Add to playlist: the sweaty, unvarnished electropop of Punchbag and the week’s best new tracks
Friday, April 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM · By Michael Cragg, Sundus Abdi, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes
The sibling duo’s follow-up EP spikes their off-kilter pop with new darkness, adding atmospheric balladry to their glorious racket From South London Recommended if you like Charli xcx, Confidence Man, Klaxons Up next UK tour starts 21 April If this was April 2008, Punchbag, AKA south London siblings Clara and Anders Bach, would be headlining an NME tour alongside Alphabeat and Frankmusik, while the Popjustice forum would have hailed them as the new face of “wonky pop”. The sonic calling cards o…