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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 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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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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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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| Photo - Jørgen Nordby |
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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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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