Sports Team – Get Along
In a time where this country is more divided than ever, Sports Team call for us all to get along is classic, comical, Sports Team fashion.
Foals – In Degrees
It’s a bouncing, bombastic house track with techno influences and a rock’n’roll core. It sounds like it shouldn’t work but it does, it’s fucking huge.
Sigrid – Sight Of You
Getting images of the first time you wandered through the gates of Disney world as the intro plays? No? Well either you haven’t been which is probably fair enough, or you haven’t listened to this track yet. It’s magical, a glistening string section and a triumphant chorus see this take the crown as Sucker Punch’s best song. We are lovin’ it.
Stella Donnelly – Boys Will Be Boys
Stella’s debut is fully of witty, sarcastic, humorous feminist anthems that ridicule old, creepy man but in a more serious moment, this heart-wrenching number on victim-blaming and rape-culture sees Stella poignant, direct and unrelenting, Stella’s astonishing vocal leaves a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye. Not one for the faint hearted.
Art School Girlfriend – Come Back To Me
A
tale of lust and being out of control of your own desires, the music is
synonymous with the feelings of joy and torture that come with pursuing love.
Protomartyr – ‘Jumbo’s’
Opening with a skewering of reality, ‘Jumbo’s’ trundles on like a marching band hell bent on totality. Modal lines proclaim a cataclysm against modern life; “I will touch the screen no more / I will not have a drink.” Their Detroit steel is worn on their arms for all to see and their repetition of simplicity makes the most benign lyric wield incredible power.
