Second song this week from Aotearoa (New Zealand), with this one Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland based four-piece project/quartet Echomatica.

A song to lose yourself in on a weekend going into autumn as the days shorten and life draws in.

The YouTube video is very cool too.

Give this one the time it deserves, and after that breakout around 0.40 this it really takes off.

As his Spotify profile says “InDuna is presented as an independent/self-taught Afro-pop artist and producer, with a distinctive South Africa–New Zealand cultural story rather than a generic pop positioning”.

And Africa you hear straight off with those banking vocals, so much so suddenly you're back in Jo'burg.

Check out 'Are You in Love' and 'Say What You Want'.

This song came in late to the weekly updates due to dumb AI agent search issues, OK not that late as the EP was released on September 18, 2026.

Cool song, with very much the Queensland Indie Rock sound. Really? Is that a thing? Whatever, that's what I think.

It's a nicely complex composition, with break outs that take by surprise, and then fly up and away.

If you want blues, listen to 'Take Me To The City' from the same EP, a whole different song type.

These guys sure got depth!

This group from Liverpool - hard not to recognise the accent even from Europe - was actaully formed back in 2010.

If your check out their Spotify discography page: scroll down after the all prevailing Spotify ‘popular releases’, then —>(highlight) Singles and EP’s —>then click ‘Show all’.

It then becomes clear that even if this is their first ‘album’, they have been releasing singles and EP’s since 2013.

Moving on.

One of those you listen to with the lyrics taking you through the all the crap we do to oursleves, only we just keep doing it.

Wrapped up in a song that is sort of light and heavy at the same time.

Like listening to life.

I first came across this song in late July this year, where it had been discovered via the then new AI Music Release Agent, with a title like that it’s hard to forget.

For reasons I do not recall, it did not make the cut, and was not included as a ‘Release’ at the time, but hey, we can all change our minds, right?

On (this) second listen, I have to admit it’s a great Indie Rock song, even if the ‘break’ around 1.44 in needs a little getting used to.

Matt Berninger is primarily known as the frontman and lyricist of indie rock band The National, the American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in Brooklyn, New York City, way back in 1999.

Like a lot of things music American, even groups like The National get lost in World Music noise. I only really caught up with them with ‘Tropic Morning News’ from the album "First Two Pages of Frankenstein" released on April 28, 2023, which I did feature on the old Streamusique blog at the time.

And why the gap between the ‘discovery’ in July and ‘release’ last Friday? That’s the new done thing: pre-release a single very early, then include it in the next new EP or album.

So what do I know about music marketing?!

Great song!