New Zealand outfit, SoccerPractise, release new single ‘Posture’, the first single from their forthcoming album, Te Pō, slated for release in October. ‘Posture’ is gritty, immediate and disorientating – grabbing the listener by the scruff of the neck and holding them inches from its face.  Vocalist Geneva Alexander-Marsters recites her sardonic mantra over a pulsing, lo-fi, industrial, garage beat that erupts with heady siren guitars and scratched atmospherics.

Speaking on the new track, Geneva explained: "The song is about maintaining composure in a world of myriad contradictions and cynicism. It’s about how best intentions can be enveloped and absorbed by chaos and things are fall apart all around you. it’s an acerbic self-help mantra, but really about how sometimes the only person you have to believe in you is you. It’s also about my parents. And yoga.”

The video, shot in Hong Kong during the June protests, features dancer and choreographer Sudhee Liao making her way desperately through a labyrinthine mall of food stalls and bemused onlookers - part performance art, part psychic breakdown.

Both the song and video are a taste of things to come from SoccerPractise’s second album. Te Pō (the night or darkness) is a collection of sonic dreams, visual nightmares and fragmented hallucinations set deep in the night of a strangely familiar yet unknown city.

Anna Calvi has written and performed the score for the entire new season of BBC One’s Peaky Blinders. The show had its season five premiere in Birmingham, where Anna Calvi joined the cast and director Anthony Byrne on the red carpet.

Calvi’s first score for television follows the release of her critically acclaimed third album Hunter. She is a previous Brit Award nominee and has been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize twice.

Previously a fan of the series, Calvi said on writing the original score: “This is a new thing for me but it was a really good fit, I love everything about the show. I completely immersed myself in it and became quite obsessed with the characters, especially Tommy Shelby [played by Cillian Murphy] and getting lost in his mind. There is a duality to the show, a beauty and a brutality, which I have been exploring in my own music and on the Hunter album. I want to say thank you to the director Anthony Byrne for believing in me and letting me seek out what I needed to.” Air dates for Peaky Blinders season 5 have not yet been announced.

Upcoming live dates

19th – 21st July – Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK

19th - 21st July – Bluedot festival, Macclesfield, UK

26th - 28th July – Womad festival, Wiltshire, UK

26th – 28th July – Deer Shed festival, Topcliffe, UK

2nd August – All Together Now festival, Portlaw, Ireland

2nd – 4th August – Playground festival, Glasgow, UK

11th August – Edinburgh International Festival @ Leith Theatre, UK

23rd – 25th August – Future Yard festival, Birkenhead, UK