Add to playlist: Panic Shack’s gleeful anarchy and this week’s best new tracks | Music

From Cardiff, WalesRecommended should you like Lambrini Ladies, Amyl and the Sniffers, Kleenex/Lilliput Up subsequent Enjoying Stunning Days pageant, Fairmile, Devon, 14 August and touring the UK in OctoberAcross seven years, cheekily raucous quartet Panic Shack have gone from the Cardiff underground to the fringes of the mainstream. After forming as a raised center finger to snooty blokey indie bands “twiddling with their pedals with a face like a slapped arse”, their self-titled debut crashed into the Prime 40 final month and topped the UK rock and metallic albums chart.With inspirations starting from the Conflict, Bikini Kill and Amy Winehouse to the Slits’ guitarist Viv Albertine’s autobiography, Panic Shack are a fizzy, riffy, irreverently hilarious bundle of buzzsaw guitars, vim and vinegar. Crucially, they sound like they’re having a ton of enjoyable, absolutely the purpose of beginning a band within the first place. Onstage, they’ve comically exaggerated poses and even their very own dance, which went viral on TikTok.Woman Band Starter Pack – think about Moist Leg’s Chaise Longue on pint-can vitality drinks – describes a typical night time out with rowdy enthusiasm: “I end work, I textual content the ladies / Let’s get a bevvy, 4 double voddys … we get foolish, we get loud!” Different songs cowl the media obsession with physique picture (Gok Wan, which sarcastically asks “If my abdomen is flat and my arse is perky, possibly I might get everyone to love me”), sexual harassment (Smellarat) and their very own friendship (Thelma and Louise). Newest single Pockets gleefully encapsulates their celebratory irreverence. It’s about, however in fact, the usefulness of a bag when carrying a costume with no pockets, during which to place “Vape / cellphone / keys / lip gloss!” Dave SimpsonThis week’s greatest new tracksLife-affirming … Huge Thief. {Photograph}: Genesis BáezBig Thief – Grandmother (ft Laraaji)Their greatest music but? The US folk-rockers see off fatalism with the ability of affection and rock’n’roll, their cosmic visitor Laraaji including wordless exultance. Actually life-affirming.Creeper – Blood Magick (It’s a Ritual)Think about Ghost overlaying Heaven Is a Place on Earth and also you’re just about there with this gigantically foolish new single from the UK goth troupe, recounting horny Satanic shenanigans.Casey Dienel – Your Woman’s UpstairsFormerly goth-popper White Hinterland, Dienel has amassed a crack band for his or her return, with Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy bringing rough-grade guitar to a breezy alt-rock music about stressed need.Sophia Stel – All My Pals Are ModelsShoegaze meets synthpop in a type of lo-fi slacker model of Maggie Rogers’ widescreen earnestness, full with a beautiful refrain of pure craving poignancy.Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer – SpeedrunTwo open-minded NYC producers browsing across the outskirts of rap be a part of forces, with Kym – whose albums Truest and Soliloquy we love – including a vocal earworm to this junglist miniature.Algernon Cadwallader – HawkThe identify suggests an Edwardian steampunk detective however it’s truly a midwest emo band, again with their first album in 14 years. The primary single is a triumph, wanting again on a late pal with fondness and ache.Reuben Aziz – Metropolis GirlsThe British rap/R&B vocalist is puppy-loved-up, swooning over his one-in-a-million lady with the type of mild melody and tenderness that Drake reaches for when he’s in seduction mode.Ben Beaumont-ThomasSubscribe to the Guardian’s rolling Add to Playlist choices on Spotify.