Resa Saffa Park - Big Little Lions - Disgusting Sisters - Rosina Cove - Living Hour - Lottie McLeod

Photo - Henriette Sagjord

Resa Saffa Park - Standing Still.

Emerging cinematic indie singer/songwriter Resa Saffa Park releases her new single 'Standing Still', the latest glimpse of her forthcoming album Kendra, out 6 November via Ja. Group. Wrapped in smoky production, softly echoing guitars and an unhurried groove, 'Standing Still' wrestles with inertia, slowly gathering emotional tension. 

Speaking about the song, Resa Saffa Park said: "Standing Still is a song about the fear of stagnation and a fading sense of self-worth. It's about how even simple things can start to feel threatening when you lose movement and direction."

A graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Resa returned to her home city of Oslo to write her new album Kendra. Written largely in her apartment over the course of a year, the album finds her paying closer attention to the people around her. Across twelve songs, she keeps returning to the same question: "how do we understand ourselves through other people?"

Cinematic indie steeped in jazz, trip-hop, noir-pop and soul, Resa Saffa Park's music sits at a distinctive intersection of influences, in the orbit of Tamino, Michelle Gurevich and Portishead, with inspiration drawn from Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Nirvana, Mitski and Julia Jacklin.

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Big Little Lions - No One Is Mad At You.

Big Little Lions continue to release monthly singles & Beehive Candy are starting to run out of new things to say, except they are on one incredible roll of creativity this year. September's song is for anyone who has the underlying feeling that they are trouble and someone is mad at them. It's nice to be reminded that this is probably not the case and we hope this will give the listeners a break from any critical self talk.

For those new to them... Big Little Lions are an award winning duo who were born out of a collaboration that won them a JUNO Award in 2014. Since then they have been cranking out infectious folk pop songs that are jam-packed with emotion and tight harmonies that sound like the product of two people working side-by-side instead of living in different countries. 

They have released 7 albums to date, which have garnered them awards and nominations including the CFMA Ensemble of the Year, Independent Music Awards Americana Sing of the Year and John Lennon Songwriting Competition Song of the Year. Their critically acclaimed music has appeared on the CBC’s Top 20 and featured on shows like q and Vinyl Cafe. The duo consists of Paul Otten and Helen Austin, both hugely prolific songwriters - their music has been placed in hundreds of movie trailers, ads, network TV shows.

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Photo - Pierpaolo Saccomandi

Disgusting Sisters - Waste Of Space.

Disgusting Sisters have just shared the new single "Waste Of Space" taken from their upcoming debut album Skin & Blisters, which will be released October 30 on Source Records. "Waste Of Space" is another slice of intrigue that explores the world of Disgusting Sisters. As ever with Disgusting Sisters, influences span electro to emo but the horror and the humor are always evident. 

On the new single, Disgusting Sisters say - “'Waste of Space' is about forgetting someone after a breakup, like your brain is a hard drive that’s run out of storage. All the unused data gets wiped and the memories are gone. You were never worth the upgrade - you were just a waste of space"

Skin and Blisters: a record that comes good on all the tongue-in-cheek, slightly gruesome yet perpetually entertaining promise that their name - partly a homage to Succession’s Disgusting Brothers; partly a reference to the “bad sisters from Cinderella because we kind of feel like them on stage” - suggests. Across 10 tracks, the pair aim their lasers at hopeless exes and sugar daddies; productivity punishers and the sad drudge of the 9-5. Their delivery is riddled with deadpan absurdity, but at their core, Disgusting Sisters mean every word. “I hope people can relate to the songs because they really come from inside us,” says Josephine. “All the lyrics are inspired by real moments. We're not trying to pretend and I think that's what makes us kind of fresh - we're just being ourselves.”

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Photo -Travis Nesbitt

Rosina Cove - Kenwood.
 
Rosina Cove is an Edmonton, Alberta-based musical collective led by singer-songwriter Peter Stone and close friends Vicky Berg and Drew Malcolm that offers unpretentious Canadiana with a big heart. Debuting in 2023 with the album Someday We Will Make It There, the group is now poised to release the follow-up, Left Of Me, at the start of 2027.

The first single, “Kenwood,” is a prime example of Rosina Cove’s instantly engaging sound, with its blend of bright jangle-pop and breezy folk-rock, highlighted by expressive harmonies and sparkling production, courtesy of Harry Gregg, also a member of Juno nominees Second Hand Dreamcar. Peter Stone describes it as a song about unexpectedly finding love in the aftermath of an abusive relationship.

“‘Kenwood’ is a reflection on how new love is sometimes built one small moment at a time,” he says. “Learning how someone takes their coffee, sharing stories over cider, listening to records together, and slowly discovering what it feels like to be safe in another person’s presence. What begins as a slow dance of companionship becomes connection, and connection becomes a place to breathe, to soften, and to begin healing from the trauma of what came before.”

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Photo - Lucas Pingitore

Living Hour - Magnet (EP).

Winnipeg's indie rock quintet, Living Hour release their  Magnet EP, this week via Keeled Scales / Paper Bag Records. The four-track release is a collection of b-sides and previously unearthed demos channelled from the work on Someday is Today (2022), and 2025's Internal Drone Infinity, which is one of ten Canadian albums nominated for The Meridian Prize, being awarded next weekend, as part of BreakOut West. The quintet shares a dreamy visualizer for lulling EP track, “Good Afternoon.”

The bundle of phrases that make up the EP are from an incubation period of a lot of TV, projecting movies for work, and general dissociative activities. “I was thinking about how people are magnets if they want to be. Attracting what they think about most, interact with or watch on screens,” says lead singer and lyricist, Sam Sarty. The band previewed with the EP's title-track “Magnet” earlier this month, and Sam expands more on “Half Can,” noting; “At the beginning of the song, I get the image in my mind about a flat, straight ahead, snowy, dark highway going for infinity converging to an ominous black point, high beams flashing sheets of snow blowing across the cement in front of a truck.”

Living Hour transforms the passage of time into something both urgent and sacred. Anchored by Sam Sarty’s vivid lyricism, shaped by years as a projectionist conjuring stories in a dark theater, the band explores the quiet magic hidden in everyday life. The band drifts between dreamy noise rock, folky slowcore, and fuzzy indie-pop, coining a genre all their own: “yearn-core.” With wistful vocals, textural distortion, and poetic detail, Living Hour capture the ache of memory, the mess of feeling, and the beauty in what remains. 


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Photo - Ghina Sari

Lottie McLeod - The Boathouse (EP).

Following an intimate launch party at its namesake venue yesterday, Magan-djin/Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Lottie McLeod now shares her long-awaited The Boathouse EP via ABC Music, a intimate coming-of-age "for people who love to feel deeply" drawing from indie, alt-pop, folk and beyond - signalling a young artist coming out of her shell, stepping into the confidence to follow her own path and express herself openly, making McLeod's much-praised ability to make the personal feel universal stronger than ever. 

It arrives ahead of a newly-announced London headline date in December presented by Joy Promotions expanding her headline EP tour kicking off in October across so-called VIC, NSW & QLD with her hometown date expanding venue due to a rapid sell-out, and off the back of a nomination for the Emerging Artist Award via Australian Women In Music Awards plus mammoth support announcements with The Tullamarines and Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos across November - all live dates below. 

Featuring alt/folk-pop focus track + video 'Thomas' as well as previous singles triple j's #1-most-played track 'Wednesdays at the Waterloo', 'Sunburnt', and 'Important To You', The Boathouse EP is out now via ABC Music.


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The Artist Ren - Lily Konigsberg - Louis York - Allegories - JoJo Worthington

The Artist Ren - Doin' Fine (EP).

The Artist Ren gives us the story so far... I’m Lauren Van Houten, and I make music as The Artist Ren. My songs live somewhere between indie pop, folk, and alt pop. I write my songs through storytelling, with atypical guitar tunings and subtle samples underneath that tie everything I release together. I’m a solo artist, fully independent, with no label or management behind me.

I wrote my first song during the pandemic, in 2020, mostly to get the stress out of my head. A teacher helped me get started, and after that I figured it out on my own. Music was always around me growing up, my dad has an eclectic ear, and I picked up his habit of falling in love with the songs nobody else has found yet. My family never made me choose between music and anything else, so I was able to pursue music with their help.

Almost everything I write starts as a story. My notes app is full of things I’ve overheard, read, watched, or imagined and the melody and lyrics get built around them. People sometimes assume my lyrics are personal stories, but I would say 95% of them are imagined or come from media I consume. I take a lot of inspiration from my favorite singers including Hozier, Phoebe Bridgers, Wave to Earth, and Lizzy McAlpine. I love Hozier and Phoebe Bridgers lyricism and strive to create lyrics as thought provoking as them. As for Wave to Earth and Lizzy McAlpine, I take inspiration from their instrumentals and melodies respectfully. Listening to them makes me try to choose more interesting melodies and harmonies during production. 

Doin’ Fine!” came out September 18, 2026, and it’s my first release in more than a year. Part of that gap was a semester abroad in Seoul, South Korea! I study sports and entertainment management, and I graduate this spring. The song is the lead-in to a full album I’m finishing now, due within the next few months. These songs carry everything that changed between fifteen and nineteen, more confidence, more maturity, and just something that wasn’t written in my room during Covid-19. It isn’t a hard break from what I’ve made before it’s the same chapter, written by someone a bit more experienced. I’m sure though, in the future while I’m writing the next album, I’ll be thinking the same thing. Anyways, in the future all I hope is that people are still enjoying my music and I’m still enjoying making it.

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Lily Konigsberg - Free Byrd.

Lily Konigsberg returns with a new song, “Free Byrd,” her first single in nearly 5 years. The product of time spent working with her longtime friend and collaborator Hugo Stanley (PALM, Frankie Cosmos), whom she enlisted as both a producer and instrumentalist, the song is a fitting introduction to a new creative era for Konigsberg. 

It's an ode to the bittersweet nature of starting again and the sacrifices required, serving as both an empowering breakup anthem and a swan song for a tumultuous past life. 

An infusion of Lily's signature earworm-generating pop sensibility and Hugo's punchy arrangements, "Free Byrd" makes a convincing last-second bid for song of the summer and serves as an immensely promising preview of things to come.

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Photo - Billy Clark

Louis York - The Ballad Of A Broken Man

Nashville-based duo Louis York has shared their new single "The Ballad Of A Broken Man," the latest from their upcoming album The Heart of the Matter that releases November 6 on their label Weirdo Workshop. The heartbeat at the center of their new album, "The Ballad Of A Broken Man" details the pair's journey through grief, faith, resilience, and choosing optimism in the face of life's inevitable challenges.

Following the band's recent single "I Found A Home," which pays homage to their adopted hometown, "The Ballad Of A Broken Man" details Louis York's journey since landing in Nashville. The pair explains, "This is the heartbeat of the whole album. It’s the realization of all the bumps and bruises we’ve had to go through as men, and what it takes to survive. Love, community, sincerity. This song is reason we called the album 'the heart of the matter.'"

Originally from East St. Louis and New York City, Louis York didn't come to Tennessee chasing country music. They came chasing great storytelling and even better songs. What they found was an inspiring community that fueled their creativity. They launched an artistic collective called Weirdo Workshop, started the Tiny Book Club initiative, and interviewed their own musical heroes on the Emmy-nominated podcast We Sound Crazy. They also kept writing songs, and over the last decade The Heart of the Matter slowly took shape.

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Allegories - Pure Comedy.

Experimental duo Allegories share “Pure Comedy,” an ethereal and emotionally volatile new single that moves restlessly between optimism and pessimism, intimacy and aggression, hope and resignation. Shifting through dream pop, indie rock, and electronic textures without settling comfortably into any of them, the track is perhaps the clearest distillation yet of the unpredictable world Adam Bentley and Jordan Mitchell have built on their upcoming album, By Accident, On Purpose, out October 16th, 2026.

“Pure Comedy” evolved alongside the album itself, with Allegories working on the song throughout the years-long writing and recording process. Rather than discarding each previous incarnation as the track changed shape, fragments survived, leaving different eras of the song embedded within the finished recording.

“This is the song that I think best represents our new album,” Adam explains. “There are elements from many different iterations of the song still in there, and sonically, it feels like it touches on the kaleidoscope of sounds and genres that the record eventually became.”

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JoJo Worthington - Ever Ender Star Infinity.

Montreal-based producer, songwriter and composer JoJo Worthington shares “Ever Ender Star Infinity,” a sweeping alt-folk anthem that turns romance into something celestial. Dark, dreamy and consumed by longing, destiny and connection, the track draws together spirituality, stardust, fantasy and the enormous persistence of desire to capture something relatively unfamiliar within her catalogue: a love song. 

“‘Tu as une bonne étoile.’ You have a good star,” JoJo explains. “Meaning, you’ve been blessed and there is someone watching over you.” It’s the first single to be shared from JoJo’s upcoming EP, BAPTIZED II, set for release on November 6th, 2026.

That idea stretches back to conversations about space and spirituality, and the idea that everything is fundamentally connected. Fascinated by the fact that the atoms within our bodies are assembled from material that predates the Earth itself, JoJo began folding the language of stars, space and elemental matter into the song.

The song’s fantastical language also emerged from another passions – Magic: The Gathering. While opening a package of Dragon Shield card sleeves, JoJo came across the description “Emme: God of Ender & Ever.” The phrase immediately captured her imagination, recalling the duality of “Forever Evermore” from her 2022 BAPTIZED I EP and eventually helping shape “Ever Ender Star Infinity.” Other cards, including “Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn,” provided further fragments for its lyrical universe.

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TONY FOX - Part Time Signals - Aubory Bugg - sundots

Photo - Abbie Lynch

TONY FOX - Fire + New Album.

TONY FOX new single "Fire" is the lead track from the new album released today 22 September 2026 on CD & digitally via prolific indie Cornwall-based indie label "Krautpop!" landing on the Autumn Equinox. It's a powerful statement piece that captures everything people have come to love about TONY FOX, raw energy, punk spirit and emotionally charged songwriting.

"Fire" burns with the wild, untamed heart of Cornwall. Driven by fierce vocals, hypnotic rhythms and the band's distinctive psych-poetry aesthetic, it's a track about resilience, transformation and finding light in difficult times. It feels equally at home on alternative, indie, punk and leftfield playlists.

TONY FOX are a female-fronted three-piece from Cornwall creating a unique blend of pagan-punk rock & roll and psych-poetry. Their music channels the landscape, struggles and spirit of contemporary Cornwall through powerful lyrics, raw performance and an unwavering DIY approach.

Founded by Jessica Cox, the band combines poetry-led songwriting with a visceral live energy that rejects over-polished perfection in favour of heart, soul and genuine connection. Influenced as much by Cornwall's wild coastline as its economic realities, TONY FOX create music rooted in resilience, community and transformation. Having performed at London's Troubadour and developed a close creative relationship with Alternative TV founder Mark Perry, TONY FOX continue to build a reputation as one of the UK's most compelling underground alternative acts.


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Part Time Signals - Waking Hours.

Waking Hours is the second single from Part Time Signals’ upcoming album Duck’s Back, Baby. Following Green Light, this upbeat song encapsulates the feeling of passing through the days, whilst shining a light on embracing life's changes as they unfold. Focused around a familiar 60’s beat, the song bops along with seasick chorused guitars, fuzzy bass lines and relentlessly choppy layered keyboard instruments of all varieties

Waking Hours was self-recorded by the band at Giant Wafer Studios and features instrumentation from Stephen Black aka Sweet Baboo (flute). Duck’s Back, Baby is the follow-up to the debut album Another Day In Paradise and EP The Window. It was self-recorded over an intensive five days at Giant Wafer Studios in Mid Wales, with subsequent additional recordings made at their rehearsal space and homes.

Part Time Signals are a four-piece band from Wales. Gavin Jenkins (KEYS, Rainbow Maniac), Jacob Church (Sock), Michael Blanchfield (ANGHARAD, Cardinal Black) and Sam Barnes (Boy Azooga, Sock). Their full- length debut album ‘Another Day In Paradise’ was released in 2023 with a follow up EP ‘The Window’ in 2025, both released with Cardiff-based independent label Bubblewrap Collective. Nation Cymru reviewed the band's latest EP as ‘blissful music’, Buzz Magazine described their debut album as ‘a wilfully lackadaisical type of psychedelic indie’ and Clash Magazine said ‘languid indie is very much the order of the day’.          
             
After recording their first album, BBC Horizons funding made it possible for the band to spend a whole week self-recording at Giant Wafer Studios in Mid Wales. Recorded in the same session as their EP, the band are currently gearing up to release their second album titled ‘Duck’s Back, Baby’. Making full use of the instruments, recording equipment and time available at the studio, this hefty recording session has seen the band take stock with a plethora of new songs, developing a more refined and mature style.

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Aubory Bugg - i think i had something once (Album).

Following a breakout run of singles including ‘the one you want to lose’ and ‘nosedive’, a sold-out UK debut show, BBC Radio 1 support and viral TikTok moments amassing 3M+ likes, Nashville singer-songwriter Aubory Bugg rounds off her meteoric rise with the release of her highly anticipated debut album i think i had something once, which just arrivied September 18th via Dualtone Records.

For a 21-year-old who wrote her entire debut EP alone in her bedroom, the leap into Nashville — into collaboration, community and creative openness — could have been daunting. Instead, it became the making of her. i think i had something once is the record that captures that transformation: a love letter to the things you didn't think you'd lose, whether that's a romantic relationship, a childhood, or a person you can't get back.

"This album is as direct a representation as I have of how I felt the last couple of years, moving out and being a person on my own," says Bugg. "At its core, the thread that moves through the whole album is a love letter to things you didn't think you'd lose."

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Photo - Eve Alpert

sundots - Someone Else’s Song.

Today, sundots, the Connecticut indie rock band, share the third single and video for “Someone Else’s Song”, off their upcoming album, ‘On The Quay’, due 6 November. Marking the band's first full-length written and recorded as a true five-piece, ‘On The Quay’ is a confident step forward as the first true full-band sundots record, and as a result, it’s a full-bodied and forceful level-up representation of the group’s sound, a record that feels timeless and in-the-moment all at once.

On the track, Drew Collins says, “Someone Else’s Song actually came about after we had thought we had finished the record. It was something I had started jamming on and felt pretty excited about. It definitely had a different energy from the other songs on the record. It was short and had super high energy right off the bat. It’s sort of a relentless song that doesn’t give much time to breathe, but I think that works in its favor.” 

He adds: “Lyrically, I was very inspired by 'The Dead' by James Joyce. I had recently finished Dubliners and had a ton of imagery from that floating around in my head, and naturally, I explored that headspace when approaching the lyrics for this track. It was about this same time that the album artwork idea had fully come to me, and it just made sense for us to go back to Kevin [S. McMahon] to record this last track for the record.”

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NP York - Waterpistol - Black Bordello - Rami - Siv Jakobsen - Cassandra Coleman

Photo - Jens Martin York

NP York - What's Next (Album).

Released this weekend ‘What’s Next?’, is the sophomore album from Danish artist NP York, it's a dreamy indie-rock record that reflects on lost youth and the places, people, and versions of ourselves that we leave behind as we grow older. Written in the aftermath of a severe period of depression and as somewhat an outsider of Copenhagen’s music scenes, ‘What’s Next?’ is an album about the strange distance that develops between who we were and who we're becoming. Across the record’s 10 tracks, NP York turns that distance into melancholic, guitar-driven songs about aging, memory, friendship, ambition, and the quiet realization that youth is something you can never quite return to.

Rather than treating growing older as a simple loss, ‘What’s Next?’ lives in the tension between grief and acceptance as it moves between existential reflections and epic moments of blissful uplift. There’s the paradox of leaping headfirst into new love when you know the cost of failed romance in ‘As Bold As A Heart’, there’s revisiting late teenage night drives and old friendships in ‘One More Day’ and there’s the effervescent gem ‘Trier’, which deals with holding on, waiting for answers and persevering.

Musically, ‘What’s Next?’ draws from the emotional immediacy of indie rock, balancing chiming guitars and restless rhythms with expansive poignancy. NP York’s rich baritone vocals anchor down lyrics that combine a poet’s ear for emotion with a humourist’s wit as he ironically muses on childhood dreams and expectations from the reality of becoming a man in his mid-30s and the absurdities and chaos of the world around him.

The result is a record that feels nostalgic without becoming sentimental, a collection of songs less interested in preserving the past than in understanding why we miss it. As the wild and exuberant yearning for youth in tracks like ‘LIE!’ and ‘As Bold As A Heart’ turn to maturity in more mellow tracks like ‘Let’s Talk’ and ‘Better Place’, ‘What’s Next?’ becomes about a past that has shaped us and the moment we realize we have outgrown it. It asks what happens when places that once felt like home become a memory, when old friends begin living different lives, and when the future starts to feel less like an open road and more like something that requires choosing.

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Waterpistol - Hey Harry (EP).

Waterpistol just unleashed their debut EP 'Hey Harry' described as just right for fans of unhinged psychedelic garage-rock. To coincide with the release, Waterpistol have been supported by BBC Horizons and Art Council Wales’ 2026 Launchpad Fund. The South Wales band have previously released lead single She Flies.

Making a name for themselves with their shimmering debut single Living in a Dream, which has since climbed to nearly 30,000 streams on Spotify, Waterpistol blend the swagger of golden-age rock ’n’ roll with the hazy textures of ’90s shoegaze, carving out a sound shaped by some of their biggest influences in The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Shack and The La’s.

After riding the momentum of their formation, performing across several festivals (FOCUS Wales, Green Man, Sŵn Festival and In It Together Festival), the six-piece turned to the studio to record two follow-up singles, Où est ton âme? and Shotgun. They recorded these at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouth.

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Black Bordello - Midheaven Tempest (EP).

London art-rock five-piece Black Bordello have returned with their most expansive and theatrical work to date, out this weekend. Black Bordello return with Midheaven Tempest, a new EP that finds the London five-piece pulling further into the shadows of their own strange mythology. Released 18th September the record is a feverish meeting point between gothic-rock, post-punk, psychedelia, trip-hop, industrial-rock and theatrical, expressive experimentation - the EP is ornate and intimate in places, brutal and intense in others, and always unexpected.

Fronted by Sienna Bordello, the band's music has always existed somewhere between theatre and nightmare. Her voice can move from an ethereal soprano to something guttural and confrontational, while her songwriting conjures characters, ruins, rituals and strange little worlds. Across this new EP, those worlds become darker and more cinematic, with songs that seem to emerge from the smoke rather than begin.

Working closely with bands guitarist Jerome Alexandre, who has toured, recorded and performed with Peter Doherty, Sylvain Sylvain (Ny Dolls), Mark Keds, Senseless Things, Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) , Clem Burke (Blondie), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Legendary Goth group Sex Gang Children and Flatbush Zombies to name a few, the new EP showcases the rich, colourful, yet dark and unsettling sound which stylises Black bordello as a project.

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Rami - Save Myself.

International  artist Rami has just launched her Nashville career with the new single "Save Myself." Rami makes a striking introduction with “Save Myself,” a heartfelt pop ballad that puts her commanding vocal presence at the center of a deeply personal story. The song moves through loss, confusion, and the feeling of having nowhere left to turn before arriving at its central realization: sometimes the person you are waiting for is yourself. As Rami explains, “I wanted to create a ballad about a very difficult period of my life — a time of loss, confusion, and feeling as though everything around me was falling apart. But I did not want the story to end in sadness.”

That evolution comes through most powerfully in the chorus, beginning with, “I was tired of waiting for someone / to come rescue me from what I’d done,” before turning the familiar fairytale image on its head: “All alone in a tower big and tall / but I was the prince here after all.” By the time Rami reaches, “When no one was there, and I cried for help / I had to save myself,” the song’s message becomes unmistakable.

Hungarian-born pop artist Rami began her professional music career at 17, following the release of her acclaimed debut “Szeress Forrón!” In 2008, her talent led to a recording contract with mTon, Warner Music’s Hungarian subsidiary, where she began work on her debut album. She was also selected as VIVA’s first VIP Member, marking an early milestone in her career.

Rami later continued her musical studies in Rome and Milan, developing her artistry while collaborating with musicians and professionals across Italy. Her international work has included a cover of Enrico Caruso’s “Caruso,” as well as collaborations with artists around the world. Her recent release, a global cover of the iconic Hungarian ballad “Gloomy Sunday,” further reflects her ability to connect her Hungarian roots with an international audience.

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Siv Jakobsen - The Fixer.

Acclaimed Norwegian songwriter Siv Jakobsen shares new single 'The Fixer' via The Nordic Mellow/Virgin Music Group. Co-written with longtime friend Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the track is her first original material in three years, following her 2023 album Gardening and offers an early glimpse of a new body of work. From an intimate, piano-led opening, the new song gradually blooms into rich layers of group vocals, strings and horns, with arrangements by Marcus Hamblett (Bear’s Den).

"I’m gonna save all of the world today / I'm a complex god, hard and soft," Jakobsen sings, reflecting her impulse to help the people around her, even when that risks losing herself.

Jakobsen says: "Setting boundaries is difficult, especially for a fixer. The fixer is a song about my tendency to lose myself in others, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. To be so near someone that the lines between the self and the other become blurred can feel good with the right person, and terrible with the wrong. The song draws parallels to my overwhelming wish to help the people in my life who might be struggling, even when it goes too far; I'm drawn into someone else's deep end, and I lose myself."

On her most recent full-length, Gardening, Jakobsen confronted the lingering imprint of a destructive relationship through what she called "emotional gardening": unearthing memories and returning to feelings that refused to stay buried. 'The Fixer' brings that same searching honesty to the desire to help and the difficulty of knowing where to draw the line.

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Photo - Sophia Matinazad

Cassandra Coleman - End Of Your Love (EP).

Emerging singer/songwriter Cassandra Coleman has released her anticipated debut EP End Of Your Love, available everywhere now through Warner Records. The 8-track collection arrives after months of unveiling a series of new singles that have led to a breakout summer and quickly established the Nashville-based artist as one of indie-pop’s most compelling new voices. 

 Coleman also shared the official video for the title track; a slow-burning reflection on the fear of showing one’s imperfection. As a sparse intro of upright piano and voice grows into something enormous, the song's arrangement mirrors the anxiety at its very center — the more Coleman tries to contain her emotions, the more impossible they become to hold in.

"This song makes me cry, every time I sing it," stated Coleman. "I wrote it from a place of vulnerability, worried that the closer someone gets to me, the more aware they'll become of my flaws. Will someone deem me unlovable, once they can see all the cracks?"

Anthemic indie-pop. Folk-inspired torch songs. Cinematic piano ballads. They're all woven throughout End Of Your Love, an expansive EP that finds Coleman letting go of the life she thought she was supposed to live and learning to trust the one unfolding in front of her. Most of its songs are brand new, written between festival slots at Lollapalooza and Outside Lands, tours with artists like Bleachers, Young The Giant, and Stephen Wilson Jr., and onstage duets with Noah Kahan. Others reach back several years, offering glimpses of an artist growing into the songwriter she was always meant to be. Together, they form a portrait of a creative life in full swing — one filled with closing chapters, new beginnings, and the hard-won self-assurance to step into whatever comes next.


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La Nouvelle Musique - Calico City - Railcard - Ziemba - zeronic - Sonia Elisheva

La Nouvelle Musique - Satellite.

The new single 'Satellite' drifts from Cajun like harmonies through indie psych sounds and ensures La Nouvelle Musique (Joanna Beck & Ian de Silva) continue to surprise and delight following on from last years acclaimed debut album.

La Nouvelle Musique are London based; occasionally reminiscent of Nico and Francois Hardy, their music is rooted in what they refer to as as cinematic psychedelia, mixing the psych/folk elements of folktronica with a vocal style that falls somewhere between Siouxsie Sioux and Trish Keenan of Broadcast, together with an orchestration on some of their songs that gives them a 'big screen' treatment; all bar one song (Sandy Denny's 'Crazy Lady Blues') are written by the duo.

Singer/Bass Player - Joanna Beck is also a composer and performance artist who also creates electroacoustic music, sonic art, and has scored for theatre and film. Guitar - Ian de Sylva, has releases with previous bands through Rough Trade Records and The Medicine Label.

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Calico City - Second in Line (EP).

Friendships can grow, fracture, blur into something more, or leave you wondering where you stand. Exploring everything that exists in those grey areas, Boorloo/Perth six-piece Calico City delivers their debut EP, ‘Second in Line’, a six-track journey through the messy, heavy, and complicated realities of friendship, out Friday, September 18.  

Originally formed in high school, Calico City have spent the past year building on their distinctive collision of alternative rock, reggae and psychedelic influences. Since releasing debut single ‘Ghost’ on September 19 last year, the six-piece have shared stages with Beddy Rays, Dear Sunday, SOPHIAN and Birdland, with ‘Second in Line’ arriving almost exactly one year on from where it all began. Along the way, Calico City have continued to gain momentum across Australian radio and media, spending three weeks on the AMRAP charts and reaching #9 Overall, #6 Metro, #2 Indie/Alternative and #2 Rock/Metal. Their releases have also received support from RTRFM, ABC Perth, AAA Backstage, Future Mag, Aus Music Scene and more.  
  
Across this debut EP, Calico City examine friendship from every angle, moving through betrayal, separation, frustration and uncertainty alongside the moments where platonic relationships begin to blur into something more. With vocalists Brianne Reyes and Sienna Law sharing vocal duties across every track, the six-song EP moves through different perspectives and experiences, tied together by the uncomfortable feeling of being pushed aside, overlooked or left questioning your place in someone else’s life. Brianne Reyes shares:

“‘Second in Line’ explores the complexities and the grey areas around being friends, and the many ways a friendship can crumble or grow into something more. Each song dives down a different path of a relationship, the messy paths, the hot and heavy and the more mellow. Our EP takes you through all sorts of possibilities of feeling like the lesser priority and being ‘Second in Line’ in a friendship.”  

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Railcard - Two Steps At A Time (Album).

This weekend sees the release of the wonderful debut album by indiepop supergroup Railcard, featuring ex-members of Dolly Mixture and Death In Vegas and current members of Heavenly. Beehive Candy has loved the singles leading up to this released and can honestly say, this really is a superb album. Here's the background info for those new to Railcard: You have to wonder why Railcard took so long to be born: their debut album feels like it should have been in your collection for years.

But it wasn’t until 2025 that Rachel Love (Dolly Mixture), Ian Button and Peter Momtchiloff (Heavenly) met at a gig, realised that they were exactly the same age, and decided that this was an excellent reason to form a new band.  The shared history, the same pop references, the parallel lives… Railcard had to happen, and there was no time to lose.  Two Steps At A Time - the album title and theme song - express exactly how quickly Railcard have worked since then - jumping over pavement cracks and whistling past graveyards to get these songs written, recorded and released while they are still sweet and fresh. 

As with the first EPs, Railcard enlisted the sonic services of Medway psych expert Allan Crockford (of The Prisoners, JTQ and many more) who has delivered mixes that pump with vintage valve energy and reverby depth. Two Steps At A Time is released on Skep Wax and Slumberland September 18th. An exclusive Dinked edition of 300 copies including a 7 inch single with 2 additional tracks will be available at participating UK record stores. 


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Photo - Jen Dessinger

Ziemba - Open Up.

Ziemba's "Open Up" is the final single from the forthcoming full-length album, The Braid, her first in six years. The track features some of René Kladzyk's most evocative, intimate, and transcendent lyrics to date, reveling in the mundane traces and artifacts where soul lives. Contemplative and urgent, the songwriting and arrangement evoke the direct humanism of The Roches and the elegant melodies of Neil Young. 

“I wrote this song during a period of significant personal transformation,” Kladzyk said. “I was determined to break toxic relational patterns and really interrogate how I approached the practice of love. Not just romantic love, but all the different relationships in my life.  To me, this song is emblematic of the central sort of thesis of the record, revolving around the symbol of a braid.”

Ziemba has not released a record in nearly six years and she's back this October with this absolute album stunner. At times contemplative and earthy but more often truly baroque and stellar, The Braid is epic, meticulously crafted, and spilling over with art rock / sophisti-pop gems. Gorgeous album cover, extraordinary songwriting and execution, this record is totally arresting.

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zeronic - The Aftermath (Longing For Her Skin).

Austrian three-piece zeronic return with “The Aftermath (Longing For Her Skin),” on September 18th the final single to be released ahead of their forthcoming album Modernism, due October 2nd, 2026.

Where much of Modernism explores the pressures, contradictions and uncertainties of contemporary life, “The Aftermath (Longing For Her Skin)” turns inward, focusing on the strange emotional space that follows the end of a relationship. It is a song about absence, memory and the way people can remain present in your life even when they are no longer part of it.

Built around shimmering guitars and an immediate, expansive chorus, the track carries a sense of movement without ever fully escaping its emotional pull. There is longing throughout, but also a recognition that the past cannot simply be left behind. Instead, it resurfaces unexpectedly — triggered by a film, a poem, a song, or some otherwise insignificant detail that suddenly brings someone back into focus.

As zeronic explain, “The Aftermath“ is about what remains when something between two people is already over. You move on, but that person keeps appearing in the smallest things – a film, a poem, a song. And suddenly, all that longing is there again.”

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Photo - Robbie Ewing

Sonia Elisheva - Playground.

Arriving as an eclectic dose of electro-leaning alt-pop, Sonia Elisheva’s distinctive vocals bring out the soul in Playground. Catchy and cathartic, the track finds solace in the realisation that no one truly knows what they are doing. Playground is your reminder to look beyond the polished facades. Sharing more, Sonia explained: ‘I’ve often found in my own life that I’ll reach these places I’ve dreamed about getting to, only to realise that the people around me don’t necessarily have it any more figured out than I do. Some people are just better at pretending than others. 

I’m not the first to write about this of course, imposter syndrome is such a common feeling. Playground is ultimately about letting go of some of that pressure to present as though you have everything figured out and to detach from the constant need for external validation.’

Playground is Sonia’s first solo single to arrive in 2026 and signals a new direction for her sound. With an established background in Jazz and electro swing, she's built up a diverse and impressive discography since launching in 2021, accumulating well over a million streams thanks to an impressive run of support at DSP’s including New Music Friday and Jazz UK. Having toured extensively in the UK and Europe, some of which with her 7-piece band including a run of sold-out London Jazz venues, this is definitely a project to keep a close eye on.

Whilst her sound is exquisitely dynamic and genre bending, Sonia’s music is united by a distinct songwriting voice and undeniable London charm. Pulling from influences such as Amber Mark, Charli xcx, Caravan Palace, Lilly Allen, L’imperatrice and additionally her Eastern European heritage , her sound is, in her words own words ‘Jazz Bar meets London nightbus banter after a sweaty nightclub.’

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