TRACK OF THE WEEK

Lily Lyons – ‘Holding Up The Heavens’

A wonderful song. The slight modulation on Lyons vocals adds an otherworldly quality to her memories, a resentment that creeps under the shadow of an Atlantean task.

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Honey I’m Home – ‘Pretty’

Taking the sonics of 90s alternative rock and slathering 2010s indie pop sensibilities over the fuzz, Honey I’m Home deliver a healthy dose of misanthropy and solipsism. A care-free song in every sense.

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KiosK – ‘Heaven Sent/Sure Shot’

One song split in half, ‘Heaven Sent/Sure Shot’ treks the spoken word salt flats and returns with electronic epiphanies. Murphy is the messiah, and KiosK preach his word with raw menace.

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Pastel Blank – ‘Shareholder’

The Pavement Prince, popping pithiness like pills from a Pez dispenser. This song has a bizarre groove, stuttering but never stopping, chewing to the time of a wooden block. 

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Marsy – ‘Changes/Rosé’

This double A-side is a gentle pairing, two sides of helplessness handled with a deftness of touch and vocals that, at times, remind me of Kirsty MacColl.

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Parissa Tosif – ‘Mysterious (دریا)’

This is Tosif’s most contemporary single from her upcoming album, bringing an electronic sound rife across the charts. This doesn’t mean her particular charm is absent, with the Iranian instruments (daf, tombak and oud) in the mix, not to mention Tosif’s brief but wonderful a cappella at the end of the song.

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Foo Fighters – ‘Your Favorite Toy’

Although the opening line is most likely intentionally annoying, no such relief is given to the rest of the lines in this song, most of which Grohl delivers with an over-extended petulance. The lyrical simplicity of this song (thrice repeated ‘hold’ after the first chorus; ‘treasure’ and ‘pleasure’ rhymed) does not help its case. It sounds like someone took a Black Keys B-side and played it through a burst speaker.

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Eugene McGuinness – ‘Icarus’

McGuinness’ vocals warble like 60s Bowie, a toy soldier marching around a carousel. An intriguing listen – I wonder which part of Romford inspired this.

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Ryan Bingham, The Texas Gentlemen – ‘Ballad of The Texas Gentlemen’

A wonderfully raspy voice recounting tours gone by, this jaunty reminiscence reminds me of Credence, albeit heavier on the country.

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DC Maxwell – ‘Funeral Suit’

DC Maxwell’s latest single breaks its morbidity with a catchy chorus, one suited to late-90s/early 2000s American alt-rock. Ben Folds or Beulah on benzos.

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Avalon Emerson & The Charm – ‘Written In Changes’

You can’t top a bit of breakbeat. ‘Written In Changes’ is a song you can’t catch, its synths evasive, its piano notes irregular, its vocals phased. 

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Temples – ‘Jet Stream Heart’

‘Rasputin’-adjacent, ‘Jet Stream Heart’ has an indelible groove, writhing amongst the horns and strobe lights. Dance music seems to suit Temples.

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