Oaken Wires shared their new single "Parakeets", introducing a remarkably chaotic sort of survival energy into the current alternative rock space. The Tottenham duo, Jake and Tim, crossed paths while looking after their kids at a local park, blending vastly different musical backgrounds into a project they pitch as a clash between man and machine. https://open.spotify.com/track/7lLqbPyZI3oPMRy6kT79W5?si=a0c8741a902d401e You can physically feel that friction in the track. A...

Post-punk and corporate jargon have seldom been this intimate. When Charts and Graphs dropped "Assume the Position," I wasn’t expecting them to twist a cubicle-bound lexicon into something that dances around your brain like your 1984 office nightmares had a rhythmic pulse. But here we are, shoulders bouncing while existential dread whispers in the ear. It's synthetic, it’s tangible, but it’s also claustrophobic. It's...