For your entertainment during another working week here's five more hand-picked delights from the Scruff Of The Neck stable.

Blooms – ‘Porcelain’

Debuted on DIY just last week, ‘Porcelain’ is the latest cut to emerge from Blooms HQ. Building on the band’s idiosyncratic dream-pop melodies to create arguably their strongest release to date. While it’s breezy and optimistic instrumentation make it the perfect accompaniment to hazy summer evenings, its lyrics deal with a loved one’s mental illness, creating a pronounced dichotomy between its easy-going musicality and deep subject matter.

The Homesteads - ‘Another Mile’

Sheffield-based quintet The Homesteads peddle a brand of blue-collar indie-rock that maintains a safe distance from the LAD mentality that often dogs the genre. Latest single ‘Another Mile’ is awash in rich Americana and a vocal not dissimilar to The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle. Uplifting and emotive, it’s a track entrenched in classic song-writing traditions and not one to ignore.

Moscow – ‘South By South X Again’

Foregoing the shoegaze and post-rock often associated with Scottish bands indie-pop four-piece Moscow inject some Tropicana in to Edinburgh’s scene. Their latest release ‘South By South X Again’ is a sugary and frenetic affair; button bright guitars and evident pop sensibility drawing comparison to bands such as The Larkins. Excellent stuff.

The Nix – ‘LUNA’

Blues-driven and effortlessly propulsive, the title track from The Nix’s recently released LUNA EP is built around a chugging backline and spiky leads, its rigid, stop-start structure eventually segueing in to far less defined but no less impressive; each individual instrument pandering to its own tangent, before, seemingly out of nowhere, finding their form again and closing out the track.

3 Days From Retirement – ‘By The Power Of Greyskull’

At the other end of Edinburgh’s spectrum, 3 Days From Retirement create massively ambitious post-rock that’s both staggeringly pretty, and disconcertingly monolithic in its delivery. ‘By The Power Of Greyskull’ mounts almost from its outset. Intricate guitars build towards a towering, almost oppressive crescendo. A testament to the band’s latent skill as musicians.

For your entertainment during another working week here's five more hand-picked delights from the Scruff Of The Neck stable.

False Heads – ‘Thick Skin’

Kicking off this week, London-based snot poppers False Heads return with their newest single ‘Thick Skin’. Woozy in its delivery and clattering in its composition, it’s yet another reason to sit up and take note of one of East London’s fastest rising bands. When Iggy Pop is championing an act, you know they’re on to a good thing.

Rock Bottom Risers – ‘Legal In A Week (or maybe two)’

Released just over a week ago, the new single from West Yorkshire reprobates Rock Bottom Risers is built around stoned, propulsive grooves that come courtesy of perfectly matched bass and percussion. The idiosyncratic drawl of vocalist Kane Scott is a steadfast as ever, providing more than enough bite and grit to offset an effortless rhythm section.

The Claremonts – ‘Money’

Drawing from a wealth of decade-spanning indie, Manchester’s The Claremont’s belie their young years through their deft musicality and on-stage chemistry. Latest cut ‘Money’ is steeped in jangle-pop tradition, falling somewhere in between The La’s and The Stone Roses at their prettiest, it’s simple and melodic, allowing the band’s promise to shine through.

RINSE – ‘Taser Party’

Spiky guitars and a chunky bass line form the backbone of ‘Taser Party’ the most recent single from Stoke alt-rockers RINSE. Frenetic and atmospheric, it’s a natural progression from the band’s last outing, ‘Not Too Late’. Building on the brooding atmosphere of the aforementioned, ‘Taser Party’ feels both subdued, and somewhat more driven in comparison, 

Bright Young People – ‘Solitude’

Following False Heads as the second band on the list signed to 25 Hour Convenience Store, Rhyl’s Bright Young People relish in their own sleazy brand of indie rock. ‘Solitude’ is the band’s first single for the label and is three minutes of blistering swagger and snarl that’s impossible to ignore.