From this week's New Music Top 40, this is
'Deep End' by THE LEMONHEADS
from Love Chant 2025
The band was formed by Evan Dando and Ben Deily at school in Boston (USA) around 1986. This is their first album in early two decades and Dando says it was made with 'love, fire and chanting'
Signals by D3LTA
from 2024
Described as 'a thrilling ride through the highs and lows of unrequited love', this is the solo project of Anglo-Greek Robert Coustas. Which is probably why he likes words like 'delta'
And we just played these...
Desert Drought by CAST
from Beetroot 2001
Cast were formed in Liverpool 1992 by the former bassist with The La's, John Power. This was their fourth album
Where Are You? by THE CHAMELEONS
from Arctic Moon 2025
The post-punk band formed in 1981 in Middleton, Manchester, and are cited as having inspired the likes of The Verve, Oasis, Interpol, The Killers and Editors. Mark Burgess had been in The Cliches, while Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding were in Years. This is their first full album since 2001
How You Like Me Now? by THE HEAVY
from The House That Dirt Built 2009
Bath's The Heavy are Kelvin Swaby, Dan Taylor, Spencer Page and Chris Ellul. Ths track features the funky Dap Kings Horn Section
Highway To Hell by AC/DC
from Highway To Hell 1979
Short-trousered Aussies in 'long-term career' shock! A bigger shock was Bon Scott's death the following year after a drinking binge in London
She Waits For Me by PROTOCOL
from The Rules Of Engagement 2005
John Pritchard leads the London band who at one time ran the city's club night, 'Vanity'
Shoot To Forget by OLYMPIA
from Flamingo 2019
An exciting second album from the Australian singer-songwriter, Olivia Jayne Bartley, following her 2016 debut, 'Self Talk'
Boy by THE KILLERS
from 2022
Brandon Flowers says this song "concerns a shy, ill-fitting 16-year-old with dreams far bigger than his one-horse hometown". The song was 'a leftover' from 2021's 'Pressure Machine' album
You're A Wolf by SEA WOLF
from Leaves In The River 2008
This was the debut album by Alex Brown Church's L.A. band
