Cranking up the indie rock dial: Rural France's SLOTHS is their jangliest, most baroque album yet — organ, horns, mellotron and all — while still honouring their "Pavement playing Teenage Fanclub" mission statement. Publicity Department's S. Michael Brook And The Steam-Powered Trains delivers half an hour of crunchy guitars and two-part vocal harmonies, power-pop influences distorted through 90s alt-rock sensibilities. Ben Auld's Loserdom channels Teenage Fanclub and Weezer into blown-out power-pop, with Bach-inspired solos and layered harmonies capturing life's rocky transitions with tongue-in-cheek drama. Tim Woodruff's Lifelines rounds things out with emotionally honest alt-rock drawing from R.E.M. and Tom Petty — a heartfelt soundtrack for the beautiful, imperfect journey of being human.

Indie Rock releases

Full Wet by Snatch the Snail cover art

“This is Snatch the Snail's best album”

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A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending by Coma Beach cover art

“'A Madman's Dream/Mind Descending' fuses punk’s feral bite with post‑punk’s cold precision, lurching between fever‑dream urgency and razor‑edged clarity”

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