Tracks - page 20

Maybe it's just because I haven't really been following the band for a while and that absence making my heart grow fonder, but Make You Better sounds like a really strong return for The Decemberists....

Stop everything, carefully place valuables and breakables on the nearest level surface, and drop everything else, because Belle & Sebastian have released a first taste of forthcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, that's...

There's a lot to like about Mechanical Bride, the new song from Futsu: the twin vocals; the organ bubbling gently or loudly at all the right times; the, ah, interesting and colourful video. These are...

Taste Me is the new track from Kettering Britpoppists and dreamy-sound makers Neighbour. Its breathy vocals and an easy vibe that's somewhere between baggy and Britpop give it an early 90s reviving feel.

Describing themselves as what happens 'when Ghinzu hangs out with Goose', Belgian duo Shakes have got a slinky electro thing going on their debut song Life is a Fiction. Remixes and more songs have been...

In n Out comes with a groove and synth clashes that wouldn't sound out of place about half way through the first tape of an early Now That's What I Call Music compilation, while also...

Something Missing's sad, lonely guitars and melancholy lyric are just right for when you want to capture that feeling of alienation and a sense that all is not quite well

Watergun, the debut single from Birmingham-based band The Jacarandas, is a delightful moment of indie-pop jangle that occupies space somewhere between the heady 80s indie-pop days and the sounds of the 60s that informed that...

If you're going to give your new album's lead single the same name as another band's song, it doesn't help lessen the confusion any when you also make the album name the same as another...

I don't usually post two tracks by the same group in such a short time, but no sooner had I posted Sing To You than Dark Train pulled it back from Soundcloud. But fear not,...

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.

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,...

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,...

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...

Brave Man's glitchy Radiohead-esque beats, electronic pulse and rich harmonies are currently streaming on Soundcloud, and if you get there early enough you can even download the track for free.

Tell My Body I've Gone is a sort of Jeff Buckley dystopian nightmare - the vocal over rapid cuts, electronic beats and howling guitars.

Number One Record is the new single from Jack Adaptor, out later this month, and taken from the forthcoming album **J'Accuse!**

Blue Monday is a gateway drug of a track - a bridge between the old world of disco and the coming days of rave, and whichever version of it you happen to find to listen...