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Sennen - Autopilot

At this special time of year, the minds of music fans everywhere are taken up with the all-important, all-consuming task of coming up with the definitive account of the last twelve months in music (aka...

Wry - Waves

Fighting back waves (uh-huh) of nostalgia, I'm nonetheless bound to admit that Waves delivers an ocean (uh-huh x2) of memories of the first time I heard music like this and knew I needed it in...

Butterfly Child - Holding On

'With a first album in nearly eighteen years on the way, Joe Cassidy, aka Butterfly Child, has announced a second track from the album. Holding On is dream pop with a classic twist: something a...

Public Service Broadcasting - Sputnik

Sputnik is the literally pulsing first half of a double a-side, the fourth release from Public Service Broadcasting's 2015 album The Race For Space. It's a mesmeric, metronomic track that brings to life the awe...

Otherkin - Feel It

if Radio X are giving air time to Otherkin and their rapscallion ilk (assumptions: they have ilk, they are rapscallions. Probably true) they can't be all bad.

Saltwater Sun - Wild

First there was the blistering Habit on My Mind, then came the Foals-meets-The-Cardigans of Making Eyes. Now Saltwater Sun have completed the release cycle for their debut release Wild with the EP's title track. Happily...

Fieu - Running

Running may call itself synthpop, but don't let that lull you into looking forward to a quiet evening in - it's fizzing with effervescent electropop sparkle.

Meilyr Jones - How To Recognise A Work Of Art

'How To Recognise A Work Of Art, the new single from the former Race Horses frontman Meilyr Jones, is no less of a thrill than his stellar recent live performances supporting Richard Hawley. '

The Lonely Wild - Snow

When I started watching the new video for Snow, the opening track to The Lonely Wild's 2015 album Chasing White Light, I knew that I had to add one more to my fuzzy list of...

Ski Lodge - Heaven is Now

For Heaven is Now Ski Lodge make the transition from mid-to-late 80s indie pop to a slightly earlier new wave period in the same decade. While the guitar owners union might gently weep at such...

Palm Honey - Bewitched

Like a swirly lollipop or a stick of rock with one more colour than you expected, Bewitched melds pinches of psychedelia with strands of indie rock and bakes a sweet confection out of the resulting...

Naives - No Way

At the end of a year of festival slots and tour support, and ahead of their debut EP due out next year, Anglo-French synth pop trio Naives have revealed their latest single, No Way.

Strange Talk - When It Feels So Good

When It Feels So Good is a shining, pumping, pulsating dancefloor moment with its eyes and mind on the past and its ears very much in the future.

The Lonely Together - Congregation

I want to somehow convey here the idea that Congregation, the new single from The Lonely Together, sounds and feels so very of its place (that place being Scotland) and in many ways strongly reminiscent...

Turin Brakes - 96

'There was much excitement last week among Turin Brakes fans, when the band dropped a teaser video online with the hashtag #TBLostProperty. Then, this week, they announced a new album, Lost Property, and a new...

Super Subs Week 5

Inspired by a survey I took earlier, I bring you a final six music submissions for Super Subs Week, with each described in three words.

Super Subs Week 4

I have six more music submissions for you right here, ranging from folky singer-songwriterness to alt-rock, to blues rock, to 80s-style pop goodness.

Super Subs Week 3

We're already just over / just under the half-way mark in Super Subs Week, depending on whether you count the weekend as a subset of or adjunct to the week. Either way the prime music...

Super Subs Week 2

Music submission week, aka Super Subs Week, aka Hidden Wonders Week, aka Just Great Music That You Might Otherwise Miss continues with this, very much its second instalment.

Super Subs Week 1

Kicking off Super Subs Week, our first round-up of music submissions brings you tracks of awesomeness from Apeman, Bri Clark, Forebear, Freak Static, and TeethOfWolves