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Best New Songs This Week: Ob Picks (20/2/26)

Leeds electro-pop duo Kiosk

A Place To Bury Strangers // Everyone’s The Same
Almost twenty years since the release of their self-titled debut album, A Place To Bury Strangers sound as urgent and as current as ever. Forthcoming collection Rare & Deadly sees the NYC band dropping a series of “b-sides, demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments from across the last decade”. Sign us up.

Genesis Owusu // STAMPEDE
The mercurial Genesis Owusu straddles genre camps with a poise that only can only dream of. Who else, after all, can claim to have toured with Tame Impala, Paramore, Idles and Thundercat?

Moderator // Crypt
Greek producer Moderator has been quietly going about his business for a few years now, serving up consistently strong cocktails of trip-hop, lounge and vibes a-plenty. Give new album Shadows On The Ceiling a spin.

Max Winter // Candlelight (ft. Asha Lorenz, Rael, Will Lister)
Multidisciplinary musician Max Winter is becoming a very well connected man in the alternative scene. He’s recently toured in Nourished By Time‘s live band, and new single ‘Candlelight’ recruits Sorry‘s Asha Lorenz and South East London rapper Rael alongside Winter’s thredd bandmate Will Lister.

Kiosk // Sure Shot
Leeds duo Kiosk have followed last year’s debut single ‘dogma’ with the double header of ‘Heaven Sent’ and’Sure Shot’. Channelling the frenetic electropunk of early PVA, Isabella & Maz will bring their live show to The Windmill, Brixton later this week.

Balderdasch // Not Again, But For The First Time
There’s an unhinged, hypnotic quality to Balderdasch’s brand of industrial, lo-fi pop: equal parts unnerving and endlessly playable. 6-track EP Stillness Gyrating is out now.

featured image: Kiosk by Belle Campling & Bo Colston