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Gilla Band, formerly Girl Band
Song of the Day: A distorted buzz, a belting relentless beat, a strikingly assertive, ironic drawl of a talky Mark E Smith-style post-punk vocal and oddball guitar strokes, this new number by the Dublin band (formerly formerly Girl Band) smashes out its presence and heralds the upcoming thrid album Most Normal
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The Cool Greenhouse forthcoming album Sod’s Toastie
Song of the Day: “It’s like Windows 98 in here.” From the forthcoming second album Sod’s Toastie, a brilliant blend of Bowie-esque post-punk and superbly droll, witty paradox-filled, absurdist spoken lyrics by the British band fronted by Tom Greenhouse
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A biting new single by DEADLETTER
Song of the Day: The latest in a run of excellent indie post-punk single releases by the sharp, witty Yorkshire and London band such as Fit For Work and Pop Culture Connoisseur sees frontman Zac and co highlighting an excessive trait inherent within human behaviour
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Red alert: here’s comes De Staat
Songs of the Day: Stylish, syncopated, restless, witty, and slightly menacing, these punchy and pulsating new numbers by the entertaining Dutch alt-rockers comes from their new playlist of songs grouped under different colours – red, yellow, blue
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Sniffany & The Nits
Song of the Day: From their recently released album The Unscratchable Itch, searingly witty punk by the London band with a number from the point of view of a wife whose husband is into swinging, with all the visceral, fetid detail that may entail
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Yumi And The Weather - Can You Tell
Song of the Day: “Let’s drive straight into the fog, All I know is this isn’t love.” Compelling, powerful indie post-punk by Brighton’s Ruby Taylor, in this number about recklessness and regrets, fate and fortune
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Big Joanie
Song of the Day: Crackingly catchy, touching love song lo-fi indie post-punk by the London feminist trio of Stephanie Phillips, bassist Estella Adeyeri, and drummer Chardine Taylor-Stone from their forthcoming album Back Home
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The Paranoyds’ new album Talk Talk Talk
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming album Talk Talk Talk, witty garage rock/post-punk by the four-piece self-described “eyebrow” band from Los Angeles with shades of Devo and The Runaways, and out on Third Man Records
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Sorry’s latest single
Song of the Day: Dark, bittersweet twangy and clangy post-punk indie from the London five-piece band in this latest love song single about new romance but also desperate insecurity, taken from their forthcoming second album Anywhere But Here
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100 Records by Gramme
Song of the Day: Wonderfully quirky post-punk pop by the London band with ironically spinning lyrics, cleverly inventive rhythms, superbly squirty saxophone by producer Pete Wareham of Melt Yourself Down, and vocal delivery by Samantha Lynham that has shades of Siouxsie Sioux
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Hallan’s new single
Song of the Day: New punchy, caustic indie post-punk by the Portsmouth band with a title that translates from German as ‘to throw up’’ and sharply and ironically parodies a Anglo-Saxon attitudes and picks up on various national crises and hypocrisies
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Hitting on the right things to say … Cheekface
Song of the Day: Sharp, witty, post-punk indie with shades of Television and Cake by the Los Angeles trio in a song about “what it means to say the right thing if others think you’re virtue signaling, especially if you’re worried they might be a little right”
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Come, say Grave Goods …
Song of the Day: Raunchily angry, scratchy, dark, bold, minimalist post-punk and heavy rock comes like a bullet with a devilishly menacing video in this new project by members of PINS, Girls Names, and September Girls, and heralds their forthcoming debut album: Tuesday. Nothing Exists
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A great musical serving by Courting …
Song of the Day: As the 2022 Wimbledon tournament begins, let’s enjoy this sharp, witty new post-punk number by the Liverpool quartet, about a different form of to-and-fro ball-hitting in a dysfunctional relationship
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Regressive Left
Song of the Day: With shades of LCD Soundsystem and The Human League, this sharp new postpunk single by the trio fronted by Simon Tyrie focuses on deliberately assuming the worst of someone or something they’ve said or done, something exacerbated by social media
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Cola’s album Deep in View
Song of the Day: A thrumming, knotty, crafty, catchy post-punk single with a glam-rock beat by the trio of former Ought members Tim Darcy (vocals, guitar) and Ben Stidworthy (bass) alongside Evan Cartwright (drums) from their debut album Deep in View out on Fire Talk
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Ezra Furman returns with a new album in August
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming new album All of Us Flames, an impassioned powerful new song by the American inspired by a female friend who a woman warns her the lover about her past crises, and they will come likely return
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Cover of the accompanying EP of this single to go with the 2022 Telefís album a hAon
Song of the Day: From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia"
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Crack Cloud’s forthcoming album Tough Baby
Inventive, alternative postpunk-pop by the Vancouver collective themed around the aspirations of the teenage bedroom wall, and while art is a mechanism for healing and discovery, it also faces paradoxical engineered illusions of media industry
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Viagra Boys’ upcoming new album Cave World
Song of the Day: After Black Midi and Straw Man Army, more powerful new post-punk with rippling guitar work and a moral outrage against violence, here by the Swedish band from their forthcoming album Cave World
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