Off to vote today? Excellent! Fulfill your civic duty and then fulfill this other one: Listen to the five songs you must hear this week.
1. Girl Group, Yay! Saturday!
Single (Independent)
Recommended If You Like: Tough to Google bands
It take a little extra finesse to Google a band with a name like Girl Group, but it can be done. This five-piece all-female British group has released the perfect song about a messy Saturday night out with the girls. (Bonus points if you’ve ever witnessed a Saturday night on the streets of Soho.) The group itself was formed over many shots of Polish vodka and “long rants about feminist issues.” When they got pushback from the men at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, they decided to start making music out of spite. It worked.
2. Viagra Boys, The Bog Body
Viag Aboys (Shrimpteck Enterprises)
RIYL: Swedish Punk
Here are six guys from Stockholm who are all about punk, dark humour, and satire. Here’s a tip, too: Never, ever try to engage any of the members in talk of flat earth, fake moon landings, or any other conspiracy theories because they will rip you a new one. Same thing if you’re into this whole hyper-masculinity thing. A breath of fresh air, this.
3. WITCH, Queenless King
SOGOLO (Independent)
RIYL: Interesting fusion.
If you’ve ever said to yourself, “We don’t hear enough music from Zambia,” let me solve that for you. WITCH was originally round in the 70s and 80s but then broke up. But then in 2012, they reunited and started exploring a mix of psych and African music. They released their first new single in 38 years in 2022 and now have this new single from an upcoming album. By the way, SOGOLO means “front” or “future.”
4. Raisa K, Feel It
Affectionately (15 Love)
RIYL: Wonky laptop pop
If you’re deep into indie music, you might know that Raisa is a member of an experimental pop group called Good Sad Happy Bad. She’s a classically-trained musician who is looking to take what she knows and translate it into a more DIY thing. Most of the twelve tracks on the album were created on a laptop showing again how far technology has progressed.
5. SNAYX, Strut
Single (Duophonic)
RIYL: Hating on social media
SNAYX is a trio from the southeast of the UK who aren’t fans of the naked pursuit of wealth and addiction to social media. In fact, the song and the video explores “modern ideals and perceived values through the eyes of a social media-obsessed society…Nepotism, vanity, generational wealth, trends and crippling social media addiction. The lyrics cover all aspects of the aspirational hustle of the digital generation.”
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