Songs of the Week - 17/08/2026
These are the essential tracks you need to check out this week!
Photo Credit: Jacqueline Day
OUT IN FRONT - 'Medicine'
"It came together really fast–in three hours–one of the fastest songs we've ever made. It poured out of me after forgetting my dad’s birthday on tour and feeling so terrible. It was a reality check moment that punched me in the gut. We felt like we were missing a bass-driven track on the project, so we called up our bass player, Ryen, and he came in with this nostalgic, groovy riff that became the foundation of the song. It was one of those rare moments where everything just clicked with producer Joel Ferber."
Vocalist Madie Renner on the track
DAYTIME TV - 'Creatures'
"Where's your head at when you've got one day left on Earth? I was seriously ill a couple of years back and that was the question as we wrote the song. It’s a playful look at mortality, when you zoom out and see that we're all just creatures crawling around this little planet. If we didn't take everything so seriously, if it was your last day on Earth, you’d just get your friends together and have a massive rave. It’s a bit of a manifesto for me: let's just have a good time."
Vocalist Will Irvine on the track
Sadurn - 'never tell me'
"'never tell me' is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written, I think. It started emerging in 2021 at the moment of a breakup, and then I became too depressed to finish it for another six months. The upside of that is that I was able to write it alongside the full band - we had only recently started playing together, and it was really fun to be able to bring a song to them while it was still in progress. I think that’s something that sets this album apart from Radiator - those earlier songs I had written for Sadurn as an acoustic duo and then adapted to a full band, whereas these ones were mostly written with a band in mind.”
Vocalist G DeGroot on the track
colby! - 'Fall Head First'
"When I fall in love, I fall in love head first. I go straight into the deep end, and that's basically the whole premise of this song. It's about that first crush you get after a previous relationship ends, when you're still a little scarred from it and sitting there like, 'am I really about to do this again?’ So you make new rules, new boundaries, new everything. You're basically saying, 'I really like this person, please don't be a basket case, because I can't go back to that.’"
colby! on the track
Maddie Regent - 'Schoolbags'
"I didn’t want to write an angry song, so I wrote it from a place of grief, I grieve my whimsical childhood knowing I might never be able to give that to my own kids.”
Maddie on the track
Claudia Kate - 'HUNGRY!'
"I wrote HUNGRY! because I was so tired of feeling like every time I went on my phone I was being told to do a new thing to better myself. As a woman there are never ending beauty standards that we can't live up to so I wanted to make a song to remind people that they're a good thing as they are. Working with my close friend Ellie Dixon on this song was so fun and we've created a protest song dressed in noughties nostalgia. Think opening credits to your fave 90s/00s teen movie!"
Claudia on the track
Midnight Generation - 'Almost My Own'
"ALMOST MY OWN’ is about that ‘almost something’ that could have been but never was, a love story that never came to fruition. It has a very distinctive sound: the talkbox and synthesizers perfectly complement that nostalgic yet futuristic feeling we wanted for the song.”
Vocalist Fernando Mares on the track
willoh - 'CU'
"Losing yourself at a transitional part in your life and rediscovering the person you were. It's easy to romanticise parts of your life where you felt terrible. There's a push and pull to move on, grow up, or go back to that dark place. This is that fantasisation. This is staying on the fence."
willoh on the track
Cage Fight - 'Oxygen - Kabbel Remix'
"Given that we're playing multiple festivals in France, and it's Rachel's home country, we thought it would be great to collaborate with a French artist, and Kabbel couldn't have been more perfect. His work on ‘Oxygen’ captures the intensity, the stressful feeling of the original, but his skilful production and eclectic synth take the song into an entirely new realm. Play this loud!"
Cage Fight on the track
Alfreda - 'Suki's Shoes'
"It's about the girl at school who always seemed shinier than you. And then realising that all these years later you're still trying to be her or whatever she represents. I think I've always been fascinated by performance and identity, and the embarrassing lengths I go to in order to become the person I think I'm supposed to be. Underneath all the hooks, it's really just a song about wanting to be someone else. It's also the first glimpse of a more indie-leaning sound within the TEASERAMA! world"
Alfreda on the track
Girl Apocrypha - 'Like Adam Would'
"I wrote 'Like Adam Would' from a place of total infatuation, a feeling so intense I could only bear to explain as biblical. Holy. It’s seeing scripture in a person’s words. Creation in their face. It’s knowing that my tunnel vision ends just millimeters away from your outline and making no attempt to expand it because why would I want to look at anything other than you?"
Girl Apocrypha on the track
Dummy - 'Full Spectrum Dominance'
"This is the Technofeudalism bop. Tech billionaires are treating AI like the new Alchemy, using it as a source of power and magic. This supposedly soon-to-be all-powerful technology could not exist without harvesting all of humanity’s intellectual property and collective work. ‘Prima Materia’ is the building block of all alchemical matter, so in the canon of the song, we humans are the Prima Materia.”
Vocalist and Keyboard Player Emma Maatman on the track
Shannon Gillespie - 'Drag it out'
Shannon Gillespie has released 'Drag It Out', a situationship anthem that is easily one of her strongest and biggest sounding track to date. An catchy chorus, brilliant vocals and a summery feel all combine with the kind of brilliantly relatable lyricism that makes Shannon so special.
Poesie - 'Undress Me'
"This is definitely my most personal and intimate song to date and it feels liberating to add it to the Poesie-verse. It's scintillating, playful and feel-good, and I hope it makes you feel as sexy listening to it as I did making it.."
Poesie on the track
Mynd Reader - 'Still Uncertain'
"This song is about a long drive home after a gig in the middle of the night with my old bandmate Tony. We had toured constantly when we were in our 20's dreaming of stardom. The night felt magical on the open highway, listening to music and feeling that anything was possible... the future was wide open... Tony passed away at 46. I never got to tell him what that night and what he meant to me. This song is the conversation I didn't get to finish."
Drummer Brian Sachs on the track
Orchid - 'Elevator Eternal'
Orchid has released 'Elevator Eternal', the final single before her EP 'Beach Gothic' drops September 19th. It's a captivating piece of music that feels like crying in the club at 3am and somehow enjoying it. Nostalgic-feeling synths and stellar vocals make it impossible to not enjoy. Easily one of the most distinctive listens of the week.
Nina Winder-Lind - 'Foremothers'
“The kind of base line is that I am alive… I’m so alive and I’m so grateful for that. You get to do all these things and feel all these things and you’re in a body and you get to express yourself and you have to or you’re gonna explode. They’re all love songs, really. Romantic love, love for my family, my friends, love for the landscape. It’s about intense emotional entanglement with other beings.”
Nina on the album 'Wild Love' which features 'Foremothers'
dān dān - 'cigarette breakfast'
"'cigarette breakfast' is about learning to support a loved one by holding space for them and taking a seat at the table, rather than trying to be hands on and change who they are. For a long time I thought love meant fixing things, pulling someone out of their bad habits, being the reason why someone got better. This song is me realising it can look softer than that, by sitting beside them, accepting them as they are, and growing alongside them - as opposed to - because of."
dān dān on the track
No Rest For The Spaceman - 'Ten'
No Rest For The Spacemen have released 'Ten', a punchy riff-heavy indie rock track with a chorus that hits immediately. Lyrics that capture the frustration of knowing what needs to change but finding yourself stuck anyway give it a real emotional weight.
