LITM Rock Pick Tunes That Will Set The Vibe For You Featuring Here’s Your Martyr, Bureau De Change, Rough Born Legends and More!

LITM Rock picks tunes brought to you by Here’s Your Martyr, Bureau De Change, Rough Born Legends, Pascal & The Shades and Zachary Mason

  1. Paid By Cash -Here’s Your Martyr
    Your West Yorkshire shoegazers Paid By Cash is a maelstrom noise that draws you into its whirlpool centre. The song rages like a frenzy, brooding and inescapable, propelled by Ollie Carter's heavy vocals over the maelstrom quicksand of fizzing guitars and thudding drums. Carter's vocals veer between hold-back and sheer emotion, dancing atop the maelstrom soundscape like an ethereal spectre that can't be silenced.

    The combination of brooding basslines, strangling drumbeats, and wild guitars is claustrophobic yet strangely intimate. It's a sonic struggle between sanity and precision, perfectly choreographed to suspend ears on the brink. In its orchestral texture, the song develops as a slow-motion tempest, every beat drawing you into its emotional maelstrom.

    Here's Your Martyr is an ode to Paid By Cash's skill in making songs linger, ask questions, and make one think. New listener or old, the track is a spellbinding entrance to the band's high-voltage world.

2. Bureau De Change - Dumb Men (Radio Edit)
Bureau De Change's Dumb Men is a scathing, unforgiving call to arms that wrestles with catcalling, rape culture, and toxic masculinity with moral indignation. Frontwoman Flora draws on lived experience in a bid to release a seething denunciation of social etiquette, converting anger into provocation. The phrase "Why don't you just get fucked?" growled with raw, poisoned venom, is as cathartic as it is provocative, cutting through the din on sheer anger.

Musically, the song is a whirlpool of anarchy—seething guitars, pounding bass, and furious drums all joining together to form a storm of sound. Avoiding accepted root chords is all it does, and it works in its defiant appeal, exactly capturing Flora's angry indignation. The entire song simply sounds like revolt, from its structurally disorganized nature to self-consciously blasphemous lyrics.

Dumb Men is more than a song, it's a call to freedom and responsibility. Bureau De Change releases a dirty and shameless message that cannot be overlooked, cementing them again as a band to keep an eye on in 2025.

3. Rough Born Legends - Bright Star
London's Rough Born Legends sparkles with Bright Star, a sparkling single that marries ancient rock roots with modern flash. Released at the start of 2025, the single distills the spontaneous chemistry between lead guitarist Riki Andov and bassist Paul Bown. Their music chemistry created out of Bandmix projects has treated the world to a song that is classic but original.

Taped in Andov's studio shed, Bright Star preserves the magic of middle-of-the-night jamming. The propulsive bass and classic guitar motifs open up a roomy, earthy space simultaneously. Lyrics, composed of astral metaphor and love poetry, create an atmosphere of wonder, inviting listeners to reflect on relationships and harmony.

Taking cues from such legends as David Bowie and Led Zeppelin, Rough Born Legends employs contemporary aspects to give meaning to their music so that it becomes more enticing in the contemporary era. Bright Star is thus a radio-friendly, emotionally engaging single. The track puts them squarely in the realm of rock music and with a rosy future ahead.

4. Pascal & The Shades - Danger Moon
Danger Moon by Pascal & The Shades is a psychedelic ride on psychedelic rock and experimental folk. Composed by Paschalis Kalogeroudis, the song conjures an extraterrestrial magic through reflective verses accompanied by intergalactic melodies. The worlds of the song are expansive in scope, blending filigree guitar textures with inescapable rhythms to present an experiential experience.

The music explores emotion and transcendence, leading the listener to a realm of introspection where fantasy and reality cannot be separated from one another. Kalogeroudis' singing, backed by the band's virtuoso musicianship, creates an atmosphere that is both haunting and comforting. Danger Moon is an auditory journey into the unknown, a trip to the bottom of human relationships and self-awareness.

Pascal & The Shades will not be bound by the trappings of their genre, making music that lingers in the head hours after the last note. Danger Moon is a creative vision, providing music from another world that needs to be heard again and again.

5. Zachary Mason - I Wish Humans Were Made In A Factory
Zachary Mason's I Wish Humans Were Made In A Factory is a free-form, mind-stretching adventure into the nuts and bolts of humanity. Starting from disillusion public and private, the song meshes scorching lyrics with a catchy indie rock rhythm to become a song both as captivating and unsettling.

Mason's vocal inflection is drenched in desperation, fluctuating between reporter-like matter-of-factness and the occasional spasms of zealotry. Phrases such as "Bitter glances. Angry eyes. Messed-up minds in messed-up lives!" summarize the angst and irony of his accounts of the flaws of life. Using the human-being-as-factory-product cliche ridiculed the sloppiness of life and taunts the fallacy of perfectionism.

Musically, the album is a raw, gritty indie rock gem. Gritty grungy guitar riffing, hyperkinetic keyboard textures, and pounding rhythm section are exactly the right attitude for Mason's thoughtful rambles. Its raw-around-the-edges accessibility and in-your-face lyricism, I Wish Humans Were Made In A Factory is a classic record that has a field day with Mason's unapologetic creativity.

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