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Wishy are releasing a new album, “Nature’s Pill”, on October 2nd via Winspear. This week they shared its third single, “Sensational,” via a music video that features the band performing in the pages of a composition notebook. Jess Dunn animated and directed the video.

Vocalist/guitarist Kevin Krauter had this to say in a press release: heres a Major Fact about this song: basically mitch wrote this killer bass line and we had to rock it out crazy style a la breeders etienne if u catch the vision hope everyone has fun listening lets run it up at a co-workers bday party and just see what happens.

Previously the band released its first single, “Lovesick,” Then they shared its second single, “All the Rage,” via a music video.

“Nature’s Pill” is the band’s sophomore album, the follow-up to 2024’s “Triple Seven” and 2025’s “Planet Popstar “EP.

Wishy consists vocalist/guitarist Nina Pitchkites, vocalist/guitarist Kevin Krauter, guitarist Dimitri Morris, bassist Mitch Collins, and drummer Conner Host. The Indianapolis shoegaze/dream-pop band recorded the album in Los Angeles with “Triple Seven” co-producer Ben Lumsdaine.

Krauter had this to say in a press release: “Being in an indie band feels bizarre when the world is on fire. What can you do at the end of the day other than carve out some space—at the very least I have my imagination and I can invite others to join me there. At a certain point you need to say fuck it and roll with it.”

British sibling duo Penelope Isles (Lily and Jack Wolter) are releasing a new album, ” 3,” on September 25th via Bella Union. This week they shared its third single, “Another Kind of Love” via a time lapse music video featuring Jack making a painting. Jack also sings lead vocals on the song.

Penelope Isles previously shared the album’s lead single, “Thinking Seat,” via a music video.

The new album follows 2021’s “Which Way to Happy” and 2019’s “Until the Tide Creeps In“. Not only has it been five years since Penelope Isles’ last album, it’s also been three years since their last live show. In that time, the duo have been busy with solo projects—Jack with Cubzoa and Lily with My Precious Bunny (who released “A Moment in My Eyes in May; Jack also toured with CMAT on guitar.

“Penny Isles is such a big part of our personalities,” says Jack in a press release. “So it was about time we got back to it.”

The album features Joe Taylor on drums and was recorded live in the studio, at Black Bay Studio on the Isle of Lewis off Scotland’s northwest coast. Prior to that, the album was written on a monthlong surf trip to Lagos, Portugal.

The first as a true three-piece, with close friend Joe Taylor (Anna B Savage, Iona Zajac) joining on drums, and the first they’ve ever recorded live. Jack and Lily trade shimmering guitars and sunlit harmonies like shared secrets, while Joe Taylor anchors it all: falsetto drifting wistfully above, drums crashing below. These are songs that read like postcards or pages ripped from a diary and slipped under someone’s door. Recording the album live has kept the ink wet and the page still warm.

This week, the London-based band Sorry shared a new song, “Tom Will Smack Your Ass,” via a music video featuring lots of ass smacking. Sorry’s Asha Lorenz co-directed the video with Flo Webb.

Lorenz had this to say about the video in a press release: “No bums were harmed in the making of this video—thanks to everyone who contributed.”

Sorry are Asha Lorenz, Louis O’Bryen, Lincoln Barrett, Campbell Baum, and Marco Pini. 

The song follows “Cosplay”, an acclaimed new album the band released last November via Domino Recordings. It was among the Top 100 Albums of 2025. In February Sorry shared a further two new songs: “Billy Elliot” and “Alone In Cologne.”

“Cosplay” followed 2022’s “Anywhere But Here” and their debut album, “925”,

“Cosplay” included two previous singles: “Jetplane” and “Waxwing” (which came out in June).

Black Marble hummed to life in the fall of 2012, switched on by the early aughts New York City synthwave revival. Today, fourteen years on and seven releases later, Chris Stewart continues to make records hunched over machines that warm to the touch when turned on and need to be coaxed to stay in tune. His albums, written, recorded, and delivered solely by Stewart, remain singular visions, with songs that seek to convey a diffuse pastiche, now shaped by a desire to wrap the whole thing in a message that speaks to where he’s been and where he wants to go.

Black Marble’s latest vision, “Life in Small Spaces“, sees Stewart comment on the music industry and his role within it, reflecting on how underground music has changed over time, and how a blueprint for keeping things simple and being true to oneself is the only ideal for living in this complicated landscape.

Stewart’s desire to span time with his ideals intact shows up in the song writing, which retains the project’s pop-sensibilities while adding new tricks to the bag. “Life in Small Spaces” trades walls of synths for more guitar, drawing on early American left of the dial college radio staccato guitar lines recalling Pylon, The Necessaries, and R Stevie Moore, and live drum samples, a nod to Wire’s simple metronomic style. Stewart explains the reason for the change as a way to “create this chime-y hypnotic quality. Like a radio dial that is between two stations.”

Visually, “Life in Small Spaces” features Stewart alone on the cover in a sparse room, surrounded with an eruption of confetti – an image that reflects a self-contained world that may appear small, bleak and cluttered, but is fully his own. A fitting frame for a record that embraces limitation as a form of clarity, and one that tells the story of choosing a simple life, giving up stability and comfort for an existence of bold and engaging connections. This further reflects Black Marble’s confidence in not only his artistry, but the community that has grown and evolved around the project over the years. “[Life in Small Spaces”] is what I want to talk about as an artist. It’s where I am at this exact moment and I know I’m not alone in how I feel.”

This sentiment isn’t a disclaimer. It’s the point. “Life in Small Spaces“, with its introspective lyricism disguised neatly within Black Marble’s radiant musicality, is an earnest analysis of the pressures that shape artists. It is an invitation to accept and consciously agree to a more minimal lifestyle for the sake of creative expression and freedom, and to never need to compromise your values for the tempting illusion of success. 

released August 21st, 2026

Holy Motors’ third studio album, “Heaven’s Night”, pairs the band’s signature Western dreamscapes with pop hooks and new-wave textures that mark new territory for the Estonian band. Notably, there is a new sweetness to the collection of songs on “Heaven’s Night”, which features characters who step away from the doomed sunsets and outback melancholy of 2020’s “Horse“. As the band puts it, their new sound is “sweet as dripping honey, sad like summer rain.”

Without a doubt, “Heaven’s Night” is Holy Motors’ most varied album to date. From the furious gallop of “The Last Ones” to the pop centerpiece, “Hellish- ly Hot,” 

“Heaven’s Night” throws a new spin on the band’s world, one that is a little less haunted and a little more dangerous.

“Hellishly Hot” is from the ‘Heaven’s Night’ LP

On Dummy’s new album, “do you love the color of the sky?”, the Los Angeles five-piece open up their sound with fresh textures, rhythms, and a sharper sense of intention. It’s their third album and first for Polyvinyl, recorded between their home studio and Studio 22 with collaborator and engineer Joo-Joo Ashworth.

The Los Angeles five-piece Dummy shared its first single, “Full Spectrum Dominance,” via a music video. They have also announced some new tour dates. 

Guitarist Joe Trainor had this to say about “Full Spectrum Dominance” in a press release: “I was trying to make something just heavier, and we joked it was our nu metal song, during the recording we added the tambourine that gives it a more dancey vibe,

Vocalist/keyboardist Emma Maatman adds: “This is the Technofeudalism bop. Tech billionaires are treating AI like the new Alchemy, using it as a source of power and magic. This supposedly soon-to-be all-powerful technology could not exist without harvesting all of humanity’s intellectual property and collective work. ‘Prima Materia’ is the building block of all alchemical matter, so in the canon of the song, we humans are the Prima Materia.”

Matt Wells directed and edited the song’s video. “Do you love the color of the sky?” is the followup to 2024’s “Free Energy”. The press release cites Seefeel, Windy and Carl, Laika, Disco Inferno, early Björk, The Sundays, and Madonna’s Ray of Light as reference points for the new album. Dummy’s full lineup is Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O’Dell, Joe Trainor, and Lance Umble.

“Do you love the color of the sky?” is due out October 16th via Polyvinyl.

London-based post-punk quartet World News have announced their debut album, “In Purgatory“, and have now shared its latest single, “The Way It Goes,” via a music video. “In Purgatory” is due out October 16.

Vocalist Alex Evans had this to say about the new song and album in a press release: “‘The Way It Goes’ was mostly written and demo’d back in 2020. The lyrics don’t possess too much of a story, but are more phrases, thoughts and collections of words of how I was feeling at the time. The album has a few songs on it similar to this that were written a few years ago, whilst some of the other tracks were written more recently, and in some cases weeks/days before hitting the studio. We’re all very excited to share the album with everyone.”

The album track “Sidestep” was released back in April . Another track from the album, “Everything Is Coming up Roses”, was released as a single in September 2025 

The album was recorded at RAK Studios in central London with producer Tommy Bosustow (mary in the junkyard, Porridge Radio)

“In Purgatory” is due out October 16th.

A new song from your old friends, Gang Of Youths.
Flush with all the sounds you’ve come to know and love – modern brass, lush strings, a crack rhythm section, and lyrics about entropy…this song can be enjoyed anywhere, on any sound system and on any occasion.
In fact, why don’t you throw it on right now?

Gang Of Youths are
Jung Kim, Donnie Borzestowski, Tom Hobden, and David Le’aupepe.

“Something Worth Waiting For”, the sophomore album by Chicago band Friko, obviously, instantly lives up to its title; the ironic part of it is that we didn’t have to wait that long. You could call them kids when they burst onto the scene with “Where we’ve been, Where we go from here”, and its follow-up sounds like the sort of epically anthemic record an indie rock buzzband might deliver over a decade after their debut.

Just two years later, Friko return with an expanded lineup, with vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan and drummer Bailey Minzenberger – who formed the band right out of high school – being joined by bassist David Fuller and guitarist Korgan Robb. While building on the raw, explosive dynamics, anthemic choruses, and infernal yearning of their first record, “Something Worth Waiting For” feels anything but rushed, just riding the wave of relentless touring instead of letting it subside.

“Necessary ” is from the Expanded Edition of Friko’s new album ‘Something Worth Waiting For’. The original album is available now

The London-based Celtic jangle pop boy band, The Tubs, have announced their new album, “Hard Life, out September 11th! The lead single, “Who’s Gonna Love You Now” is out today.

Upon arriving in the United States for The Tubs’ first tour of the country, frontman Owen Williams said, “We’re here to unite the country.” They piled into a van and criss-crossed the States, bringing their literary, bleary-eyed, world-weary, night-of-your-life highwire act to the masses.

Along the way, they signed to Merge Records, who will release The Tubs’ third full-length album, “Hard Life“, on September 11th, 2026. Having perfected their sound across two albums and hundreds of shows, the London-based Celtic jangle boyband push themselves even further into the shimmering heart of virtuosic indie rock, with the addition of fiddle player Chris Haigh adding a key element to the album’s lushness.

On “”Hard Life,” “the persona familiar to listeners of “Cotton Crown” and “Dead Meat” is still present, but so too is a second voice, steelier and more experienced. These voices argue, pester one another, merge into each other, and break apart, sometimes over the course of a single song.

Lead single “Who’s Gonna Love You Now?” puts the scold front and center, while the album explores grief, disappointment, regret, and shame, emerging from the wreckage as changed men. “I’m interested in the way sympathy and patience for someone suffering always runs out eventually,” Williams says. “How this can be a good and liberating thing as well as a sad and brutal thing. But mostly they’re just pop songs.” Exquisite, irresistible pop songs.

Spin them until the healing starts, then spin them again.