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BODEGA’s forthcoming next album, Our Brand Could Be YR Life
Song of the Day: Smart, punchy, social satire in this new post-punk single by the New York band fronted by Ben Hozie, from the upcoming album Our Brand Could Be YR Life, out on Chrysalis Records
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M(h)aol - Pursuit
Song of the Day: Following last year’s excellent debut album Attachment Styles, a visceral, intense single by the feminist postpunk Dublin band, about the traumatic experience of being followed home
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The Mysterines - Stray
Song of the Day: A darkly gothic, smouldering, then explosive new rock single by the Merseyside band fronted by vocalist and guitarist Lia Metcalfe, taken from their forthcoming second album, Afraid of Tomorrows, out in June on Fiction Records
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Lip Critic - The Heart
Song of the Day: Frenetic, explosive experimental post-punk electronica by the New York band featuring double drummers, anarchic sampling and frontman Bret Kaser’s lyrical attack on the state of the spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption
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Dog Race featuring singer Katie Healy
Song of the Day: Distinctive, punchy indie by the London five-piece with a distinctive witty, staccato vocal style by Katie Healy, alluring melodies and a menacing, dark bass line on this single described as “a cold-sweat invocation of modern anxieties and personal suffocation”
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Blue Whale’s forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images
Song of the Day: Excellently angular, guitar post-punk spiralling with a crazed but controlled momentum by the Belfast band in this opening instrumental track of their forthcoming sophomore album, Last Immediate Images
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Kim Gordon
Song of the Day: A dark, menacing but very strikingly original new number by the legendary former Sonic Youth frontwoman, fusing noise rock, electronica, and a farewell shopping-and-packing list, which heralds her next solo album, The Collection, out on 8 March
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A Certain Ratio - All Comes Down to This
Song of the Day: With an ever-evolving sound, a belter of a new single by the veteran Manchester post-punk trio brings electronic twists, sharp lyrics and the production magic of Speedy Wunderground label’s Dan Carey with the title track of their forthcoming new LP
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Yard Act … they make hits
Song of the Day: The Leeds band fronted by James Smith return with another catchy, clever, talky, ironic post-punk single, here parodying the very nature of what they do, and heralding the new album, Where’s My Utopia
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C Turtle’s Shake It Down comes from the new album Expensive Thrills
Song of the Day: Heralding the forthcoming album Expensive Thrills, out in March on Blitzcat Records a snappy, clever, catchy, caustic rasping buzz-guitar post-punk single by the London lo-fi indie quartet
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Sam Akpro
Song of the Day: With a fabulously meaty bass thrum, a textured guitars, drums and synths, a forthright, engaging track about living in excess, released late last year by the singer, songwriter & producer from Peckham in south-east London
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Ratbag’s EP, Why Aren’t You Laughing?
Song of the Day: Sharp, catchy, renegade-themed indie post-punk from New Zealand by the band of Auckland artist Sophie Brown with the opening track from her debut EP, Why Aren’t You Laughing, alongside a panache for Gorillaz-style visuals
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Osees’ latest album, Intercepted Message
Song of the Day: Another gem from 2023, a brilliantly madcap track taken from latest LP, Intercepted Message, by the prolific San Francisco rock band fronted by John Dwyer, with a prime example one with their current psychedelic, synth-punk fireworks to go with garage-rock guitar and double drums
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Search Results’ debut album, Information Blip
Song of the Day: Short, sharp, agile, clever, energetic indie post-punk by the Dublin trio of Adam Hoban, Fionn Brennan and Jack Condon, taken from their September album Information Blip, out on Knob Polish Records
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Fat White Family - Religion For One
Song of the Day: The mischievously erudite British post-punk experimentalists return with a gently caustic, darkly sinister Leonard Cohen-style take on cultural narcissism with a video parodying art and self-expression
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English Teacher
Song of the Day: Another intricate, clever, dynamically palyed, passionately sung indie single by the Leeds band of Douglas Frost, Lewis Whiting, Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden, here about about life’s unstoppability no matter how hard you struggle against it
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Heartworms - May I Comply
Song of the Day: Caustically sharp lyrics, darkly thrumming and brilliantly shard-like shimmering sounds come in this new single by the London goth-postpunk band fronted by Jojo Orme, another cutting-edge single produced by Dan Carey via his label Speedy Wunderground
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day: With an alluring pitch bend riff and drily witty vocals, the trans-European German-French-Italian-London experimental post-punk-pop outfit return with new material, and an album including the best of their first two EPs – Ü (2021) and Another Fact (2022)
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The brilliant and incomparable Fulu Miziki collective
Song of the Day: The collective from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, return with a vibrant, upbeat, infectious, rhythmic punk-Afro-futuristic track with a title that translates as “pain and pleasure”
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Manchester’s Maruja
Song of the Day: Stormy, scything, dynamic post-punk with blasts of jazz by the Manchester quartet of singer-guitarist Harry Wilkinson, drummer Jacob Hayes, bassist Matt Buonaccorsi and saxophonist Joe Carroll
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