Reading (England) alternative trio doops release the anticipated debut full-length album, The Space Between, this weekend. Blending elements of Psychedelic Rock, Punk and Indie, the album showcases the quartet's boundless creativity and musical maturity.
Recorded with impromptu drums at Brighton’s Farm Road Studios alongside rising engineer Spencer Withey (Man / Woman, Chainsaw, Youth Sector, Alien Chicks & Ladylike), the rest of the instrumentation, mixing, and mastering across the album was completed at home by the band themselves, highlighting their self-sufficiency as collective but also their DIY approach. The band explain: “In crafting these ten tracks, the band also learned to mix and master — striving to capture the full spectrum of doops’ distinctive soundscape and, in doing so, fully embracing the DIY ethos.”
From the swirling fuzzy, psychedelic punk intensity of ‘Idle Hands’ and ‘Fever tree’ to more ethereal, dark atmospheres found on tracks such as ‘Forget-Me-Not’ and ‘Falling’ the album balances its frenetic splashes of visceral energy with tracks which more a more considered, contemplative and melodic approach, whilst always keeping the intricate instrumental tendencies which makes the band so unique and interesting.
Speaking about the album, Andy shares. “The Space Between' is our first attempt at a full fledged album, aimed at encapsulating both sides of their sonic abilities - from heavier fast paced tracks such as 'Idle Hands' & 'Witching Hour' to the softer laid-back and introspective arrangements of the likes of 'Milk Slug' and 'Falling'.
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Rising Irish punk duo Adore have unveiled a new video for their latest single 'Sweet Keith' - directed by Matthew Tallon - coinciding with confirmations for 2000 Trees and Truck Festival next summer. Fusing flurries of abrasive noise and crunching guitars with disarming honesty, 'Sweet Keith' is Adore's tribute to chosen family.
On the video release, singer Lara Minchin said: "Wowowow we finally have a music video. We’re so happy that Sweet Keith gets her time in the sun, immortalised in video format, directed by the wonderful Matthew Tallon who I met through a Scooby Doo mystery gang of comedians who are endlessly talented.
The whole team were absolutely fantastic. No confections were wasted, they were all rescued from bakeries who were going to have them euthanised and collected over the duration of a week. Trust me, that room smelled awful."
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After a run of “Come to Brazil!” evoking releases, Swedish rock four-piece Alpha Pet returns with what might be their most distinctive and instantly gripping single yet in the form of "Mall of Death".
"Mall of Death” is built on a tight, staccato-driven foundation of bass and drums, with guitars that clearly don’t wish you well. It’s the perfect soundtrack for your next soul-draining pilgrimage to a shopping mall. It's the first taste from their forthcoming debut EP that will be out via Rama Lama Records early 2026.
The song has long been a fan favorite in Alpha Pet’s live set. The band has been steadily buzzing around Stockholm’s live scene for the past few years — and now the track finally sees the light of day on the most capitalist day in the calendar: Black Friday.
“Welcome to the mall of death, where you can enhance your life experience with everything from pills, weed and poisonous centipedes to plastic toys. All equally fun! All equally deadly!” the band says.
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Internationally acclaimed Finnish electropop duo Sin Cos Tan open a new chapter in their career. Their collaboration with the Helsinki-based label All That Plazz begins with the single Cutting Losses — the first glimpse of their forthcoming album Greed. Formed by producer-DJ Jori Hulkkonen and singer-songwriter Juho Paalosmaa, Sin Cos Tan are known for their rare balance of melodic sensitivity, Nordic melancholy, and precise electronic production. Their music lives somewhere between nostalgia and the future — intimate, detailed, and timeless electronic pop that resonates equally well on dance floors and in headphones.
Cutting Losses marks both a fresh start and a continuation. It’s brighter and more rhythmic than the band’s earlier work, yet carries the same finely tuned emotional core that has defined their sound from the beginning. A song about letting go and moving forward, it feels like a quiet sigh opening the door to a new era.
“Cutting Losses is about a relationship where one person gives up love for money. The other is left to make sense of that decision. It serves as an introduction to the album’s overarching theme of greed,” says vocalist and songwriter Juho Paalosmaa.
“It’s direct and deceptively simple — intentionally a bit of a red herring for what’s to come. That’s precisely why it makes the perfect opening track,” adds producer Jori Hulkkonen.
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