Lizzie Reid ‘Undoing’
After lurching into her new era with the brooding ‘Sweet Relief’ and ‘Sentimental’, Lizzie Reid today shares her new EP ‘Undoing’. Having shown her skill for intimate, introspective acoustic folk music on ‘Cubicle’ and last year’s ‘Bodega’, this new project is an entirely different beast – shifting her sound down darker, heavier territory. We’ve previously heard her expand her sound on ‘Mooching’ in 2022, but ‘Undoing’ takes it one step further – bringing her renewed confidence to fruition. The music still comes from an internal place, exploring complex emotions like obsession, rumination, depression and panic, but sonically, it’s edgier and more expansive. Her voice, quietly powerful, is delivered over snarling guitars and incendiary drums on the opener ‘Sweet Relief’, while ‘Wagon’ feels sultry and alluring, lurching forward with post-punk influence. ‘Sentimental’ embraces self-awareness over brooding basslines and slinky guitar lines while ‘Burden’ feels closer to the intimate folk past, with ghostly harmonies, driving rhythms and guitar flourishes. It’s a welcome and assured return from an artist we’ve long admired, that’s testament to her continued growth as an artist and songwriter. To mark the release, she headlines Cottiers in Glasgow on 26th April.
Lucia & The Best Boys ‘You Look Like Somebody In Love’
Lucia & The Best Boys have announced details of their eagerly anticipated second album ‘Picking Petals’ – set for release on 31st July via Communion Records. Following the release of ‘Lonely Girl’ featuring Lauren Mayberry in February, new single ‘You Look Like Somebody In Love’ offers us another glimpse into the sonic world of the album – one that marks both a creative evolution and the culmination of years of dedication. Exploring themes of longing and reflection, Lucia’s distinctive vocals set against an atmospheric instrumental – with jangly upbeat guitars and bothy-style violins. To mark the release of the album, the band headline the Barrowlands on 23rd October.
Dead Pony ‘Freak Like Me’
Dead Pony have shared details of a brand-new EP ‘Eat My Dust!’, out on 15th May. They’ve also shared a new track called ‘Freak Like Me’ – one they say is inspired by The Priory Bar. “Freak Like Me is a love letter to the outsiders in society – the ones who never quite fit the mould and stopped trying to,” explains vocalist Anna Shields. “It’s about owning every bizarre, messy, sexy, beautiful part of who you are, and finding your people in that chaos. I was really inspired by the energy of The Priory bar Glasgow, where we used to hang out and play our first gigs – sweaty, loud, full of young musicians and misfits just being unapologetically themselves. There was this unspoken understanding that no one had to pretend. That’s the spirit I wanted to bottle in this track — a space where being a ‘freak’ isn’t just accepted; it’s celebrated.”
Alex Amor ‘Meet On The Moon’
Scottish singer-songwriter Alex Amor is back with a new single called ‘Meet On The Moon’, fresh from her recent signing to New York indie label VERO Music. Written during a month-long creative reset back home in Glasgow, it’s a celestial meditation on grief and feminine mysticism – built around shimmering guitars, soft synth sand hypnotic melodies. Meet On The Moon’ unfolds in a hazy, slow-burning alt-pop space reminiscent of Cigarettes After Sex, with shades of Samia’s pop introspection and the melodic sensibility of Clairo’s ‘Sling’ era. At its core, the song is a tribute to a close friend Amor lost, imagining her watching back from the moon, as she explains:
“The song is about a friend who completely embodied the mystical, magical woman archetype I sing about in the lyrics. A few months before I wrote it, she passed away. I found myself thinking about her magnetism – the magnitude of her spirit, the force of her nature – and how, in some strange way, Earth felt too small to contain her. For many reasons, this song had to come first in this body of work. It’s an homage to the divine feminine, which the moon – in her glowing, milky fullness – has always symbolised. Women are cyclically tied to the lunar rhythm, and that beautiful, elusive pull of the moon became the heartbeat of the song’s ephemeral sound.”
Valtos ‘Close Your Eyes’
Isle of Skye duo Valtos – Daniel Docherty and Martyn MacDonald – release their new album The Last Light today. Known for threading electronic genres, such as house and drum’n’bass, with traditional Scottish folk music, the record brings together some of the country’s most exciting voices to deliver a brilliant reflection on life in the Highlands and across Scotland today; “what it means to love where you come from while watching it change, and not being sure whether that change is for the better.” The album pairs club-weight electronics, driving rhythms and atmospheric, cinematic production with the raw emotional power of Gaelic song, fiddle, pipes and banjo – creating music that feels equally at home beneath festival lights, on the club floor, or echoing across Highland landscapes. Focus track ‘Close Your Eyes’ sums up the euphoric energy and unique musical palette that powers Valtos’ inimitable sound. Part eurodance banger, part folk saga, the track was written specifically for Eilidh Cormack by rising Gaelic star Isla Scott, and features what may be the first use of Gaelic in a vocoder.
Saint Sappho ‘Between The Lines’
Saint Sappho share their eagerly anticipated debut album ‘Between The Lines’ in a couple of weeks, on 1st May. Ahead of its arrival, they’ve shared its epic title track – it opens with a gentle piano melody before bursting into an anthemic, shoegaze-inflected existential meditation. Young’s yearning vocal channels 90s era Courtney Love, while the song’s heady atmosphere takes its cues from The Verve in their heyday. Harnessing a sound that is dreamy and nostalgic, and at times, truly euphoric, keep an eye out for the album at the start of May.
THEATRE ‘The Fall’
Emerging from Ireland’s thriving music scene, THEATRE have shared their debut single ‘The Fall’. It’s an alluring blend of ethereal rock, folk and shoegaze influences – understated yet timeless and led by the wonderful vocals of Maeve O’Shea. Detailing the origins of their first release, THEATRE explained: “’The Fall’ tells the story of a broken friendship, a changeling like person, and the torment that comes with loving someone as toxic as that. Writing the song was the light at the end of the tunnel of a very dark time. Not only was it the first song that people took notice of and that propelled us into gigging full time, it also was the first song that had a fully fleshed theme and story, and it was the first time we realised that a song could metamorphose a negative experience into art.”
GIFTHORSE ‘Queens of Highgate’
Following the release of the anthemic ‘Love Is A Landslide’, North London pop group GIFTHORSE have shared their debut EP ‘Queens of Highgate’. Featuring two new songs ‘Silent Disco’ and ‘Stranger Baby’, alongside three previous singles, the EP is full of fizzing, indie pop tracks written during a period of self-discovery and creative beginnings. Led by Naomi Mann’s distinctive vocals, it’s a collection that soars, shimmers and twinkles – introducing us to a sonic world that feels dreamy, warm and nostalgic, yet entirely unique. The themes are universal too – exploring the thrill of early romance, teenage love, late-night escapism and disconnection, and serving as a microcosmic snapshot of life as a 20-something living in North London in 2026.
thistle. ‘pylon’
Alt-rock newcomers thistle. have shared a blistering new track called ‘pylon’, set to feature on their upcoming EP ‘backflip’. Coming in at under two and a half minutes, it’s all turbulent hazy riffs and distorted, dreamy vocals. The band say: ‘pylon’ was the last song that we wrote before going into the studio, coming together in a Cardiff, Wales rehearsal studio. Very much powered by Monster Energy. I genuinely credit the song to the energy drink. It’s not a drink we particularly enjoy but it was the only high-caffeine beverage available at the time. Do what you can – write what you can – when in Cardiff!” With a packed touring schedule ahead, including a UK tour and various festival dates, they play The Poetry Club in Glasgow on 10th May.
100%WET ‘Eleanor’s Escape’
Copenhagen outfit 100%WET are back with a new track called ‘Eleanor’s Escape’, their first release of 2026. After forming at the end of 2024, the band’s debut self-titled album quickly picked up support from the music press, before they gained support slots with the likes of Primal Scream. This new track features regular collaborator Sanna and marks a shift for the band: their normally maximalist sound pulled back into something more measured and nostalgic, with an added emphasis on vocal performance and glitched-out layered guitars. It leans heavily into dreamy trip-hop territory – a natural evolution of the textures they’ve been building attention on, but with more space to breathe.
