"Avalon" hits like someone opening the car window at midnight and turning the volume up before anyone asks permission. Red Light Factory have built a single that moves fast and knows where its hook is hiding. This is Manchester alternative music with a pulse you can feel in the chest: electronic drums snapping forward, guitar attitude cutting through the smoke, and a chorus-ready spirit made...

Glass Rabbit make the pressure audible on “Damn Shame”. The new single begins with intimacy, then gives that closeness somewhere to go: into a heavier, noise-driven finale earned by the tension before it. “Damn Shame” places the Portland quartet at the intersection of dream pop, shoegaze and noise rock, examining shame, repeated behaviour and conflicting emotions. Becky Phillips leads on vocals and bass; Scott Crawford contributes...