Capturing the utter complexity that is romance in 2026 is no easy feat – but Only The Poets have seemingly trapped the prayers and confessions of any rocky relationship within their debut album And I’d Do It Again, launching them further and faster than any of their previous work had the guts to do.

Soul Rot is a testament to untangling yourself from the deepest, most horrifying parts of your psyche, finding life at the very wake of your own spirit, and holding onto the core of what makes you, you, even when the world around you is falling lifelessly to the ground. 

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Wolf Alice have grown into their power, gracefully preserving the magic that won them a cult following a decade ago; their OVO Hydro show carried the same cadence and intimacy that coloured their earlier trips to Scotland at King Tut’s and the Barrowlands.