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Catch up on what’s been released so far in 2024
Hit shuffle on our massive 2024 releases playlist or hone in with our weekly Sound Check and monthly ICYMI playlists.
June 2024
SINGLES
| JUNE 14 |
| Box of Trash – Xlerator Moonlight Academy – Deeper Rear Window – Running Away (debut) Tonto – Liverpool |
| JUNE 21 |
| Reverend Genes – It’s Not Enough |
| JUNE 28 |
| Split Second – Love Life Cycle |
COLLECTIONS
| JUNE 14 |
| Been Stellar – Scream from New York, NY (debut album) The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (album) FEET – Make It Up (album) Fraulein – SINK OR SWIM (debut mini-album) The Lafontaines – Business as Usual (album) Sea Girls – Midnight Butterflies (album) |
| JUNE 21 |
| The Story So Far – I Want To Disappear (album) |
| JUNE 28 |
| Queen of Jeans – All Again (album) |
june tbc/tba
July 2024
SINGLES
| JULY 5 |
| Northern Hospitality – Break Free 3 Little Wolves – Ones and Zeroes |
COLLECTIONS
| JULY 5 |
| The Rifles – Love Your Neighbour (album) |
| JULY 12 |
| Future Utopia – Django’s High |
| JULY 19 |
| The Jack Fletcher Band – World of Colour (debut album) Jaws the Shark – Wasteland (debut album) |
july tbc/tba
August 2024
SINGLES
COLLECTIONS
| AUGUST 2 |
| 86TVs – Self-titled (debut album) |
| AUGUST 9 |
| Twin Atlantic – Meltdown (album) *physical formats on the band’s own label, Staple Diet on September 13 |
| AUGUST 23 |
| Cassyette – This World Fucking Sucks (album) |
| AUGUST 30 |
| Wunderhorse – Midas (album) |
August tbc/tba
| The Clause | Weekend Millionaire EP “will be released in late summer” |
September 2024
SINGLES
COLLECTIONS
| SEPTEMBER 6 |
| Deco – Destination: I Don’t Know (debut album) |
| SEPTEMBER 20 |
| Blossoms – Gary (album) |
| SEPTEMBER 25 |
| Blitz Vega – Northern Gentleman (debut album) |
September tbc/tba
general tbc/tba
| 3 Little Wolves | January release ‘Second Hand’ is the first of three singles to be released before the band’s second album, later this year |
| Arcade State | “New songs flowing” – on X mid January – the guys have promised there’s plenty more to come after the debut album, released in March |
| The Assist | “2024 is the year for new Assist music” – said on X in mid-January |
| Aysanabee | “So much more to come” – said on IG after the release of January collab with Raye Zaragoza, “Come Out” |
| Blouse | “New music coming soon” – on X mid January |
| Brooke Combe | Finished recording debut album mid February |
| Campfire Social | “With any luck we’ll release that album we keep going on about” in 2024, they said on X in December |
| Citylightz | Said on X in January that they “can’t wait to get this new record out” |
| The Clause | “Straight back in the studio after a mad January on the road” – on X, mid February |
| Dirty Blonde | Have promised “loads” in 2024 |
| Emily 7 | February release is the first single from their debut EP It was fun until we had to do it |
| The Feens | “We’ve been writing and recording new music” on X, mid January |
| Foot Squeaker | Two singles “in coming months” – on X in January |
| Foxglove | February single was the second track from an upcoming EP |
| Happy Reality | Recording debut single in February |
| Hemingway | “A raft of tunes coming” they said in January |
| Holy Pictures Band | Debut album coming in 2024 |
| Hoofa | “Can’t be cryptic when new music is a few months away can I?” – on X, late January |
| Idyllic | February single is the first from the band’s upcoming EP Everybody Wants To Know, release date TBA |
| Jetski | January EP title ‘The Four Before’ refers to the last four songs the band will release before their debut album, which frontman Charles has told me is planned for later this year |
| Keiran Bowe | “Can’t wait to share what we’ve got brewing” – on X mid January |
| Kill, The Icon | “”Currently sitting on the new tracks that we recorded for our new EP” – on X mid February |
| The Lathums | “We’ve been busy bees this week at our very own Shabbey Road studio” – on X, late January |
| Laura Jayne | Said on X in January there’s more to come this year |
| Lissy Taylor | New tunes coming “by the boot load” in 2024 |
| The Mariners | Album #5 coming “at some point in 2024” |
| Marseille | “Loads of class new tunes on the way” |
| The Mercians | Shared on social media in January that they’ll be releasing more music this year than ever before |
| Michael Barrow & The Tourists | Said on X early Jan that in 2024 they’re going to “finally reveal all the sick songs… we’ve been making for you all of 2023”. |
| Misery Prize | “New music coming in Spring… it’s angry music” – on X, mid February |
| The Montagues | “The EP is shaping up” on X, late January |
| The Mood | Three singles so far in 2024, with one more to come |
| Moonlight Parade | January release ‘Strange Times’ is the first single and titular track of a new album coming in October |
| Muddy Elephant | “On the wine and we’ve just written a banger” on X mid January |
| Ollie Winder | Began teasing new single, ‘Cigarettes in the Sun’ in January; working on an acoustic EP |
| The Otherness | Plan to release an album, ‘Broken Latitudes’ in September |
| Paul Crowe | Couple of singles and an album on the way |
| Pylon Poets | In the studio early February |
| Reverend Genes | A third single of the year, ‘Everyday People’ is due out September 21 ahead of the November 21 release of their EP, Time |
| Revivalry | Said on X in January that they’re working on new music |
| San Quentin | Big songs coming in 2024, per the band on X mid January |
| The Sensitive Souls | New EP planned for 2024 |
| The Silver Lines | “we’ve been busy finishing off our next EP” – on X late January |
| Siracuse | Said on X in January that they’re working on new music |
| Theatre Royale | Working on album no. 6 – “definitely a few singles out this year” |
| Tivertons | Finishing off work on a single early February |
| Transmission Suite | Said on X in January that they have “plenty lined up” |
| Ventrelles | Single ‘Sand Crawl’ coming in the spring and working on “the first ever Fleece Pop album” |
| The Voyd | 2 new singles recorded, as per the band on X in January |
