Massive one from Alleviated and Larry as they present the third installment of the 'Vault Sessions' series. Sharing recordings from the archives have either never been issued or been out of print for a long time. After spending bare time in the cooler, its time for these deep house gems to be let out the closet! 

Beginning with a bucket load of 303 phlegm in the form of the brilliantly titled "Acid Indigestion", we move into the sublime "Deja Vu", complete with crisp packet drums, hovering pads and beautifully evocative lead lines - a real treat when the vocals kick in! "Praise", up next  is a deep rooted soulful house number with seriosuly infectious grooves. Finally "Mr Gone" sees a nice organic number roll off the wax with a summery, sweltered perfection. Incredible stuff from one of the greatest house producers of all time. Not to be missed! 

TRACK LISTING

1 Acid Indigestion (private Mix) - Gherkin Jerks
2 Deja Vu (musaria Mix) - Larry Heard
3 Praise (fingers Tribal Mix) - Larry Heard
4 Mr Gone (fingers Edit) - The It

'Pure Comedy', Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. While we could say a lot about 'Pure Comedy' – including that it is a bold, important album in the tradition of American songwriting greats like Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Leonard Cohen – we think it’s best to let its creator describe it himself. Take it away, Mr. Tillman: 'Pure Comedy' is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species’ only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like “love,” “culture,” “family,” etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence.Something like that. 'Pure Comedy' was recorded in 2016 at the legendary United Studios (Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Beck) in Hollywood, CA. It was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, with engineering by Misty’s longtime sound-person Trevor Spencer and orchestral arrangements by renowned composer/double-bassist Gavin Bryars (known for extensive solo work, and work with Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Derek Bailey).

TRACK LISTING

1. Pure Comedy
2. Total Entertainment Forever
3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution
4. Ballad Of The Dying Man
5. Birdie
6. Leaving LA
7. A Bigger Paper Bag
8. When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay
9. Smoochie
10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
11. The Memo
12. So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain
13. In Twenty Years Or So

Since the release of his critically acclaimed debut full length, 2023’s Come Around and Love Me, Jalen’s career has undergone a meteoric rise. The track “If You Don’t Want My Love” went viral, garnering 253 million streams to date. Jalen has appeared on a number of major television programmes, including The Graham Norton Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Later with Jools Holland. He opened for Thee Sacred Souls on their national US tour, and has sold out countless club dates across the globe as a headliner. Now, in 2026, with the embers of his debut still burning brightly, Jalen prepares to release his eagerly awaited sophomore album, Doctrine of Love.

The hard work and relentless touring behind his debut have fortified his craft. His message: “The doctrine of love holds that every thought and action should be guided first by compassion for others, because love is the highest measure of human worth.” The tracks on the forthcoming album are born from this creed. With his deep knowledge and love of classic soul, Jalen delivers authenticity in abundance. Doctrine of Love blends pop sensibility and soulful melodies with raw grit and groove, expanding on the orchestral arrangements of Come Around and Love Me with flourishes of horns and gospel-kissed backing vocals, creating a highly stylish example of modern soul artistry.

TRACK LISTING

1. Anyone In Love
2. Doctrine Of Love
3. Mr. Train Conductor
4. Burning Temptation
5. Love Is Gone
6. I Can’t Ever Leave You
7. Hannah, What’s The Matter?
8. Good Good Love
9. Hang It On The Shelf
10. Taken Out Of The Picture

Some 30 years after they first met in the DJ booth of Tokyo’s Spacelab Yellow nightclub, close friends François Kevorkian and Dimitri From Paris have finally joined forces in the studio. The result is The Nassau Excursion, a dazzlingly good three-track EP inspired by their joint love of disco and boogie-era dance records made at Island Records’ Compass Point Studio in the Bahamas.

Across three essential tracks, François and Dimitri explore and celebrate this distinctive Caribbean post-disco sound – one where weighty basslines and heavy drum machine beats rub shoulders with early ‘80s synths, dub-style production, heady hand percussion patterns and arrangements drenched in space echo and tape delay.

TRACK LISTING

A. The Compass Point Ft. DJ Rocca
B1. Da Riddim
B2. Steppers Revenge

Deluxe edition of Beastie Boys’ platinum-selling 2004 'To the 5 Boroughs' album, featuring 11 bonus tracks, including remixes and B-sides,

TRACK LISTING

1. Ch-Check It Out
2. Right Right Now Now
3. 3 The Hard Way
4. It Takes Time To Build
5. Rhyme The Rhyme Well
6. Triple Trouble
7. Hey Fuck You
8. Oh Word?
9. That's It That's All
10. All Lifestyles
11. Shazam!
12. An Open Letter To NYC
13. Crawlspace
14. The Brouhaha
15. We Got The
16. Brrrr Stick Em
17. And Then I
18. Now Get Busy
19. Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze Remix)
20. Triple Trouble (Brainpower Remix)
21. Triple Trouble (J. Wizzle Remix)
22. Triple Trouble (Dexter's Triple Decollte Situation)
23. Triple Trouble (Graham Coxon Remix)
24. Rizzle Rizzle Nizzle Nizzle
25. MTL Reppin' For The 514
26. RRNN: Straight Outta Shibuya 

The complete studio recordings from The American Analog Set’s second chapter. 'Destroy Destroy Destroy' gathers the Texas slow-krauters 'Know By Heart', 'Promise Of Love', and 'Set Free' LPs, 'Everything Ends In Spring' EP, and an additional two discs of singles, B-sides, alternates and outtakes. Accompanying 36-page booklet is flooded with photos and handwritten scraps from the band’s dreamy post-Y2K era. Punk as fuck, for real.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - Know By Heart
LP2 - Promise Of Love
LP3 - Set Free
LP4 - Everything Ends In Spring
LP5 - Static Between The Stations Pt 1
LP6 - Static Between The Stations Pt 2

Dry Socket is a politically charged hardcore band from Portland, Oregon, known for blistering performances and emotionally uncompromising songwriting. Rooted in the raw aggression of classic hardcore, their sound channels the urgency of early Ceremony, G.L.O.S.S., and Negative Approach while carving out a distinctly modern, inclusive space within the genre, one where anger, grief, and survival are not just themes, but lived realities. Their music confronts systems of violence, coercion, and control with unflinching honesty, creating room to be unapologetically furious, vulnerable, and alive at the same time. Every riff lands like a strike; every lyric feels torn from experience rather than abstraction. Since forming,

Their latest record, 'Self Defense Techniques', centers on survival under constant pressure. Inspired by the practice of dehorning rhinos to protect them from poachers, removing a vital part of the animal in order to keep it alive, the album examines the compromises people are forced to make to endure a hostile world. Horns are tools for protection, communication, care, and identity. To survive, so many of us are taught to remove our own. Across the record, Dry Socket interrogates life inside systems that demand silence, obedience, and self-erasure. Songs wrestle with exhaustion, spiritual betrayal, and economic violence, oscillating between fury and grief. 'Self Defense Techniques' isn’t about triumph, it’s about endurance, documenting the cost of staying alive while refusing the lie that softness is weakness or that silence is peace

TRACK LISTING

1. The Chop
2. Leglock
3. Pressure Points
4. Clenched Fist
5. Rigged Survival
6. Safety On
7. Toolkit For Denial
8. 95%

Leather-jacket krautrock? Indeed. Welcome to the world of Carrboro NC's Object Hours. These generous saviors consist of three Triangle scene lifers who all worship the riff but imagine what happens if the riff fell into the middle of your favorite CAN LP. Yes, it lives up to the hype. 'Solved By Walking' was recorded in the winter of 2025 at Betty's in the Chapel Hill woods, these are mighty rock slabs ready for all seasons. Rock believers have felt the ripples and knew the day was coming. Object Hours is a band that fits right in on stage alongside acts as varied as Kim Gordon and Tropical Fuck Storm, bringing the house down in these and similar moments. These are songs that groove, peel paint, sandblast, inspire unconscious movement, make your head bob - frequently all at the same time. These are the jams inspired by the time that you heard 'Fun House' coming out of that dude's car with the windows down in the middle of the summer, the ones inspired by the kids who own 3 copies of 'Daydream Nation', the ones who listen to the last 1:30 of Wire's 'Too Late' over and over. This is the band that has a timer on stage so they don't keep each song playing for days on end, the band whose Bandcamp bio succinctly summarizes their approach thusly: "We try to keep songs under 25 minutes for your sake." Every word here should be inspiration for you to *want* and *need* to hear this record and every word here is true. Just you wait. Real heads know and the rest of the heads are getting ready to find out. Get ready for Object Hours' 'Solved By Walking'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Solved By Walking
2. Yellow House
3. Mare Chiaro
4. Manhattan Marble
5. Sunkel Vessels
6. Transcription Beta
7. Haunted Forest Near Me

Venturing into “a limbo world between medieval tropes and modern-day decay”, New Orleans musician Urq (half of art punk duo Spllit) returns with a new solo offering. Recorded over a single, intense month, 'This Dismal Village' is a homespun document that sits somewhere between jittery punk, dreary psychedelia, and hooky bedroom pop. Recorded to 4-track, the record embraces limitation as a creative engine, resulting in a sound that is raw, unsettled, and deeply atmospheric. The album is set not in a fixed point in time or geography, but a liminal environment where dystopic visions and archaic fixtures exist side by side. In the dismal village, kings and witches share space with televisions, skyscrapers, and modern enterprise; organ fanfares echo down streets populated by disgruntled townsfolk and whispered gossip. It is simultaneously the dark ages, 1950s suburbia, and a 21st-century metropolis. Embracing anachronism was central to the project’s identity, an attempt to collapse history into a single, uneasy present. Sonically and philosophically, the album sits firmly in the tradition of rough and raw cassette rock. Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand looms large as an influence, particularly its ability to build an entire world through unpolished, first-take recordings. Robert Pollard’s idea of the “four P’s” (psych, punk, prog, and pop) serves as a neat summary of the artist’s musical instincts and each element can be traced right through the heart of 'This Dismal Village'. Further inspiration comes from post-punk’s so-called “Calgary Sound,” a loose movement blending psych pop, post-punk, and math/prog elements with a home-recorded, unpretentious ethos. The result is an album that unrolls like a place wandered through, uneasy, occasionally familiar, and impossible to pin down in time. All captured on tape before it could disappear like an apparition, like a dream only half-remembered.

TRACK LISTING

1. Another Mystery
2. Glutton's Coupon
3. Airs Of The Sledgehammered
4. This Dismal Village
5. An Honest Film
6. Took Blest
7. Kings In Bed
8. Watching The Soothsayers
9. We Don't Need This Song

"This album documents me trying to make sense of major changes in my life - the end of an era (the 2003 breakup of Say ZuZu) and the start of an era (I got married, moved from a small town to the city, had two kids, and started a new career as an ethnomusicologist all during the time it took to complete this record). The album also finds me searching for my own musical voice outside of Say ZuZu. I wanted a sound built around an acoustic guitar, somewhere between Neil Young’s 'Out On The Weekend' and Merle Haggard’s 'Mama Tried'. It was a time where my life deviated from the script that I thought had been written for me. I was, as the song says, happy and confused. This record helped me to sort out the confusion." - Cliff Murphy

TRACK LISTING

1. Take It On The Chin
2. Happy & Confused
3. Terminal Blues
4. Another Good Man Gone Bad
5. The Way I Was Back Then
6. Jesus, Do You Know This Lamb?
7. You & Me
8. Star
9. Gone Too Long
10. So Long Buddy
11. Medicine
12. Bay State Lullaby

One of the first punk bands to set up an "indie" label, they were also pioneers of "alternative" music, mixing punk with experimental sounds. Swell Maps released four singles and two albums in a brief but eventful career, in partnership with Rough Trade, topping UK indie charts and influencing acts including Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Stereolab, and Blur. The original line-up split in 1980, but still their studio albums, 'A Trip to Marineville' and 'Jane From Occupied Europe', attract new generations of enthusiasts.

In 2021, Jowe organised performances with ten musicians to play a diverse selection of Maps material over two consecutive nights at London's Cafe Oto, and did it again at the Rough Trade launch for Jowe's book on Swell Maps in 2022. Concerts followed across the UK and Europe, with more planned. This ongoing project has resulted in a new studio album, 'C21', released through Tiny Global Productions. The material was composed at various times between 1979 and the present, including older songs never recorded professionally, a remake of Soundtracks' astonishing Jelly Babies and plenty of surprises.

'C21' offers memorable melodies, wild riffs with super hooks, yet never veers from their adventurous spirit, radical ideas and eccentric musical shapes. The current collective of musicians features: Jowe Head, David Callahan of Wolfhounds / Moonshake / solo fame, Jeff Bloom out from Television Personalities, Alternative TV's Lee McFadden, Lucie Rejchrtova (Crazy World Of Arthur Brown), Chloe Herington from chamber rock faves Chrome Hoof, and Luke Haines, who led Auteurs and Black Box Recorder and plays with REM's Peter Buck.

TRACK LISTING

1. A Morning Star
2. Foam Rubber Wedding
3. Vertical Take-Off And Landing
4. Crow Crow
5. Jelly Babies
6. From Head To Phones
7. Johnny Seven
8. HAK Utopia
9. Water Ev'rywhere
10. Saved By The Warts
11. Tele Visions
12. Au Rora

On their ninth album for Bureau B, the internationally renowned Berlin/Düsseldorf-based outfit Kreidler focus on atmospheric soundscapes – of course maintaining their signature rhythmic groove, which on 'Schemes' is simply more buoyant and less insistent. 'Schemes' is also characterised by the more pronounced use of nature/outdoor recordings. The track featuring Leo Garcia as a guest vocalist is based on just such a field recording.

With 'Schemes', Kreidler step into a more ambient space of possibilities, crafting an album that feels both carefully considered and delightfully unguarded.

From the first moments, 'Schemes' signals a shift in tactics. Where other Kreidler recordings often move with propellent insistence, here motion feels lighter on its feet. Rhythms skip rather than stride. Synth lines meander, overlap, or gently collide. The music seems less determined to arrive somewhere; more curious to discover new places along the way.

The title hints at design, but the album delights in unravelling rigidity. If a scheme is a plan, here it is a starting point rather than a set of orders. Structures are sketched lightly, leaving an ample margin for chance. The effect is playful without being restless. There is a subtle humour running through 'Schemes'. Less in the form of overt gestures, but in the mischief of its arrangements.

The trio of Thomas Klein (percussion, drums, found sounds), Alexander Paulick (fretless bass guitar) and Andreas Reihse (synthesisers, electronics, field recordings) set up in Berlin for the sessions – initially at Morphine Raum on the sideline of public performances. But the bulk of the recording took place more privately, at andereBaustelle. Here the group made good use of various instruments and objects discovered onsite – most notably a gigantic cuboid steel oil tank. 'Schemes' reflects this spontaneity, with the impulses developed primarily in situ.

Much of the album’s quality comes from the band’s embrace of ambient space. The result is music that feels generous rather than dense. Yet the ambient character of 'Schemes' does not imply stasis. There is movement everywhere, but it is subtle and multidirectional. Even at its most stoic moments, it never feels solemn. 'Schemes' reflects intentionality that is embedded in the fluidity of the music. It is heard in the balance of timbres and in the way disparate elements coexist. Precision remains, but here it is relaxed.

The plurality of the title is suggesting multiple approaches and various possibilities coexisting. Each composition proposes its own internal logic, its own small world. Some tracks hover in near-weightlessness, built from slowly shifting textures and delicate fragments. Others introduce a more defined rhythmic undercurrent, though even here the emphasis is on bounce rather than drive. The result is a record that shimmers with curiosity, balancing intention with improvisation, and finding joy in the disciplines of folding and unfolding.

The songs on 'Schemes' are like beads hanging on a string. Each one distinct, yet connected. Swinging in a warm breeze. Catching the light from different angles. And so we begin: 'Beads', with a funky stabby synth drives the song, which nonetheless maintains a hazy ambivalence. „Klove Twin“ begins with tiny bells emanating some foggy substance intoxicating the band into a mid tempo shuffle with some brash brush strokes. Scrap Metal might be the genre. 'Snowflakes' are enjoying a summer dance, layers of synth melodies intertwined. No one melts here. 'Bellboy'. Something is slightly off with this ace. The suit suits them, indeed, but I’ve heard rumours. 'The distance between you' is a dreamy love song of sorts, slightly melancholic, a longing going round in a ritornello like the protagonists do in L'Année dernière à Marienbad. 'Looming Large' is simply looming large, like a caterpillar on an upward spiral, based on a rhythmic sequence the other instruments care about only occasionally. 'Marble Upset' plays with our memory, activating recollections of present past, a slowed down rave, faint images, glimpses and gasps. 'Via de me', big city, nocturnal lights, an ambient pop take. It may be really quiet, still there are better things to do than to sleep. Leading to 'Fenix': Leo Garcia just happened to be in Berlin for a concert. The old friend from Buenos Aires built his euphoric vocal melody impromptu over a noisy urban field recording. The bird rising up out of the ashes, fighting the miseries, towards the light. It is a protest song of the unusual kind.The home stretch is 'Tar', where some cicadas continue in a similar spirit, tiny animals having a night on the tiles. The smell of tar in the sun, soft and deep black, in sharp contrast with the background of gently curved hills, pastel-coloured, asking what it takes to live peacefully together.

The cover artwork by Luzie Meyer mirrors this spirit: A dialogue of sorts, on a string, a psychoanalytic dance. Ideas clash, yet disputes are solved amicably.

TRACK LISTING

1. Beads
2. Klove Twin
3. Snowflakes
4. Bellboy
5. The Distance Between You
6. Looming Large
7. Marble Upset
8. Via Da Me
9. Fenix [with Leo Garcia]
10. Tar

OOIOO and Lightning Bolt are both bands whose music is wholly unique and whose creators’ influence would be impossible to overstate. 2 Epic OOIOO SONGS and 5 Blistering Lightning Bolt Songs ! YoshimiO, OOIOO’s founder and bandleader, has been a guiding force in uncompromising art across the continuum of rock and improvised music for four decades, from her work in UFO or Die to The Boredoms to SAICOBAB and beyond. OOIOO serves as a core outlet for melding freeform experimentalism with hypnotic rock pulses, defying boundaries with her acrobatic voice, electronics, trumpet and gamelan. Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson have remained unparalleled in their ability to transmute frenetic whirls of percussion, gargantuan fuzz and dizzying melody into monolithic vistas. 'THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL' is a split that captures the parallels in ethos between these two ensembles, their sense of gleeful abandon and freight train momentum, in inspiring detail. 'THE HORIZON SPIRALS', composed of OOIOO’s gamelan-infused sagas 'THE HORIZON' and 'Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL' demonstrates the boundless scope of OOIOO’s music. YoshimiO explains a core contrast between these pieces and 2014’s 'Gamel lays' in the physical materials used: “Back then in Bali, bronze-keyed gamelan were mainstream, and GAMEL uses bronze. THE HORIZON SPIRALS' gamelan is iron. Black-painted iron. This time, incorporating Koheysai's iron sound (iron gamelan) allowed us to see OOIOO's songs spiraling upward with greater lightness. Lightning Bolt’s 'THE HORIZON VIRAL' evokes the limitlessness of their improvisations and distills through more sophisticated home recording techniques. 'THE HORIZON VIRAL' reignites the flame of their storied home recordings, capturing the duo in full freeform, bolstered from bassist Brian Gibson’s experiences composing and recording soundtracks for video games he co-designed, Thrasher and Thumper.

TRACK LISTING

1. THE HORIZON
2. Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL
3. WAVERS
4. CLOUD CORE
5. THE RUNNERS 2
6. WOW 13
7. HEADLESS HORSEFOLK

Underscores announces her third album 'U', via Mom+Pop Music. A self titled album of sorts and the culmination of all her work to date, 'U' draws from the many eras of underscores’ creative trajectory, from dubstep and future bass to jazz chords and guitar driven maximalist pop, forming her most focused, emotionally charged and sharply defined statement yet. Featuring the singles 'Music', 'Do It', and 'Tell Me (U Want It)', 'U' further expands the intricate, high impact world she continues to build.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tell Me (U Want It)
2. Music
3. Hollywood Forever
4. The Peace
5. Innuendo (I Get U)
6. Lovefield
7. Do It
8. Bodyfeeling
9. Wish U Well

Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album 'Singin’ to an Empty Chair' is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one, vocalist Julia Steiner finds herself estranged from. The music on the band’s sixth studio album – its first for New West Records – fills the space that person left behind with 11 songs showcasing Ratboys at the peak of their powers — twangy, effervescent, as confident as they’ve ever been, and perhaps more emotionally interrogative than ever before. The four-piece Chicago band followed up 2023’s highly acclaimed 'The Window' by reconvening with co-producer Chris Walla to begin tracking at a rural Wisconsin cabin before taking the songs to Steve Albini’s famed Electrical Audio studios in Chicago and later to Rosebud Studio in Evanston, Illinois. The results veer from bubbly power-pop on 'Anywhere' to irresistible post-country on 'Penny in the Lake', along with heart-piercing ballads like 'Just Want You to Know the Truth' and an exhilarating detour into the extraterrestrial on 'Light Night Mountains All That', which Steiner dubs the band’s mammoth “wormhole jam". 'Singin’ to an Empty Chair' also marks the first Ratboys album written since Steiner began therapy, which the singer/lyricist credits for the clarity found across the album’s unflinching examinations of relationship and self. Fittingly, as the album begins by extending a hand into the void, it concludes with a scene of serenity – all while weaving candid honesty, humor, chaos, and whimsy along the way. “It's not all doom and gloom,” Steiner says. “The experience of making this record definitely gives me hope for whatever happens next.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Uplifting, poppy power punk that could easily have been one of the more bouncy acts on Fat Wreck Chords in the early 00's. Feel-good, melody rich punk.

TRACK LISTING

1. Open Up
2. Know You Then
3. Light Night Mountains All That
4. Anywhere
5. Penny In The Lake
6. Strange Love
7. The World, So Madly
8. Just Want You To Know The Truth
9. What’s Right?
10. Burn It Down
11. At Peace In The Hundred Acre Wood

The fringes of the desert have a way of changing a man, but the high-altitude chill of the Sierras will strip him down to his soul.

Following the gritty, neon-soaked introduction of his debut, Red Leather returns with his sophomore studio album, 'TAHOE'. If his first record was a desperate sprint through the dark alleys of the soul, 'TAHOE' is the cold morning after—a cinematic, sweeping exploration of isolation, clarity, and the jagged edges of recovery.

Named after the alpine lake that serves as both a sanctuary and a graveyard for secrets, the album navigates the duality of the landscape.

The songwriting dives deep into the "blue" period of his life—tackling themes of sobriety, the weight of sudden fame, and the ghosts of past versions of himself. It is an album about the silence that follows the storm, and the realization that the higher you climb, the thinner the air becomes.

TRACK LISTING

1. THE HARDEST CLIMB
2. THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY
3. BONNIE AND CLYDE
4. LAST CALL
5. SOS
6. GHOST TOWN
7. WISH YOU WERE HERE (FAR AWAY)
8. ANGEL'S SONG
9. MS. WHISKEY
10. LAKE OF THE SKY
11. LOSING MY RELIGION
12. GET OUT OF MY HEAD
13. RAISED BY WOLVES|
14. DIVINE INTERVENTION
15. THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK
16. BURY ME IN VEGAS

'GUSTO' is Boko Yout’s debut album – a kaleidoscopic journey through memory, trauma, humour and healing. Framed as a fictional therapy programme led by the eccentric Dr. Gusto, each track represents a confrontation with a different shadow of the self: unspoken fears, inherited burdens, or unresolved inner conflicts. But 'GUSTO' is not just about darkness – it’s also about hope, longing and the light that makes those shadows visible in the first place.

Boko Yout weaves together raw emotion, spiritual symbolism and bold experimentation. Referencing vodun philosophy, Jungian archetypes and post-genre production, they draws inspiration from artists like Yves Tumor, Odd Future and LCD Soundsystem. The result is a debut that feels more like a sonic manifesto – driven by love, intention and a deep commitment to artistic freedom.

TRACK LISTING

1. Volleyball
2. Ignored
3. 9-2-5
4. Boyfriend
5. Demolition Man
6. Shift
7. Gusto
8. Imagine
9. In The Dark
10. Shadow Work
11. Enemy
12. Beast
13. Gimmie Love

Glass Modern is very proud to present the debut album by Radhika Meera Dade. 'Cine-Pop' is a collection of songs that flow gently and easily in and out of each other - a suite, a short film, everything an album should be. Coming in at 33.3 minutes, it’s the perfect length for an album, it doesn’t short change you, it doesn’t stay too long - it’s designed to be played in one sitting. It’s like being in a friend’s house and noticing the things that are most important in their life - objects, family portraits, records, musical equipment, their curated accumulation. It reflects so many things - culture, community, fandom and the incredible bond between Radhika and her father, Sushil, the Future Pilot AKA. The record spans generations and continents but its home is always Radhika and the family jams she made with Sushil in various garages, bedrooms and garden dens - her soaring voice and love of all kinds of music from Bollywood to Goth Pop to The Glasgow School. The songs are collected from memory and the immediacy of time - one goes all the way back to her 10 year old self penning 'Future Me', an eco anthem. In different moments other musicians appear - most notably key collaborator, Eric MacDonald, on hazy synth and keys, and Radhika’s mother Vinita, who has a gorgeous voice too. The Glasgow School is very present - Mitch Mitchell (The Pastels) , Gerard Love (Lightships/ ex-Teenage Fanclub) and Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura) all bring their casual magic to the table. 'Cine-Pop', mostly made in Glasgow at La Chunky Studio with the excellent Colin McGeogh (who also contributes flute, keys and electronics) is a one-off. It’s unrepeatable - there, gone. It’s the world through the eyes of a dazzling young Indo-Scottish woman. Everything she is has gone into it, is part of it and is there for a reason. Following on from the first single, 'Starry Eyes', which was played multiple times on BBC 6Music and other stations, other singles to be released from the album include 'Feline Bandits' plus a version of the Strawberry Switchblade classic 'Since Yesterday'. Radhika will also be collaborating with Glasgow-based film maker, Laura Meek, on promos and the plan is to play live throughout the year.

TRACK LISTING

1. Theme From R.A.D.H.I.K.A (For David Lynch) Ft Mitch Mitchell
2. Feline Bandits Ft Mitch Mitchell
3. Starry Eyes Ft Gerry Love & Mitch Mitchell
4. Sleep W/ Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura)
5. Tum Hi Ho Ft Vinita Dade
6. Intermission Theme (Slight Return)
7. Since Yesterday W/Mitch Mitchell/Tracyanne Campbell
8. Cocoa Butter Eyes
9. Future Me
10. Theme From R.A.D.H.I.K.A (For Lalo & Laeticia)
11. Nowhere Near Ft Gerry Love & Tracyanne Campbell
12. (Secret Track)

‘Bad Wiring’ by Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage, originally released in 2019 and long ago sold out, is re-released in UK/Europe on Blang Records. Recorded in Nashville by Roger Moutenot (Lou Reed, Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinny) the album blends raw lo-fi garage-punk with acoustic interludes. His trademark literate lyrics, moving between the poignant and the hilarious, shift from personal anxieties to existential dread (often in the same song eg, ‘My Girlfriend Doesn't Worry'), record stores ('LPs') and under-appreciated artists ('Exactly What Nobody Wanted'). The album was greeted with widespread acclaim in 2019 with many reviewers declaring it his best yet.

TRACK LISTING

1. Exactly What Nobody Wanted
2. Except For The Fact That It Isn't
3. My Girlfriend Doesn't Worry
4. Depression! Despair!
5. Till Question Marks Are Told
6. LPs
7. Knucklehead/Happy Rain
8. Take It For Granted
9. In Certain Orders
10. Where Is The Machine
11. Dogs Of My Neighborhood
12. Not Supposed To Be Wise

'The End is Not the End' is undeniably Atreyu’s heaviest album ever and their most adventurous. “We realized what made Atreyu great in the beginning was that we didn’t sound like anyone else,” frontman Brandon Saller explains. “We didn’t really make sense anywhere. We weren’t an emo band, a metal band, a punk band — but somehow it all worked. We kind of just carved our own path.”

Produced by Matt Pauling, Atreyu’s tenth album is vibrant, inventive, and beautifully aggressive. “It’s our heaviest, most metal record we’ve made,” Saller points out. “But it’s also the biggest musical journey we’ve taken in years.”

TRACK LISTING

1. The End Is Not The End
2. Dead
3. Break Me
4. All For You
5. Ghost In Me
6. Glass Eater
7. Wait My Love, I’ll Be Home
8. Ego Death
9. Death Rattle
10. Children Of Light
11. In The Dark
12. Afterglow
13. Break The Glass

Following the critically acclaimed release of 'Asphodels' in 2025, The Veils return with a bold and invigorated new album, 'Fragile World'.

Arriving just over a year after their last release, 'Fragile World' marks a striking shift in tone and energy for the band.

Recorded live to tape in New Zealand by Paddy Hill, with production by Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, The Chills, Folk Bitch Trio), Fragile World captures The Veils in an urgent and instinctive mode.

The album's title is both a reflection of the present moment - a time in which many institutions appear to be crumbling before our eyes - and a metaphor for the act of creation itself. The process of making music, Andrews notes, is a delicate and fragile undertaking where thousands of small decisions gradually coalesce into a finished whole.

"We went into the studio with a lot of songs, but very little idea of the arrangements or instrumentation. It was truly exciting having no idea what this record would sound like and only a few weeks to figure it out. It's mostly Tom and I playing everything, with Joseph McCallum coming in at times. It was all very instinctual, quite full-on, and scary at times - but a good kind of scary, not scary like the real world out there."

With its immediacy, intensity, and emotional clarity, 'Fragile World' stands as one of The Veils' most compelling releases to date.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aurora 
2. High Hopes 
3. Lungs 
4. Are You Awake Tonight? 
5. New Day 
6. Little White Bird (Fragile World)
7. The Widening Dark
8. My Foolish Heart
9. These Are The Days
10. In This Heart

British alt-rock favourites A return with 'PRANG', their first studio album in over 20 years. Sparked by the effervescent lead single 'Hello Sunshine', the album finds the band rediscovering their identity with the carefree spirit and stylish sloppiness that defined their early days.

Written and recorded free from expectation or pressure, 'PRANG' is a vibrant, hook-laden reaffirmation of A’s enduring appeal - balancing punchy, riff-driven anthems with heartfelt, soul-baring moments. Frontman Jason Perry, now a Grammy Award-winning producer known for his work with Don Broco, McFly and Kids In Glass Houses, helms production to preserve the band’s DIY ethos and singular personality.

Lyrically, 'PRANG' is A’s most open and reflective work to date. Drawing on two decades of life experience, Perry explores gratitude, resilience, mental health and friendship with warmth and disarming honesty. The result is an album that feels both nostalgic and strikingly modern - each track its own colourful island, yet unmistakably A.

Twenty years in the making, 'PRANG' is more than a comeback; it’s a rebirth. Cathartic, melodic and life-affirming, it marks a bold new chapter for one of Britain’s most beloved rock bands.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hello Sunshine
2. Walkover
3. Bring On The Likes
4. Shit Summer
5. All In
6. Techno Viking
7. Kings Of Lowestoft
8. Comment Leaver
9. Back To The Shop
10. Lifeline

As a child—this would have been sometime in the mid-1970s—Terry and Jo Harvey Allen’s son Bale assembled in the front yard of their Fresno home a curious device, an elaborate congeries of crucifixes and mirrors suspended in deadfall. It was, the fledgling artist patiently explained to his bemused parents, a vampire trap. Half a century later, 'Blood Sucking Maniacs', the record by the eponymous Allen family band, resembles, in its own manner—that is, unwieldy and convoluted, ardent and hammy, slightly deranged—a vampire trap in both construction and intent. A bricolage of potent symbols and spare parts, wary of the eternal, at once affectionate and defensive, vulnerable and dangerous, fiercely protective of past and future wounds. In other words, a family—or a mechanism for one specific family to write (and interpret) itself. These maniacs, ten kin, span five generations and 121 years. In order of descending seniority: Pauline Allen, Terry’s hellraising, barrelhouse piano-playing mother, who died in 1984 but joins the party through a transmission from beyond the grave; Jo Harvey and Terry, the matriarch and patriarch, who, separately and together, inhabit myriad artistic endeavors; Bukka, their firstborn, an accomplished songwriter and studio and touring musician; Bale, their younger son, an equally accomplished visual artist, gallerist, and drummer; their three grandsons, Sled (a drummer, entrepreneur, and fisherman; see the “some like to fish” lyric in theme song 'Blood Sucking Maniacs') and Calder (another songwriter, musician, and fisherman), Bale’s two boys, and Bukka’s son Kru (a piano-playing football star); their granddaughter-in-law Sophie (music industry executive and mother), and finally, Sled and Sophie’s baby boy, Lucky Marlo, Terry and Jo Harvey’s first great-grandchild, whose fetal heartbeat opens and closes the record with the actual (ultra)sound of coursing Allen blood. Terry has designated four additional official Maniacs, surrogate family members adopted into the Allen family fold: Richard Bowden and Lloyd Maines (credited as the “Blood Brothers”), the benevolent bedrock of the Panhandle Mystery Band since the first day of recording Lubbock (on everything) in the summer of 1978, and real-life brothers Charlie Sexton and Will Sexton (the “Bastard Children”), who, between them, have collaborated with the Allens and just about anybody else you can imagine. Though their bloodlines are, genetically speaking, different, these maniacs have drunk deeply of Allen blood, and their sympathetic playing elevates these recordings.

The songs collected herein are miscellaneous and multiplex, comprising heartrending ballads and arch in-jokes on a spectrum from sublime to unabashedly sentimental, mordant to doting. These contradictory qualities, too, are redolent of family. The unifying principle here is not so much blood harmony as blood entropy. It’s all one thing,” Terry has often said, when confronted by confused critics, of his multidisciplinary practice, which embraces music, art, writing, and theater. The same formula applies to the Allens’ conception of art and family—it’s all one thing, or it can be. Notwithstanding the popular misconceptions about the romantic life of the hermitic artist and his hermetic art, family need not be an inconvenience or impediment to sidestep on the path to artistic fulfillment or career success (whatever those two absurd, abstract metrics might mean). Art and family need not present separate or parallel conditions and experiences but can, as in 'Bloodlines', the reprised title track of Terry’s 1983 album, flow together in confluence. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen) / Barrelhouse (Pauline Allen)
2. Blood Sucking Maniacs
3. Bloodlines
4. Peaches And Sap
5. A Pogo Is A Logo 
6. Dirt Road 
7. Down To The River
8. Kru Jam 
9. Just Pray 
10. Let It All In 
11. Little Baby Boy
12. Mahalabalapurem-poppa-oo-maumau 
13. Blues (Pauline Allen)
14. No Rush To Fly
15. Red Leg Boy
16. Santa Fe
17. Arroyo Nights
18. These Four Rocks / Shuck Some Corn (Jo Harvey Allen)
19. When Things Go Wrong 
20. Kru Jam 2
21. Where We Belong
22. Family Tree / Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen)

The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun -- to hear, to play -- in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.

Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) -- and sometimes in the building's cavernous stairwell at 1am -- toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone, the first time they’d written together in such a way. The following February, The Beths left the country for the first time in more than two years to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road. That latter half felt more collaborative, with everyone on-hand to trade notes in real time, until it all culminated in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.

Expert is an extension of the same skuzzy palette the band has built across their catalog, pop hooks embedded in incisive indie rock. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”

The rest is a capsule of The Beths’ most electrifying and exciting output, a sonic spectrum: “Your Side” is a forlorn and sincere love song, emotive; while “Silence is Golden,” with its propulsive drum line and stop-start staccato of a guitar line winding up and down, is one of the band’s sharpest and most driving. “When You Know You Know” skews a bit groovier, pure pop and a natural addition to the band’s live set. “Knees Deep” was written last minute, but yields one of the best guitar lines on Expert. There’s a certain chaos across the 12 tracks, the palpable joy of playing music with long-time friends colliding with the raw nerves of pain.

Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and self-effacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? And are we still good people at the end of it? She isn’t interested in villains, but instead interested in just telling the story. That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish - instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Expert In A Dying Field
2. Knees Deep
3. Silence Is Golden
4. Your Side
5. I Want To Listen
6. Head In The Clouds
7. Best Left
8. Change In The Weather
9. When You Know You Know
10. A Passing Rain
11. I Told You That I Was Afraid
12. 2am

Saturdays At Your Place is an alt-emo band from Kalamazoo, Michigan. 'Always Cloudy' is the band's fan-favorite 2023 EP, now available for the first time on Wax Bodega. The EP features their hit #1 streaming song, 'Tarot Cards'. The band is quickly becoming a household name in the emo scene, their sound consisting of both heavy and twinkly guitar parts, group vocals and heart on sleeve lyrics.

TRACK LISTING

1. Future
2. Fetch
3. Tarot Cards
4. Hospital Bed
5. It's Always Cloudy In Kalamazoo
6. Eat Me Alive

'Everything Seems Better Now' is the debut record from Los Angeles emo-punk band Vs Self. Vs Self has built a following within California DIY, and 'Everything Seems Better Now' blew them onto the scene across the US, with top tracks 'Homesick', 'Leave Everything', and 'Yesterday By Beatles Or: Imagine By Y oko Ono As Sung By John Lennon'. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Homesick
2. Waves
3. Promise
4. Heartache
5. Leave Everything
6. Desert
7. Worthless
8. Yesterday By The Beatles Or: Imagine By Yoko Ono
As Performed By John Lennon
9. Leave Everything
10. Ti Esrever
11. Still
12. Wake
13. Mourn

Second solo album from Simon Bromide and friends. South London singer-songwriter Simon Bromide returns with a new album 'Forest Mountain Forest', continuing on from 2021’s highly praised 'Following the Moon'.

This time there’s a new moniker - Simon Bromide & The Bromides to reflect a more established band lineup for the recording, with Ed ‘Cosmo’ Wright returning for bass duty, Sam Kelly on drums (son of famous 60s ‘blueser’ Dave Kelly), Ollie Parfitt on keys and Simon on acoustic & electric guitars. Brian O‘Shaughnessy (Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Denim & Beth Orton) was once again on production duties at Bark Studios. The name might have changed but the touchpoints are similar – Teenage Fanclub / Big Star, The Bevis Frond, Silver Jews & Mark Eitzel. 'Forest Mountain Forest' is essentially another of Simon's fanboy scrapbooks. “Ever since I saw a black & white image of The Beatles on my mum’s tv in 1976 I’ve been hooked by this thing called pop music” explains Simon, “I’ve been devoured by it. It informs pretty much every moment of every waking day in one way or another and writing & performing songs has become a lifelong pursuit”.

TRACK LISTING

1. Leonard's Chair
2. Forest Mountain Forest
3. Sing To Forget
4. Jean-Luc Godard Directs
5. Clouds
6. Not Over Ye
7. Carlito's Way
8. Song For Elon Musk
9. Eventide
10. We're All Here

Celebrating 20 years of 'Show Your Bones', the album has been selected as a RSD Essentials title and is newly pressed on magenta, yellow & purple vinyl in similar effect as the cover art.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gold Lion
2. Way Out
3. Fancy
4. Phenomena
5. Honeybear
6. Cheated Hearts
7. Dudley
8. Mysteries
9. The Sweets
10. Warrior
11. Turn Into

The first official vinyl repressing from American Recordings of Danzig's second album since its initial release in 1990. Tracks include 'Her Black Wings' and 'Devil's Plaything'. LP package includes standard LP jacket, printed sleeves and black, standard weight vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Long Way Back From Hell
2. Snakes Of Christ
3. Killer Wolf
4. Tired Of Being Alive
5. I'm The One
6. Her Black Wings
7. Devil's Plaything
8. 777
9. Blood And Tears
10. Girl
11. Pain In The World

The first official vinyl repressing from American Recordings of Danzig's debut solo album since its initial release in 1988. Tracks include 'Mother' and 'Twist of Cain'. LP package includes gatefold jacket, printed sleeves and black, standard weight vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Twist Of Cain
2. Not Of This World
3. She Rides
4. Soul On Fire
5. Am I Demon
6. Mother
7. Possession
8. End Of Time
9. The Hunter
10. Evil Thing

20 years after its self-titled debut, Glissandro 70’s follow-up straddles the Album and Archive. Comprised of a decade’s worth of recordings that were abandoned, lost in a hard drive mishap, recovered in the form of rough stereo mixes, reappraised with the balm of time, and restored/augmented/enhanced, they are finally seeing the light of day. Glissandro 70’s beguiling mechanics are best understood through the dissonance of the duo’s respective approaches as solo artists/bandleaders. Craig Dunsmuir, human music encyclopedia and 20-year veteran of Toronto record store, leads the Dun-Dun Band, a group that mines the ferment of three towering Fs (Fela, Philip, Pharaoh).

While inspired by math-rock, Dunsmuir’s scrumptious G70 riffs don’t aestheticize complexity or pester the listener into noting they’re in 13/8. Rather, rhythm materializes as a mere fact of the riff, sharing more with afrobeat, one of Dunsmuir’s other wells of inspiration. Sandro Perri, the consummate studio dog, might be Toronto’s own Caetano Veloso, crafting loose, sprawling songs of quixotic beauty whose textural virtuosity and joy in repetition refashions pop music into sound sculpture. Together, they’re each other’s perfect foils, and Glissandro 70 is also informed by the intersection of their respective leftfield electronic projects, Kanada 70 and Off World. On G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa, Dunsmuir plays the role of “riff referee”, while Perri assumes the mantle of jester, destabilizing the “obstinate ostinatos” with his signature textural tics, editing, and dubby interjections.

Back in 2016, Dunsmuir emailed Perri, asking to meet for a drink. Perri told him it was a good idea as there was something he needed to tell him. At the bar, Dunsmuir dropped a bomb: those recordings they’d worked on over the past few years, well, he’d gotten cold feet and wanted to shelve them. Perri then dropped a bomb of his own: he’d accidentally deleted those very same recordings during a computer upgrade. Perri eventually discovered rough stereo mixes on another drive. When the lockdowns hit, he began poring through his old recordings, though it wasn’t until 2024 that he re-listened to the mixes.

“The aging process flattered it. And so it was like, maybe it's time to try and do something with this.” Dunsmuir was on board and the two set about readying the material for release.

Opening in familiar territory with an expansive workout of Arthur Russell’s “Lucky Cloud”, Dunsmuir trades the original’s murk for an achingly vulnerable vocal that sits between Rick White and Lou Barlow. Trombonist and Russell collaborator Peter Zummo lends a beautiful, elegiac accompaniment. By the second track, the oceans of sound are dammed in such a manner that the escaping drip-drops land like strummed elastic bands held taut.
As the album’s middle section proceeds, G70’s many departures from their debut come into focus. Where riffs once roamed free, these tracks relish their comparative brevity.

Frequently there aren’t riffs at all, owing to Dunsmuir’s burgeoning interest in the Roland Handsonic drum pad, which he works into a lather of jagged angles funnelled through Perri’s alluring mutations. Darkness occasionally rears its head, notably on the menacing “Aquatint”, where Dunsmuir draws from his interest in early-2010s post-dubstep. Only on the album’s closer do they again glance astern, with Dan Bodan’s remixing of their debut’s most enduring earworm into something of a pulsing froth—a 6am comedown for pendulous dancefloors.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lucky Cloud (ft. Peter Zummo)
2. Jackpot Pothole Eleven
3. Tomber
4. Aquatint
5. Pad Tide
6. Vila Inerane
7. Howler Hiccup (VC-10 Eternal Selectric)
8. I'm Honkin' Here
9. Five Five Three (ft. Jeremy Strachan)
10. Five Three Three (ft. Ryan Driver)
11. You The Vandal
12. Bolan Muppets (Dan Bodan Remix)

There is a kinetic energy that binds drummer and producer Karriem Riggins and singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer Liv.e, the spark that happens when instinct meets flow and spirit finds rhythm.

Their collaborative debut as GENA (short for “God Energy, Naturally Amazing,” and loosely inspired by Gina from Martin), 'The Pleasure Is Yours' feels like a playful, soulful conversation between two kindred improvisers: Liv.e’s smoky, unpolished vocals glide through Riggins’ warm, percussive universe. Rooted in jazz, soul, and hip-hop, Liv.e brings a raw, experimental approach to R&B, while Riggins known for his work with Common, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Madlib, and his close kinship with J Dilla, extends his lifelong dialogue between jazz improvisation and beat science.

Together they create a world that’s analog and ethereal, percussive and poetic, bridging eras without settling in one, the sound of two artists finding a new shared language rooted in rhythm, vulnerability, and exuberance.

TRACK LISTING

1. Who's Got A Problem With Gena
2. Theybetterbegladihavetherapy
3. Left The Club Like "Really Nigga!"
4. You've Outdone Yourself Today
5. Unspoken
6. TGD
7. Readymade
8. Douwannabwihtastar
9. This Is So Crazy
10. Lead It Up
11. Howwefl
12. Doobie Doo Wew
13. Circlez
14. Dream A Twinkle
15. Thatsmyluvr
16. Omo Iya Ati Baba

Beloved indie rock heroes follow-up to last year’s critical smash 'Thick Rich And Delicious' (album #44 for those keeping count!).

TRACK LISTING

1. Lost In The Sun
2. Out With A Theory
3. One Last Blow
4. We Outlast Them All
5. A Grand Ceremonial Jester
6. Dagon’s Plunger
7. Advance Without Dropping
8. No Shoe Fits (Floating Babies)
9. Arthur Square
10. Landscaping
11. (How Would You Like A) Chariot Ride
12. When You’re My Clown (Nothing Happens)

Acclaimed composer and pianist Poppy Ackroyd returns with ‘Liminal’. Written and recorded during a period of profound upheaval and transition, it marks a return to the core of Ackroyd’s practice, bringing piano and violin back together. 

For the first time since 2019’s ‘Feathers’, Ackroyd reunites these two instruments exclusively, with every sound on the album drawn from piano and violin alone. Melody, harmony, rhythm and texture are all extracted from the physical bodies of the instruments themselves, from bowed and plucked strings to percussive elements. Working within these limitations remains central to her creative process.

TRACK LISTING

1. In The Mist
2. Shimmer
3. Continuum
4. For Those Who Wait
5. The Unknown
6. Drift
7. Weightless
8. Between Two Worlds

Sophomore, self-titled album from Michigan based seven-piece band, Racing Mount Pleasant, formerly known as Kingfisher. Emotional, transcendental, and lush.

TRACK LISTING

1. Your New Place
2. Tenspeed (Shallows)
3. Heavy Red
4. Emily
5. Seminary
6. You
7. You Pt. 2
8. Racing Mount Pleasant
9. Call It Easy
10. Outlast
11. 34th Floor
12. Seyburn
13. Your Old Place

'It's Just My Opinion' is a sharp, cohesive album that is rooted in who Girli always been. Growing up in North London, she absorbed the chaos and hooks of the indie sleaze scene, and now she channels that restless energy into songs that feel alive, pulsing like a sweaty gig in Camden or Shoreditch. It's classic girli alt-pop -- nostalgic, chaotic, and fearless, but sharpened with a bold new edge.

Girli has been teasing the new era since the end of 2025, sharing 'Better Undressed' and the powerful recent single 'Slap on the Wrist'. Known for her shimmering, highconcept production and fearless commentary, girli now pivots toward a more grounded, girl-next- door energy, trading gloss for grit, and polish for raw, intimate expression.

Since emerging with her breakthrough sophomore album, 'Matriarchy', Girli has carved a space in the alternative scene for bold, boundary-pushing storytelling. Her ability to merge pop essence with underground energy has earned her a tight- knit and dedicated fanbase.

As an openly LGBTQ+ artist and advocate for social change, Girli continues to intertwine her personal journey with broader cultural conversations. Her past work has touched on themes of identity, politics, mental health, and more - and this new chapter builds on that same spirit of activism, but through a softer, more human lens.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blue Sky
2. Slap On The Wrist
3. Pedestal
4. Don't Make Me Cry 
5. Bones
6. Lifestyle
7. Romantic Sadness
8. Squirm
9. Light In The Dark
10. Traces
11. Better Undressed
12.The Answer

With her third album, composer and bandleader Jasmine Myra has stepped confidently into the next stage of her unique musical explorations. 'Where Light Settles' is a cohesive artistic statement from a distinctive and confident voice in UK music, and a significant evolution from the critically acclaimed 'Horizons' (2022) and 'Rising' (2024).

Nine beautiful and powerfully grounded compositions express an accumulation of the artist’s ruminations on life, growth, and progression, powered by her vision of duality. “It’s those bittersweet moments which are heart-breaking but so important. Looking forward and trying to make sense of life,” she says. “Pain is unavoidable, and you’ll have hardship no matter what, but you don’t grow or learn about yourself or the world around you without it. The duality is the growth and coming out the other side. I had the concept from the start.”

Jasmine Myra’s verdant musical vision and talent for instrumental storytelling came to life over five days, with her long-standing ensemble gathering in one room at The Nave studios in Leeds.

Myra had crossed paths with Ancient Infinity Orchestra bandleader Ozzy Moysey before she moved from Leeds to London, often attending and playing at the same jam sessions. This made him the perfect choice to conduct the 13-piece band, freeing her up to bring maximum tenderness and elegiac tones to the alto sax lines she’d written. Her own playing sits deliberately within each track, never flying above. Instead, it wraps gently around precision melodies she wrote for strings, piano, flute, guitar, vibraphone, and harp which themselves furl and unfurl gorgeously around tenor sax, double bass, drums, and percussion. It’s a huge undertaking, executed with resolute confidence, and melodies that sparkle like sunlight on water.

As well as writing all the music, 'Where Light Settles' is also her first self- produced record, with Gondwana label boss Matthew Halsall undertaking Contributing Producer duties. It’s a colourful sound world, shaped in both atmosphere and structure by Myra’s affinity with music for film.

Behind the notes and staves there’s also Myra’s love of nature, specifically regular trips to North Wales, the Lake District, and the South Downs. “I just love those landscapes. It’s the duality: nature can be brutal but beautiful and I love that juxtaposition.” And of course, existing musical influences that range from Fabiano do Nascimento to Arooj Aftab and Alabaster Deplume.

“'Where Light Settles' is a metaphor for hope, and for me, it’s the perfect title for this album, which we recorded together, in person. It communicates the energy and the meaning behind it – and it ties in with the theme of duality.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Opening
2. Reflections
3. Likeness & Shadow
4. Some Rain Must Fall
5. Echo
6. Breath
7. Fragments
8. In An Instant
9. Where Light Settles

Scruniversal never misses, no matter what he takes aim at, be it disco, jazz, funk or whatever else. Here, label head Scru's friends are assembled to edit and remix a fine pair of jams. The first is a curious one that marries clary 80s electro and hip-hop with a hint of Latin percussion and jungle bird calls, filtered spoken word and a taught bass twang. It's body popping bait at a slow, inviting tempo. Martem & Ferdi Ferreira then step up with 'Chumba Lala,' which has muscular analogue drums and grinding bass, snappy hits and old school house chords that all add up to a colourful wedge of playful, rigid proto-breaks funk.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
Tony Lavrutz & Los Protos - "Samba Du Adidas"

Side 2:
Martem & Ferdi Ferreira - "Chumba Lala"

Fully seasoned Italian techno architect Claudio PRC loves Lee "Scratch" Perry and more electronic-leaning deep smiths such as Chain Reaction and Basic Channel who have influenced him over the years and now bring those vibes to the fore. 'Submerged' is immediately horizontal and glacial in pace, with pads that are just and pure and an energy that is impossibly cathartic. The Version on the flip drops in some gentle drums that bring a soft forward momentum. Two lovely excursions.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
Submerged

Side 2:
Submerged (Version)

Released on 7th November 2025 - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party was a standout album last year and puts Hayley Williams’ full range on display. “Mirtazapine” is a late-’90s alt-rock love letter to antidepressants, while on “Glum,” she subverts her own voice - using vocal presets to striking effect as the track meditates on loneliness. Other standouts include “Whim,” an easy Americana earworm with a songwriting backbone that nods to her Nashville roots, and “Ice in My OJ,” a thoroughly modern track that pairs sharp production with some of Williams’ most biting and humorous lyrics to date.

Long-time Paramore fans may quickly recognize the “Ice In My OJ” chorus, as it was first sung by Williams in 2004 on “Jumping Inside” by the Mammoth City Messengers. But perhaps all of her talents converge most impactfully on the album’s only previously unreleased track, “Parachute.” It’s a reminder of Williams ability to strike right at the heart, with not only her confessional lyrics, but her unmatched delivery. The album captures all the dynamism Williams has shown throughout her career and collaborations. At its core, these songs are the work of a supremely gifted artist with a voracious, genre-defying appetite for music and creative exploration.

These songs come as the third batch of work released from Williams as a solo artist. The COVID-era saw her release two extraordinary albums – 2020’s Petals For Armor and 2021’s Flowers for Vases. Both albums were gorgeous and stark meditations on loss and offered up a contrast to the high-energy and up-tempo muscle she displays in Paramore. “The record—epitomizing vulnerability and transformative growth—reveals a more mature and introspective side of Williams,” said Pitchfork of Petals, and went on to say of Flowers “her voice is undoubtedly the standout feature… husky and gentle, dangerous yet warm,” and explained that the minimal production “makes this a purposeful reset.”

Hayley Williams is a 3x GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter and musician best known for her role as the frontperson of legendary rock band Paramore. With her incredible range and delivery, Billboard ranked her at #13 on their list of 50 Greatest Rock Singers of All Times saying, “when it comes to singers in contemporary rock, Hayley Williams reigns supreme.” Frequently listed as a source of inspiration from contemporary performers as varied as Chappell Roan, Doechii and Billie Eilish – she’s also appeared on a wide variety of albums and singles as a collaborator and guest vocalist including Turnstile’s latest “Seein’ Stars”, Moses Sumney’s “I Like It I Like It,” and Taylor Swift’s “Castles Crumbling.” Swift went on to have Paramore open the first ever The Eras Tour show that debuted in Arizona and later they went on to open all dates on the European leg of her world tour.

At just 16 she brought the band to the masses with the release of their album All We Know Is Falling which was certified Gold and just celebrated its 20 year anniversary last week. The band’s breakthrough came with 2007’s Riot!, powered by the success of the 6X certified platinum single “Misery Business.” In 2009, Brand New Eyes solidified their place in the rock landscape. Paramore’s self-titled 2013 album marked a commercial and critical peak, with the platinum single “Ain’t It Fun” earning Paramore their first Grammy win for ‘Best Rock Song’ in 2015 and further nominations for ‘Best Rock Album.’ 2017’s After Laughter introduced a polished, ‘pop-influenced sound that continued to attract acclaim with the breakout single “Hard Times.” After a long hiatus, in 2023, they returned with This Is Why, a full grown, alternative-leaning record that earned the band two Grammy wins for ‘Best Alternative Song’ and ‘Best Rock Album’ making Paramore the first female-fronted rock band to ever win the category in its 31-year history. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Ice In My OJ
2. Glum
3. Kill Me
4. Whim
5. Mirtazapine

Side B
6. Disappearing Man
7. Love Me Different
8. Brotherly Hate
9. Negative Self Talk
10. Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

Side C
11. Hard
12. Discovery Channel
13. True Believer
14. Zissou
15. Dream Girl In Shibuya

Side D
16. Blood Bros
17. I Won’t Quit On You
18. Parachute
19. Good Ol’ Days
20. Showbiz

Pleased As Punch presents four tracks from the many shades of house. Groove P featuring Adeva's 'Hold On Honey' opens with a steady groove and bass he's known for, while vocals from Adeva carry you through the track. A2 follows with Saison's 'Keep My Mind'; a deeper, tougher sound they sometimes bring. Fresco Edits' 'You Are the One' adds classic disco flavour that brings warmth to the EP, while Capri's 'Sax Thing' closes with raw, sax-driven energy. Simple, solid tracks made to resonate.

TRACK LISTING

Groove P - Hold On Honey (feat Adeva)
Saison - Keep My Mind
Fresco Edits - You Are The One
Capri - Sax Thing

A collection that balances soulful vibes with a modern edge. Saison's "Can't Get Through" opens with deep textures and a classic house swing, while Piem, Saison & Kid Enigma's "Don't Stop" injects vocal fire and raw energy into the A-side. Flipping over, Matt Gillespie's "Need You Now" layers warmth and urgency into his take on the classic garage sound. Closing the record, Scott Diaz & Miss Yankey's "Intergalactic (Alternate Rub)" ventures into more garage territory with its atmospheric pull and soulful chords. A versatile package that brings together established names and rising voices in perfect balance.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
Saison - "Can't Get Through"
Piem, Season, Kid Enigma - "Don't Stop"

Side 2:
Matt Gillespie - "Need You Now"
Scott Diaz & Miss Yankey - "Intergalactic" (Alternate Rub)

Perfect Imperfection is the first studio album from Eric Cantona. Music sits alongside his work in theatre, cinema, poetry, painting and photography as an essential outlet for expression. The album features eleven songs written and composed by Cantona (with ‘Avoir le choix’ and ‘Perfect Imperfection’ co-written with Johan Dalgaard, and ‘Droigts’ composed by Gaëtan Roussel). 

TRACK LISTING

Avoir Le Choix
On Se Love
Let's Hope
Perfect Imperfection
Droigts
Les Dechirures
We'll Believe In Ourselves
Que Je Travestis
We Drive
Of The Sun
A La Gorge Des Loups

The Coyote-affiliated Magic Wand wafts its mercurial charm over a series of mega-useful and equally effective edits, 4 new heavyweight reworks from Secret Soul Society, Robot 84, Ali Renault and Craig Bratley. Robot 84 kicks off with a slow, cyborg-infused and digitally finished dub of a Prince classic and Ali Renault brings sugary synth charm to 'Indovina Key'. Bratley himself then steps up with the whacked out piano house of 'PNO', a slow jam with oversized impact. 'Song To The Hills' gets a Secret Soul Society mix that's infused with subtle psychedelic charm and fresh disco chug.

TRACK LISTING

Sign Of The Dub
To Sleep
PNO
Song To The Hills

A veteran touch meets fresh intent on this pair of cuts for CA, where decades of experience translate into effortless groove. Best known as part of Sugar Ray, American DJ, musician, rapper, singer, record producer and radio personality DJ Homicide_ shows his range here with two confident, club-ready jams. 'Wild Mary' leans into a smooth 90s hip-hop and r&b feel, all creamy vocals and soft-focus chords riding an easy swing. Flip it over and 'Get Up Steez' digs deeper into early hip-hop attitude, driven by tougher drums, crunchy low end and soaring falsetto hooks.

TRACK LISTING

Wild Mary
Get Up Steez

Berlin-based disco don Tobi Schwermann aka Jack Tennis strides into his tenth year making music with a seance on his Art Groupie label. 'Billy's Family' is a heart-sweeping disco sound with sweeping Philly strings and neat guitar lines, golden chords and a nice plump mid-tempo rhythm. 'Lonely Streets' channels Bill Withers gritty soul and moody basslines into an infectious groove, then 'Some Kind Of A Lady' gets lips pouted and hands in the air with unrestrained disco joy. 'VO' closes with a rich ecosystem of whistles, organic percussive sounds and a strident electronic groove with fiery Latin vocals. Eclectic excellence once more.

TRACK LISTING

Billy's Family
Lonely Streets
Some Kind Of A Lady
VO

'David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf' (1978) is a classical music album containing David Bowie's narration of Sergei Prokofiev's 1936 composition Peter And The Wolf. The music is performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy and the album reached number 136 on the US Pop Albums chart. Critics lauded the album, saying Bowie ‘found his most charming guise since Hunky Dory.’ He tells the well-known fable with his usual eloquence and style, and gives instructions at the beginning for kids to understand how the music corresponds to characters in the story. The accompaniment from the Philadelphia Orchestra is first rate. The Music On Vinyl re-release includes detailed liner notes on the project by Mary Campbell, specifically geared to "introduce children to the sounds of the individual instruments in the symphony orchestra." Both Prokofiev and Britten wrote their respective pieces with this aim in mind.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Peter And The Wolf, Op. 65 (A Musical Tale For Children)

SIDE B
1. Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra, Op. 34

The debut LP from Liverpool band the Wild Swans finally gets a re-release. Originally released in 1988, it's an absolutely beautiful record full of jangling guitars and pounding drums, topped with Paul Simpson's melancholic vocals.

Despite being signed to Sire Records by Seymour Stein, they never received the same acclaim as some of their Liverpudlian contemporaries, which is a perplexing as this LP has all the hallmarks of Liverpool at that time along with some great songwriting. It's an album full of melancholy and hope and still sounds absolutely wonderful 30 odd years later.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Absolutely glorious record showcasing Liverpool legend Paul Simpson's brilliant song writing in tandem with that beautifully romantic Liverpool sound so redolent of the early 80's. Maybe the fact this debut wasn't released until 1988 was a reason for its perceived "failure". All irrelevant now; this is a wonderful record.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Young Manhood
2. Bible Dreams
3. Bitterness
4. Archangels
5. Northern England

Side B
1. Whirlpool Heart
2. Bringing Home The Ashes
3. Mythical Beast
4. Now And Forever
5. The Worst Year Of My Life

Time Is Slipping Away is an album by American R&B/jazz fusion producer, composer, keyboardist and vocalist Dexter Wansel. It is the last of four studio albums released at Philadelphia International Records. The album contains songs with different styles from P-funk to sophisticated quiet storm music to instrumental jazz-funk. It features the two popular songs “The Sweetest Pain” and “I’ll Never Forget (My Favorite Disco)”. The former song features vocals by soul singer Terri Wells.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. I'll Never Forget (My Favorite Disco)
2. The Sweetest Pain
3. Funk Attack
4. Time Is Slipping Away

Side 2
1. It's Been Cool
2. Let Me Rock You
3. New Beginning
4. One For The Road

The Early Years' new album, ‘Modern Moonlight’. It’s their first in a decade and just their third in 20 years, following their eponymous debut for Beggars Banquet in 2006 and ‘II’, which was released on Sonic Cathedral in 2016 and recently named as one of Uncut’s Greatest Albums of the 2010s.

It was worth the wait. It’s a stunning mix of Davids Bowie and Byrne, John Cage, Conny Plank, Brian Eno, Radiohead. “All the usual stuff,” says nominal frontman Dave Malkinson. “Loved ones and Italian red wine played a part, too, Oblique Strategies…”

There is nothing particularly oblique about the ten tracks here, though. ‘A New Way Of Living’ is a nod to not only Berlin-era Bowie, but also their own single ‘Like A Suicide’, the band’s first release for Sonic Cathedral back in 2008. The febrile funk of ‘Get Up Get Out’ is like The Stooges recoding the DNA of ‘Here Come The Warm Jets’. ‘The River’ – which snuck out as a single late last year – aims for an Eno / Moroder cross, but ends up sounding like James Holden. ‘Heaven Over There’ is huge and heartbreaking, a ballad for our times, up there with The Verve or even Elbow at their most anthemic and vulnerable. ‘Tired Eyes’, meanwhile, recalls ‘Fading Frontier’-era Deerhunter.

The start of the second half ups the tempo. ‘Shimmering Stone’ mixes LCD Soundsystem with what sounds like Gregorian chants. ‘The Gift’ sounds like a party in a studio, which it was, recorded at Monnow Valley in South Wales. ‘Three Quarters’ is a Beta Band meets A Certain Ratio-style groove based around a simple Steve Reich-esque loop with timbales. The title track is inspired by the more acoustic Verve tracks on ‘No Come Down’ and closer ‘Silver Lips (Champagne Eyes)’ sparkles and fizzes across its two halves, with vocals by Lorena Quintanilla from labelmates Lorelle Meets The Obsolete.

“I wanted the album to be called ‘III’, but the others vetoed that,” says guitarist Roger Mackin. “‘Modern Moonlight’ came about at 2am when we were writing the song.”

“Heroes don’t stand in sunlight anymore, they stand in the bluish glare of a phone at 2am wondering if anyone else is listening or even awake,” expands drummer Phil Raines. “Moonlight is not a thing, it’s a condition, light that has already touched something else. It’s borrowed. Reflected. Slightly late. It is the expectation of the present arriving after we’ve moved.

“So, this is not about our moon. It’s about how we’re all responding to the world we’ve found ourselves living in, hoping for utopia, but realising we’re all late to the party.”

In the case of ‘Modern Moonlight’, it’s better late than never.

TRACK LISTING

1. A New Way Of Living
2. Get Up Get Out
3. The River
4. Heaven Over There
5. Tired Eyes
6. Shimmering Stone
7. The Gift
8. Three Quarters
9. Modern Moonlight
10. Silver Lips (Champagne Eyes)
11. The River *HEX Edit* ^
^ CD-only Bonus Track

Incorporating a range of influences and genres, the album is an astonishing blend of strident bluesy funk, mid-tempo piano ballads, revolutionary soul and acoustic gospel hymns, all held together by Pena's deep, rich vocals and high- class songwriting. Opener, 'Woke Up This Morning' flips the well-worn blues expression into an uplifting, country soul anthem and it's immediately followed by the dirty funk of 'I'm Gonna Make It Alright' which comes on like a prime-time Meters. 'The River' shifts down a gear, locking down a mid tempo piano ballad in the vein of 'Exile'-era Stones. Throw in the politicised soul of 'Something To Make You Happy' and the gorgeous, string laden gospel of 'Lullaby' and you have a record that truly and authentically lives and breathes a variety of genres to stunning effect.

Born in Massachusetts in 1950 and blind due to congenital glaucoma by the age of 20, Pena moved to San Francisco in 1971 having become an established performer, guitarist and songwriter. Later in the decade his song 'Jet Airliner' became a huge hit for Steve Miller Band and he regularly played live with legends such as John Lee Hooker, and B.B King. He also taught himself Tuvan throat singing to such as degree he was invited to the country to perform at an international symposium and contest; a pilgrimage that was brought to life in the Oscar nominated documentary, 'Genghis Blues' in 1999. It was then, shortly after his move West Coast, that he recorded this, his debut and self-titled record.

Reissued for the first ever time on vinyl, Different Strokes For Different Folks is delighted to release another highly sought after classic. For fans of Curtis Mayfield, Terry Callier and Bill Withers, 'Paul Pena' is a true classic album neglected for decades.

TRACK LISTING

1. Woke Up This Morning
2. I'm Gonna Make It Alright
3. The River
4. One For The Lonely
5. Something To Make You Happy
6. My Adorable One
7. When I'm Gone
8. Lullaby

Hot on the heels of the Tokyo bliss and Funk Tide sets, Tokyo-based DJ Notoya delivers Tokyo Pulse a new juicy selection of Funk and Modern soul recorded in Tokyo in the 70s and 80s. Most tracks here are making their debut outside of Japan and the album, like its predecessors, has been designed by Manuel Sepulveda (Optigram) and is annotated by DJ Notoya. The audio has been newly mastered in Tokyo by Nippon Columbia Records and remastered for vinyl by Colorsound in Paris.

TRACK LISTING

1. Naomi Chiaki - Yoru E Isogu Hito
2. Yumi Murata - Ranhansha
3. L-E-V-E-L - Bagdad No Atari Nite
4. GAM - Lake In The Forest
5. Nami Shimada - Mitsumeteirunoni
6. Bread & Butter - Memory
7. Minoru Koyama - After Image
8. Chikara Ueda & The Power Station - Island Cuckoo
9. Higurashi - Anata Wa Doko Ni Irundesuka

Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, presents 'Kammerkonzert', a riot of onyx-hard, hyperfast riffs, fiendish orchestral themes, and handbrake turns through varieties of progressive, ambient, electronic and experimental music.

The singular hardcore rave / IDM producer, experimental musician and creator of futuristic forms of fusion, has a three-decade-long back catalogue studded with a variety of jewel-like records. From the furious breakbeat acid and pulverising live bass guitar attack of 'Feed Me Weird Things' (1996) to the literal and self-explanatory 'Music For Robots' (2014) via the virtuosic live showcase of 'Solo Electric Bass 1' (2009) and the otherworldly concrète jazz of 'Ultravisitor' (2004) few contemporary musicians have covered as much ground in as sure-footed a manner. But despite this reach, his three decade output is only typified by two things: unpredictability and rule breaking. Given that his new album on Warp, 'Kammerkonzert', is essentially a chamber concerto with him playing all of the parts it’s safe to say he has come a long way since his crystalline drum & bass debut for the label in 1996, 'Port Rhombus' EP.

Twenty-one albums in, 'Kammerkonzert' is the start of a new era for Squarepusher as a composer.

TRACK LISTING

1. K1 Advance
2. K2 Central
3. K3 Diligence
4. K4 Fairlands
5. K5 Fremantle
6. K6 Headquarters
7. K7 Museum
8. K8 Park
9. K9 Reliance
10. K10 Terminus
11. K11 Tideway
12. K12 Uplands
13. K13 Vigilant
14. K14 Welbeck

Laufey’s deluxe album, 'A Matter of Time: The Final Hour', is the closing chapter of her beautiful, critically acclaimed, and GRAMMY® Award-winning third album, 'A Matter of Time'.

With four new songs, this 19-track deluxe album is an introspection about learning to live with one’s anxieties — embracing uncertainty, accepting the passage of time, and finding calm after the storm.

TRACK LISTING

TBA

The 3rd collaborative album between Les Claypool & Sean Lennon is an elaborate concept record reflecting on morality, the warnings of A.I., and the slippery slope of optimization without empathy. Told across 14 songs - which ooze with classic psychedelic / progressive rock stylings - and the accompanying comic book by Rich Ragsdale, 'The Great Parrot-Ox and The Golden Egg of Empathy' is a peak for both The Claypool-Lennon Delirium and rock music at large.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pro-Log
2. WAP (What A Predicament)
3. The Wake Up Call
4. Meat Machines
5. Troll Bait
6. Simplest Of Deeds
7. Heart Of Chrome
8. Through The Horizon
9. Mantra Of The Manatee
10. The Golden Egg Of Empathy (feat. WILLOW)
11. Cliptopia
12. Cliptron Scuttle
13. Melody Of Entropy
14. It’s A Wrap

Telehealth was forged in the opportunity-rich environment of post-COVID Seattle as a scalable music startup with similar goals. Co-founded in 2022 by married couple and fellow gambling enthusiasts Alexander Attitude (synths/vox/guitar) and Kendra Cox (synths/vox), and joined by longtime collaborators Ian McCutcheon (drums), John O’Connor (bass), and Dillon Sturtevant (guitar), the group aims to financialize any difference of opinion over how the in-shambles local “music scene” should proceed.

Can you be DIY and have good SEO? Can one earn progressive cultural cachet and hard cash at the same time? Is art funded by tech industry “culture grants” kind of a bummer, authentically gorpcore (young men are embracing the “quarter-zip lifestyle” according to the New York Times), or ironically punk? For Telehealth, the answer to these questions aren’t yes or no, but rather, an untapped gap in the music market waiting for a band visionary and unhinged enough to bet on the spread. Produced by Trevor Spencer, 'Green World Image', Telehealth’s sophomore LP (following debut LP Content 'Oscillator' and a Sub Pop Singles Club release, both from 2023), and its IPO with angel investors Sub Pop, is a vertically-integrated artwork for the post-grunge, post-flannel Seattleite, and consumers around the globe who are also ready to financialize their own passion for music.

Trauma-informed, results-driven, and eminently danceable, the weirdo punk record is inspired by Attitude’s tenure as a former architect in a Climate Pledged- city that has perfected the art of “Green World” architecture with its network of efficiently zoned 5-over-1s. Telehealth’s PNW post-punk creates similar architectural spaces, where the gleaming, futuristic, tech-industrial rhythms and synths of Bezos-era Seattle commingle with the raw, independent, underground sound the city lovingly preserves for cultural texture and marketing purposes. The outcome? Think XTC, REM, and YMO with a stronger focus on ROI. Imagine The B-52s, but B2B. Envision a bigger-brained Brainiac, a transhuman Gary Numan, or a terminally online Pylon. Finally, a band with assets diverse enough to play in your basement or the Amazon Spheres.

TRACK LISTING

1. [user Onboarding Sequence]
2. The Telehealth Shuffle
3. Kokomo 2
4. Donor Country (A GOoD CAuSe)
5. Age Of Muralcide
6. Things I've Killed
7. Cost Of Inaction
8. Silver Spoon
9. Cool Job
10. Yassify Me
11. Maria, Machine
12. Villain Era
13. Living, Laughing, Loving, Trying

Orange County's Social Distortion returns with its first album in 15 years with 'Born to Kill'.

Armed with 11 urgent songs, Mike Ness continues to build on the mystique that Social Distortion is more than just a punk band. Throughout the collection, Ness revisits the sounds of the 1970s, his formative adolescent years. 'Born to Kill' is a continuation of the bar of excellence that Social Distortion and, in turn, Ness has long been praised for.

'Born to Kill' is a body of work that will live long in the Social Distortion catalog. Songs like the hard-charging title track that serves as the album's mission statement, along with the riff- laden 'Partners in Crime', the nostalgic 'The Way Things Were', and rollicking 'Tonight' are songs that fit in across any of Social Distortion's various eras. Now nearly five decades into its career and with a remarkable catalog spanning nearly three generations, Social Distortion has no intention of slowing down any time soon.

TRACK LISTING

1. Born To Kill
2. No Way Out
3. The Way Things Were
4. Tonight
5. Partners In Crime
6. Crazy Dreamer
7. Wicked Game
8. Walk Away (Don't Look Back)
9. Never Goin' Back Again
10. Don't Keep Me Hanging On
11. Over You

Angelo De Augustine returns with 'Angel in Plainclothes', his fifth album and most inspired work yet-a deeply felt rendering of his multi-year journey of healing and renewal. The record showcases De Augustine's powerful melodies and poignant lyrics across tracks like the haunting elegy 'Empty Shell', the hopeful 'Spirit of the Unknown', and standout psychedelic country piece 'Mirror Mirror'. Themes explore life's fragility, second chances, and picking up the pieces after an undiagnosed illness forced him to re-learn basic abilities: "I'm trying to figure out who I am now," De Augustine says. "I feel like I may have been given a second chance at life, and I'd like to live it."

Written, recorded, arranged, produced, and mixed by the artist at his recording studio A Secret Place in Southern California, the album marks his first time welcoming collaborators in years, including string arranger Oliver Hill (Kevin Morby, Helado Negro), harpist Leng Bian, background vocalist/percussionist Wendy Fraser, producer Thomas Bartlett (who produced De Augustine's 'Tomb', as well as St. Vincent, Bebel Gilberto), and co-producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty) on 'The Cure'. The result is a powerful statement of hope: "One of the most helpful things that kept me going was the people in my life telling me that everything was ultimately going to be okay. I hope these songs end up having the same kind of effect on people out in the world, and help them know that miracles are possible."

TRACK LISTING

1. Empty Shell
2. Pet Cemetery
3. Spirit Of The Unknown
4. The Cure
5. Mirror Mirror
6. Cosmic Ride
7. The Universe Was Our Mother
8. With A Love So Kind
9. Pictures On My Wall
10. Goodbye Baby Blue

Certain paths necessitate and call for one singular long sequence in order to arrive at a fully formed conversation or reasoning. Nothing seems to broadcast it more clearly than the trajectory Brussels based Italo-Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Zen Mỹ embarked on during the last decade as Radio Hito.

After a string of highly cherished and sought out tape releases, Radio Hito’s new album ‘L’uso e gli attributi del cuore’, co-released by Maple Death & Meakusma, unfolds with devastating clarity, a profound balance of depth, minimalism and emotional grounding. A ten-sequence song cycle for voice and MIDI soundfonts adapted from the 2021 book by French poet Claude Royet-Journoud. Written and recorded between January 2023 and August 2025, the cycle evolved through nearly 80 live performances from Galicia to Kazakhstan before arriving at its recorded form. Set to an Italian libretto adapted from Royet-Journoud’s text ‘L'usage et les attributs du cœur’ (POL, 2021), the work revisits the tradition of the 19th-century Lied — art song built on existing poetry — transposed into a radically economical contemporary setting: voice and Casio CTK workstations.

"I was interested by this incompleteness CRJ mentions - by the ‘suspension’ of meaning questioning readability and intelligibility. I ‘resisted’ to CRJ’s texts since I met him and got to know his work. […] It seems to me that when playing the songs, I submit an object to be completed by the audience."

Radio Hito’s distinctive approach to setting poetry to music — spare arrangements, strophic repetition, and a voice suspended between recital, fm transmission and canzone — creates a language of its own, reaching new heights on ‘L’uso e gli attributi del cuore’, songs that are formally rigorous, emotionally restrained, and shaped by the discipline of sustained live performance, interlocking into a coherent cycle.

Rather than illustrating the poem, Radio Hito approaches it as a space of suspension. Royet-Journoud described poetry as a “profession of ignorance,” where meaning remains incomplete; these songs extend that trembling state, allowing repetition, digital timbre, and restraint to hold the text open.

Often misread as minimal synth or romantic chanson, Radio Hito’s practice is rooted instead in the lineage of the art song and song cycle: open structures, close attention to language, and a live performance economy that pushes the voice at the heart of the stage. The choice of accessible keyboard workstations — light, portable, and embedded in contemporary popular culture — replaces the historical piano. Radio Hito creates fantastical, mirage-like songs, intimate yet elusive. Her music is forlorn chanson for the digital age; bringing her haunting and beautiful vocalisations into conversation with MIDI soundfonts and humble-yet-deep casio compositions. Music that strides for simplicity, yet lands miraculously within an entire new universe, a uniqueness achieved from like-minded spirits such as Ghedalia Tazartès, Savina Yannatou & Lena Platonos, Dorothy Carter, cycles that trickle down into estuaries.

TRACK LISTING

1. Seguiamo I Margini
2. Il Singolare
3. Nella Notte
4. Davanti Agli Occhi
5. Al Diciassettesimo Passo
6. Un Rumore
7. Sono Dei Viventi
8. Les Cercles D’appartenance (rilettura)
9. Il Corpo Vicino
10. Igor (L’amore Di Una Descrizione)

'KIZZY' is the breakthrough EP from rising East London artist Bel Cobain, one of the most distinctive new voices emerging from the UK alternative R&B and soul landscape. Written across 18 months of late-night ideas, scattered sessions, and quiet breakthroughs, the project captures an artist in motion. Following a string of singles that introduced her raw lyricism, 'KIZZY' marks a confident step forward with intimate, sharp, and melodically rich songs that sit in the space between endings and new beginnings.

Across these six tracks, Bel moves with striking emotional honesty through a rich palette that encompasses rock’s bite, jazz’s looseness, R&B warmth, hip hop rhythm, folk intimacy, and fractured breaks. She blends conversational storytelling with her distinct smoky vocals, reflecting on change, learning to let go, and finding light in the aftermath. The EP invites the listener to listen closely to the cracks, the softness, and the pulse of the beauty that still rises when a chapter turns.

Bel Cobain is fast becoming known for her ability to connect deeply with audiences, pairing classic songwriting instincts with a contemporary sonic edge. Early support has come from tastemaker radio and press, with momentum building across streaming platforms as listeners discover her unique perspective on vulnerability and self-awareness. Released as Brownswood Recordings celebrates its 20th year, 'KIZZY' continues the label’s tradition of championing the most singular artists.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hard To Leave
2. Change
3. Kills Me
4. Am I Dumb
5. Fucking City
6. Mind Is A Dancer

Apiento and Lexx join forces on some super nice edits for Discotecas. The first one has long been a staple of Apiento’s Test Pressing show and finally hits vinyl. The others are all new edits which sit perfectly in the current climate.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Blonde Excess (Apiento Edit)
A2. In The Cab (Apiento & Lexx Edit)
B1. No Resistance
B2. As One (Lexx Edit)

In 'Requiem', Irmin Schmidt (co-founder of CAN) blurs the line between composition and environment, delivering a quietly radical, contemplative masterpiece.

Created at his home in Southern France, the record unfolds in two sections, pairing prepared and unprepared piano with recordings of the natural world around him: water, birds, frogs, shifting air and quiet nocturnal hums. What began as a spontaneous capture of a nightingale’s song evolved into a personal ritual, with Schmidt responding instinctively at the piano and later shaping the material with long-time collaborator René Tinner. The result is a liminal space that allows the listener to embark on their own journey of contemplation.

Approaching his 89th year, Schmidt - a classically trained composer and recipient of major cultural honour in both France and Germany - brings present and distant memories into focus, their merging forming one of his most affecting and inspiring works.

TRACK LISTING

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

Real Farmer's new album becomes their third release to be recorded at Far Out Sound Studios in Rotterdam by Niek Van Den Driesschen (Rats on Rafts, Iguana Death Cult), following debut album 'Compare What's There' (2024) and EP 'RF II' (2025). "Not all songs are punk songs, but everything is written in this spirit," says Real Farmer. "There’s so much happening in the world, that if you’re even a little empathetic, you can’t help but feel overwhelmed and saddened [by it all]. Music remains such an important outlet as well as a meeting point for politics and worldviews. And with this album we hope listeners can also find a sense of empowerment and hope through our songs."

TRACK LISTING

1. Missing Link
2. 9 Till Not Alright
3. I.D.K.T.S
4. Sob Story
5. System
6. Settle
7. Wash Away
8. Heart Out
9. Beggars Hymn
10. The Mass
11. Run By Animals
12. Judas

Flexi-disc:
1. The Pressue Of Others

'The Endless Dance' is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang. The record is grounded in the strength of ancient concepts, but comes alive with the joy and freedom of play as together, Peel and Wang travel through the 24 solar terms of the Chinese calendar with a cornucopia of sound in tow – synths and prepared piano alongside traditional and unconventional percussion.

The album is collaged together from recordings made over five days at legendary rural studio Real World, a setting which aligned with the duo’s inspiration from the natural world creating a permanent record of their shared musical landscape, informed by the flora and fauna that emerge and retreat through the seasons. 

Both genre-defying, storied artists in their own right, Peel and Wang met while working on Manchester Collective’s 2023 album NEON and 'The Endless Dance' certainly represents a step-change from the duo’s shared classical backgrounds – but their knowledge and training is also the foundation of its freewheeling audacity, giving them the confidence to trust their instincts.

The album is produced by Mike Lindsay [LUMP, Tunng, Guy Garvey, Jon Hopkins] who, with free rein, brings added energy and creativity to the album, whilst Peel & Wang are also joined by Hyelim Kim on Daegeum, a Korean flute with “colourful overtones on every note”. 

Track to track, 'The Endless Dance' is unpredictable and unexpected, which is in part due to the genuine curiosity and outside perspectives that each player brought to the sessions. “I am so familiar with Chinese heritage, but I don't see how it can present in electronics, for instance,” says Wang. “Hannah comes in with that direction, to imagine what the sounds could be together.” The characterful richness of the album stems from the commonalities they found in the sessions. “We both come from cultures where story is really important,” explains Peel. “The attention to detail comes from telling a story, and one note can set that off in a different direction.” 

'The Endless Dance' is a major work from two accomplished, singular artists - but it’s also the sound of mutual curiosity and shared fun, or as Wang puts it: “Two women talking in totally different language that had a wonderful chat.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Wild Geese Arrive
2. Awaken The Insects
3. Mantis Vs Horse
4. Grain Rain
5. Tiger Sex
6. Feed The Fireflies
7. Offerings To The Beast
8. Limit Of Heat
9. Thunder Begins To Soften

Volunteers is Jefferson Airplane fifth studio album. The album is a real sign of the times with politically charged lyrics dealing with the injustice of the Vietnam war. The album was seen as pretty controversial, but was also really loved by critics such as Rolling Stone. Technologically, the album was actually ahead of its time with the usage of the state-of-the-art 16-track tape machine giving the album its powerful layered sound. Sonically and historically this album still has music fans interested after 55 years, making it a real classic.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. We Can Be Together
2. Good Shepherd
3. The Farm
4. Hey Fredrick

SIDE B
1. Turn My Life Down
2. Wooden Ships
3. Eskimo Blue Day
4. A Song For All Seasons
5. Meadowlands
6. Volunteers

Bill Withers was a modest, gentle, and yet towering musical figure responsible for some of the most important, universally known soul hits ever written. It’s no wonder that “Just the Two of Us” and “Ain’t No Sunshine” won him two Grammy awards and undoubtedly played a huge role in getting him inducted into both the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Still Bill is Withers' third studio album and continues to showcase his remarkable versatility, touching upon smooth Philly soul, funk, blues and 70s folk slash singer/songwriter. Upon release the record was both a commercial and critical success and is considered a landmark 1970s R&B record. It features the hit singles "Lean on Me" and "Use Me", as well as "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?" appearing on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. Unsurprisingly, next to Just As I Am, this record also made it into Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, coming in at #333.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Lonely Town
Lonely Street
2. Let Me In Your Life
3. Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?
4. Use Me
5. Lean On Me

SIDE B
1. Kissing My Love
2. I Don't Know
3. Another Day To Run
4. I Don't Want You On My Mind
5. Take It All In And Check It All Out

He wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in ‘about an hour’ in his childhood bedroom. He would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder. He was a pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and, at the same time, critiqued his own image mercilessly.

He lived through the AIDS crisis and one of the most homophobic periods of British history and yet when he finally came out, he did so boldly and unapologetically. Wham! were the first Western pop group to play in Communist China and he repeatedly broke boundaries in music too. Ten years after his death, George Michael is still everywhere: the annual success of ‘Last Christmas’, new covers of his songs, and endless memes on social media.

Tonight the Music Seems So Loud is at once a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of Britain’s most beloved musicians and an account of a strange and turbulent period of British history. In his unconventional and enthralling book, bestselling author Sathnam Sanghera explores the connection between music and politics, exposes what secrecy does to the soul, and reveals how fame rots the sense of self. Throughout, Sanghera captures, joyfully and poignantly, one of Britain’s greatest artists in all his musical glory.

For anyone who loves music this is a backstage pass to a life lived fully as one of rock's greatest heroes. Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie. His talent, energy, and passion for music were unmatched, and his contributions to our sound and success are immeasurable.

Beyond his musicianship, Clem was a source of inspiration both on and off the stage. His vibrant spirit, infectious enthusiasm and rock solid work ethic touched everyone who had the privilege of knowing him – Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. Clem began writing The Other Side of the Dream more than 20 years ago, often setting it aside amid relentless touring and recording schedules.

When cancer treatment and illness forced his retirement in 2024, completing the book became a priority. As a founding member of Blondie, Clem went on to influence a wide number of musicians, effortlessly moving between genres, bands and countries. In The Other Side of the Dream, Clem Burke reflects on his extraordinary journey from the gritty streets of New York City to global superstardom.

With candour and wit, he recounts the explosive punk scene that gave rise to Blondie, the creative partnerships that defined their music and the challenges of navigating fame in a constantly evolving industry. It's a rock and roll memoir like no other.

Re-versioned by Krafty Kuts - AKA the Scratchman - in remix mode.

The album is a fully re-worked edition of the original album, creating a brand-new reimagined version of the original, sought after album. The world still needs them and Hip-hop's favourite superheroes - Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts - return with a new remixed version of their acclaimed album. So, grab your capes, don a pair of tights and load up the turntable ready for the show to continue. This is 'Further Adventures Of A Reluctant Super Hero' - prepare for the Purple Assassin and the Scratchman as they come and save your city, the scene and hip-hop as we know it.

Featuring a who's-who of collabs and guest appearances from hip-hop royalty, this 14- track record takes you to just about every corner of the genre, leaving no stone unturned. With Lyrics Born and Gift Of Gab joining on 'Guard The Fort' to deliver a serious statement of intent to open the LP, the rest of the record is an adventure through funk, breaks, rolling basslines, buckets of groove and everything in-between. Throw in a generous portion of expertly delivered bars and vocals from genre sidekicks like Harry Shotta, Skye (Morcheeba), Omar, Dynamite MC and more, and you're left with a hip-hop record that not even the comic books could have conceived.

TRACK LISTING

1. Entro (Krafty Kuts Remix)
2. Guard The Fort (Krafty Kuts Remix) 
3. Bruce 2Na (Krafty Kuts Remix)
4. Distance (Krafty Kuts Remix)
5. Superheroes AA (Krafty Kuts Remix)
6. South Coast Rocks (Krafty Kuts Remix)
7. Superhero Kit (Krafty Kuts Remix)
8. Black Vapour (Krafty Kuts Remix) 
9. Feel The Power (Krafty Kuts Remix) 
10. Worth Fighting For (Krafty Kuts Remix)
11. Waste No Time (Krafty Kuts Remix)
12. Stay Tuned (Krafty Kuts Remix)
13. Heartbroken (Krafty Kuts Remix)
14. Skillz (Krafty Kuts Remix) 
15. Hands High (Krafty Kuts Remix)

'Detonate' is the second chapter in a new epoch for The Casualties. As their second album with David Rodriguez at the mic, it solidifies the vocalist's partnership with drummer Marc "Meggers" Eggers and guitarist Jake Kolatis . "It's like a new era for the band," Meggers says. "It solidifies that Dave is here to stay."

As the follow-up to 2018's 'Written in Blood' and their first record for Hellcat Records - the Epitaph subsidiary curated by Tim Armstrong of Rancid - 'Detonate' sees this new version of The Casualties locking into place. "We were in the studio for Written in Blood about eight months after I joined," Rodriguez says. "With this new record, we really grew together. For me, it's the proud moment where we clicked the three Legos together."

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro (Too Little, Too Late)
2. Detonate 
3. People Over Power 
4. Empire Falls
5. Ashes Of War
6. Allies And Assassins
7. Brick By Brick
8. Few The True
9. Now And Tomorrow
10. Eye For An Eye
11. Pigs On Fire
12. Streets Of Hatred
13. Wake Up, Kill, Repeat

After a three year hiatus Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson returns with 'Give Up Together', his sixth full-length album as I'm Kingfisher. After 2023's acclaimed 'Glue', which was mostly arranged together with jazz musicians, this time around Jonsson opted for something heavier with a brilliant set of americana songs draped in quiet drums, distinct electric guitars and rich strings, while occasionally being deconstructed into stripped folk songs.

One of Sweden's best kept secrets, I'm Kingfisher has won press accolades from the likes of NPR's All Songs Considered, Uncut, Clash, KEXP and many more while sharing the stage with ex Kevin Morby, Courtney Marie Andrews, The Weather Station and Damien Jurado. One of the finest songwriters of the Nordic folk wave, Jonsson's been quietly building a more than impressive catalogue, and is finally ready to step into the limelight alongside his more famous contemporaries.

TRACK LISTING

1. Years Of Depression
2. Birds & Beast
3. Your Dad's Bad Days
4. Give Up Together
5. Look What You Made Me Do
6. Our Inside Joke (Was Nightmare Fuel)
7. Trauma Queen
8. White Denim
9. Winter Of '85/'86 (feat. Tiny Oceans)
10. Revealing Trailer

The rap duo By Storm, made up of Injury Reserve emcee RiT chie and producer Parker Corey debut their first album 'My Ghosts Go Ghost'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Can I Have You For Myself?
2. Dead Weigh
3. Zig Zag
4. Grapefruit
5. In My T Own
6. Best Interest (Ft. Billy Woods)
7. Double Trio 2
8. And I Dance
9. GGG

Somewhere in the hills of Cincinnati, there’s a transmitter sending radio waves in every direction. The electricity flows through the air and hits your receiver with a charge that, when amplified, emits an organic sound that could only be… Doctor Bionic.

They’re back with a brand new album—the fourth installment in the Terrestrial Radio series, titled 'Electric Pollen'. Like its predecessors, the album was recorded, produced, and mixed by Cincinnati based producer Grimez. He calls on a rotating cast of talented musicians to record instrumentals that are best described as Organic Groove. “We get together in the studio, hit record, and start jamming,” Grimez explained. “I’d say 90% of our music is improvised.” Fans of the project will notice plenty of familiar names in the liner notes.

Although the recording sessions are casual and spontaneous, each finished D.B. album always follows a conceptual theme. The subject is often determined by artwork that speaks to Grimez. “I’ll buy or license a piece of art that catches my eye, and then put music to it,” he explained. “I have plenty of pieces that are ready to be album art, but I don’t have the right music for it yet.” This process is part of what makes Doctor Bionic’s music different from other instrumental producers.

“You are now tuned in to Terrestrial Radio… Coming to you live with
Doctor Bionic.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Eyes Of Chavez
3. Moment Of Clarity
4. Chopping Block
5. See The Future
6. Cactus Snake - Part 2
7. Fools Errand
8. In The Water
9. Interlude
10. Over The Mountain
11. Tried & True
12. Be Your Own Man
13. Never Enough
14.10,000 Immortals
15. Gold Coin
16. Electric Pollen

“You cannot plan anything. You can't expect anything good or bad. Everything is just going to continue to be however it will be.” This is the way musician Rae Chen encapsulates his debut album as tofusmell, 'All My Time'. At times reserved and gracefully restrained, and other times overflowing and agitated, 'All My Time' showcases Rae’s signature precision in vulnerable, clear-eyed songwriting, with a larger, lusher, and more fleshed-out scale of production than we’ve seen from him before. Chen poetically distills the uncomfortable complications of learning to release expectation from outcome, and in turn live contentedly in life’s constant, confusing uncertainty. It’s not necessarily an apathetic resignation, but rather a hopeful insistence that impermanence, and the toiling mystery it brings, is its own kind of steady salve.

Following the release of his 2023 EP 'Humor', Chen spent a few months intermittently touring with Leith Ross before making the daring decision to move away from his home state of Florida to Winnipeg, Canada. Once there, he finished writing the songs that would come to make up 'All My Time'. While Chen has primarily worked solo in the past – writing, producing, and recording his music himself – he brought in a collection of new collaborators to help build the songs of 'All My Time'. Six of the songs were co-produced and recorded with Keiran Placatka in Winnipeg, and then developed throughout the months following Chen’s move. For the two of them, the emotional atmosphere conjured by the songs is key, as evidenced in 'Pilot Fish' – Chen’s hushed vocals and shuffling guitar interplay seamlessly with swirling electronic chimes and warm, ambling base, swelling and receding like a gentle tide.

Interspersed with Placatka’s contributions are four songs produced and recorded with Paul Larson in Los Angeles, each one with an energetic and dynamic live-band sound inspired by folk-rock of the early aughts. Tracks like 'Voice Cracks' and 'Force the Sun West!' incorporate reeling, fuzzed electric guitar and punchy drums bolstered by darker-toned production. The collection is rounded out with 'Luck', produced by Chen himself, and 'Overspender', produced with Jack Hallenbeck in Los Angeles and reminiscent of the whisper-close folk stylings of Sufjan Stevens and Nick Drake that Chen has become well known for. Despite the myriad hands involved in the overall production, 'All My Time' remains cohesive, held together with Chen’s earnest and enveloping story-telling.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cravings
2. (Me Tomorrow)
3. Dreams I've Had
4. Pilot Fish
5. Voice Cracks
6. Overspender
7. Walk Me Back To Nothing
8. HONEY
9. Force The Sun West!
10. Luck
11. Rock Collector
12. Jacksonnnn

'immer für immer' (German for 'forever and always'), the new album from Flying Moon In Space, arrives on Fuzz Club in February 2026. Across its pulsing repetitions and shifting emotional landscapes, the record explores the tension between the eternal and the transient – a reflection of the contradictions shaping contemporary life. Progress and exhaustion, community and isolation, being overwhelmed and longing for rest. The band treats music as a space where opposites meet: euphoria and melancholy, healing and excess, closeness and distance. More than an album, 'immer für immer' is described by the band "as a ritual against the feeling of being lost", carrying within it moments of grief, anger, desperation and the everyday struggles that accumulate at the edges of modern existence.Sonically, the album occupies a world where motorik rhythms, experimental instincts and pop sensibility intertwine. Elements of krautrock, post-punk, shoegaze, ambient and electronica dissolve into one another, further refining the group’s distinctive sound – one that resists easy categorisation but remains entirely their own.

The six-piece – Atom Parks (vocals), Valentin Bringmann (guitar), Henrik Rohde (guitar), Sebastian Derksen (guitar/synth), Sascha Neubert (bass) and Timo Lexau (drums) – are based in Leipzig, Germany and known for generating moments of intensity, energy and communion through their performances. As the band describes it: “We make music to find stability in chaos, defining our own space within the dimensions. It’s new and different every time we enter.” 'immer für immer' emerged through the group’s intuitive, non-hierarchical process of live improvisation. Every song grew from moments created in real time, a method they also applied to their previous albums – their self-titled debut, written entirely on tour, and 'ZWEI', a concept record inspired by the children’s game 'telephone' and recorded in a church. For Flying Moon In Space, creativity is not about chasing perfect sounds but capturing flashes of meaning, those rare moments in which something unfamiliar and deeply felt appears. To create the new album, the band spent ten days at Kinett, a former cinema in Kusel that has evolved into an international hotspot for forward-thinking music. Its atmosphere, history and resonant acoustics played a decisive role in shaping the sound. Within this unusual space, Flying Moon In Space found the ideal environment to expand their sonic universe – a place where the eternal and the fleeting could finally meet.

TRACK LISTING

1. Barbarian
2. Drifter
3. All Thats Love
4. We Come In Peace
5. Where Are You
6. Each Moment Of Your Past
7. Again + Again
8. Zx473-A
9. -270°

Long-running collaborators Elori Saxl and Henry Solomon present their new duo. Both are key players in an emerging US underground of experimental composers who are redefining the modern vanguard.

While Solomon is rooted in LA’s fertile jazz underground, Saxl is a proponent of NYC, taking up the torch of minimalism and fusing it with an electronic sensibility informed by soundsystem culture and modern pop production.

Their debut album as a duo, ‘Seeing Is Forgetting’, is a work of stunning fluidity and intimate interplay. Across its nine tracks, Solomon’s baritone sax and bass clarinet weave tendrils around Saxl’s heart wrenching Juno 106 harmonies.

While Solomon has been an active contributor to Saxl’s work over the last half-decade, playing in her quartet live and accompanying her on the ‘Texada’ soundtrack and ‘Drifts and Surfaces’ EP, ‘Seeing Is Forgetting’ marks their first collaboration as equal partners.

Recorded over just a few nights in Los Angeles, the album is a testament to their near-telepathic intuition. Each moment breathes with unhurried elegance and an emotional depth that stops you in your tracks. Two pop obsessives (Solomon frequently plays with Miley Cyrus, Haim, Paramore, Vampire Weekend and more), they bring a refracted interpretation of that shared love to ‘Seeing Is Forgetting’, bridging the worlds of experimental improv and top 40 with surprising clarity.

TRACK LISTING

Reverence
Raindrops
Symmetries
Reno Silver
A Thousand Steps
Hiding Place
Dream
Heart
Seeing Is Forgetting

Described by music journalist and author Everett True as “A 30-minute insight into what it’s like to live hard and fast and loose and happy with like-minded buddies, fuelled by a shared love for similar bands and drugs and booze and freedom.”. ‘It's A Shame About Ray’ had a considerable impact back in those heady, carefree days of '92, the record perfectly captures Dando’s ability to effortlessly encapsulate teenage longing and lust over the course of a two-minute pop song. The reissue includes a download card with a slew of extra material, including the ‘My Drug Buddy’ KCRW session track from 1992 featuring Juliana Hatfield, B-sides from singles ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ and ‘Confetti’, a track from the ‘Mrs. Robinson/Being Round’ EP. Singles such as 'My Drug Buddy' and the breezy perfect pop of the title track might stand out (plus the add-on of 'Mrs. Robinson' which later copies included), but the album's real strength lies in the tracks in-between; the truly fantastic 'Confetti' (written about Evan's parents' divorce), and the eye-wateringly casual acoustic cover of 'Frank Mills' (from the "hippie" musical Hair), a version that seems to resonate with every ounce of pathos and emotion felt for the lost 1960s generation. To hear Evan Dando sing lines like 'I love him/but it embarrasses me/To walk down the street with him/He lives in Brooklyn somewhere/And he wears his white crash helmet' is to truly appreciate how wonderful and tantalising pop music can be. Then, there's the rush of insurgency and brattishness on the wonderfully truncated 'Bit Part'; the topsy-turvy 'Ceiling Fan In My Spoon'... this was male teenage skinny-tie pop music on a level of brilliance with The Kinks, early Undertones, Wipers.

TRACK LISTING

1 Rockin' Stroll
2 Confetti
3 It's A Shame About Ray
4 Rudderless
5 My Drug Buddy
6 The Turnpike Down
7 Bit Part
8 Alison's Starting To Happen
9 Hannah & Gabi
10 Kitchen
11 Ceiling Fan In My Spoon
12 Frank Mills

Essential Extras – Download Only
1 Mrs Robinson
2 Shakey Ground
3 My Drug Buddy (KCRW Session, 1992)
4 Knowing Me, Knowing You (Acoustic)
5 Confetti (Acoustic)
6 Alison's Starting To Happen (Acoustic)
7 Divan
Demo Recordings – Download Only
8 It's A Shame About Ray (Demo)
9 Rockin' Stroll (Demo)
10 My Drug Buddy (Demo)
11 Hannah & Gabi (Demo)
12 Kitchen (Demo)
13 Bit Part (Demo)
14 Rudderless (Demo)
15 Ceiling Fan In My Spoon (Demo)
16 Confetti (Demo)

Jnbo is the moniker assumed by Melbourne / Naarm-based composer, producer/engineer and bass player Henry Jenkins.

Jenkins is known to most as the producer/engineer behind Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo, and the Grammy-nominated Frollen Music Library. Serving as College Of Knowledge Records’ in-house recording and mix engineer, Jenkins has provided the sonic constitution for Melbourne / Naarm’s instrumental cinematic soul movement. & Friends sees Jenkins turn his abilities to his own brilliant compositions. The album comprises 12 introspective instrumentals - deep, cinematic odysseys steeped in romance and sincerity, with an unmistakable ‘freak funk bump’.

Jenkins explains the conceptualisation of & Friends:

“I wanted to write a record I would look forward to recording with my friends. The music I was writing had a funk sensibility in the bass and drums, contrasted by a more cinematic approach in the harmonic and melodic content, with guitars slipping and sliding in between. I tried to make that contrast the character of the record. I felt that every song should have the same instrumentation and with the same personnel. This became an enjoyable creative constraint; how much variation could I pull out of the same 8 instruments over the course of the album? I Nwanted to find as much diversity as I could within these tight bounds.” Jenkins applied these principles to the recording of & Friends, bringing together longtime musical collaborators Hudson Whitlock, Darvid Thor and Callum Riley (Karate Boogaloo), Lachlan Stuckey and Jethro Curtin (Surprise Chef), Lewis Coleman and Lena Douglas (The Cactus Channel) to realise unconventional arrangements across three guitars, piano, string synthesizer, Hammond organ, drums and bass, with Jenkins himself assuming bass guitar and production duties.

The resulting album is a strikingly unique melange; moments of picturesque ambience move into head-nodding funk, with the three guitars and three keyboards precisely arranged across the stereo field throughout. The record displays the influences of film composer Bernard Herrmann, lounge pioneer Les Baxter and Motown’s Lamont Dozier, alongside JNBO’s own eccentric idiosyncrasies.

TRACK LISTING

1.Around
2.Missing
3.Dogs
4.Ten Cent Piece
5.Letting Down
6.Letting Go
7.Name
8.False Cut
9.Blood Nose
10.All
11.Close
12.Last

Virga III is the third installment in Eluvium’s inspired experimental series – and the first in nearly five years. In unmistakable contrast to the dense, ominous sprawl of Virga II, the works that make up Virga III offer an almost divine reprieve. The nervous tension, loss of control, and patient recontextualization that inspires each volume of the Virga series manifests in unique ways.

The songs on Virga III are composed and performed by Cooper, as always, but in the Virga universe, he essentially feels a unique collaboration within himself. As Cooper explains, “The Virga series affords me an opportunity to return to an older version of myself, but with a new level of understanding. Practicing more patience interacting with these built musical systems and recordings, I hesitantly duet with my past self in a new performance or manipulative layer, only after digesting the first for as long as possible, to a point of it conjuring new and uncharted feelings, in hopes of curating a sense of therapeutic self-awareness and discovery. A mixture of the exploratory mindset against a painterly emotional resonance, gradually unfurling itself unto itself.”

TRACK LISTING

1. A.M.
2. The Fires At Night
3. Remains
4. Hallucination II
5. Microfauna
6. Communication
7. Virga III
8. Sore

Nobody could have ever guessed the trajectory that hardcore would have taken back when this movement was first formed. And in the early 2000s, nobody would have guessed that a band like TERROR would still be one of the most influential bands in the subgenre, 24 years after their start. Their aggression, coupled with a love and appreciation for the scene that so many have come and gone from, or even forgotten altogether, has let them thrive- now unveiling their tenth full length record, 'STILL SUFFER'.

Originating from Los Angeles, California, during a time when hardcore needed a band to smash things back to center as the genre found itself falling off track, TERROR rushed in, immediately made their mark and never let go. Working with producer (and former guitarist) Todd Jones, the band created ten fast, aggressive, in-your-face tracks that embrace the themes that made TERROR so influential in the first place. Songs about self empowerment, survival and an unrelenting will to face challenges head on with the values and support found within these walls.

'STILL SUFFER' was rounded out with engineering and some additional production by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio, mixing by Jon Markson, and mastering by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, with additional vocal engineering by Jay Zubricky at GCR Audio, and drum engineering at Studio 606 by Taylor Young and Oliver Roman. Guest vocals on the album come from Jay Peta of Mindforce on 'Beauty in the Losses', Brody King of God's Hate and Dan Seely of King Nine on 'Deconstruct It', along with Hot Water Music's Chuck Ragan providing an assertive delivery on 'Fear The Panic', a song which was also co-produced by New Found Glory's Chad Gilbert.

From the start, TERROR has never turned their back on the things that made this band so vital since its inception. With the release of 'STILL SUFFER', it's clear that the band has no sign of letting up, continuing to succeed on their mission to deliver hardcore authentic to themselves and to show the world that this is much more than just music. This community and movement that nobody can truly put into words, is the exact place the energy comes from that fuels TERROR to continue to build and grow with 'STILL SUFFER'.

“Forever doesn’t change, you’re damaged just like me.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Erase You From My World
2. Still Suffer
3. Promised Only Lies
4. Destruction Of My Soul
5. Fear The Panic
6. Death Of Hope
7. Beauty In The Losses
8. A Deeper Struggle
9. To Hurt The Most
10. Deconstruct It

Magic Tuber Stringband act in communion with the natural world around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning Avant-Folk world. Growing up in Appalachia studying the folk traditions of the region in tandem scientific and observational work in nature, their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of the landscape. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.

'Heavy Water' addresses the impact of nuclear production on the environment and the communities within, a musical evocation of destruction and resilience, an embrace of dissonance and tension within moments of transcendence. The inspiration for Heavy Water is rooted in fiddler Courtney Werner’s work as an ecologist in rural South Carolina. Werner explains: “The town of Ellenton, South Carolina was the largest of the towns displaced in 1952 by the U.S. federal government to build the Savannah River Plant, which produced radioactive materials for U.S. nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The former site of Ellenton was dedicated to the extraction of ‘heavy water,’ whereas other areas of the plant focused on manufacturing weapons-grade plutonium and tritium within nuclear reactors. Heavy water is chemically altered to be denser than normal water and is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to synthesize, requiring 52 gallons of river water to produce one fluid ounce. Its denser properties made it valuable for use within the nuclear reactors on the site.”

'Heavy Water' is more than a collection of songs. It is a work whose compositions are entirely modern. Played on traditionally folk acoustic instruments, it defies expectations and emotionally addresses the pain of lives human, flora or fauna irrevocably changed by dominant forces and defiantly persevering.

TRACK LISTING

1. Death Of Ellenton
2. Marker Of A Drowning
3. Sound Of A Million Stars
4. Woodpeckers
5. Scintillation
6. Blooms In The Rapids
7. Tribute To The Angels
8. Where The Place Becomes Forgetting
9. Wintering Grounds
10. Soft And Pliable
11. Dog-Headed Man

'The Charmer', Toadies first full-length studio album in nearly a decade, also happens to be one of the last records recorded by famed engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey) before his death in 2024. The raw, guitar-driven collection places the platinum-selling band firmly back in the Alternative Rock pantheon that sparked their early success, while sounding right at home with the dozens of younger contemporary rock bands they've influenced.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ash's Theme
2. Come To Life
3. The Charmer
4. I Wanted To Be Everywhere
5. Long Time
6. I Walk A Line
7. Get Out Of Your Head
8. Damage
9. Closer To You
10. Normal
11. I Call Your Name
12. Gasoline Jane
13. Bandages

Acclaimed harpist and songwriter Mikaela Davis’ new album, 'Graceland Way', builds an expansive, kaleidoscopic neo-western dystopia from the cozy origin point—that duality compounded by a subtle exploration of light and dark, grace and struggle, rose and thorn, as well as the mystical power found at their meeting points. The “canyon country” epic born of that work is indebted to the titular street in Chevy Chase Canyon where she recorded the album, the lineage of Laurel Canyon, the mythos of Elvis’s Graceland, and Paul Simon’s restless reinvention. “At the end of the journey, the place you were destined for all along isn’t even a place, it’s a state of mind: 'Graceland Way',” Davis says. Featuring an unreleased Cass McCombs track ('Mizmoon') as well as contributions from Karley Hartzman (Wednesday), Tim Heidecker, Madison Cunningham, Neal Francis, James Felice (The Felice Brothers), Clay Finch (Mapache) & Hannah Read.

TRACK LISTING

1. (Looking Through) Rose Colored Glasses
2. Nothin’s On The Radio
3. 11:11
4. Wild Flower
5. Mizmoon
6. Starlite Tonite
7. Junk Love
8. The Wrong Way
9. Spring Petals In The Snow
10. (That’s Not) Who I Wanna Be

Oklahoma-based dream-pop duo Sports share their long awaited self-titled album, ‘Sports’. The 12-track project brings together a run of acclaimed singles released over the past year alongside a collection of brand-new songs that show the band sharpening and expanding their sound. Bright, rhythmic and textural, the album, led by focus track ‘Jelly’ moves between smooth, shimmering pop and more off-kilter, distorted moments, drawing from indie-pop, electronic and psychedelic influences without settling into a fixed identity.

Marking a major milestone in the duo’s career, Sports is the first project entirely self-produced by the band. Written, recorded and produced in a studio they built from scratch in their Tulsa hometown, the album is a complete realisation of their shared vision. It highlights not only their songwriting instincts, but their development as producers.

Across the record, Sports pull from a wide range of inspirations. Touchpoints span experimental pop frameworks, unpredictable production and expansive emotional writing - from A.G. Cook and Lady Gaga to U2 and Dr. Dre - alongside ideas drawn from David Byrne’s How Music Works. Rather than overt references, these influences quietly inform the album’s structure, textures and emotional tone, helping shape a sound that feels personal and fluid.

With ‘Sports’, the duo presents their most complete work to date - a self-contained project built entirely on their own terms.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gravestone
2. Nice 2 Meet Myself (Bang Bang Bang)
3. If You Want Me
4. Magic Trick
5. Jelly
6. My Superstar
7. Keep Falling In Love
8. Don’t Forget About Me
9. Drama King
10. Stay Mad
11. I Can’t Cry
12. Metaphors

'Sex Packets', Digital Undergrounds groundbreaking debut album, was released on March 20, 1990.

Seamlessly blending funk-infused rhythms with jazz piano and satirical social commentary, the album crafts a unique concept, propelled by the infectious 'Humpty Dance' and the charismatic persona of Humpty Hump. Heavily influenced by P-Funk, the album showcases innovative production by Shock G and addresses themes of sexuality and culture with a playful yet insightful approach.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. The Humpty Dance
2. The Way We Swing
3. Rhymin' On The Funk
4. The New Jazz (One)
5. Underwater Rimes (Remix)
6. Gutfest '89 (Edit)
7. The Danger Zone
8. Freaks Of The Industry
9. Doowutchyalike
10. Packet Prelude
11. Sex Packets
12. Street Scene
13. Packet Man
14. Packet Reprise
15. A Tribute To The Early Days
16. Blue View
17. The Humpty Dance (Humpstrumental Mix)
18. Gutfest '89 - CD Only

This second BBC outing gathers live session and live in concert performances, including intimate stripped back acoustic versions and re-workings of tracks across The Jam, The Style Council and Paul’s extensive solo career.

From timeless classics such as 'Start!', 'Shout To The Top' and 'Wild Wood', to deep cuts and covers, like The Zombies’ 'Time Of The Season' and Billie Eilish’s 'What Was I Made For?'

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Gravity
2. What Was I Made For?
3. One Bright Star
4. That Pleasure
5. From The Floorboards Up
6. Woo Sé Mama
7. Time Of The Season
8. Pieces Of A Dream
9. That Dangerous Age
10. Start!
11. Shout To The Top
12. Going My Way
13. Days
14. Rise Up Singing
15. No Tears To Cry
16. Flying Fish
17. Wake Up The Nation
18. Village
19. The Cranes Are Back
20. Fat Pop
21. Dragonfly
22. Around The Lake
23. Foot Of The Mountain
24. Have You Made Up Your Mind
25. The Attic
26. Rip The Pages Up
27. Cosmic Fringes
28. Sea Spray
29. I Woke Up
30. Wild Wood
31. Burn Out
32. Long Time
33. These City Streets
34. Say You Don’t Mind

CD Tracklisting:
1. Gravity
2. What Was I Made For?
3. One Bright Star
4. That Pleasure
5. From The Floorboards Up
6. Woo Sé Mama
7. Aim High
8. Time Of The Season
9. Drifters
10. Pieces Of A Dream
11. Movin On
12. That Dangerous Age
13. Start!
14. Shout To The Top
15. Going My Way
16. Days
17. Rise Up Singing
18. No Tears To Cry
19. Flying Fish
20. When Your Garden’s Overgrown
21. Wake Up The Nation
22. Invisible
23. Village
24. The Cranes Are Back
25. Fat Pop
26. Dragonfly
27. Around The Lake
28. Foot Of The Mountain
29. I've Never Found A Girl (Who Loves Me Like You Do)
30. Have You Made Up Your Mind
31. The Attic
32. White Horses (with The LMO & Hannah Peel)
33. Have You Ever Had It Blue (with The LMO & Hannah Peel)
34. Aspects (with The LMO & Hannah Peel)
35. Rip The Pages Up
36. Cosmic Fringes
37. Sea Spray
38. Boy About Town (with The LMO & Hannah Peel)
39. White Sky
40. The Eton Rifles
41. I Woke Up
42. Wild Wood
43. Burn Out
44. Long Time
45. These City Streets
46. Say You Don’t Mind
47. My Ever Changing Moods
48. Broken Stones

Kris Drever's new album arrives with the wisdom of someone who's spent years listening as much as playing.

'Doing This For Love' marks the latest step of a journey from the traditional Scottish folk that first established him, dealing in inherited narratives for something more personal and immediate.

These ten songs are guitar-led meditations on the unglamorous heroism of everyday life--the 4am alarm clocks, the ungrateful shifts, the quiet sacrifices made in the name of keeping others whole.

The album captures Drever's gift for making the personal feel universal. His guitar work anchors each track with understated virtuosity, while a constellation of sympathetic collaborators--Rachel Sermanni, Euan Burton, Cahalen Morrison, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and Matthew Herd (Seafarers) among them--orbit around his songs, adding texture without ever obscuring the core.

'Doing This For Love' doesn't romanticise struggle; instead, it honours it. These are songs about the unglamorous work of care, the quiet dignity in clocking in when you'd rather not, the small acts of devotion that rarely make headlines but sustain lives and relationships. Drever sings them as someone who understands that love, in its truest form, is often a verb--something you do rather than something you feel.

TRACK LISTING

1. Doing This For Love
2. Change
3. Bring Back Hanging Around
4. Magic Friend
5. Pilot Whales
6. Save A Space
7. Does Your Sleep Feel Like Rest
8. Every Time
9. Still The Boy
10. Catterline

Saxophonist, producer and composer Brian Allen Simon explores darker hues, transposing waking and altered states under his studio veil Anenon. On the deeply evocative new album ‘Dream Temperature’, he shifts electronic processing to the foreground, introducing digitized wind instruments and unworldly atmospherics, not heard since his innovating mid-late 2010s output.

A longtime Los Angeles resident, born and raised, Brian Allen Simon has expressively operated under the moniker Anenon, releasing the highly revered ‘Petrol’ (2016), ‘Tongue’ (2018) and the viscerally beautiful ‘Moons Melt Milk Light’ (2023), in a line of unwavering musical dialogues. While the penultimate album was a deliberate, reductive, entirely acoustic detour that was born out of a want to unplug, ‘Dream Temperature’ sees Brian primed with a newly discovered wind synthesizer as his central compositional tool, alongside acoustic piano and tenor saxophone. The entirety of the album’s electronics are triggered by Brian’s lungs, generating otherworldly synths modulated by expressive breath control, channelled through the laptop as the core processing chamber for added textural components and field recordings.

A free floating and heavy emotional resonance marks 'Dream Temperature' from beginning to end, invoking the feeling of waking up, still heavy from a night of half-remembered dreams, and continuing one’s day in this state. Simon maps out the album's spatial voice early on the statement title track, a deep, yet compact cut, generated from digital saxophone rasps that whistle by in close proximity, along with haze filled textures and sub bass. There is a sonic oscillation of urban grit and pastoral drift throughout as tracks pass by like introspective thoughts, fueling both a tense and ethereal quality that underpins the album. Interluding solo and part-solo piano improvisations ‘Last Sun 1’ and ‘2’ are positioned adjacent to the buffering digital soundscapes. Their softer, still processed timbres pierce the melancholic exterior, offering a contrasting tenderness that could echo the grace of Ryūichi Sakamoto, the spiritualist rigor of ECM’s Keith Jarrett and a touch akin to Aphex Twin’s piano miniatures. ‘Nulle Part 1+2’ signals the first appearance of an acoustic wind instrument, as tenor saxophone flourishes are juxtaposed against noisy drones, all shouting at the void, with notes resurfacing like lost digital data.

The album was recorded at home during either sunset or nocturnal hours between September of 2024 and October of 2025, a period in which Brian found himself craving more lengthy and intimate studio time as he searched for more pronounced textural qualities amidst his new sonic ambitions. ‘When The Light Appears, Boy’ shows further evidence of this deeper universe, revealing a grittier edge as the album's essential blueprint is sonically inked. A sprawling expanse of wind synths rhythmically encircle the listener before a dreamy, ghostly ambience blankets ‘Toyama’. The sound is evocative of the productions of post dubstep era luminaries such as Burial or the productions of HTRK's Nigel Yang. More isolating and enveloping than the previous all acoustic record, this is music both disorienting and yet warmly inviting all at once. A sonic diarist at heart, personal field recordings were also taken from Sardinia, Japan, Big Sur and LA which intersect at unexpected moments throughout the album's 31-minute play time.

‘Dream Temperature’ is a vital coalescence of both Simon’s electronic and acoustic practices with repositioned electronics akin to earlier works, both haunting and elegant, yet still profoundly personal. Simon continuously resonates as an experimental outlier treading an enthralling, non-linear musical path. This music resolutely glows with an unknowing aura, like an untapped energy source waiting to be discharged.

“In a sense, this album derives essence from the distortions of both personal memories and collective realities.”

Brian was taken by a quote of the late artist Etel Adnan that said “When you dream, you rarely know it. But when you wake, you carry within yourself almost the temperature of the dream.”

He continues: “I wanted to make music that triggers the listener to forget that they’re even listening to it, but rather dreaming through it. Music that you actually get lost in, forgetting when it started and when it ends. I want the listener to feel their own essences after listening to it.”

TRACK LISTING

1. June Gloom
2. Piano Haze Bass Melt Cry
3. Last Sun 2
4. Dream Temperature
5. Nulle Part 1+2
6. Mirror
7. When The Light Light Appears, Boy
8. Last Sun 1
9. Room Tone
10. Toyama
11. Postscript

'Goodbye Lavender' is the debut EP from Brighton based artist Opal Mag. Recorded over several days at Bam Bam Studios in Norfolk with producer Harry Jordan (The Big Moon, Sam Thomkins, Keo), the resulting six songs blend hazy, atmospheric soundscapes with confessional, unfiltered lyricism.

With influences including Mazzy Star, The Sundays, The Breeders, and The Smashing Pumpkins, it's no wonder Stereogum considers Opal Mag "a promising new voice of the '90s indie rock revival". Writing for the dreamers and the bedroom dwellers, her songs feel like secrets whispered late at night; raw, intimate, and achingly real.

TRACK LISTING

1. World End
2. Try Not To Hate Everything
3. Kiss Me
4. Wasting
5. Young Forever
6. Goodbye Lavender

On the two-year anniversary of 'The Past Is Still Alive', Hurray for the Riff Raff releases a new live record, 'Live Forever'. The album was captured over the course of two sold-out summer nights at the Old Town School of Folk Music in bandleader Alynda Segarra’s new home of Chicago, Illinois. Spanning 14 songs, 'Live Forever' presents 'The Past Is Still Alive' in its entirety, as well as a selection of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s show-stopping, set-defining staples: decrying ICE on the poetic ‘Precious Cargo’ and The Navigator’s anthemic ‘Pa’lante’; the prescient digital age critique of ‘Pyramid Scheme’; and ripping through a folk-rock rendition of LIFE ON EARTH’s ‘Rhododendron’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Alibi (Live)
2. Hawkmoon (Live)
3. Rhododendron (Live)
4. Dynamo (Live)
5. Buffalo (Live)
6. Colossus Of Roads (Live)
7. Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive) (Live)
8. Precious Cargo (Live)
9. Pyramid Scheme (Live)
10. Vetiver (Live)
11. The World Is Dangerous (Live)
12. Hourglass (Live)
13. Ogallala (Live)
14. Pa’lante (Live)

M83 is one of the most influential electronic artists of the past two decades, known for his singular ability to merge synth-driven emotion with cinematic scale. From 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming' to numerous film and soundtrack works, his music consistently bridges pop culture and auteur cinema.

With 'Resurrection', M83 delivers his second soundtrack of the year, following 'A Necessary Escape'. Composed, performed and recorded by Anthony Gonzalez, the album is the original score for Bi Gan's visionary science- fiction film, selected in Official Competition at Cannes 2025 and awarded the Prix Special du Jury.

Released on M83's new label Other Suns, 'Resurrection' unfolds across 10 instrumental pieces + 2 silent film bonus tracks, blending ethereal electronics and orchestral textures. Focus track 'Sullen Passage', featured in the film's trailer, stands as a luminous, emotional signature moment.

TRACK LISTING

1. Spinning Fury
2. Clamor Of Time
3. A Scent
4. From Bright Lights
5. Spectres
6. Transfiguration Overture
7. Serpentine
8. Resurrection
9. Sullen Passage
10. Spinning Fury (Part 2)
11. Fantasmers (Silent Film Part 1)
12. Fantasmers (Silent Film Part 2)

Skalpel, internationally recognised ambassadors of Polish music, reissue their classic and best-selling album 'Highlight' on limited purple vinyl.

For over two decades, Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudło have fused traditional Polish jazz with forward-thinking electronica. Their distinctive sound caught the attention of Ninja Tune, resulting in two critically acclaimed albums - 'Skalpel' and 'Konfusion' – followed by a Gilles Peterson Worldwide Award nomination, extensive international touring, and praise from NME, The Wire, DJ Mag and beyond.

While 'Transit' marked a shift from sample-based production to virtual instrumentation, 'Highlight' sees Skalpel at their most expansive and refined. Drawing on Miles Davis’ electric era, minimalism, and the legacy of Warp and Ninja Tune, the album balances deep jazz heritage with contemporary electronic textures.

A defining title in the band’s catalogue, 'Highlight' remains both timeless and forward-looking - now available in a special purple vinyl edition.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blow
2. Cold Air
3. Quicksilver
4. Escape
5. Distant
6. Pull Closer
7. Countless
8. Event
9. Arrival
10. Zorza

Richard Barbieri remains one of contemporary music's most distinctive voices.

Emerging as a key architect of the late '70s/'80s synthesiser revolution with David Sylvian's art-rock ensemble Japan, his visionary synthesiser programming expanded the horizons of electronic music & left a lasting mark on artists from The Human League & Duran Duran to Gary Numan & Talk Talk. His subsequent & ongoing tenure with Steven Wilson's legendary progressive outfit Porcupine Tree across albums such as 'In Absentia' (2002), 'Fear Of A Blank Planet' (2007) & most recently, 'Closure/Continuation' (2022) further affirmed his status as one of the most intuitive & unique musicians of his generation.

'Hauntings' is Barbieri's first studio album since 2021's 'Under A Spell', deepening the pensive, dark instrumental aesthetic of its predecessor. A diverse collection of immersive sound worlds, both dark & uplifting in equal measure, 'Hauntings' is influenced by a nostalgia for the past & future & for things that didn't happen yet still manage to haunt the mind & soul. What is real & what is simulation?

The album finds Barbieri at the height of his powers, his deft keyboard & sonic architecture conjuring a shadowy, creeping Lovecraftian atmosphere. The music wanders through the streets of a gloomy lamp-lit Victorian London & drifts into grain-speckled snapshots of Belle Epoque Paris. These journeys into the past are contrasted with nihilistic but euphoric forays into the future, 'Traveler' & 'A New Simulation' bristling with the itchy modern anxiety that often runs through his best work. Contrasting the sound designs & electronics of Barbieri, the album features performances from renowned musicians Morgan Agren (drums & percussion), Percy Jones (bass guitar) & Luca Calabrese (trumpet).

TRACK LISTING

1. Snakes & Ladders
2. Anemoia
3. Victorian Wraith
4. 1890
5. Artificial Obsession
6. Paris Sketch
7. Perfect Toys
8. Traveler
9. Reveille
10. Last Post
11. A New Simulation 

This reissue marks the creation of Silver Apples Foundation, which is both a non profit organisation and new imprint whose mission is to honour the legacy wishes of Simeon Coxe to preserve the memory of Silver Apples by promoting electronic music and the setting up of an electronic music scholarship fund. This release will be followed later in the year with the long awaited Silver Apples biography, ‘Electronic Evocations', by music journalist and writer Kris Needs. This version of 'Oscillations' was the last ever recording by Simeon at his ChickenCoop studio in Fairhope Alabama in 2019 and captures how he liked to play it live. Backed with the late Andrew Weatherall's remix of 'The Edge of Wonder', taken from Silver Apples last ever album 'Clinging to a Dream'. The sleeve art features an Oscillator drawn by Simeon in 2014, while the back cover uses the original Silver Apples logo. But to make this release extra special it comes with a Silver Apples slipmat, featuring the iconic Apples logo

TRACK LISTING

1. Oscillations Studio Mix
2. The Edge Of Wonder

You've just ordered Pizza Hut and a 2L Mountain Dew. You've loaded up RuneScape on your PC. No school tomorrow. Your parents don't care if you stay up all night long. A perfect Summer night.

You are 31 years old. The year is 2026.

TRACK LISTING

1. In Fine Fettle
2. An Orb In The Sky (Sends The Orks Awry)
3. Skylark Summit
4. The Wolf At The Edge Of The World
5. Puffin Song
6. Lift Thissen
7. Great Grinding Staircase
8. Beast Beyond Belief
9. Swords For All
10. The Meadow Bends (Pt. I)
11. The Meadow Bends (Pt. II)
12. Skies Over Isafdar
13. Street Of The Holy Field

The tenth anniversary edition of Venetian Snares' 'Traditional Synthesizer Music' adds ten more tracks and alternative versions previously available only on a limited edition compact disc from the artist's Bandcamp. 'Traditional Synthesizer Music' is a collection of songs created and performed live exclusively on the modular synthesizer by Aaron Funk. Each sound contained within was created purely with the modular synthesizer. No overdubbing or editing techniques were utilized in the recordings on 'Traditional Synthesizer Music'. Each song was approached from the ground up and dismantled upon the completion of its recording. The goal was to develop songs with interchangeable structures and substructures, yet musically pleasing motifs. Many techniques were incorporated to "humanize" or vary the rhythmic results within these sub structures. An exercise in constructing surprises, patches interrupting each other to create unforeseen progressions. Multiple takes were recorded for each song resulting in vastly different versions of each piece, a number of which are released for the first time on vinyl and digital for this updated version of the album. BIO Aaron Funk, mainly known artistically as Venetian Snares, is a Canadian electronic musician based in Winnipeg, Manitoba who’s been working since the mid nineties. He is widely known for innovating and popularising the breakcore genre being something of its breakout star. His signature style features complex drums and unusual time signatures and a knack for making ultra-vivid music that takes listeners into unusual places, from the aggressive and extreme, to the surreal, comic and sometimes plain beautiful. His musical explorations extend out in many different ways, from the complex 'Hungarian', classical-inspired 'Rossz Csillag Alatt Született', to acid explorations as 'Last Step', to innovations with modular synths on 'Traditional Synthesiser Music'. As a collaborator, he’s made music using intimate recordings as musical elements with the artist Hecate as Nymphomatriarch, as Poemss with Joanne Pollock, where they both sing over strange delicate pop. He’s recorded an album of rich, edited improvisations with producer and guitarist Daniel Lanois and he’s also part of the sometime duo Speed Dealer Moms with John Frusciante. Most recently he features on Rosalia’s album 'Lux' on the song 'Reliquia', providing drum programming and production input.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dreamt Person V3
2. Everything About You Is Special
3. Slightly Bent Fork Tong V2
4. Magnificent Stumble V2
5. Decembers
6. Can't Vote For Yourself V1
7. You And Shayna V1
8. Goose And Gary V2
9. Anxattack Boss Level19 V3
10. She Married A Chess Computer In The End
11. Health Card10
12. Paganism Ratchets
13. Everything About You Is Ambient
14. You And Shayna Slow Funk V2
15. Your Bounce V1
16. Magnificent Stumble V1
17. Can’t Vote For Yourself Video Version
18. Goose And Gary V1
19. Slightly Bent Fork Tong V1
20. You And Shayna Video Version
21. Terrazen 1012nc
22. Resting Tongue

'VOLUMES: ONE', the first non-studio release from Bon Iver, captures 10 distinctive live performances, recorded between 2019 and 2023, showcasing Justin Vernon and his band at their most whole. There’s a warmth and exuberance across the album, as well as the sort of muscular sound you can really only get at a live show. For the uninitiated and die-hards alike, these recordings could well be the defining versions of the tracks, no doubt made possible through the essential live engineering of Xandy Whitesel and performances from bandmates Jenn Wasner, Sean Carey, Michael Lewis, Matthew McCaughan, and Andrew Fitzpatrick.

Vernon began working on 'VOLUMES: ONE' in 2020, and he spent a considerable amount of time combing through concerts to pull out the right songs to define Bon Iver. “This is what we became,” Vernon comments. “This is really us at our best. This is it.” 'VOLUMES: ONE', as a result, is something greater than a compilation or live album. It’s entirely new but still familiar, offering a prismatic look at an old friend, seeing them for who they were and who they are, all the goodness of which they’re capable but maybe too shy to show at times.

With 'VOLUMES: ONE', Vernon begins a new Bon Iver archival series that he’s modeled after Bob Dylan’s iconic Bootleg Series and the ever-delivering Neil Young Archives. The series will present the many eras and facets of Bon Iver, spanning live shows, demos, unreleased recordings, and more. “This particular 10 songs is like, here, if you’ve never heard Bon Iver, or you have and you didn’t like it, this might be for you,” he says.

TRACK LISTING

1. INTRO - The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Sep 15 2019
2. MAN LIKE U - The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Sep 15 2019
3. WE (feat. Bizhiki) - Xcel Energy Center, St Paul, MN. Oct 03 2019
4. JELMORE - Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, ID. Jan 19 2020
5. 666 - The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory, Irving, TX. Apr 03 2022
6. HEAVENLY FATHER - Mediolanum, Milan, IT. Nov 05 2022
7. P.D.L.I.F. - Red Hill Auditorium, Perth, AU. Feb 26 2023
8. HEY, MA - Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL. July 23 2023
9. A SATISFIED MIND - State Theatre, Portland, ME. Dec 08 2017
10. 33 “GOD" - WOMADelaide Festival, Adelaide, AU. Mar 10 2023
11. Sh'DIAH (boardmix) - Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, CA. Oct 06 2019

'Trying Times' is James Blake’s seventh studio album and features British rapper Dave, and singer-songwriter Monica Martin. Written between Los Angeles and London, it’s a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. He explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious. Themes of reflection, both literally and metaphorically, run through the record’s visual presentation, as Blake holds a mirror to the contradictions of modern connection - how we see ourselves, how we’re seen by others, and what gets lost in between. It’s about the disorienting loop of joy and dread: feeling safe in love, yet knowing the bubble could burst at any moment; struggling to stay present while global anxiety and private doubt pull you in different directions. A meditation on love, identity, and fragility in an age where the world feels balanced on a knife edge.

Since emerging in the early 2010s, British producer, songwriter, and musician James Blake has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. He has earned nine GRAMMY® nominations and two wins, a Mercury Prize, and an Ivor Novello Award, while his groundbreaking blend of electronica, soul, hip-hop, and alternative R&B has shaped the sound of contemporary music. Across six acclaimed albums, including his GRAMMY®-nominated 'Playing Robots Into Heaven', the platinum-selling ‘Overgrown', and the UK Top-5 'Friends That Break Your Heart', Blake has evolved from post-dubstep visionary to globally celebrated vocalist, composer, and producer. His signature sound and midas-touch production have supported some of the most defining artists and albums of the last decade, including Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, ROSALÍA, SZA, Travis Scott, Jay Rock’s GRAMMY®-winning hit “King’s Dead" and most recently ground breaking UK rapper Dave.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1 Walk Out Music
2 Death Of Love
3 I Had A Dream She Took My Hand

Side B
1 Trying Times
2 Make Something Up
3 Didn’t Come To Argue (ft. Monica Martin)

Side C
1 Days Go By
2 Doesn’t Just Happen (ft. Dave)
3 Obsession
4 Rest Of Your Life

Side D
1 Through The High Wire
2 Feel It Again
3 Just A Little Higher


Exclusive Bonus 7”
Side A: So Far Away (Carole King Cover)
Side B: Landslide (Fleetwood Mac Cover)

'Blizzard' is the striking debut album by Dove Ellis. Featuring the singles 'To The Sandals,' 'Love Is,' 'Pale Song,’ and ‘Heaven Has No Wings.’ The album has received outstanding critical acclaim including 5 stars at MOJO, the Guardian and the Irish Times, plus Album of the Week at Stereogum and the Financial Times.

TRACK LISTING

1. Little Left Hope
2. Pale Song
3. Love Is
4. When You Tie Your Hair Up
5. Jaundice
6. Heaven Has No Wings
7. It Is A Blizzard
8. Feathers, Cash
9. Away You Stride
10. To The Sandals

Ten years ago, in a sharehouse on Chapel Street, four 20-year-olds with zero expectations wrote and recorded an EP in a single afternoon. Those six blistering minutes of music became Giddy Up. An hour later, Amyl and The Sniffers had a name, a Bandcamp upload, and the beginnings of a legacy.

Following a year of backyard gigs, playing for friends and partying across Melbourne's sticky carpet music scene, the band released their iconic second EP Big Attraction in 2017.

Now, to celebrate a decade of raw power and reckless spirit, Giddy Up/Big Attraction returns in a definitive 10th anniversary 12-inch vinyl edition — fully remastered for maximum punch.

Featuring early classics like “I’m Not A Loser” and “Stole My Pushbike,” plus enduring live favourites “Balaclava Lover Boogie” and “Westgate,” this is the sound of Amyl and The Sniffers before the world caught up — feral, funny, and unstoppable.

The LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve showcasing Chris Sutherland’s iconic 2017 band photo, alongside an exclusive new essay from Amy Taylor and a heap of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes shots from the band’s earliest days by Jamie Wdziekonski. As Amy recalls: “We recorded and wrote over the afternoon… we’d never played together before that day… it’s spontaneous, and fun and achievable in that time because to us it sounded more than good and we weren’t perfectionists and it didn’t matter.”

From DIY house shows in Melbourne to international stages, it all started here.

TRACK LISTING

01. I’m Not A Loser
02. Blowjobs
03. Mole (Sniff Sniff)
04. Balaclava Lover Boogie
05. Westgate
06. 70’s Street Munchies
07. Pleasure Forever
08. Caltex Cowgirl
09. Mandalay
10. Stole My Pushbike