Here we are, another week, another playlist with some more corkers here for you to get stuck into.

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We start off with the new dreampop work from NewDad before heading off sideways to the alternative with The Bug Club’s new one It’s Art. We also have some new Future Utopia mixed in here from his sophomore album of We Were We Still Are, featuring Kae Tempest. Not to mention the new one from English Teacher – our faves right now in the post-punk/alternative category. Where we don’t have any Opus Kink this time around, we make up for it with DEADLETTER; with their corrosive vocals and maddening horns. Ethereal indie-soon-to-be-giants Prima Queen are sat watching the Eclipse still, possibly still aghast at the journey they’ve taken so far.

In celebration of Ezra Collection winning this years’ Mercury Prize, we have thrown in fellow attribute Dave Okumu with his swampy jazz-funk catalogue in I Came From Love. Oh, and don’t worry. We’ve made sure to include the winners themselves a little later on. We also have some electronic sounds for our listeners too, with both Heartworms and Bonobo making a scene on the 30-track line-up. The itsy-bitsy tweakers of Warmduscher are also making an appearance, because we are catered to BBC Radio 6Music after all. An odd bit of Folly Group and King Wisker, no one really knows what their make up is. Either way, they’re here to stay. It’s punk music for weird people.

If you fancy something less disconcerting on the ol’ drums, we have thrown in the moods of instrumental indie-rockers Explosions In The Sky. Enchanting wizardry in dynamic and sound, they are soundtrack connoisseurs with them very much been there got the t-shirt. Think GoGo Penguin during the Northern Lights and you’re halfway there.

We also have future featured artist expose THUS LOVE hitting the latter stages of the playlist with Repetitioner – the lead showing from their 2022 debut Memorial. It’s indie psychedelics certainly worth listening to. Of course, we’re hit with some Ezra Collective (congrats again) off their 2022 award-winning album Where I’m Meant To Be, before we’re swooned in with some of my On Repeats this week. The new indie-swell of Nottingham heroes Divorce and Brighton-based Demob Happy – with both upcoming shows in the East Midlands soon.

LET’S GET INTO IT!