Strip everything back from 'World We Share', trade the festival-ready chorus for something closer to a held breath, and you'll land somewhere near 'Cold River', Wayne Banks' second solo single and a considerable tonal departure from his debut. FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | SPOTIFY | YOUTUBE Classified as singer/songwriter, folk rock and alternative rock, the track is built as an acoustic rock ballad, leaning on space and restraint rather than the anthemic scale of its predecessor. I

A spare bedroom in Harrogate, a loft a few streets away where the drums went down, and a photograph taken on a messy night at a working men's club near Doncaster. That's the world 'Part of Me' comes from, built by Jake Pattinson with the same hands-on, unpolished honesty that runs through everything he writes. INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | SPOTIFY | YOUTUBE Shimmering synths open into a driving 120 BPM pulse, acoustic and electric guitars locking together in the kind of widescreen i

FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | SPOTIFY Some artists spend years in the background before they get their moment out front, and Wayne Banks has earned his. A Nottingham bass player with credits alongside Robin Gibb, Saxon and The Classic Rock Show, Banks has been the reliable name behind other people's spotlights for a long time. With 'World We Share', his debut solo single, he finally claims one of his own. And what an opener it is. This is big, unapologetic indie rock built for singi