Warren unveiled the first look at the album with the lead single ‘Automatic,’ a driving, angsty tune that finds the narrator exhausted by the endless cycle of striving, falling, trying again, and discovering that the only home she can ultimately count on is the one inside herself. The accompanying video features found footage filmed by a teenage Warren with a digital camcorder visualising excerpts from her dream journal.

“I’ve been on a bit of a mission these last few years to resuscitate within myself a spontaneous, uncomplicated way of making art for pleasure, like children do,” stated Warren, harkening back to her experimental EP The Night of the Wind based on a book she wrote when she was 3 years old. “My high school friend Leora and I recently reconnected out of the blue, and we got to reminiscing about all the weird art we used to make for fun/to stave off the doldrums of suburban adolescence. I remembered this one film in particular and just had an inkling it could make a good music video for ‘Automatic.’ When I put the song over the footage, the way the two things lined up was spooky.”

Frog in the Belly of a Snake:

1. Web
2. The Current
3. Circular Logic
4. Automatic
5. Invocation
6. A Power Greater
7. Islamorada
8. Wildcrafted
9. Silver Light
10. Voice of Reason
11. Frog in the Belly of a Snake
12. Bathwater Baby
13. New Friend Blues
14. Feeding Me Feeding You

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Shares guitarist Dan Fuson: “On this record I think we as a band gelled more than we ever have and made space for each other while still elevating each song. The goal of serving each tune was always in mind and we hit the fricking bullseye.”

“I f***ing love this record and I love that I got to make it (once again) DIY in a garage with my two favorite people,” adds front woman Coco Kinnon. “I especially love that we get to give our fans and new listeners something real in a world of slop.”

Concludes bassist Austin Luther: “In true Winona Fighter fashion, we put our blood, sweat, and tears into the making of this record. Our goal was to evolve as a band while still delivering the hard hitting and melodic songs we love to make. Please enjoy at full volume.”

Along with the news comes a grungy and self-aware new single titled ‘LEECH’. Fans can watch the music video, which was directed by Hannah Hall and embodies the song’s feelings of apprehension. ‘LEECH’ marks the second song to be released from the upcoming record; the band shared the explosive and confrontational ‘BOMBS AWAY’ earlier this year.

Winona Fighter tapped self-taught artist Glen Martin Taylor to create the cover art of Brutal & Extremely Underrated. His work maintains the same DIY ethos and authenticity found throughout the band’s discography, as he explores themes of transformation and healing through fractured pieces.

Brutal & Extremely Underrated:

1. TV On The Radio
2. BOMBS AWAY
3. LEECH
4. DEAD HORSE
5. You Don’t Have A Clue
6. SELF AFFIRMATIONS
7. HAWK FOOT
8. OUT! THERE!
9. Lily Cut Her Hair
10. PARA SIEMPRE
11. BULLY BUSTER
12. Title (REDACTED)

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One of two tracks on the album recorded with, and benefiting from musical contributions from the history-making David Bowie and T-Rex producer, ‘Apocalypse Queen’ features a rollcall of major league, award-winning musical contributors. Alongside Visconti on bass and backing vocals, the recording of ‘Apocalypse Queen’ welcomes Blackstar bandleader and saxophonist, Donny McCaslin, guitarist, Gerry Leonard (David Bowie, Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright), eight times Grammy Award-winning engineer, Kevin Killen (Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Kate Bush) and drummer, Gunnar Olsen (Bruce Springsteen, Liam Gallagher, Miley Cyrus).

A song that’s “about embracing your strength, realising your power and unleashing our potential…possibly just in time for the end of days.” ‘Apocalypse Queen’ is apt follow-up to the artist’s striking, standalone summer dystopian bop single, Simple Pleasures. On both and tracing the themes of the lazer-focused album to come, de Bastion’s position couldn’t be clearer: “If we’re going out, we’re going out loud!”

Here Lies Human:

1. Here Lies Human
2. Simple Pleasures
3. Apocalypse Queen
4. This Is How The World Ends
5. Biometrics
6. So Long Forever
7. Vitamin Happy
8. New Town
9. Miracle
10. Becoming

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Renowned for her vivid, gothic-tinged storytelling, Coburn’s new record is a cabinet of curiosities, where the supernatural hides within the domestic and beauty exists alongside the grotesque. Musically, it reaches for dreamlike arrangements and cinematic crescendos, with production once again by Bill Ryder-Jones, it shifts from theatrical brass to melancholic strings and haunting harmonies.

Offering the first glimpse of the record is the uncanny new single ‘I Just Want To Say’, which comes paired with a playful video that nods to Amelia’s love of film. Written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator: a woman sending love letters to a serial killer, exploring how love can tip into obsession. As Amelia explains: “It’s inspired by hybristophilia – the intense attraction some people feel towards criminals. Where is the line between love, lust and obsession, and how far would you go for the person you believe is the love of your life?”

The album also includes a collaboration with Paul Weller, a longtime champion of Amelia’s music. She guested on his last record, Find El Dorado, and later joined him on tour for sold-out shows in Newcastle and Liverpool.

Myself and Other Monsters:

1. The Awakening
2. It Burns
3. Adeline (feat. Paul Weller)
4. There Goes The Neighbourhood
5. Invisible People
6. This Body Is Yours to Keep
7. I Just Want To Say
8. Metamorphosis
9. Unwinding
10. Wine to Your Funeral
11. Heavy the Heart
12. The Deep Blue Sleep

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Goodwife might ring with the playful, irreverent spirit of nights spent on the dancefloor, but at its heart lies a story that fights for that level of freedom. Anna Friedberg (writer, vocals, guitar, percussion, cowbells) remembers her grandmother as “a really strong woman”. “She lived in the countryside her whole life, but she was very smart and read lots of books and learnt French in her 70’s and was into poetry,” she smiles. Tied to a husband who “couldn’t handle her having a life outside of him”, however, she found herself stuck in an abusive marriage. On Goodwife’s title track, replete with cheeky nods to Inner City’s 1988 banger ‘Good Life’ and shared today as the album’s first single, Anna imagines a way to “rewrite her past” and give her a new ending. “To me,” she says, “this new ‘Goodwife’ is leaving co-dependency behind and being good to herself rather than to everyone else. A message that feels, sadly, more urgent than ever given everything happening in the world right now around women’s safety and autonomy.”

The track was co-produced by Anna Friedberg with Daniel Brandt and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard in their Shoreditch studio. “We were just jamming on all their amazing synthesisers, it was so much fun,” Anna recalls. “One of my favourite memories from the whole album is standing on Hot Chip’s studio dancefloor, margarita in hand, listening back to our tracks at an abnormally loud volume.”

Goodwife:

1. Tomorrow
2. Understanding
3. Come See Mine
4. Tricky Situation
5. Mitsubishi
6. Goodwife
7. Vera
8. Copy Copy
9. Partymus
10. That’ll Do
11. La Grande Bouffe On Rewind
12. Get Down With Schneider
13. Call Your Mum

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“It’s a very different record for me,” says Louise. “I’m Gen X, we tend not to confront our emotions or display them easily to the outside world. There’s strength in that, but also solitude. I got to the point where I felt I was dissolving. Like if I didn’t put my discomfort somewhere, I’d cease to exist.”

Written and recorded between Paris and Manchester, the album was produced by Joe Cross (The Courteeners, Hurts, Louis Tomlinson, The Slow Readers Club). “We made the album over 18 months, working in small bursts. I wasn’t in a great place when we started, and the recording sessions became these vital touchstones. Brief windows where life made sense.”

The record moves through grief, regret, loneliness and the struggle to let go. Ultimately, it’s about coming through – finding the strength to stop making yourself smaller and discovering there can be freedom on the other side of something you thought might destroy you.

Lead single and album title track, ‘End of the World’, leans into that feeling. “It’s a song about breaking free. The moment you turn round and say: Enough. I’m done. Whoever is hurting you – a partner, a family member, a way of life that no longer fits – leaving may feel like your world is ending. It might also be the most liberating thing you can do.”

End of The World:

1. Up Not Crying
2. End of The World
3. Trenches
4. Incomplete
5. The View
6. I Don’t Need Anybody
7. Nothing
8. You Killed Beauty
9. Get Home
10. Let Go of Desire

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“‘ring ring’ is really about feeling,” says Pinderhughes. “I wanted the flute to lead a groove that felt soulful, effortless and impossible not to move to. It’s one of those songs I hope people don’t have to think too hard about. You can just put it on, and before you know it, it’s become part of your day.” ‘ring ring’ follows Elena’s recently released debut single as a solo artist ‘life goes on’ (feat. Immanuel Wilkins). In addition to Wilkins, frequent collaborator Chief Adjuah and her brother Samora Pinderhughes appear on i hope you feel it too.

i hope you feel it too:

1. before I knew your name
2. if i’m being honest
3. ring ring
4. 510
5. life goes on feat. Immanuel Wilkins
6. yours, still
7. over there
8. a rose in bloom
9. charm feat. Chief Adjuah
10. on the wind feat. Samora Pinderhughes
11. where the body keeps secrets
12. dancing through time

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Saba Lou began her recording career at the age of 6 with a 4-song 7″ followed two years later by ‘Good Habits (and Bad)’, which was serendipitously used for the end credits on Cartoon Network’s Clarence. She recorded her debut album Planet Enigma at the age of fifteen and her second album Novum Ovum while still a teenager in 2018.

Saba Lou is still based in Berlin but nearly everything else has changed as she prepares to release her third LP, Nothing But Love. After the last record she stepped away and studied biochemistry for a while, the fruits of which are the first two songs on her upcoming album (odes to personified hydrogen electrodes and UV light!). Split into two sides with different themes and feels, Nothing But Love is a story of growing up, moving forward and learning how to live.

Nothing But Love:

1. Blissfully Still
2. Until the Cherries Bloom Again
3. My Umami
4. UV Catastrophe
5. She
6. Nothing But Love
7. Part Of Me
8. Where All Unbinds
9. Am I Willing
10. Infinitely Less
11. Devoted

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Produced by David Baron, the album examines the costs and sacrifices that come with leading a creative life and the importance of trusting oneself in times of confusion.

Ogier shares her new single ‘Hands Tied.’ On the self-penned track, Ogier captures the euphoria of falling in love. 

 Fly 1111:

1. All These Dreams
2. Baby Don’t Hurt Me
3. Hands Tied
4. Land
5. Rocksteady/HeavyMetal
6. Believing
7. W2F
8. The Prize
9. Keep You
10. West And Down
11. Fly 1111
12. Private Power

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Danz also shares today two new singles, ‘Animal’ and its non-album exclusive B-side ‘The Captain.’ On the Michael Jordan-inspired ‘Animal,’ Danz sings of stepping into a room with unapologetic purpose over avant-pop organ, pulsing drum breaks, and cosmic synth delays. ‘The Captain’ is playful, channeling the breezy charm of 70s soft rock while telling the tale of a drunk sea captain who falls overboard.

The Interdimensional Extraterrestrial Time Travelers Society is a wondrously crafted alt-pop triumph. Written, produced, and recorded entirely in Danz’s home studio, it channels a raw, organic energy by blending her signature analog workflow of Moogs and vintage-style outboard gear with live guitars, organ, and drum machines and breaks. Capturing the full, dynamic scope of Danz’s production and songwriting, the record fuses that heavy, guitar-driven energy of alt rock and new wave with sweeping synths, navigating the highest highs of escapist pop and the lowest lows of existential weight.

The Interdimensional Extraterrestrial Time Travelers Society:

1. Animal
2. TV Dinner
3. Bontempi Pop 3
4. Ruler of Nothing
5. The Sound of LUM
6. Antarctica
7. A Violent Power
8. Universal Call Center Operator
9. Over the Ocean
10. Blue Velvet Moonlight
11. In the Shadows
12. Insomnia

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