There's something achingly familiar yet refreshingly honest about FOLLOWAY's debut single "In My Mind" — a track that announces the arrival of an artist unafraid to wear his heart on his vintage-adorned sleeve. In an era where bedroom pop often feels manufactured and indie rock risks sterility, this London-based songwriter-producer has crafted something that feels genuinely lived-in.

One finds it deliciously perverse that an artist would wait until the age of 50 to pen her first song, then proceed to craft material that feels like it's been brewing in the cultural ether for decades. Kate Howard's sophomore effort, I'm Not Here to Help You, is the sort of record that arrives unannounced and uninvited, like a brilliantly inappropriate dinner guest who ends up becoming the evening's most memorable character.

While algorithmic playlists dictate musical taste and bedroom producers flood streaming platforms with derivative dreck, it's refreshing to encounter something as genuinely considered as The Concierge's debut EP "Check In." This triumvirate of London-based musicians—Duncan Haslam, Phil Joyce, and Robert Melkumyan—have conjured something rather special from the most mundane of circumstances: spare rooms, day jobs, and a 90-minute commute between bandmates.

There's something deliciously anachronistic about Bildjan's latest offering, a single that feels simultaneously torn from the pages of 1985 and beamed directly from 2025's neon-lit future. "Stranger" arrives as a three-and-a-half-minute meditation on fleeting intimacy, wrapped in the kind of synth-soaked production that would make Giorgio Moroder weep with pride.

There exists a peculiar alchemy in the creative geography between Stuttgart and Los Angeles—one that Samuel Schultz has somehow managed to bottle and distil into the remarkable "Stronger than you know" (Radio Edit). Operating under the evocative moniker the.flyingSAM, this German composer-producer has crafted something that feels both cinematically grand and intimately personal, a paradox that the finest British artists have long understood as essential to transcendent pop music.

The delicious perversity of an artist calling themselves Occupation Baby whilst crafting music that sounds anything but infantile sets the tone perfectly. This Peterborough-based solo project emerges from the fertile wasteland of provincial England with "Satisfied," a track released today that wears its insomnia like a badge of dishonour and transforms sleep deprivation into sonic gold.

Few fifteen-year-olds can distill the particular ache of outgrowing friendships into three and a half minutes of deceptively buoyant indie pop. Ava Valianti's latest single "Distant" arrives with the kind of emotional sophistication that would be impressive in an artist twice her age, wrapped in production that's clever enough to make you dance while your heart quietly breaks.

There's something deliciously forward-thinking about Pompeya's approach to indie pop—the band who burst into international consciousness with their irresistible hit "90" have returned with "Awesome," the first instalment of what promises to be their most ambitious project yet. This EP, released on April 11th, serves as the opening salvo of a two-part album, with the second half due in August, and it finds the band refining their already considerable songcraft into something approaching perfection.

Having quickly established himself as one of the most prominent new voices in Norwegian music, 8lanco's approach to contemporary pop immediately sets him apart from the conveyor belt of overly-manufactured Nordic exports we've grown wearily accustomed to. His latest EP, Hills N' Back, arrives with the kind of self-aware confidence that suggests an artist who's done his homework—both in the studio and in life.

Brighton's indie scene has birthed many a curious talent over the years, but few emerge with the quiet confidence displayed on Bardie's debut single "Too Long." Dave Harding's pet project arrives not with the customary fanfare of most freshly-minted acts, but rather with the assurance of someone who's been mentally composing this piece for the better part of fifteen years.