The week's happiest opening chord sequence (now there's a Grammy category waiting to happen) belongs unquestionably to Summer Heart's Beat of your Heart.

Say, did you hear that St. Vincent won the Grammy award for Best Album That Kanye Isn't Pissed About the other night?

The thundering drums that burst in after Wolf's synthtro might surprise at first, but when it all kicks together and Abrahamson is into the chorus mantra of "you're a wolf, I can't read you" it's...

Turning Tides is a cool confection of shifting electronic beats and instrumentation and Drew York's delicate falsetto, which floats effortlessly through the song's phalanx of sounds.

Simple but oh so very effective, Wonderlust hits hard from the first fuzzy notes and doesn't let up

Snow in Mexico are an Italian duo (Massimiliano Cruciani and Andrea Novelli) based in Rome, who recently signed to the hallmark of shoegazing and dreampop quality that is Saint Marie Records. Following this, Saint Marie...

Parrot Dream's new video for Come Home works well with the song's isolated / isolating feel and dream-pop sound, but of the whole composition it's a brain-meltingly wonderful chorus that wins the day.

Remember The Highs forges a character of its own, from its confident bass-less opening and simple hook, through its repeated lyrical preoccupations and the guitar lines that punctuate them. It's got the feel of something...

Open Wide is another in Hackman's fast growing collection of moody downers, the oppression of the guitar riffs matched by Hackman's siren calls.

All the over-excitement on hearing of a new East India Youth album in 2015 turned to becalmed awe on first hearing the quiet magnificence of CAROUSEL.

The Other Side takes audio clips from NASA mission control during the Apollo 8 mission and lays them over a pulsating electronic backing, to create moments that are somehow not only evocative of an era...

Two minutes of Fake Spit is all you'll need to be convinced you need more spiky punk / garage from the Sheffield foursome.

Having released their debut EP Faraday Wave in November 2013, Australian indie-rock band We Do This will be releasing its follow-up in April 2015.

The wildly energetic Ocean of Tears is from the French singer's intriguingly titled **My Dreams Dictate My Reality**, due for release on March 3rd on Babycat Records.

Mongolian Hunters is taken from 17th Century Japanese Aviary, the debut album from Inti Rowland. The album, on which Rowland is accompanied by a string quartet, brass and percussion, was recorded in six days in...

Get to know The Native Architects through Animals, a feel-good summer romp that will whet your appetite for their forthcoming EP.

Love Is On The Way is addictive and slinky, reminiscent of the finest of guitar pop/rock.

I Don't Want You is a shiny burst of electropop - perfect for the soundtrack to an as yet unwritten future 80s period masterpiece

Running is a sweet slice of melodic indie-pop with a swooshy sheen of 80s synthtasia.

Sisters on Wire are a Lithuanian trio who have just released their self-titled debut EP. Very generously, they've made it available on Bandcamp on that good old 'name your price' deal.