Behold! Part 2 of my attempt to pluck a single song from each of the years 1974-2014 and hold it up as an example to the world of what might be. Or at least what...

Voyager 1 is the first official single from Black Rivers, out later this month. Bask in its incessant groove, and marvel at yet another Doves-related creation.

The Sales EP is a six-track EP from minimalist guitar pop duo Lauren Morgan and Jordan Shih. It contains one new track, four songs that the band have previously released as singles, and a remix...

After a long absence, Andrew Montgomery returns with Ruled By Dreams, his solo debut album. Has the former Geneva lead singer found the music to match his voice?

Since forming in 2013, Melbourne indie band Rabble Rouser have been trying to "locate the common ground between Kanye West, Yoni Wolf and Led Zeppelin"; it's a quest for what might well be mythical territory,...

'LGM One are a band that deliver what they promise: I can confirm the existence of both hooks (both inviting and plentiful) and energy (relentless).'

Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped is jumpy, energetic, kinetick rock, and wins, by a country mile, the award for best title of the week. What's more it's available completely free:

Taking the tempo down just a touch from the tracks on Losing Touch, Throwing Stones keeps the same gorgeous wraparound sound. The slower pace allows Adam Relf's synths to linger just a little bit longer,...

Yellow Creatures are a post-punk band from Newcastle. Their sound is not too easy to pin down, but based on their new release - The Year of Everything & Nothing EP - I'm going to...

In their sunny south cast hideaway, Lauren Bateman and Marcel Ino combine their respective backgrounds in dance and post-punk and a mutual love of analog synths to produce deliciously moody sounds that are equal parts...

'Supersonic hit the charts three places below PJ & Duncan. It was an inauspicious start to a scarcely believable career.'

Near the end of 1992, The Boo Radleys released a single, Lazarus, that was a world away from the layered obfuscation of Everything’s Alright Forever. 6 minutes long and change, it's eerie, spacey, and builds...

Having made my choice for 1992's Tracks of my Years playlist, I was hit by a flood of thoughts of what might have been. This was the year that my music collection truly started to...

Babe Rainbow was a beautiful creation, but despite the melancholic splendour of The Girl with the Loneliest Eyes, the anthemic Feel, and the collapsing beauty of Yer Eyes, no-one seemed particularly interested.

This is where picking a single song to represent a year starts to get tricky. 1991 wasn’t where everything changed for me, but it’s a time defined by discoveries, some more exciting than others. By...

Sproston Green is the last track on **Some Friendly**, and was said to be lead singer Tim Burgess' favourite Charlatans song at the time. It's the kind of song that sits up and begs to...

She Bangs The Drums became The Stone Roses' first indie chart

'The appeal of Beat Dis lies in its combinations. Samples bounce off one another in endless inventive cycles, and combine with a meaty rhythm section, which results in a track that does a lot more...

How much you'll enjoy listening to Got My Mind Set on You will be determined in no small part by how you feel about the smooth production and distinctive '80s boom and echo of Jim...

In all seriousness, Underground is a glorious pop masterpiece that underperformed, from a film that did likewise.