I’m so not the target audience for Canadian hyperpop singer 8485, but this song is such an earworm I can’t resist it.

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Shoun Shoun is the project of Bristol-based Annette Berlin, who describes her band’s sound as “lo-fi anxiety and raucous tales of bad behaviour.”

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The Beta Band burst on to the music scene in 1997 with the first of their three EPs, kicking off with this tune, Dry The Rain.

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The Flaming Lips sang this poignant, melancholic and beautiful state-of-the-world ballad on their third album back in 1990.

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Body Type are a four-piece female band from Sydney, Australia, whose brand of noisy garage-punk is now drifting into a calmer place.

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Teenage Fanclub return with a new song and the same familiar sound of jangling guitars and warm harmonies.

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Lightly treading a line between hip-hop beats and indie-pop, SOFY’s intimate, conversational style is strangely addictive.

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As a lifelong T. Rex fan I  was always going to adore this heartfelt hommage to Bolan by Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo. And I do.

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Morrissey takes a break from cancelling concerts because he’s too cold, or it’s too noisy, to sing about the Notre Dame fire tragedy.

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The K’s distil the sound of early indie music and fuse it with the fire of punk on their song about working-class life in a Northern town today.

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