MUSIC is a great medium for exploring difficult issues, and we make no excuses for including a new single that will make you think.

One Last Day’s Out of the Black heads up our playlist this week, a powerful piece that combines great musicianship with powerful lyrics.

We’re on a mission to champion and showcase great music from acts that have a connection to Reading and Wokingham (that’s the RaW in our Sounds Today name).

It’s an eclectic mix of stuff that will help you discover something new. All you have to do is find it on Spotify.

To hear this week’s selection, simply head to https://bit.ly/rawsoundstoday and enjoy the music.

There is also a Facebook page and group chat that bands and music fans can tap into. You can search for RaW Sounds Today and it will come up.

One Last Day – Out of the Black

The biggest rock bands have great songs as well as great musicianship – think AC/DC, Bon Jovi. Ghost, Rammstein etc but we see many good new rock bands that forget about the songs.

If this single from Wokingham rockers, One Last Day, is anything to go by they are not one of those bands.

This single is powerful and well played and, even with a dark theme about suffering from abuse, it has a chorus that sticks in your head and helps get the story across.

I believe that if a band can combine power and melody they can’t go wrong. One Last Day can clearly do that – https://linktr.ee/onelastday

Mellor – Meet Me by the Ocean

Mellor are a four-piece Reading-based band that have been building a great reputation throughout the indie rock scene and this reputation is only going to be enhanced further with the release of their new album, Problematic Passions, which is out this week.

Here’s another band that releases music with power and melody as evidenced on this recent single, taken from the new album – https://linktr.ee/melloruk

Katie Ellwood – Twice

Katie performed a wonderful set at Wokingham Festival in August backed by a band of very good musicians. Anyone that saw that will have been lucky to get a preview listen of this new single – https://www.katieellwood.com/

Doops – Pull Back the Shades

Doops join the bill at Third Lung’s album launch show at Sub 89 on Thursday. This band from the local area creates moody atmospheric songs. This is taken from their 2021 released, Deflections EP – https://www.facebook.com/doopsband/

Glenn Miller Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade

Timeless music from the 1930’s as the Glenn Miller Orchestra directed by Ray McVay will be at the WADE afternoon charity concert on Saturday, November 19, at the new Carnival Hub – https://www.glennmillerorchestra.co.uk/

Let’s Eat Grandma – Levitation

Photographer Andrew Merritt and myself went on a road trip a few weeks ago to see this talented duo from Norwich at a packed Koko in Camden.

They were excellent.

This is from their latest album,Two Ribbons – http://letseatgrandma.co.uk/

OSP – Call Me

It’s one of our fave artists of the year and they were one of the highlights of August’s, Wokingham Festival. Here’s rap quartet from Reading, OSP, with a new single and it’s another good one – https://www.facebook.com/ospmusicuk

Indigo Child – Lies

This is the debut single from Reading based duo, Lou and Matt, and it was recorded at Generation Studio with producer, Dean Nelson.

It’s a good start for the duo with its melodic indie sound – https://www.facebook.com/indigochildoffical

Blancmange – Reduced Voltage

This is from the new album Private View by synth pop icons Blancmange, who had big 80s hits such as Living on the Ceiling. They performed recently at Reading’s Sub89 as part of their UK tour – http://www.blancmange.co.uk/

Third Lung – No Names

This is the latest single from the band’s new album Gameplay that is out now with the band celebrating the release at an album launch show at Reading’s Sub89 on Thursday – http://thirdlungband.com

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