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1 day ago | narcmagazine.com | Laura Rosierse

Sub Pop27.06.25Different Talking brings together soft and shimmering indie rock influences and sways like the wind on a summer’s day. NYC-based four-piece Frankie Cosmos know how to set the tone and have created an elaborate and well produced collection of songs on their fifth studio album. Seventeen tracks of hazy alternative anthems. Pressed Flower, Porcelain and Wonderland to name a few.

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

Thrill JockeyReleased 20.06.25You’re lying in the shade by a sun-dappled pool on an Appalachian hillside, watching dragonflies dart across the surface of the cool clear water. The air is as still as your heart. You’re at peace. And that’s just the opening track on Sally Anne Morgan’s remarkable third album, a richly textured immersion in nature and life cycles and the mountain country she’s from.

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

Wrong Speed RecordsReleased: 20.06.25Haress have been creating remarkable music in their base deep in the heart of Shropshire for a few years now, but with interest in things like folk, tradition, reconnecting with the rural and even folk horror seeming to be at a peak right now, Skylarks is appearing at just the right time.

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Laura Rosierse

County Durham-based musician Joe Whitehill has already been creating genre-hopping albums for years in his bedroom and returns to the DIY scene in June with a fresh cut (his fifth so far), Dispatches. Café Magrana is the moniker of this musical project, inspired by a restaurant in Mallorca, which features a healthy dose of alternative, anti-folk and indie tunes all notable for their double-tracked vocals, quick lyrics, and a noticeable lack of drums.

1 week ago | narcmagazine.com | Lee Fisher

Image: Smote by Lee FisherI have to confess Penelope Trappes didn’t connect at all tonight, which was disappointing because I had high hopes. The presentation didn’t help – it was Deeply Serious European Art Goth (think Nina Hagen meets Mrs Havisham) – and it was all very po-faced. To be fair, this all seemed to be very personal and intense and troubled, no complaints about her commitment, but there wasn’t much to hold on to, song wise.