Olivia Booth has never been one to soften the edges of her truth, but 'I'm Not Yours' is a lightning bolt, a boundary drawn in fire, and a voice rising where silence once lived. From the opening seconds, the song thrums with adrenaline. Drums hit like a pulse returning after shock, guitars snarl with purpose, as Booth’s voice cuts straight through the noise. She threads anger, grief and reclamation into something visceral and liberating. The result is a song that refuses to b

Stoke-on-Trent’s anthemic torchbearers All The Young return with 'Something More', a track that feels like a clenched fist held high against the grey. It’s the sound of a band who’ve walked through the industry’s fire and come out sharpened, scarred, and absolutely unwilling to play small. From the first chiming chords, there’s a familiar spark but here it’s tempered with a deeper conviction. Ryan Dooley sings like a man who’s wrestled with doubt and decided he’s done with it

Melbourne’s Dinosaur Beard return with 'Truth Arises', the centrepiece of their new creative era, and you can hear it immediately: a surge of urgency, a shimmer of the uncanny, and a sense that the ground is shifting beneath your feet. What began as a simple co-write between the band’s frontman and collaborator April slowly expanded into a towering, cinematic beast once producer Brent stepped in. His fingerprints are all over the final version in how he teases out the track’s

Shell Pink’s new EP 'Rogue Waves' is warm, shimmering, and quietly overwhelming in all the right ways. It’s the kind of release that sneaks up on you: soft at first touch, then suddenly immense, pulling you under with its emotional undertow and carrying you somewhere calmer, clearer, and strangely illuminated. Across these four tracks, Josh Rheault (the mind behind Shell Pink) leans fully into his gift for building worlds that feel drenched in sunlight and memory. But this ti

Mercy Kelly have always known how to bottle the rush of a late-night escape. But on 'Out in the Night', the Greater Manchester quartet sharpen that instinct into their most electrifying statement yet, a track that feels like sprinting through your hometown at 2am with your heart hammering and the future finally unclenching. After reshaping themselves back into a four-piece, the band waste absolutely no time proving that reduction can be a rebirth. The song arrives with chimin

Michellar’s new single 'The Star' arrives like a soft breath against a frosted window, offering a gentle, luminous reminder of why winter songs matter in the first place. Instead of leaning into the bombast and glitter that so often dominate seasonal releases, she opts for a fireside confession wrapped in nostalgia, memory, and the soft ache of years gone by. Crafted once again in collaboration with producer Toby Wilson, the track feels like the tender heart of their long-dis

The New Citizen Kane has never been the kind of artist to colour inside the lines, but with 'Psychedelika Pt.1', he throws out the colouring book, constructing an entire, full-spectrum universe in its place. It’s a surrealist theme park of feeling, memory, and technicolour chaos, built for those who crave music that demands something of them. Across seventeen sprawling tracks in Part One alone, 'Psychedelika' unfurls like a graphic novel of the soul, featuring chapters of anx

Polish alt-rock shapeshifters Sour Blood take another left turn with 'Elegy', a track that trades their usual bite for something far more fragile yet no less affecting. If their previous songs felt like stand-alone episodes in a cult TV series, this one plays like the reflective mid-season chapter, the moment when the noise drops and the characters finally admit what’s been haunting them. 'Elegy' opens with bare acoustic chords as if the band is deliberately clearing the room

At just seventeen, Lana Karlay arrives with the kind of presence most artists spend a decade trying to cultivate. Her new single 'Don’t Let Me Go' is a coming-of-age anthem wrapped in vulnerability, grit, and the unmistakable urgency of someone feeling everything all at once. It’s the sound of youth burning bright, but with songwriting instincts far beyond her years. Karlay opens the track in a whisper-soft glow, her voice trembling at the edge of confession. There’s a tremor

Avi Jacob has always written like someone living three inches from his own heart, but 'Hawk in the Nest' feels like the moment that heart cracks open and lights up the whole room. This record is a beautiful collision of grit and grace, a widescreen blend of indie-soul, acoustic warmth, and brassy, full-bodied arrangements that practically radiate heat. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a bar-room storyteller stepped into a cathedral of harmony, this is it. What’s i

Ivan Moult has always written with the sensitivity of someone who listens closely to people, places, and the quiet in-between. But on 'Stood Out In the Storm', the Cardiff songwriter turns that attentiveness inward, crafting a record that feels like a hand gripping a lifeline in the dark and finding, slowly, that it holds. It’s his most affecting work yet, delivering a fragile, luminous collection shaped by the slow, patient act of climbing out of the wreckage. Where his prev

There’s a particular kind of song that feels like someone cracking open a long-shut window. And 'Come Back (When You Feel Like)', the debut single from Chris Bull’s new project Every Other Weekend, is exactly that kind of moment. Offering the sound of a breath drawn after years underwater, a hesitant but hopeful step back toward the thing that once defined him. After nearly a decade away from releasing music, he reemerges with a track that sits in its own vulnerability, stead

Some albums feel meticulously carved over months of careful sculpting. Norine Braun’s 'A Hero In The Wind' feels like it arrived alive, breathing, and still warm from the moment it was born. Recorded largely in one-take, one-hour bursts during Steve Dawson’s Henhouse live sessions, Braun’s latest release is a fearless plunge into instinct over perfection. You can feel the adrenaline of committing to emotion rather than sanding down the edges. The result is an album that thrum

After twelve silent years, most bands would tiptoe back into the world. But Highroad No. 28 don’t tiptoe, they bleed their way in. Their comeback single 'Ache' is a slow-burning exhale from a group that has spent more than a decade learning how to hold the weight of its own history. From the moment the first note lands, 'Ache' feels like standing in an abandoned room where ghosts haven’t quite decided whether to stay or leave. The guitars unfurl in long, cinematic arcs, while

There are artists who write songs, and then there are artists who build worlds. For nearly two decades, The Kiss That Took A Trip has belonged firmly to the latter camp. Operating more like a solitary architect than a conventional musician, M.D. Trello has spent years chiselling out a cosmos that lives somewhere between dreamstate fog, avant-garde abrasion, and widescreen emotional release. With 'Horror Vacui', he delivers yet another interior universe, one that feels like st

There’s a certain kind of Christmas song that doesn’t need sleigh bells or glitter to hit its mark. The kind that sits quietly beside you, brushes the cold from your coat, and whispers that you’re not alone in missing someone. Gavin Fox’s new duet 'Where I Belong' is exactly that sort of winter companion, which is destined to find its way into the hearts of anyone who knows what it is to long for home. Fox has always been a songwriter who writes from the marrow, and here he l

There are comeback stories, and then there are arrivals that feel like someone stepping out of their own shadow and finally breathing again. 'Capped The Duke', the striking first release from Glasgow’s newest indie-folk force Boxer, lands firmly in the latter. It’s the sound of an artist closing one chapter with quiet conviction and opening another with a full, beating heart. Boxer emerges from the dissolution of The Exhales rearranged, reflective, and reaching toward somethi

Some albums feel like destinations. While 'Wander Still' feels like the journey itself; the slow, steady kind that changes you without your noticing, until one morning you look in the mirror and realise you’ve stepped into a version of yourself you’ve been inching toward for years. Across eighteen tracks, Swedish artist Ulrich Jannert crafts a world that moves with the cadence of deep breaths and long conversations with your own reflection. His palette of soul-infused warmth,

With their latest anthem 'Dog Hour Decline', Newcastle alt-rock outfit CIRCUS land their most explosive statement yet: a snarling, full-throttle reckoning with a society rotting from the inside out. From the opening seconds, the track feels like a warning siren wrapped in distortion. A ghostly, chorused guitar line drifts across the stereo field before the whole thing erupts with drums hitting like collapsing scaffolding, bass punching through the floorboards, and guitar riff

CS Hellmann’s new two-track EP 'In My Head' are a pair of songs pulled from the space between self-reckoning and restless ambition. It’s a stunningly focused step forward for the Nashville artist, who has spent the past few years chiseling a world where shadowy synths, bruised honesty, and wide-open atmosphere blur into something unmistakably his own. And at the centre of it all is the creative chemistry between Hellmann and producer Jared Corder, a partnership that’s become