent label VERO Music.

The original demo of 'Avalanche' was written and produced by Alex in her childhood bedroom in Glasgow, before bringing it to her "holy trinity" of collaborators in London - Peter Brien (Kojaque, Kean Kavanagh), Baz Kaye (The Blessed Madonna, Obongjayar) and Karma Kid (Jessie Ware, Jalen Ngonda) - to complete the song. Led by layered guitars, gauzy harmonies and sweeping soft-rock arrangements, 'Avalanche' unfolds with a slow-building sense of release. Pairing melodic warmth and muted dream-pop textures with intimate songwriting, Amor documents the clarity that arrives just before a relationship falls apart.

The new single arrives off the back of appearances last month at Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape Festival in Brighton and Footsteps Festival in London.

Speaking on the release of 'Avalanche', Alex Amor said: "Avalanche is about the unsettling moment in a relationship where something has shifted, but only one of you is willing to see it. While you’re starting to recognise it for what it is, the other person is still holding on, almost wilfully ignoring the cracks. The idea of an avalanche felt like the perfect metaphor. It’s not necessarily about destruction, it’s about release. It’s what happens when pressure has been building for too long and can’t be contained anymore. It’s sudden, overwhelming, and sometimes painful, but it clears everything out. And in that aftermath, there’s a kind of clarity - you can finally see things as they really are.”

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The Gods They Made - Hypnotic.

Hypnotic is the first in a series of new singles for The Gods They Made, marking a step forward sonically. The track was produced, mixed and mastered by Laurent Lozano at Moon Studios in Vevey. His involvement shaped the sound significantly: tighter, more direct, at the intersection of indie rock and post-punk — the song structures and melodic sensibility of the former, the directness and refusal to soften the edges of the latter.

With Hypnotic, TGTM introduced electronic pads alongside the traditional drum kit, which gives the rhythm section a wider sonic range than on their debut album. Hypnotic opens with a vocal and synth hook, before a word has been sung. No introduction, no build, no context. You're inside the song before even realising it.

The verse arrives next, pulling back from the hook's momentum into something more stripped. The lyrics operate through images and statements rather than narrative – "you know what I know", "fight the real enemy", "what goes around keeps turning". When the full chorus finally comes – "who wants it, who wants it" – it feels both inevitable and earned.

The song earns every section. Nothing overstays, nothing is wasted. The middle eight shifts the track's center of gravity before the final chorus brings everything back, fuller. That's where the title sits: hypnotic as the state you're already in, the cycles that keep turning, the thing you recognize but can't quite shake.

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Burning Bouquet - The Cycle.

Sheffield-based Burning Bouquet are an alternative rock band with a sound that blends emo, pop-punk, grunge and indie rock.Taking influence from bands such as Paramore, Holding Absence, Deftones and Don Bronco, the band formed in September 2023 and have been releasing their own material since September 2024, with plans to record an EP in August 2025.

Their line-up consists of vocalist Rachael, bassist Jamie, drummer Archie and exciting new addition Bhavik on guitar, and the past year has seen them deliver several energetic performances on the Sheffield live music scene.

This song is about committing to ending "The Cycle" of generational trauma. Most of the lyrics feature Rachael talking to her younger self, telling her that things will get better and there is light on the other side of her pain. 

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Photo - Dan Hennessy and Stevie O'Neill

Pomelo - Work Phone.

As Pomelo, Luke Elliott and Wynnm Murphy make seductive and engaging art-pop that displays evident awareness of its antecedents but feels very much like forward-facing music for today and tomorrow. Loreless is their debut, which was announced in April and which is out in a couple weeks. Today, we're sharing the third single, "Work Phone."

Vulnerable and personal and baked with humanness, Loreless is an album about being. A genuine trip, and if we are living on a shopping strip mall mode towards oblivion, Loreless accesses the tangible magic of the mundane. Paying attention to where you are and not where you will be. The album is raw and careful - the kind that pulls a curtain, applies arnica oil, and tenderises a muscle with a kitchen timer on 60 minutes. It’s listening to an open wound, from this life or the last. Loreless is an honest reckoning with purpose, histories, influences and sad magic that’s cathartic, acknowledged, satisfying.

Pomelo is the Amsterdam-based art pop duo of Wynnm Murphy and Luke Elliott. Together they craft a sonic world of sonar on solid ground, where avant-garde electronic techniques meet watery, resonant textures and sexy storytelling. The duo's debut, Loreless is a hypnotic, kinetic blend of pop, ambient, and electronic music; distinct, otherworldly, and oddly familiar, like an uncanny encounter.

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