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Articles by: Elvis Thirlwell

by 08 Sep 2026

Listen: London’s Drum Tower Share Debut Single ‘Junkyard’

Drum Tower’s brand of experimental-rock doesn’t have much truck with staying very still for very long.

by 01 Sep 2026

Listen: London-via-Paris Band Spanish Horses Share Debut Single Proper ‘Hey Man (Hey Man!)

It feels impossible not to radiate profusely with optimism and hope upon pressing play to the debut single from Spanish Horses.

by 27 Aug 2026

Listen: Singapore Trio Vegtable Share New Single ‘Stay’ via Leeds Label Field Work Recordings

Vegtable’s use of classic 90s influences feels more estranged and futuristic than it does patently nostalgic. Space, precision and reservation are the names of this inscrutable game.

by 20 Aug 2026

Listen: London-via-Asheville, NC’s lifepath99 Shares Debut Single ‘Misfortune’

Bubbling away in the capital’s grassroots circuit across 2026 as a 5-piece live outfit, lifepath99 raise the curtains with sparkling debut single, ‘Misfortune’, landing via Brooklyn’s Mtn Laurel Recording Co.

by 15 Aug 2026

Listen: Vancouver’s Concrete Vehicles Share New Single ‘Cut Ties’

Vancouver quintet Concrete Vehicles are steadily emerging as a fine new voice in the jagged scraplands of post-punk abrasion.

by 07 Aug 2026

Listen: DIIV Return with New Single ‘The Fountain’ and Announce New Album ‘Zirp!’

There’s a bright pop-art colour to the latest chapter of DIIV that makes it seem all the more absurd, but no less real.

by 28 Jul 2026

Listen: Leeds Band Vehicle Share New Single ‘Escalators’

To listen to those brash opening chords of the new Vehicle single is to immediately inherit an unwavering confidence…

by 28 Jul 2026

Listen: Worldpeace DMT Share ‘Flower Powers’ Mixtape and Announce Second Album

‘Flowers Powers’ sees the band move from the terminally online, almost nebulous spotlessness of their former work, and introduce the Worldpeace DMT you can touch, smell and see hit things on a stage in front of you. 

by 14 Jul 2026

Listen: London’s Long Distance Runner Share Debut Single ‘Zero’

If actions speak louder than words, then London newcomers Long Distance Runner are screaming from the rooftops.