{"id":328348,"date":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328348\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","slug":"add-to-playlist-panic-shacks-gleeful-anarchy-and-this-weeks-best-new-tracks-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328348\/","title":{"rendered":"Add to playlist: Panic Shack\u2019s gleeful anarchy and this week\u2019s best new tracks | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/strong> Cardiff, Wales
Recommended if you like<\/strong> Lambrini Girls, Amyl and the Sniffers, Kleenex\/Lilliput
Up next<\/strong> Playing Beautiful Days festival, Fairmile, Devon, 14 August and touring the UK in October<\/p>\n

Across seven years, cheekily raucous quartet Panic Shack have gone from the Cardiff underground to the fringes of the mainstream. After forming as a raised middle finger to snooty blokey indie bands \u201cfiddling with their pedals with a face like a slapped arse\u201d, their self-titled debut crashed into the Top 40 last month and topped the UK rock and metal albums chart.<\/p>\n

With inspirations ranging from the Clash, Bikini Kill and Amy Winehouse to the Slits\u2019 guitarist Viv Albertine\u2019s autobiography, Panic Shack are a fizzy, riffy, irreverently hilarious bundle of buzzsaw guitars, vim and vinegar. Crucially, they sound like they are having a ton of fun, surely the point of starting a band in the first place. Onstage, they have comically exaggerated poses and even their own dance, which went viral on TikTok.<\/p>\n

Girl Band Starter Pack \u2013 imagine Wet Leg\u2019s Chaise Longue on pint-can energy drinks \u2013 describes a typical night out with rowdy enthusiasm: \u201cI finish work, I text the girls \/ Let\u2019s get a bevvy, four double voddys \u2026 we get silly, we get loud!\u201d Other songs cover the media obsession with body image (Gok Wan, which sarcastically asks \u201cIf my stomach is flat and my arse is perky, maybe I could get everybody to like me\u201d), sexual harassment (Smellarat) and their own friendship (Thelma and Louise). Latest single Pockets gleefully encapsulates their celebratory irreverence. It\u2019s about, but of course, the usefulness of a bag when wearing a dress with no pockets, in which to put \u201cVape \/ phone \/ keys \/ lip gloss!\u201d Dave Simpson<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s best new tracks<\/strong>Life-affirming \u2026 Big Thief. Photograph: Genesis Ba\u0301ez<\/p>\n

Big Thief \u2013 Grandmother (ft Laraaji)<\/strong>
<\/strong>Their best song yet? The US folk-rockers see off fatalism with the power of love and rock\u2019n\u2019roll, their cosmic guest Laraaji adding wordless exultance. Truly life-affirming.<\/p>\n

Creeper \u2013 Blood Magick (It\u2019s a Ritual)<\/strong>
<\/strong>Imagine Ghost covering Heaven Is a Place on Earth and you\u2019re pretty much there with this gigantically silly new single from the UK goth troupe, recounting sexy Satanic shenanigans.<\/p>\n

Casey Dienel \u2013 Your Girl\u2019s Upstairs<\/strong>
<\/strong>Formerly goth-popper White Hinterland, Dienel has amassed a crack band for their return, with Hand Habits\u2019 Meg Duffy bringing rough-grade guitar to a breezy alt-rock song about restless desire.<\/p>\n

Sophia Stel \u2013 All My Friends Are Models<\/strong>
<\/strong>Shoegaze meets synthpop in a kind of lo-fi slacker version of Maggie Rogers\u2019 widescreen earnestness, complete with a gorgeous chorus of pure yearning poignancy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer \u2013 Speedrun<\/strong>
<\/strong>Two open-minded NYC producers surfing around the outskirts of rap join forces, with Kym \u2013 whose albums Truest and Soliloquy we love \u2013 adding a vocal earworm to this junglist miniature.<\/p>\n

Algernon Cadwallader \u2013 Hawk<\/strong>
<\/strong>The name suggests an Edwardian steampunk detective but it\u2019s actually a midwest emo band, back with their first album in 14 years. The first single is a triumph, looking back on a late friend with fondness and pain.<\/p>\n

Reuben Aziz \u2013 City Girls<\/strong>
<\/strong>The British rap\/R&B vocalist is puppy-loved-up, swooning over his one-in-a-million girl with the kind of gentle melody and tenderness that Drake reaches for when he\u2019s in seduction mode.<\/p>\n

Ben Beaumont-Thomas<\/p>\n

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