With its brooding, echoing appeal, We couldn’t help but think of John Grant when listening to this new track from Philip Selway. You may know him as the drummer from Radiohead so naturally the beats are all in order, but…
Oh lord, this is a bit special. Ruu Campbell, the former Leftfield vocalist, is doing something special, with shades of Jose Gonzalez and a touch of Grey Reverend…but mostly a sound all of his own. Brooding, intricate and utterly transfixing,…
Please welcome Esben And The Witch back into your life. Please do it by listening to ‘Dig Your Fingers In’, the first track from their new album A New Nature, out on September 1. If this taster doesn’t have you…
You may know him as Scott from Frightened Rabbit, but forget that – he’s Owl John now. And he’s making grungy, dirty music full of latent threat and purpose. He says: “This song is about a desire to escape the…
https://soundcloud.com/oh-so-quiet/inure-1 This is ‘Inure’, the B side to the new single from Oh So Quiet – a London-based six-piece formed by Argentinian siblings Lucas and Malena Zavala. We’re not 100% sure why we were sent the B side rather than…
This track could hardly be any more different than the last August List track we featured – ‘Forty-Rod Of Lightnin’. The two have one thing very definitely in common though – they’re both awesome. A double A side with It…
We love Hannah Peel and we’d happily listen to her play any song on her music box. That this one, ‘Invisible City’, happens to be a bit of a cracker, really helps. It’s an unreleased track – performed here in…
Today is the 500th song of the day, which is definitely a thing – but it’s also our live editor Helen’s birthday, which is definitely a bigger a thing. So while we toyed with picking ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’…
Summer’s not for everyone. If you’re the type of person who cowers inside when the temperature rises for fear of being burnt by the sun and stung by wasps, this new track from Emily Barker’s Vena Portae could be the…
https://soundcloud.com/andras-pokorny/sun-fill-me-up Chaotic, tuneful and very, very catchy – this is ‘Sun, Fill Me Up’ by Andras Pokorny, the first single from his debut album High July. If you think you can hear an ambulance siren in somewhere, that’s because you…