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Mid-90s Britpop meets mid-80s indie, in the cracking debut from Sports Team: Deep Down Happy. Some proper earworms too, especially Here's...

One of my finds of 2020 so far has to be Scottish post-punk-funk trio Shopping. What's such a surprise is that it's only with their 4th a...

A new discovery for me, but one of my highlights of the year so far. Out Of My Province is the third album from New Zealand singer-songwr...

Continuing my concerted attempt to crack jazz, helped by releases from a new gen of artists that I actually like. So hot on the heels of ...

One of my faves of the year so far, Disco Volador is the second outing from Halifax post-punk indie-poppers the Orielles. It wasn't quite...

Over 40 years on from their debut and Wire are still delivering new music that's amongst the best post-punk around. Released in January, ...

Not a new music post but an old music one, stimulated by the recent death of Steve Priest bassist with glam rock band The Sweet. Be under...

Strange as it may seem, UK supermarket Sainsbury every now and them comes up with a nice album exclusive, often on orange vinyl (to match...

Really wasn't expecting to like this. In my head Sam Fender was going to be yet another 10-a-penny, pop-folk Sheeran clone. But an interv...

Billy Bragg is one of my musical heroes, and pretty central to my political education. So I couldn't miss out on this: the best of his BB...

With a name like A Winged Victory For The Sullen you've got to be expecting some Scandi death metal or similar. Particularly with titles ...

Jazz and I have a love/hate relationship. I want to love it but usually hate it. So some of the new music coming out of the London jazz s...

I first heard this when one of the 'young people' put it on the work Spotify, and I had to go and find out what it was. Romare, AKA Archi...

Dublin is a bit of a hot bed of young post-punk bands at the moment. One of the big 2 from last year (with Fontaines DC) were The Murder ...

New song from Billy on this lockdown Mother's Day, Can't Be There Today. If it doesn't make you cry there's not much I can say.

How to describe Lost Souls Of Saturn? I'll leave it to their Bandcamp: epic in scope, time and space, this multidimensional mind trip is ...

Not sure why I'd never listened to Wild Billy Childish before, as Last Punk Standing was one of my picks of 2019. I knew who he was: from...

A top find from last year: Lung Bread For Daddy, the second album from Du Blonde (third if you count the debut by her AKA Beth Jeans Houg...

One of my 2019 top picks from someone I'd not come across before despite this being her 6th album: Stonechild by Jesca Hoop. Who, pop tri...

Straight out of Holland (and with a nod, if a bit rockier, to the 80s vibe of the Primitives and Darling Buds), Boat is the debut album f...