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Straw Man Army’s second LP
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s blistering musical military assault by Black Midi, more excellent guitar-based alternative post-punk by the New York duo Owen and Sean with a death-defying number about information overload from their second LP SOS
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The cover of black midi’s forthcoming album Hellfire
Song of the Day: Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos
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In shapes: Personal Trainer
Song of the Day: The latest in witty, catchy post-punk-pop by the Amsterdam-based seven-piece with a song loosely about dance and unity, and partly reminiscent of the style of LCD Soundsystem and Brooklyn’s Bodega
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Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall
Song of the Day: Blur’s Graham Coxon and former Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall combine in this fabulously sharp, fast, witty, post-punk electro-pop number that cries out on escaping the confines of technology and other distractions
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Cardiff’s Panic Shack: don’t even think about putting in the milk first …
Song of the Day: A catchy, sharply witty and amusing post-punk indie put-down song by the Cardiff band about how a new romance is ruined by a new boyfriend’s off-putting habits, taken from the recently released Baby Shack EP out on Brace Yourself Records
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Peeping Drexels
Song of the Day: Striking new thrumming, shimmering, swaggering post-punk by the London band in a number described as “a euphoric celebration of simplicity, the track is an ode to the vibe of chaotic old-school block parties and hard Miami bass, with a lurking undertone of darkness beneath the surface."
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Heather Elle of Flossing
Song of the Day: A biting but catchy piece of industrial post-punk indie pop tilted at misogyny, micro-aggression and manipulation, creatted by Brooklyn’s former Bodega and The Wants bassist Heather Elle, joined by guitarist Elijah Sokolow (The Living Strange) and saxophonist Kate Mohanty
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LIFE up in the North East of England
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s number by Bob Vylan, another self-addressing mental and physical health issues – drinking, smoking and eating badly and FOMO, by the vibrant post-punk indie band in a title inspired by the location of their studio near the river Humber
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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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