A particularly pop-heavy Hidden Gems today. So wind down, have a coffee and dabble into this array of songs this week. Featuring one of the most fascinating records of 2023...
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MONTYKEATES
PANIC!
A flared cross-over between Lynks‘ bravado and Yungblud’s energy, comes a new 21-year-old kid on the block looking to taste the same sweet treats the other lot are dabbling in. PANIC! comes the introduction of montykeates, a fuzzy alternative rock anti-pragmatic protagonist.
LAGUNA GOONS
TEACHERS
Another collective to look out for are Spanish nervy garage 4-piece Laguna Goons. Pioneering a new wave of indie-rock to native Spain, the band cultivate tracks off their experience of teaching English in local schools. With a sound not too dissimilar to Cage the Elephant, their agitated Teachers needs to be a daily-spun record on your rotation.
Sløtface
Fight Back Time
Norway’s much-loved spritely pop quintet Sløtface return today with Fight Back Time alongside breakouts The Buoys. Getting more bang for your buck than usual, is a switched-on prog-pop track about feeling a little bit too much caught up in everything. The release comes out of the fall-out of EP release AWAKE/ASLEEP earlier this year.
SOFY
socks
As a new signee for Chess Club Records (Pixey, Alfie Templeman, Coach Party), SOFY has firmly established herself already with her lavishly decorated pop anthems of colour. With four songs out as part of her 2023 timeline, comes the first full project – Chaos & Commotion, which drops on the 27th this month.
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee
We Got TO Move
Ahead of their highly-anticipated new album Los Angeles on 3rd of November, comes frenetic outlay of We Got To Move today. Featuring Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, it’s an amalgamation of quirky styles from strings, DAF synths and Punjabi-style percussion. As the title suggests – and the 13-track before it – Los Angeles is a journey into the dark heart of contemporary LaLaLand, the city of its birth, a place of limitless possibility – yet also a diseased and consumptive hell-on-earth. Some would argue.
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