Best Tracks 2026 01

The peak-twee EPs are redolent of their moment in micro-history but also transcend it, standing up as classics of their kind

Best Tracks 2025 01

If there’s a more beautiful slice of indie pop released this year, we’ll eat our ill-fitting cardigan

Best Tracks 2024 04

A pop song only lasts a couple minutes, but can create a universe

Rewind: Tracks 1981

one of those songs that seems to be impossible to tire of, a remarkable tune that could brighten up the dullest party and make even the Grinch rethink his life’s priorities

Best Tracks 2024 03

this is surely the first time the Jon Bon Jovi hologram has been referenced in a folk song

Best Tracks 2024 02

that chorus. It’s catchier than a yawn in a staff meeting

Best Tracks 2024 Part 1

I have a confession to make: I have this aversion to men singing. Not always, mind. But generally, as a rule, I would prefer they didn’t.

Rewind: Tracks 1983

There are songs that you forget about and then they come on and they whisk you back in time

Rewind: Tracks 1985

led on to them writing a musical about a carpark attendant whose carpark is set to be turned into a disco and recruits a posse of gunmen to halt the enterprise.