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Week 33 – Aug 15:// Plenty to get stuck into this week as we take a closer look at those up-and-coming artists worth talking about.

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Wistful folk-rock duo Witch Post reincarnate the temporal sounds of Sonic Youth in enchanting debut record, Beast. Comprised of Scot grit by member and fellow Scot himself Dylan Fraser and American musician Alaska Reid swooning in dark atmospherics of indie across the pond (I’m looking at you, Phoebe Bridgers), Witch Post is a coming-together of two different worlds brought together through the craft of songwriting. Beast is a potent telling of both intrigue and wonder all encompassed in the merits of alternative.

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Operating in the realms of a genre-free landscape, Nori deliver a moving adulation to free-thinking jazz with their latest record, Walking Foot. Unaware of what path to tread down, it skates and skitters over jazz instrumentation, orchestral inauguration and string arrangements which makes it a true delight to listen to. A highly liberating record backed by intrepid explorers of sound eager to scratch every itching note out, NORI are a whole heap of fun.

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Haunting, pensive and emphatically outlandish, West Irish avant-punks Nerves are a new defiant pillar rising in the uncompromising world of alternative Ireland. Chunks of abrasive noise rock burrow their way into a smorgasbord of industrial cadences and temperamental electronics as the four-piece confront the societal collapse of an Irish identity. An intensely personal project, Nerves fill a seismic cavity of work that is wholly original in sound and sentimentality; from brutal in one refrain to tender in another.

One band from Belfast started the movement; now many more join the convocation in lighting the spark for a better Ireland.

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>> Honourable Mentions

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Feral Family: The Balance – The East Yorkshire trio bring a new injection of vitality to the tropes of guitar-driven alternative rock. A new relentless presence, The Balance is the first taster for their next mapped-out project following their debut, Without Motion which was released early last year. Driven hard with fast instrumentation, met with Lowe’s unique delivery, The Balance eludes to the thesis of their next chapter – love, loss and yearning.

shortstraw: bad turn – boundless artist shortstraw. – AKA Coventry-based soloist Erin West – keeps up the pace from an already monumental year so far with latest bad turn. Meeting at a chaotic intersection between grime and punk, lyrically-brazen with immense production to boot, it follows May’s single of dot cotton – which has already been critically praised among press circles.