Michael O Connor Marotta

Back when we were young and alive, a friend would often drive up to our crib, tell us to get in the car, and off we’d go without knowing just where we were headed. But we knew it’d be a good time, and the journey was always as much fun as the destination. That’s our vibe as soon as we hit play on

Suede’s remarkable second act is showing no signs of slowing down. The iconic British band and Britpop kickstarters unleashed a searing new single this week called “Emotionally Unavailable,” and it fuels the expanded edition re-issue of last year’s Antidepressants album, arriving July 10 via BMG.

A series of inspired yearly releases from Wishy — from the Paradise EP in 2023 to debut album Triple Seven in 2024 to the Planet Popstar EP in 2025 — gave us a glimmer of hope for an indie rock future, but now the Indianapolis band has sights set on something far more expansive. And that’s because new single “Lovesick,” the first taste of forthcoming sophomore record Nature’s Pill, out in October on Winspear, finds the quintet at perhaps their most magnetic (and that’s saying something).

Fast Tracked: The Vermont artist weaves together a aural fling of indie rock, shoegaze, and pop that holds our head like a warm embrace.

Our 2025 was made all the more better by the return of Charlotte OC, who with soulful yearner “God, We Tried” dolled up our New Sounds column (March), midway look-back Half Year in ReView (July), and grand finale Year in ReView (December). Now the English artist heralds one of our favorite points of the calendar with new single “Start of the Summer,” a reflective and warm alt-pop bop that would be an instant chart-topper if the world still had taste in music.

New Sounds: The Manchester riser's blissfully turbulent new single experiments with a warped approach to pop music and contained emotion.

Editor’s Note: Anyone who says there isn’t good music coming out these days — and quite literally, every day — simply isn’t paying attention. Vanyaland’s compilation feature The V List highlights the best in new music, both homegrown and national, over the past month, pulling together the sounds that have soundtracked the website in recent weeks. It’s all the stuff we’re bumping here at Vanyaland HQ, one new bop at a time.

The second half of this flaccid 2026 is now in session, and Gurriers are here to put a spike in our step. A few weeks back the Dublin shit-stirrers unleashed incendiary single “Nobody’s Coming To Save You”, which beyond the booming sounds from the rising alt-rock band provides maybe the most quintessential song-title-as-warning for our current environment. Now they serve notice with the frenzied “Party Lines,” a relentless dose of high-energy dance-punk hedonism and assault on the strobe-lit senses that was inspired by the war in Sudan, exploring “the theme of politicians spending money on aid and provisions for countries on the one hand, whilst trading weapons and waging war on these same countries with the other.” Swirling in its sonic DNA is a piercing brawl of ’90s Prodigy, ’00s Kasabian, and ’10s Murder Capital. And someone in the next decade may note that something that sounds quite like this will be coded in ’20s Gurriers. Get down with this beast of a single, and steady the fist for forthcoming album Nobody’s Coming To Save You, out September 25 on Play It Again Sam.

There’s a sound that plays in our head on a constant loop, an incessant groove of hazy glamour dolled up in jangly guitars, cross-faded rhythms, and baggy dance beats that began with us browsing the import bins of Tower Records in the ’90s and spending summer coin on bloated CD singles and glossy lad mags. We’ve been chasing that sonic high ever since, and

The long hard cock of 2026 has extended itself well past Fourth of July, and we’re left here orifice agape without so much as a proper Song of the Summer. Excitedly, Slow Joy are here to rectify the situation, allowing us a fluttering daydream of escapism through a blissful torrent of alt-rock, post-hardcore, and whatever-gaze called “Forget.”