After a two-year hiatus, Dutch art-rock provocateurs De Staat are back — and they’re pointing their latest single straight at the people at the top. “THE UNDERDOG” is the fourth track to emerge from the band’s forthcoming seventh album, DE STAAT, due 18 September via V2 Records. Driven by warped organ, a huge bass-heavy finale and Torre Florim’s unusually exposed falsetto, it’s one of the record’s strangest and most confrontational moments yet. And the timing feels deliberate

Myke Towers is back with “Carita Feliz”, a new single out now via Warner Music Latina that turns the familiar facade of looking fine into something far more honest. Built around a deceptively warm melodic reggaeton groove, the track explores the gap between the face we show the world and what’s actually happening underneath. Rather than chasing another victory lap, Towers uses “Carita Feliz” to make space for vulnerability — and the simple admission that sometimes, you’re jus

Bristol-based alternative indie duo Desperately Seeking Suki are gearing up to release their new single “Nevermind” on 28 August via Apollo Distribution, the second track from their forthcoming debut EP. Built around late-night swims, fading memories and the messy aftermath of a romance that never quite became what it promised, “Nevermind” captures the duo’s knack for combining indie-rock swagger with art-pop, synths and dancefloor energy. Fronted by siblings Natassa Zoë and

Sydney-based vocalist, songwriter and producer Headaches has unveiled their hazy new single “Sweeter Than This”, offering a first taste of forthcoming EP We’ll Make Our Beds When We Get Home, due 16 October via dottidot. Moving between woozy shoegaze and sparse synth-pop, “Sweeter Than This” captures the peculiar emotional limbo of being young, restless and stuck in the city. It’s lo-fi and confessional, but never overly earnest — instead finding humour and irony in the routi