People Mover - Cane Trash

Baby-I’m-bored vocals, slacker rock simplicity and druggy bliss. Are Brisbane’s People Mover spearheading a dolewave revival? Because this isn’t a million miles from Dick Diver or Bitch Prefect (dolewave was great at many things, but band names not so much).

More likely, though, they’re channelling the same low-level isolation and doleful desolation as more recent American acts like Horsegirl, Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy. People Mover’s formula is pretty straightforward: strum, thrum, drum. But it’s not easy making that sound so fresh and vigorous, or making the everyday feel like something you haven’t felt before.

This is 2025’s sleeper hit. Mark my words, k records will licence it and release their second album.