wanna hear something wild? we’re coming up on 200 reviews. that’s crazy right? like, by septmeber/october we’ll cross that mark which is just nuts. ahead of that, i’m currently in the process of pulling together all of our old reviews in one place for you all, with genre filters so you can find stuff you like. speaking of genre filters for stuff you like, meet this weeks song! star prize, by the raeburn brothers is an extremely solid indie song from some extremely solid lads from scotland.

click the picture up above to give it a listen!

i’m going to address the elephant in the room with this one. there is a list of bands as long as your arm that this fits squarley in the soundscape of, with that britpop indie style we all know, and lots of people love. they’re not trying to do something new here, so what are they doing? well, straight up they’re delivering a massively competent entry in the genre, dripping with emotion, passion and just enough grit for it to stand up. the main riff pushes, the vocal work, the fun interplay between the rhythm sections. all of these ideas are laid up with the level of expertise of an act moving with confidence. plus i bet this would sound incredible live.

you know that meme of like, music sped up sounds better? if this song was sped up like just the tiniest amount it’d sound way better.

i feel like i’m in a pub when i listen to this, do you know what i mean?

this feels like a great opportunity to recommend an artist that not only sounds a bit like this band, but much more importantly, filmed a music video in a swimming pool i used to go to as a kid, true story!

sorry to say, this is an artist right at the start of their career, so at time of writing, you can’t listen to more! because there isn’t any there yet. that said, i hope they keep on trucking because there’s a lot of potential here. this is an act who right out of the gate know exactly who they are and what they want to do with their debut single. that’s exciting because while this song maybe isn’t the most creative in the genre, it doesn’t need to be. instead, it ticks a lot of the boxes that that creativity needs to flourish and does so in style.

very dark and moody electronic track that escalates and escalates

as catchy as it is bouncy which is to say very

wherever you think this song is going, it isn’t