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Nixer’s feeling …
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming EP by the duo of Seán Keenan & Gearóid Peggs from Dublin, a banging new single with shades of early 80s new wave or New York’s Suicide, but with a fresh, viscerally powerful Irish semi-spoken delivery
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Crows
Song of the Day: The first new music in three years by the London band comes in this blistering burst of post-punk taken from second album Beware Believers, due out 1 April via Bad Vibrations Records
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Ghostbaby
Song of the Day: Humorous, droll, catchy and full of pathos, this single comes from the four-piece indie-punk band from Paisley and the Glasgow area, their sound reflecting a love of the Pixies (check the Debaser reference), as well as echoes of early Blur and Libertines
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Sweeping Promises’s Pain Without A Touch
Song of the Day: Thumpingly catchy post-punk about tricky love by the American indie duo of Lira and Caufield who hail from Lawrence, Kansas and Boston, Massachusetts with this recent new single now out on Sub Pop
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Menacing sound: DITZ
Song of the Day: More angry postpunk, this time from the Brighton five-piece, who have a menacingly stormy, extreme loud-soft dynamic, stratchy guitars and driving rhythm in this cri de coeur against low-paid labour
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Work ethics: Sprints’ new single
Song of the Day: “This modern hope, that’s all I have.” Brilliantly angry, sharp, ironic postpunk new single by the band from Dublin expressing aspirational frustration through caustic wit, passionate vocals and searing guitar
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Song of the Day: With an almost tongue-twisting title and sharp, caustic lyrics, a sample of London post-punk band’s angry, angular attack approach on modern life with guitar work to match, taken from their EP Fish & Chips
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When the chips are down …
Song of the Day: ‘I like to participate in life’s edge. From time to time I take a little ride over that edge’. Heart-racing, breathless spoken word packed with images of hedonism, pubs and fast, frantic living in this debut single by the quintessentially British MC who is a mixture of Sleaford Mods, Slowthai and the Streets
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Loose Fit’s new single, Exhale
Song of the Day: Tight, crisp, catchy, rolling rhythm postpunk by the band from Sydney, Australia, featuring Anna Langdon on vocals, Max Edgar on guitar, Kaylene Milner on drums, Richard Martin on bass, and Jonathan Boulet on congas
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Bambara
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming album Love on My Mind, a scorching new single about a passionate encounter by the Brooklyn post-punk band formed by twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh with Nick Cave among their influences
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From the visualiser animation by Alex Evans of Comes With Fries for The Lounge Society’s Last Breath
Song of the Day: “I will spend my last breath singing.” Despite the walls of the world caving in, a fabulously defiant new number by the band from Hebden Bridge mixing elements of post-punk and psychedelia and produced by Dan Carey
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Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Doers by New York-band Bodega, another caustic and clever post-punk song about being awash with information by the London-based band fronted by vocalist Zac Woolley
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Pointed: from the Doers video by Bodega
Song of the Day: Excellent, punchy new single by the New York post-punk five-piece band from the forthcoming album Broken Equipment, here all about the crazed activity and pressure of living in the big city as well non-stop online culture
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Screensaver
Song of the Day: Dark, powerful post-punk with echoes of Siouxsie & the Banshees and the ‘77-’82 era by the Melbourne band fronted by singer Krystal Maynard in a song about anxiety, rumination and a character paralysed by fear and intrusive thoughts
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M(h)aol
Song of the Day: Dark, jagged post-punk rock with jagged guitars and tough, powerful, spoken, feminist edge by the Dublin band and the title track from their latest EP
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Beige Banquet in action
Song of the Day: Taut, wirey, spiky, punchy post-punk with an existential theme by the London band who like to use deadened guitar strings for rhythm, the first track from their latest EP, S/T, out on Just Step Sideways Records
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Field Music’s new EP - another shot follows their most recent album, Flat White Moon
Song of the Day: Taken from the Brewis brothers’ latest EP, Another Shot, a genre-spanning of clever rhythms and vivid lyrics with about change of circumstances and fear of change through the prisms of seemingly ordinary domestic details in a small town
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Song of the Day: Wonderfully cascading guitar riffs and soaring vocals mark out this catchy post-punk number by the four-piece band from Oakland, California capturing life’s absurdities, from their self-titled album
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The Smirk EP
Song of the Day: Timeless fast, direct, no-nonsense fuzzy post-punk from the project of California’s Nic Vicario from Crisis Man, Public Eye, and Cemento, in a style that will also please fans of Flat Worms. From the newest EP and out out on the Portland, Oregon-based label Total Punk!
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Out of the darkness come … Deep Tan
Song of the Day: Dirty, droll and furry, hairy and hedonistic, this beautifully offbeat, oddball, Slits-cum-Bette Davis, sharp, stark, post-punk number by the London trio is inspired by the act of sex in animal costumes, and was recorded and produced by Dan Carey for his Speedy Wunderground label
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