Five new discoveries moving between post-punk, chamber pop, dark alt-pop, electronic indie and melodic punk. Some songs arrive with a lot going on around them. A new album, a story, a video, a whole world of references. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 8 five picks all have that, but the songs themselves are what kept pulling me back. American Motors look at a world that feels increasingly out of date, Loren Berí turns the idea of being in the background into somet

Five new releases moving through love, heartbreak, experimentation, anger and complicated attachment. This week’s On This Track Weekend Listening 11 selection moves between indie rock, country, experimental pop, goth-leaning psych-rock and indie pop. The five songs all deal with emotions that are difficult to put into simple terms - from the distance between existing and feeling to the messier sides of love, self-doubt and anger. Armlock - “Half Time” Armlock by Bridgette Win

Five new discoveries moving from dark alt-rock and folk-pop to jazz, melodic punk and post-electronic grooves. Five releases, five very different ways of dealing with what happens when life gets complicated. This week's On This Track: Midweek Listening 7 moves from Autumn Luz's unsettling “Tattered” to Riley Max looking back on a difficult first year at Harvard, before Knats take a jazz track into DnB territory with corto.alto. Burntmill Ghosts turn self-doubt into melodic pu

Five artists we discovered during our first two days at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. Pop-Kultur Festival is the kind of festival where it is difficult to leave with just one impression. Across our first two days, we moved between experimental performances, electronic music, dark pop, jazz, soul and artists who seemed to be working somewhere in between. Some sets were intimate and quiet, others turned the room into a dancefloor. There were performances that felt closer to theat

Five new discoveries spanning indie dance, punk history, strange synths and folk. Five releases, five very different ways of looking at music. This week's On This Track Midweek Listening 6 moves from Friendly Fires' first new music in seven years to Basement's hard-won return, then steps outside the usual song format with Naomi Petersen's newly announced photography book. From there, Studio G takes us somewhere considerably stranger before Steve & Ginie Jackson bring things b