My favorite new releases from the week ending 18/12/2020.

Like everything Miley has done since Can't Be Tamed (a record that has more in common with Plastic Hearts than you might imagine), there is a perfect concoction of visuals, artwork and fashion orbiting the music.

Signed to Alan McGee's label and supporting The Happy Mondays at the Creation Festival next year, the band have some pretty strong Britpop credentials. The chuggy chorus of Spaceman certainly fits this bill, but in its best moments the verses have a melodic hook that's strangely reminiscent of Aztec Camera.

Dirt Royal, a well loved fixture of the South Coast music scene who have supported the likes of Sham 69 and 100 Yard Stare, have a spiky garage punk sound that, along with the requisite amount of snottiness and raucous energy, also firmly knows its way around a good pop tune.

My favorite new releases from the week ending 22/11/2020

A riotous injection of day-glo, bubblegum pop punk right where we need it!

My favorite releases from the week ending 15/11/2020

Kylie and disco go together like glitter and sequins. No other genre of music so closely matches her particular brand of classy but saucy, so this should be a triumph, and it very nearly is.

My favourite releases from the week ending 08/11/2020