Raw, unfiltered alternative energy: I Ya Toyah delivers a hard-edged industrial confrontation born from frustration and emotional overload, while Apology drives deeper with crushing riffs and hypnotic grooves exploring the dangerous line between justified pain and entitlement. The City Gates unfold a nocturnal post-punk landscape on Chimera — brooding rhythms meeting shimmering shoegaze walls of sound — as Snatch the Snail strips back to essentials on Full Wet, prioritizing feel over polish in their best album yet. Elly Kace casts intimate spells with strings, analog synths, and vocal layering on the seventh gate, while Jonathan Hadley navigates CPTSD with unflinching honesty — "there is no villain here, just damages."

SLEEP CLUB
Dweller (Single)

alternative / grungegaze / post hardcore / rock / shoegaze

Gleaming and powerful post-hardcore and shoegaze style guitar lines fill 'Dweller', the first single off of SLEEP CLUB's upcoming debut album that examines the intrusion of AI into our everyday lives.
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Stars and the Underground
Echolocation Feat Hannah Berry (Talmar) - Single

alternative / alternative rock / goth / gothic / gothic rock / indie / indie rock / post-punk / postpunk / shoegaze

Auckland-based Stars and the Underground return with a new single blending post-punk, indie rock, and shoegaze influences. RIYL: The Mission UK, The Chameleons, The Church
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Modern Ideas
This Is How It Hurts

80s / alternative / alternative rock / coldwave / minimal synth / new romantic / new wave / pop / postpunk / retro

Melbourne-based synth-pop/new wave debut single from Modern Ideas, the solo project of Wilding's Justin Stokes. RIYL: Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys
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