Home Counties’ flirtation with provincial-pivoting alt anthems alongside lyrics mapping tongue-in-cheek suburban excursions – by way of socially-charged takes on contemporary life – found feet on last year’s funk-flecked debut LP Exactly As It Seems. Tracking from rural to urban since their formation five years ago, the East London-via-Buckinghamshire six-piece intersect space and time in equal sonic measure. Their first two EPs came leaning on the skewiff yet nimble post-punk footwork of acts such as Yard Act and Squid to evermore synth scored dabbling that has seen the band flaunt twitchy electronic segues adjacent to straight-up indie-pop panache.
Finding voice through dual vocalists Will Harrison and Lois Kelly, Humdrum pins its focus…
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Although Unfold in the Sky may be the first album by the solo project of 
…The album’s original 12-tracks return in freshly remastered form, while the total number of rarities spread across CD and digital versions totals 23 tracks, including early demos, remixes and B-sides including four previously unreleased.
A band that has drawn on a variety of ’90s alternative inspirations (grungy alt-rock, winding math rock, tuneful pop-punk, shoegaze, and more), 
Amateur is prolific musician 
Six years after 2019’s 
British rocker 
Not only had the Bats been making records for over forty years when 2025’s Corner Coming Up was released, but their quality had never dipped even a little. Every record has featured intricate guitar interplay, chugging rhythms, melodic bass lines, Robert Scott’s wistful lead and Kaye Woodward’s supportive harmony vocals, and songs that don’t go for big gestures, instead zeroing in on the tiny moments that meld together to make or break a heart, or build a life.
In May, Dua Lipa introduced a special guest at her Sydney gig: Kevin Parker, who duetted with her on a version of ‘The Less I Know the Better’, the biggest hit Parker has ever released under the name Tame Impala. The pair have a longstanding creative relationship – Parker co-produced and co-wrote most of Dua Lipa’s last album, Radical Optimism – but nevertheless made for quite the study in contrasts. She was resplendent in a glittering lace catsuit, stiletto-heeled boots, a fake fur stole draped over her shoulder.
If it had been released any other year, 
…The deluxe album feature acoustic versions of every song from the original release as well as bonus covers of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” and Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun.”
It’s been three years since 
…contains 12 new songs written, recorded, and produced by Keery and Thein at Electric Lady Studios while they worked on ‘The Crux’, and completed months after the album’s release.