**Sundaughter** A four-piece "mercurial shoegaze" group formed in Reading, Sundaughter weave dreamy textures with delicate Eastern influences. Their sound is both expansive and intimate, drawing from influences such as Khruangbin, The Smiths and Angel Olsen, with shimmering guitars, airy vocals and a hypnotic atmosphere. *https://sundaughterband.bandcamp.com/* Bristol five-piece **HumDrum** bring an evolving fusion of neo-jazz, experimental rock, warped electronics and poetic surrealism. Expect dreamy harmonies, distorted crescendos and introspective lyrics from a band defined not by genre, but by feeling. *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NpjcD7CGwc* British singer-songwriter **D’Aulerio** leads you through layers of tenderness and verve before allowing you a moment to breathe. Her fiercely independent DIY nature shaped by her working-class roots pairs beautifully with her dark sonic space; both are driven by intricately powerful songwriting, and gritty, guitar lead arrangements tied together with a velvet vocal bow; the feeling is controlled yet slightly unsettling... *https://www.daulerio.net/*