Bite
The Shropshire singer takes her inspiration from the rather wonderful Leonard Cohen song of the same name
High In Low Places
The alt-popsters are Nick Santino, guitarist Sean Silverman and bassist Reeve Powers
On The Game
The Ohio garage-blues-rock duo are Dan Auerbach (vcls, gtrs) and Patrick Carney (drms)
What Can I Say After I'm Sorry?
Tom Ogden's Stockport band is an 'alliance of best friends, all born in the same hospital, Stepping Hill'. The video for this features a cameo from Everton manager, Sean Dyche
Fizz
The alt-dream-rock band are from Austin, Texas, and comprise Christina Carmona, Jake Soto, Michelle Soto and Noe Carmona
Silver Teeth
The alt-dream-rock band are from Austin, Texas, and comprise Christina Carmona, Jake Soto, Michelle Soto and Noe Carmona
Garden
The Leicester indies started out in 1981 and are still going strong with their eleventh album. They are led by the guitar and vocals of John Butler
Photograph
The L.A. dream-pop goth-shoegaze duo are Alex Nicolaou (Mona D.) and Andrew Clinco (aka Deb Demure). This single follows their 2019 album, 'Modern Mirror'
Find A Way
Sister Bliss (Ayalah Deborah Bentovim) and Rollo (Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong) release the eighth album by the seminal indie-dancers, eighteen months after the tragic death of Maxi Jazz (Maxwell Alexander Fraser) on 23 Dec 2022. It includes this track, featuring London poet, Suli Breaks (Darryll Suliaman Amoako)
Work
The Peckham alt-psyche-rockers are led by Lias Saoudi's vocals and Saul Adamczewski's guitar. Formed in 2011, this is their fourth studio album
Sit Down
The Coventry band's protest song is described by lead singer George Haverson as 'the triumphant parking of your derriere is an active form of protest against our capitalist overlords'
Lost In Space
The L.A. band release their fourth album, starting with this excellent 70s inspired single
Going In Circles
Brooklyn's TJ Freda announces that 'the song is about the endless cycle of a relationship, the back and forth in both euphoria and doubt.'
Nikita
The Liverpool band are big fans of fellow-Scouse bands, The Las, Cast and The Lightning Seeds. Continuing a fine tradition, then
Nothing To Do
The Jesus-rockers release their ninth studio album
Leone
The boys standard haven't told us much about themselves, so...
She Can Fly
The Derbyshire five-piece comprises Will Brown (vcls, gtr, songs), Joe Labram (ld gtr), Lennon Hall (gtr), Will Sabey (bass) and Tom Spray (drms)
The Human Race
Liverpool's Michael William Head has previously fronted Shack and The Pale Fountains
Excalibur
Now living in Berlin, Molly Nilsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician. Released through Glasgow's Night School label, this is fabulous. She describes the album title as 'the letter X marks the spot... it's the ex-lover... it's the latin prefix meaning 'out'... Generation X... X-files... Extreme'
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Palestine (Somewhere Over The Rainbow)
Now living in Berlin, Molly Nilsson is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician. Released through Glasgow's Night School label, this is fabulous. She describes the album title as 'the letter X marks the spot... it's the ex-lover... it's the latin prefix meaning 'out'... Generation X... X-files... Extreme'
Listening Party
Lancaster's Ben Hall started this as a recording project in a barn in 2012 and released seven albums as Mr Ben. He's now with fellow bens, Zac and Tom, and recorded this in Sheffield. Just for good measure, he's a now also a full-time potter
In Front Of Me Now
The New York alternative rock band was started in the early 90s by Matthew Caws, now partly based in Cambridge. This is their 10th studio album
Make It All Right
Following 2021's 'Let The Bad Times Roll', Dexter Hollland's band rolls on. The female voice here is Canadian actress, Rebecca Shoichet
You're So Impatient
A single-only release, Black Francis describes this as "a meditation on anxiousness, squeezed perfectly inside two minutes - because who's really patient enough for a two-and-a-half-minute song?"
So Lo
The Perth (Oz) band have been at it since 2008, and Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson and Joe Ryan have been members ever since. They're now on their 10th album
All Aboard The S.S. Sinker
The psych-rock band formed in 2014 in Perth (Australia). The line-up is Jack McEwan (vcls, gtr), Luke Parish (gtr), Danny Caddy (drms), Luke Reynolds (bass) and Chris Young (kybds)
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Pillhouse (Papa Moonshine)
The psych-rock band formed in 2014 in Perth (Australia). The line-up is Jack McEwan (vcls, gtr), Luke Parish (gtr), Danny Caddy (drms), Luke Reynolds (bass) and Chris Young (kybds)
The Age Of No Opinion
SSM are frontman Craig Walker (Power Of Dreams, Archive) and Dan Worton (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin). In this song they are exploring the effects of modern media on our judgement
When You Know Someone
The Toronto alt-rockers have been going since 2016, but are no a trio comprising Rob Laska (ld vcls), Alex Dimauro (bass) and Karah James (drms & harmonica)
America In Your 20s
Why the name? The L.A. band's leader Matthew Koma says 'I'm on a bowling league in Winnetka, called the Winnetka Bowling League. You can put the rest together.' So, there you go