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The airwaves weren’t exactly crying out for a funk-fuelled prog-hop pop crooner to lay down salacious licks and drip lovable lothario cool, but perhaps they should have been, based on

John Lennon himself couldn’t have orchestrated JoeJoe S’s latest single, In Black! And in White! (don’t wanna live), better. It’s hymnal transcendence for anyone who feels alienated by the refusal

The track redresses the ‘masses against the classes’ energy of the Manics within an accordance of euphony-rich harmony. Alongside Cody’s rallying, Billy Bragg-esque vocals linger the diaphanous timbre of Liz

If no one has coined the dark cabaret trap metal genre before the drop of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dead, the honour has to go to Born Pessimist. The opening

Some of the lushest RnB of the decade landed when SHALINI RANI dropped Backseat. The Watford-based British-Indian soul-pop artist has built her voice and vision on her own terms, pulling

Baroque chamber rock shadowed by Southern Gothic aesthetics became an affecting conduit for Liya Shapiro’s labyrinthine emotions in her latest single, Another Woman. The London-based singer-songwriter draws from her studies

Genre-fusionism becomes a hypersonic missile in the latest drop from Chaidura, Plastic Beauty, an Avant-Garde glitchy metalcore riot incited against society’s surreal obsession with synthetic superficiality, which now masquerades as

Fuse the glow of Fireflies by Owl City into the often otherworldly sincerity of The Flaming Lips, incorporate the enrapturing tenderness in the colourful world of Mike Oldfield, and you’re

Jon Valenzuela delivered exactly what it says on the tin with his debut single, Shot of Adrenaline, which contorts rock into complex atypical time signatures as the arrangement moves at

If it has been a while since you last heard a release sticky-sweet enough to give you goosebumps, jump on the hype amassing around Cooper Hill and his debut album,