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No Job is the second single from the forthcoming five track Live The Nakey Dream EP. It tells of "the lows of living in a virtual purgatory while waiting on someone else to decide what...

'I Hate Goodbyes is pristine, synth-soaked pop of the highest order: an inexhaustible supply of hooks and a sweet bassline walking you through the feeling of the best past days of your life, concentrated to...

With The Race For Space, Public Service Broadcasting may have thought they had the space-themed awards sewn up for the year; Cosmos shows there's more than one way to skin a space cat.

'The new music playlist for week 12 - another week of free downloads, new releases and album previews. Everything from Mew to UUMA, from The Black Ryder to Active Child. And a whole bunch in...

with its loops, clicks and beats, and Noah's whispered vocals, MOOD is a laid back gem that's perfect for when you need to drift off to somewhere idyllic...

September Storm is the latest single from Birmingham's The Traps. In a nutshell: indie disco that deserves to be in your collection.

Get Real (Can't Touch Your Love) is the debut single from Loframes, a collaboration between London-born James Yuill and French producer Franck Russo. It's a succulent combination, here creating a synthpop does deep house with...

Separator is about as good as it gets in its field, the field being effortlessly catchy indie rock with a new wave twist.

The first fruit of an album written almost entirely on harp and piano, 1999 is a track nostalgic for past love, and affectingly beautiful with it. It probably won't be the only soulful piano-led lament...

Showcasing what's already being described as Blur's "other side", There Are Too Many Of Us employs warbly synth (and occasional warbly Damon-song) to make the point that it's a bit crowded here on planet earth....

Wasted Away is the debut single from Manchester band False Advertising. They bring a fuzzy kind of noise that's got more than a little of the '90s about it and a whole truck load of...

No two ways about it: Let Me Be Your Light is the most instantly worship-inducing, haunting, evocative song I've heard this week. It's taken from The Door Behind The Door, the new album from The...

Hailing from the same windswept Dartmoor environment as their mythical namesakes, Wisht Hounds are a new alt-pop outfit consisting of Ella Edmondson and Rollo Smallcombe. They are, thankfully, a much more comforting proposition than those...

Walk Beside me is the first single from On Earth, the forthcoming album from Swedish duo Blind Lake. It's a celebration of love, life, and energy through the medium of a bouncy disco beat and...

Packaging is the second single from Buyer's, the second EP by Austin, TX punk / garage band Pollen. It's a heady two and half minutes of anti-consumerism, anti-marketing, angular and spiky garage rock.

'My Love, from Buffalo newcomer M.A.G.S. is, remarkably, all the work of just one man - Elliott Douglas. After a handful of live shows, this high-class indie rock is a scorching way to begin a...

Sangokaku, along with La Gomera, is a new double a-side release from Cabane, the new project from Thomas Jean Henri. Featuring a host of collaborators, both tracks are quite beautifully rendered acoustic moments.

'As Little Wanderer started to play through the first time I started wondering if this was going to be the point where Kintsugi, the new album from Death Cab For Cutie, started to fade after...

Ballet School's new Bella Union labelmates Bernard + Edith have remixed Gray from last year's The Dew Lasts An Hour: listen and download the remix here.