Music Genre
Leon Bridges teams up with dance trio Jungle on a slice of uplifting summer soul infused with the sound of Afro jazz and funk.
When I first heard the adrenalin rush of those guitars at the start of Girl From Mars, I was instantly transported back to the first wave of punk in 1977.
I’m so not the target audience for Canadian hyperpop singer 8485, but this song is such an earworm I can’t resist it.
Shoun Shoun is the project of Bristol-based Annette Berlin, who describes her band’s sound as “lo-fi anxiety and raucous tales of bad behaviour.”
DJ Seinfeld’s tune instantly evokes sunny afternoons in Ibiza, where you can imagine it seeping from the speakers of a beach bar as you sip on a cocktail.
Gilla Band return from a four-year hiatus with a techno-influenced new tune, Giraffe, that proves they’ve lost none of their abrasive power.
The Fall made their national TV debut on The Tube thanks to John Peel – five years after I first saw them play in London.
Sophia Stel is a Canadian electronic artist who blends her emotional vocals with elements of hyper-pop and, on this mellow breakup tune, trip-hop.
This bass-heavy slice of minimal industrial techno by Maquina may be another first for me – a band from Lisbon.