During the last quarter of 2025, alternative band Laptop released a couple of really interesting singles. Taking the energies of OK-Go, a huge influence from new wave and the quirky, melodic charm of Beck, their best work has managed to catch the ear of many a music fan immersed in cult sounds.
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BEAUTY IN CHAOS – God’s Gonna Cut You Down / Get Down Moses
On their previous releases, recorded as collaborative affairs with The Mission’s Wayne Hussey and The Awakening’s Ashton Nyte, the music from Beauty In Chaos took on a distinctly goth influence. This double shot from Michael Cirovolo and friends takes on an entirely different guise. Not only does Cirovolo take the helm instead of enlisting a high profile guest vocalist but, musically, the material takes a huge swerve into a musical landscape that fans mightn’t expect.
debdepan – Lovers & Others EP
debdepan (always lower case) are a Margate based duo who’ve been pitched as making “genre-blurring” music that’s “influenced by dance, art pop and grunge”. Sometimes, labels don’t work. Sometimes they’re so wide of the mark, they’re laughable. Sometimes, though, they can be pretty useful, and in this case, that short description is about as accurate as you’ll find. It certainly gives the listener a fair idea of what to expect when heading into debdepan’s excellent debut ‘Lovers & Others’, which presents five slabs of dark, danceable alt-rock which casts its net as far back as the 90s for influence, with a pinch of Curve and Garbage, but also has an ear on the contemporary.
Watch: Kalamity Kills unleash new video for brilliant Beatles cover
Often when covering world famous tracks, it’s important to put your own stamp on the work. Once in a while, though, a track will come along that’s so perfect, a great cover won’t necessarily need a lot more than a huge amount of enthusiasm applied to make it work. Such is the case with the version of The Beatles’ ‘Help!’ recorded by Nashville based hard rockers Kalamity Kills.
Bad Mary revisit ‘Last Christmas’ with new cover tune
Ever since its original release in 1984, Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ has been beloved many. Only reaching #2 on the UK singles chart the first time around, it became the second most celebrated track to fall just shy of the top spot. Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’, arguably, takes the crown there, losing out to a terrible novelty record – ‘Shaddap You Face’ by The Joe Dolce Music Theatre; at least Wham! had the dignity of knowing they were beaten to the top by a charity record, and one that George Michael was also on!