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From <\/strong>Manchester Westside Cowboy describe their sound as Britainicana. You get what they mean. The winners of this year\u2019s Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition are the product of a burgeoning new Manchester underground scene but started out performing Hank Williams and Bob Dylan covers in drummer Paddy Murphy\u2019s bedroom. While the vocals locate them firmly in the UK, there\u2019s a distinct country\/rockabilly undertow to their sound.<\/p>\n But equally, Britainicana feels like a slightly ungainly term for music that seems so natural and spontaneous. Recent single Alright Alright Alright rattles along at high speed, its influences buried under a layer of fuzz and feedback and punky vigour, the guitar lurching from the central riff into bursts of noisy abstraction: it sounds like a snatched recording of a band playing live, complete with the thrilling sense that their performance is seconds away from collapsing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The quartet\u2019s debut EP is forthcoming, and the first tastes of This Better Be Something Great are more sedate. I\u2019ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You) lopes in time-honoured slacker style; Shells starts out as a hushed ballad before unexpectedly bursting into life 90 seconds in. But they\u2019re equally marked by a mood of ramshackle invention at odds with the studied, polished air of a lot of current alt-rock. The name, incidentally, comes from the horse riders employed to ensure trains didn\u2019t exceed a certain speed in 19th century America: another weird choice, given the velocity Westside Cowboy currently seem to be travelling at. Alexis Petridis<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span>Acoustic meditation \u2026 Flock of Dimes AKA Jenn Wasner.<\/span> Photograph: Elizabeth Weinberg<\/p>\n Flock of Dimes \u2013 Long After Midnight<\/strong> Kieran Hebden + William Tyler<\/strong> \u2013 Spider Ballad<\/strong> Confidence Man x Jade \u2013 Gossip<\/strong> Joanne Robertson \u2013 Gown<\/strong> John Also Bennett \u2013 Ston Elai\u00f3na<\/strong> Daniel Avery \u2013 Rapture in Blue ft Cecile Believe<\/strong> Chuquimamani-Condori \u2013 LRC with <\/strong>Pueblo De Dios Capo E DJ edit<\/strong> Subscribe to the Guardian\u2019s rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From ManchesterRecommended if you like Pavement, Ezra Furman, Guided By VoicesUp next Debut EP out 8 August Westside Cowboy describe their sound as Britainicana. You get what they mean. The winners of this year\u2019s Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition are the product of a burgeoning new Manchester underground scene but started out performing Hank Williams and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6133,5149,686,6132,1142,969,6131],"class_list":{"0":"post-12510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-americana","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-ramshackle","12":"tag-tracks","13":"tag-weeks","14":"tag-westside"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Recommended if you like <\/strong>Pavement, Ezra Furman, Guided By Voices
Up next <\/strong>Debut EP out 8 August<\/p>\nThis week\u2019s best new tracks<\/h2>\n
<\/strong>\u201cPeople say it\u2019s not my problem \/ They say that actions have a consequence,\u201d Bon Iver collaborator Jenn Wasner sings on a beautiful acoustic meditation about offering help against your better judgement.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Four Tet shatters the Nashville guitarist\u2019s arid playing into kaleidoscopic fragments, creating a tense, near-breathless strobing effect that evokes glimpsing horror in half light.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Gossip\u2019s delicious, destructive power is brandished like a weapon on this icy double threat, decorated with enjoyably unexpected acoustic guitar and Jade spitting a very<\/em> rude word in pure South Shields.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The sometime-Dean Blunt collaborator leads her new album with a song that evokes Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor\u2019s Celtic hymnals heard through Grouper\u2019s damp-forest haze \u2013 with stirring cello by Oliver Coates.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Far from his formative years in the Ohio noise scene, Bennett channels the stillness and swoop of the view from his new Athens home, in gorgeous, consciousness-tweaking ambient bass flute oscillations.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The wildly underrated Canadian singer \u2013 and former Sophie collaborator \u2013 gets a deserved showcase leading this anguished, expansive and surprisingly pop turn by the British producer.<\/p>\n
One half of one of 2025\u2019s best records \u2013 Los Thuthanaka \u2013 blesses us with a 24-track collection of edits. On this highlight, whistles and heartfelt chanted vocals fight against hypnotic pile-driver production. [Not on Spotify: listen here]<\/p>\n