Yot Club - human nature, 2024

"dreamy, bedroom-pop energy that masks some pretty melancholic lyrics about love, loss, and the inevitability of people drifting apart."

The Reds Pinks And Purples - don't dream alone, 2024

"Don't Dream Alone" is a track by The Reds, Pinks & Purples, featured on their 2024 album The World Doesn't Need Another Band, released on September 5, 2024. The song is a 2-minute, 6-second melancholic indie pop gem, characterized by Glenn Donaldson's signature jangle-pop sound with introspective lyrics and a lo-fi aesthetic. It’s one of the album’s more meditative moments, exuding a "sad and heavy honesty" with a whispery, intimate delivery. The track was first performed live on October 11, 2024, at The 4-Star Theater in San Francisco. The album blends new songs with remixes of previous singles, incorporating noisier elements and real drums alongside Donaldson’s strummy earworms, drawing comparisons to The Smiths, The Go-Betweens, and Sarah Records. Fans have praised its catchy, gloomy, and literate vibe, with influences from '80s and '90s college rock."

Ford Chastain - give it time, 2024

"The sweltering mid-year months carry their own unique brands of white-hot wistfulness and seasonal depression as the days drag on and on and the nights just flatly refuse to cool off."

Saint Etienne - alone together, 2024

"For an amazingly long time, Saint Etienne have deftly blended and updated the cool bits of past forms with the sounds of now. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, and Pete Wiggs have made music that's danceable, joyous, peppy, and sometimes mournful. Now, in 2024, they've turned their sights on years gone by, with a release that is heavy with a sense of time spent, and regrets weighed and assessed. That said, it's also quite possibly their loveliest record to date."

Velvet Trip - silly boy, 2024

"We’re lucky enough to be in the infant stages – we don’t have a super established audience base, so I don’t think people are going to be too shocked. Personally, I just try and think about making music as a way of expressing yourself, and I think it’s really important to grow and change with every release. As much as I can help it, the goal of Velvet Trip is to always expand and grow."

El Perro Del Mar - kiss of death, 2024

"I think of the album as a journey into the Underworld and back. "Kiss of Death" is about returning to the world of the living, scarred but with the insight of how close death is. Loss is a scar. We should carry it with us; not as a threat but as a promise of making the most of the time we’re here."

Tindersticks - the secret of breathing, 2024

"you struggle to find a contemporary artist to compare Tindersticks to in 2024, but then, it was hard to see where they fitted in 30 years ago. They seem content to inhabit a quiet space some distance away from the main action and understandably so: it’s a place that’s a pleasure to visit."

Riley's Mountain - plead, 2024

"Seattle, Washington"

The Innocence Mission - cloud to cloud, 2024

"the captivating acoustic arpeggios of “Cloud to Cloud”, where the melodies seem especially colorful and melancholy, and even if the whole experience is starting to feel a bit like Groundhog’s Day, at least it’s one of those beautiful winter days where the sun peeks out between the clouds and offers the promise of spring amidst the hush of a chilly Pennsylvania winter."

The KVB - happy xmas war is over cover, 2024

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" was the culmination of more than two years of peace activism"

Windows 96 - apartments, 2024

"Apartments is incredible"

Club 8 - something's wrong in my head, 2024

"Club 8 have long been the kind of restless band not content to keep making the same record over and over. Unlike many groups who strike out when they attempt new things, the duo of Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård pretty much knock the cover off the ball every time they take a swing. Previous albums have taken on trip-hop, African pop, sample-based electronic, and synth pop, to name a few. 2025's A Year with Club 8 delves into fuzzy punk-pop with big hooks, guitars that jangle and crash, and tempos that inspire dancing around the room with abandon -- or staring moodily into space on the slower numbers."

Pet Shop Boys - all the young dudes cover, 2024

"All the Young Dudes" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by the English rock band Mott the Hoople in 1972 by Columbia Records. Bowie produced the song, which he had given to the band after they rejected his "Suffragette City". Bowie would subsequently record the song himself. Regarded as an anthem of glam rock, the song has received acclaim and was a commercial success. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "All the Young Dudes" number 166 in its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is also one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll."

Saint Etienne - half light, 2024

“We realized that it had been several years since we’d actually done that, sprawling out on the carpet, mugs of coffee in hand, sheets of lyrics and half ideas for titles lying around us."

Father John Misty - screamland, 2024

"Sounds like he’s using his voice more like an instrument then a voice, if this is the sound he’s going for with his next album in November I think we’ve got an incredible album on the way!"

The Reds Pinks And Purples - the world doesn't need another band, 2024

"Puede parecer que Glenn Donaldson edita discos The Reds, Pinks and Purples sin ton ni son y solo porque tiene un grupo de canciones que le sobran. Pero el de San Francisco sabe muy bien lo que se hace. Porque, a pesar de que lleva más de veinte discos y EPS editados desde 2019, cada uno tiene su coherencia y no son simples “Mr. Sobras”. La prueba la tenemos en su nuevo trabajo, donde aparece una faceta más sucia de lo habitual. Algo que ha conseguido reuniendo alguno de los singles que ha ido editando a lo largo de estos años, una nueva mezcla de un tema ya conocido, y varias canciones nuevas. Y, como no podría ser de otra manera, le funciona bastante bien."

Club 8 - left behind, 2024

"They must be among the most prolific acts out there and this after decades in the industry so it seems like Club 8 collective fire (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård) shows no sign of abating. ‘Left Behind’ is fulsome of arrangement, heavy percussion/light harmonies and all scuttling along at the speed of knots. Yep, we’re afforded an aural view to lift us free from daily blandom and into a world where the sweet smelling sound of dreampop comes in bountiful supplies."

Coldplay - we pray, 2024

"Coldplay is teaming up with music superstars from around the world for their new single! The band, led by frontman Chris Martin, just dropped their new song “We Pray” featuring acclaimed UK rapper Little Simz, Nigerian Afrobeats superstar Burna Boy, Palestinian-Chilean R&B phenomenon Elyanna, and chart-topping Argentine TINI."

Club 8 - getting by, 2024

"Sweden’s Club 8 have just released their sixth single of 2024, and each one somehow seems to be better than the last."

Midi Memory - a stitch in time, 2024

"Everything we need is here See through a new angle"