Both an example and an explanation of a blending of two words, the fact that the name of Tommy Lefroy‘s long-awaited debut album is a portmanteau seems fitting.
While labour economist Guy Standing coined the term The Precariat takes its title from (referring to the precarious social class that began emerging in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century), almost everything about the project of Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis exists in a perpetual state of “and,” not “or.”
Respectively from northern Michigan and Vancouver, BC, the singer-songwriters met in Nashville, but their project really got underway when both moved to the UK (“I had nothing, then I found you / Built an empire in…
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A project built around lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Bobby Townson and his sister, singer and miscellaneous instrumentalist Emma Townson, who also does the band’s artwork, 
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Few musicians can name a chiptuned guitar sketch “Artrock” and be taken seriously. One of them is Leo Fincham, a precocious Londoner whose songs evoke irony-tinged earnestness and referential irreverence, the sorts of tensions terms like “art rock” were invented to resolve. Along with Rowan Please of the Femcels, he helms the madcap duo Worldpeace DMT, whose debut, The Velvet Underground & Rowan (2025), stuffed a thrift store’s worth of sounds — Glockenspiels! 8-bit consoles! Broadcast footage! — into mechanically precise music, as if childhood memories could be exported as sample packs. The resulting RAM space is evident on Stick Around for Tea, a slighter record with the ragtag splendor of a low-budget musical. More remarkably, its metaphorical…
Three hours of music about water is an audacious proposition. But not, perhaps, for Slovak label Mappa, which for the past decade has made a habit of asking listeners to slow down and pay attention, releasing records that move between field recording, electronics, and idiosyncratic folk. 
…deluxe edition feature 25 tracks spanning 1 hour and 34 minutes. It appends the original 13-track record with a bonus disc of B-sides, acoustic takes, and early home demos from 1997.
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On each album since 
Projecting energetic alt-rock across the globe, Sydney group The Buoys channel anthemic melodies and an unmistakable chemistry on their sophomore record Concrete Cowboy.
Strawberry Guy is the name used by Welsh-born, Liverpool-based artist Alexander Stephens for his softly delivered, hyper-melodic symphonic pop. He used to be the keyboardist in The Orielles but left to release his debut solo album back in 2021 and has spent the last five years readying his second album, Give Me a Dream.
Soft-spoken singer/songwriter 
An adaptive sense of ‘post-punk’ may be the most ‘way’ to file Chicago’s Axis: Sova, the trio of Brett Sova, Jeremy Freeze, and Josh Johannpeter. That’s if post-punk’s understood as an organ, living roots and branches in the wilds of all music. Rock is rich krovvy that froths in Axis: Sova’s veins, and they enjoy progressive tactics when spilling it.