Just some great guitar playing by Gwenifer Raymond on 'Hell For Certain'; Hey Colossus euphoric new song 'Medal' found a place on their new double album; Whitney K released an interesting Leonard Cohen-meets-Velvet Underground-sounding song 'Maryland'; Told Slant delivered a new take on indie-rock, with added harp, on 'Family Still'.

Arab Strap are back with new music, their first in 15 years, a funny little song called 'The Turning Of Our Bones'; Bette Smith dropped soul-heavy rocker 'I'm a Sinner', about her relationship with her mother; Thurston Moore dropped a 12-minute dreamer 'Siren'; Killer Be Killed supergroup - featuring Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Max Cavalera (Soulfly), and Ben Koller (Converge) - dropped a catchy metal song 'Deconstructing Self-Destruction'; Hey Colossus colab with Mark Lanegan 'The Mirror' is slow and not really loud, still it's powerful; Nadine Khouri grew up in 'Beirut' and said that 'To Sleep' was written as "a lullaby from a war zone"; Anohni dropped a political song 'R.N.C. 2020'.

London alter-rock band Hey Colossus have a new album 'Four Bibles', mainstream media mostly didn't cover it, unlike alternative, who mostly like it: "To come from their Fudgetunnel-channelling inception to something this alive and expansive – and for it to somehow still make sense – is pretty unique" - Narc Magazine. "Hey Colossus cover a […]