Hello world,
Here’s this week’s FP Picks update with loads of great new music as always including trx from Baxter Dury, Poets Corner, The Sherlocks & lots more. If you like what you hear please follow and share this playlist, it helps us keep doing our thing by getting the algorithms on our side. Also please support the artists featured in any way you can!
Until next week
Helen (Futureproof) x
The Sherlocks – Everything Must Make Sense
Here is the uplifting title track from new album Everything Must Make Sense by indie-rock quartet The Sherlocks. This anthemic banger comes straight out of the blocks with punchy guitars and a propulsive driving groove – a real toe-tapper from the start! The album tackles themes of men’s mental health and the struggles of everyday adult problems throughout, which makes this record as relevant as ever to its audience and it continues to find them reaching for brand new sonic highs & capturing the excitement of their live energy.
Autocamper – Again
Manchester’s indie outfit Autocamper have shared a new single and they state: “Again felt like the best track to release to signal our foray out of ‘cassette pop’. Lyrically, it rides the contradiction between feeling inadequate and finding happiness in the beauty of other people and how that can make you feel awful and great at the same time. It comes from a very sincere place. Musically, I think we’ve cemented our individual sound as a band here, leaning far less on our influences.” With bright strums of an electric guitar framed by driving drums and bass, the track begins with a sunny confidence that instantly reels you in. Great harmonies and jangly guitars on this upbeat slice of indie-pop.
Keo – Thorn
Keo have shared a new breakup-themed single Thorn and it precedes their extensive November tour across eight UK and Ireland venues. The track explores themes of post-relationship reflection, with frontman Finn Keogh explaining: “Thorn is a breakup song – the original name was literally ‘Hate’, which I think says it all. It’s about that period straight after a relationship ends when it’s completely consuming. You start seeing someone’s true colours and feel like you wasted years of your life on them, they weren’t who you thought they were.” An emotive and rousing alt-rock anthem with fantastic lyrics – loving it!
PUNCHBAG – I’m Not Your Punchbag
Brother-sister duo PUNCHBAG have shared new EP I’m Not Your Punchbag and the creative tension runs through the EP’s DNA, reaching its apex on the title-track, where biting lines (“Someone really hurt you, but that’s no problem of mine”) cut through pulsing electronics and serrated riffs like a stiletto through silk. The siblings’ natural chemistry shines through on this EP, particularly in the interplay between Clara’s vocals and Anders’ guitar work, and there’s an admirable fearlessness to their approach that suggests even greater things ahead. It’s gloriously untamed and utterly magnetic. Clara states: “This song helps explain the band name and our ethos. It’s something to scream along to; a perfect therapy. ‘Don’t take it out on me, bitch!’”
Poets Corner – She’s Got You Now
Warren Records’ indie outfit Poets Corner are back with their highly infectious new single She’s Got You Now – a narratively indulgent track showcasing the pressures around a person who’s struggling to come to terms with a failing relationship. Already a firm favourite in their live set, this indie gem with its post-punk guitars tells a tale of insecurities & the claustrophobia felt when trapped in a loveless & abusive relationship. Music blog Analogue Trash state: “With a chorus that is pure power-pop and a melody that ducks and weaves at a frantic pace, the track is a lot of fun, despite the subject of the lyrics.” It’s a banger for sure!
Adult DVD – Because I Like It
Adult DVD, the Leeds-based 6-piece that’s got everyone talking, recently shared their new single Because I Like It. This track is a straight-up feel-good anthem, bursting with energy and that signature Adult DVD vibe. With an irresistible groove and a chorus that’ll stick in your head for days, the track is yet another banger proving the band knows how to make tunes you can’t help but move to. It’s bold, it’s fun and it’s totally unforgettable. The band state: “Because I Like It is about pretending to like anything no matter how mundane. Just because someone else does.”
Baxter Dury – Allbarone (ft. JGrrey)
The first single from Baxter Dury‘s new album Allbarone is its electro-fueled title track featuring JGrrey, which Baxter says was the first he and producer Paul Epworth worked on for the album. “It quickly established why it was a good idea that we were working together,” he says. “It’s a song about sitting in the rain outside an All Bar One contemplating why what just happened, happened in the way it did.” On the lyrical direction of the upcoming album, Dury added: “It’s very critical of people, whoever they are, maybe some bloke with a moustache and sockless loafers in Shoreditch or a fat old Chiswick gangster lording it up in a really comfortable middle class part of London”.
Acopia – Talk About It
Melbourne-based trio Acopia have shared a dreamy new single and they state: “Talk About It was built around the main guitar riff that opens the song and was finished within a day or two. It explores the themes of avoidance and ambivalence and how they relate to confrontation within a relationship. The lyrics are very literal but also not giving anything away – it came about because one of us was unwilling to talk about something that was very clearly upsetting.” Centered around a looping guitar motif, the track doesn’t so much build as it hovers, suspended in the tension of things left unsaid. “That’s how we deal with it, we leave it at the front door,” sings Kate Durman, her delivery measured and almost detached, as if rehearsing detachment is the only way to survive the weight of honesty.
DR DR – Vultures
Choppy riffing guitars set the mood nicely on this latest offering from Manchester band DR DR. Its smooth production makes it an easy track to get into while its melodically infectious chorus melody seals the deal. As with the title, the scavenging ‘birds of prey’ are a metaphor for those dark thoughts that can consume us all at times when the company of empathetic friends is the clear antidote. “Where were you when the vultures came around” asks vocalist Fred Farrell on this title track for the band’s latest EP. Construction-wise I could have done with a middle section to add a more epic conclusion to the song but it’s certainly piqued my interest enough to want to find out more about these Mancunian lords of the dark! Go check em out…
The Shipbuilders – Daydreaming
Liverpool five-piece The Shipbuilders recently shared their new single Daydreaming, taken from their upcoming second album This Blue Earth. The track offers a whimsical introduction to what lays ahead as their folk melodies and brass sections take hold. “The song was written many moons ago, during a period of heartbreak; the myth of King Midas’ secrets being betrayed by the whispering green grass and a general sense of feeling lost matched the mood of the moment,” says Loughlin-Day. Inspired by the eerie other-worlds of Tom Waits and early Coral, the song is propelled by an urgent rhythm with a dual guitar and trumpet refrain that recalls the chaotic melodies of The Pogues and The Teardrop Explodes.
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