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This is our introduction to Enabling Behaviour and what a welcome event that is. They have a new video for 'Tarantulina' that we have included however the entire EP is definitely one to hear as the band shift across genres with creative flair whilst maintaining a distinctive identity that is quite addictive.
Some background: Cardiff-based Enabling Behaviour are back with a new EP “Electric Pop Songs” (out on 25th November 2025 via Krautpop!). The six-track collection follows the band’s 2024 debut album “GILT!” and showcases an expansion of their musical sensibilities. Still rooted in post-punk, dripping with fuzz, and giving space to Eli’s soft, idiosyncratic vocal, the EP glitters with psychedelic folk and hints at their early shoegaze aspirations.
Recorded by bass-player Billy Tucker at Vault Studios in Cardiff and mastered by Billy Mattock, “Electric Pop Songs” is released in full on 25th November 2025. Pre-orders for a limited run of CDs and cassettes are live now on Bandcamp. Enabling Behaviour are gearing up for more shows across the UK and a European tour in 2027. Enabling Behaviour are: Eli Alison - Vocals, Guitar. Will Bevis - Guitar, Vocals. Bully Tucker - Bass. Conor Havard - Drums.
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Following her recent UK tour, Gwenno today shares two exceptional remixes of tracks from her universally acclaimed album Utopia. The first is by Breton producer and Mute artist QUINQUIS (aka Émilie Quinquis) who supported Gwenno across her UK tour. The two artists met when they interviewed one another earlier this year, talking extensively about preserving their cultural identities through their art. Both QUINQUIS & Gwenno sing in their native tongues: the Celtic languages of Breton, Cornish and Welsh. Here, QUINQUIS has re-imagined Gwenno’s magical album closer “Hireth” into an otherworldly reverie, delicately stripped back with an added electronic hook, alluring the listener into a dreamlike state reminiscent of the astral projection found in the original harp-led track.
Gwenno has also shared a Stone Club remix of “Dancing On Volcanoes”, the first single to be released from Utopia. A reimagining of Gwenno on the Vegas dancefloor via Cardiff and the Cornish landscape that this remix was made within. Seeking out sounds and the feelings of club nights and the transcendence of repetitive beats with a vision of future free festivals in an alternative cultural reality.
43 years into her life, Gwenno Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.
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London’s genre-defying group The Widows are back. Post-punk, psych, rock ’n’ roll—call it what you like. Their sound is raw enough to shake the walls and hypnotic enough to make you forget your pint (unlikely for our editor, but great PR comments nonetheless)...
Formed in 2015, The Widows earned a reputation for electrifying live shows and releases that stirred equal parts confusion and acclaim—most notably their album Popular Demand and the provocatively titled single Brexit Chainstore Massacre. After a hiatus (blame a disappearing drummer), the band re-emerged in 2023 with a revitalised line-up: Kim Le Tan – vocals/synth, Francesco Manzi – guitar/vocals, Roger Salsas – bass/vocals, Vince Johnson – drums.
Influenced by the likes of The Stooges, Bowie, The Cramps, Television, The Fall — but imitation isn’t their game. Instead, The Widows conjure shadowy guitars, psych-tinged textures, and grooves that grip hard. Songs swing between melodic and chaotic, anchored by Kim’s vocals—seductive one moment, savage the next. Having haunted Camden Rocks and other notorious events around town, The Widows now prepare to release their most ambitious record yet.
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