Til My Heart Don't Beat
The Nashville southern rockers are Michael Hobby, Bill Satcher and Graham DeLoach. This is only included on the 'Deluxe' (ie. grab some extra dosh from ya) version of their 2024 album
Flowers & Dirt
The L.A. indie-rockers hit big with their 2023 debut album, 'The Gutter'. The band is Alex Alvarez (vcls), John Luther (gtr), Jonny Ransom (drms), and Garrett Orseno (aka DJ Topgun) (bass). Co-vcls here are by Alvarez' girlfriend, Lola Bllue
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Insomniac
Tom Foston's punksters hail from Kingston-upon-Hull. Many say it shows!
Sorry Not Sorry
Doncaster's Pete Spiby (ex-Groop Dogdrill) leads the Sheffield 'gumbo noise' merchants, who return with another supremely catchy instant rock hit
Here We Go Crazy
The former Husker Du star releases his fifteenth album. It ollows 2020's 'Blue Hearts'
Makes Me Great
Another slice of superb-ness from San Francisco's Anton Newcombe, following his 23rd album 'The Future Is Your Past' in 2023
Lemon
The Atlanta rockers are Carson Pace (vcls), Maddie and Daniel (gtrs), Jackie (bass), Amber (strings, kybds) and Matthew (drms)
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CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)
From Leesburg, Virginia, the band began as the solo project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Will Toledo (b. William Barnes). From their thirteenth studio album, which they describe as a 'rock opera'or 'concept album'
Take Me To Beijing
It's called 'Canto-pop' or 'C-pop'. The Seattle duo of Bryce and Anne create Chinese-English tunes that "bring together their cultural experiences". So now you know
Root Of All Evil
This is an album of remixes of tracks from their 2024 album 'Rockmaker'. London's Jagjit 'Jagz 'Singh Kooner (Aloof, Andrew Weatherall, Reverand & The Makers) got hold of this one
Lean Into The Wind
Wilmslow's Jez and Andy Williams and Jim Goodwin form the highly respected indie trio, who got together after meeting at The Hacienda nightclub in Manchester. This track was only included on the 'bonus' (ie. make more dosh) CD edition of the album
Before You I Just Forget
Following their fourth album, 'Romance', the Dublin quintet released this rather fine 7-inch double a-side vinyl single on 18 April 2025. Rather cynically, it's also available on the 'Deluxe' (ie. more expensive) version of the album
Snow Angels
Gum is Freemantle (Western Australia)'s Jay Watson (Tame Impala) and Ambrose Kenny-Smith. Generous to a fault, they 'gift' you this track on their 'Deluxe' (ie. more expesnive) album edition
Take Me Back
The Californian indie-popsters are sisters Este, Danielle & Alana Haim, with drummer Dash Hutton
Enough Is Enough
Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's Swedish alt-rockers return wih their seventh collection, which they describe this as 'an album of twelve singles'. Modest as ever, then
Bright Eyes
The Baltimore indies formed in 2002 and are Drew Danburry (gtr/vcls), Eli Sims (drms), Leena Rhodes (gtr, vcls), Brendan Russell (bass), Peyton Rodeffer (gtr, vcls) and Andrew Young (drms). We're told they originally recorded this classic-in-the-making back in 2004
You're Dead
The talented duo are Nottingham's Alexander Robert Headford and Diva Sachy Jeffrey
Grow Wings And Fly
The Melbourne pyscho-rock band formed in 2010. Astonishingly, this is their twenty-seventh studio album
Abracadabra
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta: mad as a bat, but immensley talented
Deep End
The band was formed by Evan Dando and Ben Deily at school in Boston (USA) around 1986. This is their first album in early two decades and Dando says it was made with 'love, fire and chanting'
Let You Fade
LP are back with a new line-up comprising Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Phoenix and Joe Hahn, alongside new members Emily Armstrong as co-vocalist and Colin Brittain as drummer. They'll charge you extra for this track, included only the 'Deluxe' (more expensive) edition
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Billie Toppy (2025)
The Montreal band was formed by school friends Jessy Caron and Dragos Chiriac in 2012. They were later joined by in 2013 by the classically trained vocalist, Odile Marmet-Rochefort, and in 2015 by Emmanuelle Proulx
Love To Death
The five-piece Vancouver-based indie-rockers are Ryan Guldemond (gtr, vcls), his sister Molly (vcls, kybds), Jasmin Parkin (vcls, kybds), Ali Siadat (drms), and Mike Young (bass)
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How Will I Ever
Isabell Hultgren Farsani's seven-piece band are from Uppsala, and say they like to move in the musical borderland between Sweden and California, 'think Boy Genius, but in slush and sleet'
Ballad Of The Last Payphone
A.C. (Carl) Newman keeps things fresh on the Canadian band's first release since their ninth album 'Continue As A Guest'
All For You
Long Island's Bob Sachnoff is back with his highly-addictive mix of rock, folk and blues
Got To Have Love
Following their (we need more dosh) reunion in 2022, Sheffield's premier luvvy Jarv Is Cocker and chums return with their eighth studio album. The magic has gone, but this is still catchier than many
Strange
The Danish duo Sune Rose Wagner (instrumentation, vcls) and Sharin Foo (bass, vcls) have now been making records together since 2001
Moody
The Sydney indie-popsters Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic are 'embracing a moody summer', apparently.
Tyrants
Born on 25 Apr 1994, Fender is a singer-songwriter from North Shields. This is his second album, following his 2019 debut, 'Hypersonic Missiles'. He would have won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest had it not been for the 'weepy' voting for Ukraine
Already Part Of The Problem
Based in Coventry, the band is led by the vocals and drums of Ian Finnegan
This Is The Silence
Following the 2024 release of the eighth studio album by Gary Lightbody's Ulster-Scottish band, they now cynically cash-in on an 'Extended Edition' which includes this track. Nice
Seems Like You Don't Know Me
Now on their thirteenth studio album, Kelly Jones' Welsh Wizards can still turn them out
Disintegrate
Returning to more of their old swagger, this is the tenth album by Brett Anderson's London indies and follows 2022's 'Autofiction'
Stomping On The Demons
When not playing, the Bangor (NI) Nordies (formerly called Trigger Lilies) love to munch on their leafy greens. Allegedly. Seems to work; stonking hot tune
Freakout At The Mud Palace
Mike Scott goes nuts over the Kansas star of 'New Hollywood', Dennis Lee Hopper
CPR
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers return with possibly the most highly-anticipated sophomore album ever. It follows their enormous success with their 2022 debut, 'Wet Leg'. Pity about the U.S. album title spelling, though. This song was written by Teasdale and their bass player, Ellis Durand
Time Bomb
Whiskey Myers are a U.S. southern country-rock from Texas. The line-up is Cody Cannon (ld vlcs, gtr), Cody Tate (ld gtr), John Jeffers (gtrs, vcls), Jeff Hogg (drms) and Gary Brown (bass)
Nothing On Me
Formerly known as 'Fear Of Flying', Harry McVeigh's Ealing post-punk/indie band started out in 2007. This is their first new music since 2022's 'As I Try Not To Fall Apart' album
Scared Of Glass
Says our old chum Ginger: 'it's about getting back on your feet after things have gone wrong. There's an old saying, 'fall down three times, get up four''