Pacific Northwest band Prince of Spain release their latest track, the sparkling acoustic-driven melody & harmony of beautiful tuneful “Rising Sun”.
Prince of Spain 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Pacific Northwest band Prince of Spain release their latest track, the sparkling acoustic-driven melody & harmony of beautiful tuneful “Rising Sun”.
Prince of Spain (Facebook)
Rating 8.4
The stunning “Bodyweight” is new from UK songwriter Annie Eve. Built on a looped-vocal figure, beautiful flourishes of harmony and synth voicings and Annie Eve’s irresistible vulnerable-at-that-very-moment singing, “Bodyweight” is really really good. A+++ The “Bodyweight” single is out October 14th on Young & Lost Club.
Annie Eve 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.6
“Only” is the latest track from Oxford UK band MMX. Carefully layered (we’re really into the dynamic between the song’s kinetic multi-dimensional rhythm track and the drama of the song’s guitar atmsopheres) and yet still quite anthemic in many ways, “Only” as a tune ticks many of the same boxes of quality of band’s that occupy a much higher profile and popularity; we don’t expect either of those things to disinclude MMX for much longer. MMX’s “Heir” EP is out soon.
MMX (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.1
Belfast-bred now Liverpool-based brother & sister-fronted newcomers Southern offer their debut single for Marathon Artists (Jagwar Ma, Childhood) in the form of the very good blues & southern soul-influenced “World Don’t Shine” which you can sample in its entirety below.
Southern 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.5
UK artist Sivu returns with the beautifully spare new tune “Over & Over”. Built around Sivu’s heartened slightly shaky croon & falsetto “Over & Over” is soulful, real, & immediate in all the best ways (and then some). Sample some very very good indie pop below.
Sivu (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
The cinematic beach-side slow dance of “Would You Love Me” L.A. band Hills is quite impressive. We can imagine the tune as some sort of soundtrack to the scene where the fallen 60’s matinee idol blows a kiss and a wave to his now departed sweetheart as he speeds away up that dusty highway and a rotted-out Chevelle (at least that’s what it felt like to us). “Would You Love Me” is wall to wall packed w/ great melodic and vocal lines and is truly very cinematic, do not sleep.
Hills 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
If you dig NME/Guardian/Q-lauded melancholic UK rock (clearly we do) then new band Let’s Buy Happiness and their single, the stunning Daughter-esque “Run” should be right up your street. Preview “Run” below and look for LBH’s Chants for Friends LP later in the year.
Let’s Buy Happiness (Facebook)
Rating 8.1
