Our brand new Club Sweat compilation series has landed with Vol. 001 - a meticulously curated vinyl EP that captures some of our favourite releases from 2025.

The A-side features Watermät & James Mac’s magnetic Afro House dancefloor-filler ‘Make A Livin’, followed by the legendary Mousse T. with‘Some Kinda Feeling’ and the future-forward collaboration between Don Diablo & Tseba ‘The Devil Works Hard’.

The B-side begins with the beloved Whitesquare remix of Metroplane’s classic anthem ‘Be Where I Am’, before dropping into Sian’s gritty and hypnotic ‘Get Raw’ with Sacha Robotti & JOPLYN, concluding with Gabss’ atmospheric rework of Crooked Colours’ ‘I Can’t Forget You’.

A snapshot of Sweat It Out’s current influence in the global dance scene what a way to kick off 2026!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Watermät, James Mac - Make A Livin'
A2. Mousse T., Wanklemut, Francesco Yates - Some Kinda Feeling
A3. Don Diablo, Tseba - The Devil Works Hard
B1. Metroplane, Alex Metric, Aeroplane - Be Where I Am (feat. Daniel Wilson) [Whitesquare Remix]
B2. Sian, Sacha Robotti, JOPLYN - Get Raw
B3.Crooked Colours - I Can't Forget You (Gabss Remix)

‘Lounge Psychédélique’ takes you on a journey into the world of Lounge, Exotica and Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, from its early days in the 1950s and 1960s to the current crop of artists championing the Lounge & Exotica sounds today. Compiled by Spencer Hickman & Mark McQuillan for Two-Piers

‘Lounge Psychédélique (The Best of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022)’ is the third instalment in the Psychédélique Compilation series on Two-Piers, following the critically acclaimed ‘Pop Psychédélique (The Best of French Psychedelic Pop 1964-2019)’ and ‘Garage Psychédélique (The Best of Garage Psych and Pzyk Rock 1965-2019)’.

‘Lounge Psychédélique’ brings together the sounds of Easy Listening, Soundtrack Instrumentals, Exotica, Jazz, Psychedelic, and Space Age sounds all under the umbrella of Lounge Music. The compilation includes legends of the Lounge and Exotica scene, such as Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Mel Tormé, Herb Alpert, and Les Baxter, alongside legendary composers Hugo Montenegro, Lalo Schifrin, Michael Giacchino. Add some Lounge Jazz from Cal Tjader and the Latin Bossa Nova of Quincy Jones. Then throw in some beautiful oddities from Leonard Nimoy, Pizzicato Five and Mort Garson. Next, mix in some Lounge-Mod moments from Dave Pike and Jack Trombey, KPM library classics from Alan Hawkshaw and Keith Mansfield, and finish with some brilliant modern-day exponents of the Exotica sound Los Bitchos, Ixtaheule and the Percussive Funk Moog party sounds of The Bongolian. The result is a fun and crazy ride through the world of Lounge Music which will bring a smile to your face and a spring to your step. So raise a cocktail glass to ‘Lounge Psychédélique (The Best of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022) – a sheer joy from start to finish!

‘Lounge Psychédélique’ isn’t meant to be a ‘crate diggers’ album or a compilation of obscure, hard-to-find tracks to outdo your mates. Instead, it is intended to celebrate the Lounge scene and, hopefully, the perfect introduction to this fantastic and beautiful music for any newcomers out there. So let your journey into Lounge and Exotica begin here….

STAFF COMMENTS

Darryl says: Delving into the world of Lounge, Exotica and Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, these cuts are the creme de la creme of the scene. Featuring legends like Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Mort Garson, Alan Hawkshaw, Leonard Nimoy, Pizzicato Five, and Keith Mansfield, there’s plenty of delights to raise a cocktail glass to!

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist:
A1. Leonard Nimoy – Music To Watch Space Girls By
A2. Martin Denny – The Enchanted Isle
A3. Yma Sumac – Gopher
A4. The Bongolian – B-Boy Toga Party
A5. Los Bitchos – The Link Is About To Die
A6. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)
A7. Michael Giacchino & Nouvelle Modernica Orchestra – Sidereal Day: 3 (Instrumental)
B1. Mel Tormé – Sunshine Superman
B2. Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Mais Que Nada
B3. Lalo Schifrin – Lalo’s Bossa Nova
B4. Quincy Jones – Black Orpheus (Manha De Carnaval)
B5. Les Baxter & 101 Strings Orchestra – Tropicando
B6. Pizzicato Five - ǚ

PDD welcome Dense & Pika's Techno imprint to their growing roster of labels. Kicking things off is the HUGE Charlotte de Witte remix of Eats Everything’s techno monster “Space Raiders”

Originally released in 2019 as the Belgium artist was ascending to the top of the scene, Charlotte de Witte’s dark and twisted remix of Eats Everything's incredible 'Space Raiders', helped cement her as a Techno force of nature. Now for the first time the remix alongside the original version is available on vinyl!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Space Raiders (Charlotte De Witte Remix)
B1. Space Raiders (Original Mix)

First-pressing of the soundtrack for the Netflix Originals feature film starring Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and Jay Lycurgo.

The original music was composed by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow and also features ‘Don’t Leave Too Soon’ an exclusive track from Little Simz (who also stars in the film) which she wrote written entirely for the character Shy. The soundtrack also features contributions from stalwart electronic producer & DJ Slipmatt. Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow credits include soundtrack & scores for Annihilation, Ex-Machina, Civil War, Black Mirror and Devs.

TRACK LISTING

A
01. Don’t Leave Too Soon – Little Simz
02. * Oxycodone
03. * You Weirdo
04. * Backpack (Strings Version)
05. * It’s Over Anyway (feat. Slipmatt)
06. * In Agony
B
01. * Backpack
02. * Tomorrow’s Joy
03. * Shy
04. * Break The Beats - Slipmatt
* by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow

Four classic US house vocals. Four club-ready remixes. One essential Sub-Urban EP.

Sub-Urban returns with Volume 3 in its much-loved vinyl series, a four-track, vocal-driven house EP built for DJs who want real vocals, real soul and real dancefloor impact.

Featuring iconic voices including Kathleen Murphy, Helen Bruner & Terry Jones and Ceybil Jefferies, this release delivers timeless house songwriting reworked into modern, club-ready cuts by respected underground producers.

This is a no-filler DJ tool, every track works in warm-ups, sunset sessions, peak-time soulful moments and late-night deep floors.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Key To Life Featuring Kathleen Murphy ‘Find Our Way (Breakaway)’ (Marc Cotterell Plastik Factory Vox)
A2. Lee Genesis ‘Ya Can’t Separate Me (I’m Determined)’ (Sean McCabe Vocal Mix)
B1. Next Phase & Helen Bruner & Terry Jones ‘I Ain’t Got Time’ (Grant's Euphoric Club Mix)
B2. Deep Zone Featuring Ceybil Jefferies ‘Praise Him (Lift Your Hands Up)’ (The Deepzone Club Mix)

M'Bamina — an ensemble of musicians from Congo, Cameroon, and Benin, who arrived in Italy in the early Seventies. Settling between northern Italy and the Pavia area, they began performing in small clubs and community events, bringing with them a vibrant rhythmic heritage: African polyrhythms, call-and-response vocals, funk-infused bass lines, and Caribbean or Afro-Latin colours absorbed along their musical journeys. Their raw, contagious energy on stage quickly drew attention.

The recording sessions of this album — held in Turin in 1975 — produced a remarkably warm and direct sound. The music feels almost live: grooves rooted in African tradition, but open to funk-rock structures and modern arrangements. It is a natural fusion, never forced. Tracks move between tribal rhythms, funk basslines, light electric guitars, congas and Afro-Latin percussion, with call-and-response vocals and melodies that echo both Congolese tradition and the lineage of Latin jazz. Not by chance, one of the album's most striking tracks, Watchiwara, reinterprets a Latin standard through M'Bamina's own rhythmic language.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kyrie Paien
2. Wendo
3. Malonga
4. Bakoko
5. Messe Noire
6. Benguela
7. Ayewa
8. Watchiwara
9. N'Zoumba
10. African Drums

Love Is Still The Answeris a beautifully uplifting song, written and sung by long time Soothsayers member and collaboratorJulia Bielabout the eternal power of love and its ability to overcome hate. It appears in its original incarnation on the band's recent, critically acclaimed album,Fly Higher.

Mike Pelaconi, AKA Prince Fatty has been part of the Wah Wah 45s and Soothsayers extended family for many years, and here he delivers a typically crowd pleasing mix, in both vocal and dub form, from the world of Rockers Reggae, calling legendary reggae drummerHorsemaninto the studio, and crafting a lush rocksteady remix with a new horn arrangement and stripped back instrumentation.

"In a world that feels more divided and chaotic than ever,Love Is Still the Answer is a reminder that real change can still come from within. We may feel powerless in the face of global turmoil, but when we choose love - actively, consistently, even in tough situations - we reclaim strength for ourselves. This song calls us back to our shared humanity, to the energy that connects us all. It's an invitation to tune into what really matters, and to rediscover beauty where we may have forgotten to seek it." Robin Hopcraft (Soothsayers)

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Is Still The Answer (Prince Fatty Rockers Remix) [feat. Julia B.]
2. Love Is Still The Answer (Prince Fatty Rockers Dub)

Voom Voom Music was an independent Italian record label based in Turin, founded and managed by record producer Ivo Lunardi (Turin, December 6, 1940 – December 9, 2010). A pivotal figure in the Piedmont music scene, Lunardi was active both as a DJ and as the owner of several disco clubs.
The label operated for several years in the latter half of the 1970s, releasing mainly productions connected to the Italian dance and pop scene.

Since 2016, the original master tapes from the Voom Voom Music catalog have been owned by Gianluca Pandullo (I-Robots), a close friend of Ivo and Luca Lunardi. Through his labels Opilec Music and Turin Dancefloor Express, Pandullo oversees their preservation and historical enhancement.

TRACK LISTING

1. Black Line - Myele
2. M'Bamina - N'Zoumba (I-Robots 1975 Unreleased Edit)
3. The Boston Garden - Lady Pick-Up (original 7)
4. Oxid - Bright Heron (I-Robots 1977 Unreleased Edit)
5. Oxid - Oxid Trail
6. Oxid - Bright Heron (original 7)
7. Stratosferic Band - Nowhere (I-Robots 1977 Unreleased Reverberated Edit)
8. Stratosferic Band - Splashdown (Original 12)
9. The Boston Garden - Lady Pick-Up (I-Robots 1975 Unreleased Edit)
10. M'Bamina - N'Zoumba (Unreleased Version)
11. Oxid - Oxid Trail (Extended Unreleased Version)
12. The Boston Garden - 30.60.90 (I-Robots 1977 Unreleased Edit)

Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electro folk scene with music that transcends stereotypes. Frankie has been featured on ‘Later... With Jools Holland’ and championed by tastemakers at BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. Following the release of her debut EP ‘Never So Red’ (November, 2023), she has supported the likes of The Futureheads and The Last Dinner Party on tour. On 'The Dance Of Death', Archer channels these experiences and reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon with fractured, future-facing production. Working from archival ballads of obsession, devotion and loss, she warps fiddle lines, processes her own vocals and drives the material with pulsing drum machines and colourful synth arrangements.

Co-produced with Guy Massey (Kylie Minogue, Spiritualized, Richard Hawley), the record expands English folk into something immersive and modern. Influenced by the work of Little Dragon, Hannah Peel, Rosalía, Björk and Bat for Lashes, Archer approaches folk as a producer first. Inspired by the medieval Danse Macabre, 'The Dance Of Death' is, in Archer’s words, “a collection of nu-ancient trad bangers” - stark narratives of mortality and longing rebuilt through meticulous studio experimentation.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Death And The Maiden
2. The Dance Of Death
3. The Outlandish Knight
4. In Brunton Town
Side B
5. The Unquiet Grave
6. The Demon Lover
7. Young Edwin Of The Lowlands Low
8. Oxford City
9. The Lover’s Ghost

The very special return of the wriggliest Chi-town native to have ever lived - Boo Williams! A new trip from the Strictly Jaz Unit member and royally decordated Chicagoan that reflects on the sound that has been and where it's going.

Timeless house music that draws heavily on Boo's styles and influences from the past, fusing it into a completely idiosyncratic style that is paying tribute to past yet simultaneously looking to the future. Delving very deep without losing form for the dancefloor. A timeless addition to the vast catalogue of heavy classics by Boo. No-one has you twisting that booty more than Boo! 

TRACK LISTING

The Recovery
All Bets Off
All Over
The Hunt For House

Chicago beat mathematician Toddsonic33 flipping it real durty for us...

4 tracks that are part machine yet fully fused with soul, a sound that feels as authentic Chicago as it can get. With 2 featurings from fellow Chicagoan don's Mark Grusane and Darryn Jones, this is a real deep dive into the jackin' drum sound from the Windy City. Check! 

TRACK LISTING

Animal Feat. Mark Grusane
Out Of Phase
Look What You Made Me Do Feat. Darryn Jones
Weirdo

Brochure is back for the first 12” in our Soft Rock for Hard Times series, transforming Holly Near’s iconic soft rock stepper “Back Off” into a synthesizer driven disco dancer. Rebecca Felix joins the band to sing lead vocals and nails the stern yet blasé delivery that makes the original so captivating.

After wrapping their cover, Brochure returned to the studio to produce the Paradise Mix which has its sights on Italian shores, winding seaside roads and open air night clubs.

On side B, Jex Opolis’ Good Timin’ Dub delivers a hypnotic house groove that is guaranteed to put evil thoughts in your mind and happy steps in your feet.

Dreems rounds out the record with an echo and delay fueled odyssey for his Risky Connection Dub which takes the song on a deep, dubby trip.

TRACK LISTING

Back Off (extended Mix)
Back Off (paradise Mix)
Back Off (radio Mix)
Back Off (jex Opolis Dub)
Back Off (dreems Dub)

Kilbey Kennedy is the long-standing collaborative project between Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Martin Kennedy (composer and producer behind All India Radio). Since their first release in 2009, the duo has forged a singular sound - an “ultimate convergence of influences, that shimmers with a strange beauty accentuated by its dark and haunting undercurrents.” - The Music

TRACK LISTING

1. Reverie
2. Jezebel
3. Dysphoria
4. The Dryad
5. Turkey
6. You Are The One
7. Disobey
8. Serafina
9. My Today
10. Formless Realms
11. Things We Did On Earth

Rostam’s third album, 'American Stories', is first new music in over five years. The Iranian-American artist and acclaimed producer returns with a record that explores his life across dual cultural worlds. The music weaves together elements of Americana and Persian traditions, blending finger-picked guitars, pedal steel, and strummed chords with microtonal Persian melodies. “That marriage of east and west felt like music that I needed to make for this album.” Interweaving his own experiences, Rostam's lyrics are a collection of stories and reflections, 'The Weight' takes place on college campuses in America in the spring of 2025. In 'Forgive is to Know', Rostam processes real events and the act of songwriting itself. Rostam makes sense of the end of a relationship in 'Hardy' ft. Clairo and contends with humanity’s uncertain future. The result is a record that feels deeply individual yet unmistakably American. “Ultimately I hope listeners find comfort in this record and I want to leave people with a feeling of optimism.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Like A Spark
2. Back Of A Truck
3. Different Light
4. Hardy (feat. Clairo)
5. Forgive Is To Know
6. To Feel No Way
7. The Road To Death
8. Come Apart
9. The Weight

Both multi-instrumentalists and seasoned producers, J and Peter took an all-hands-on-deck approach to these original collaborative tracks. The sonic seeds of "Underappreciated" and "Facile" were planted by Peter, JKriv cooked up the demo of "Over Suffa", and all three were completed together in J’s Brooklyn production studio. With live-recorded guitar, bass, analog synths, and drums/percussion by and a cohort of Brooklyn accomplices, the Facile EP marries live elements with modern club-ready production.

The punchy horns and no-nonsense vocals on "Underappreciated" come via Peter’s long-standing stage and studio connection with Ibibio Sound Machine, Favorite Recordings staple singer Olivya delivers the soulful EP title track performance, and Samy Love’s insistent vocal on "Over Suffa" is a pleading message to end the war and suffering in his native Cameroon.

With a remix of "Underappreciated" by French producer extraordinaire Yuksek, songs in both English and French, and influences ranging from boogie funk, 80s R&B, and classic Zouk, the Facile EP is a varied and dazzling collection of music for both listeners and DJs alike.

TRACK LISTING

A1.Underappreciated (feat. Ibibio Sound Machine)
A2.Underappreciated (Yuksek Remix)

B1.Facile (feat. Olivya)
B2.Over Suffa (feat. Samy Love)

Originally released in December 1971, the beloved debut album from Wings established Paul McCartney’s newest music project as a bonafide rock band. 'Wild Life' was written almost entirely by Paul and Linda McCartney, and was recorded in just over a week with the majority of tracks laid down in a single take. Featuring the yearning and politically charged title track, the funky 'Love Is Strange' and the gentle acoustic ballad 'Dear Friend', 'Wild Life' is a must-have title for the Wings collector

TRACK LISTING

1. Mumbo
2. Bip Bop
3. Love Is Strange
4. Wild Life
5. Some People Never Know
6. I Am Your Singer
7. Bip Bop (Link)
8. Tomorrow
9. Dear Friend
10. Mumbo (Link)

'Red Rose Speedway' (1973) is Wings’ lush, romantic sophomore album, marking Paul McCartney’s growing confidence as a writer and bandleader. Track highlights include the chart-topping ballad 'My Love', the exuberant opener 'Big Barn Bed', and the tender, multi-sectioned 'Little Lamb Dragonfly', which showcase McCartney’s melodic strengths. Originally envisioned as a double album, it ultimately emerged as a streamlined collection with a polished, soft-rock sound. 'Red Rose Speedway' helped solidify Wings as a commercially viable McCartney project and reinforced his dominance in early 1970s pop music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Big Barn Bed
2. My Love
3. Get On The Right Thing
4. One More Kiss
5. Little Lamb Dragonfly
6. Single Pigeon
7. When The Night
8. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)
9. Medley:
A) Hold Me Tight
B) Lazy Dynamite
C) Hands Of Love
D) Power Cut

'Flaming Pie' (1997) is widely regarded as one of Paul McCartney’s strongest late-career albums, reflecting a relaxed, confident return to classic songwriting. Featuring the breezy 'The World Tonight', the reflective, lush 'Young Boy', and the tender, Grammy-winning ballad 'Calico Skies', the album blends modern production with McCartney’s timeless melodic sensibility, drawing on rock, pop, and acoustic influences. 'Flaming Pie' reaffirmed McCartney’s relevance in the 1990s and was celebrated as a creative renewal that bridged his 60s legacy with contemporary audiences.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Song We Were Singing
2. The World Tonight
3. If You Wanna
4. Somedays
5. Young Boy
6. Calico Skies
7. Flaming Pie
8. Heaven On A Sunday
9. Used To Be Bad
10. Souvenir
11. Little Willow
12. Really Love You
13. Beautiful Night
14. Great Day

'Flowers in the Dirt' (1989) marked a creative resurgence for Paul McCartney, presenting him as a vital, contemporary songwriter at the close of the 1980s. Track highlights include the bright, Beatlesque 'My Brave Face', the heartfelt ballad 'Put It There', and the polished pop single 'This One'. Several songs were co-written with Elvis Costello, a collaboration that sharpened McCartney’s lyrical edge and drew critical attention. Culturally, the album is often seen as a late-career comeback, reestablishing McCartney’s artistic credibility and introducing his music to a new generation of listeners.

TRACK LISTING

1. My Brave Face
2. Rough Ride
3. You Want Her Too
4. Distractions
5. We Got Married
6. Put It There
7. Figure Of Eight
8. This One
9. Don’t Be Careless Love
10. That Day Is Done
11. How Many People
12. Motor Of Love
13. Où Est Le Soleil?

Mutant, in partnership with Netflix, are proud to present the premiere physical media release of the soundtrack to the 2025 animated feature adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits - featuring original songs and Demos by David Byrne, and an original score by Oli Julian.

Featuring vocal performances by David Byrne, Hayley Williams, Natalie Portman, Margo Martindale and Euan Morton (and more) the songs of The Twits are exactly what you'd expect from the singular song-writing style of David Byrne - simultaneously unlike anything you've ever heard and yet undeniably catchy. Oli Julian's score is no slouch either - the score to The Twits is riddled with fun and bouncy melodies, with quirky instrumentation - bold, playful and vibrant and nearly impossible to categorize into a single genre.

This limited edition physical media release contains TWO exclusive demo recordings by David Byrne, not available anywhere else! With original artwork by Sonny and Biddy - self-proclaimed Twits themselves - this album is a love letter to fans of the book, the film, the music of David Byrne, or the muggle-wump in all of us. 

TRACK LISTING

1. David Byrne & Hayley Williams - Open The Door
2. Margo Martindale & Euan Morton - We’re Not Like Ev’ryone Else
3. Erika Dapkewicz - Twitlandia
4. Margo Martindale & Euan Morton - The Problem Is You /
5. Natalie Portman - Lullaby
6. Oli Julian - Trick Me (feat. Lloyd Wade)
7. Oli Julian - Fireworks (feat. Ella Taylor)
8. Oli Julian - Cook You In A Pie
9. Oli Julian - Not Normal People
10. Oli Julian - Muggle-Wumps Escape
11. Oli Julian - Sweet Toed Toad
12. Oli Julian - Florbnorbles
13. Oli Julian - Beesha Comes Back
14. Oli Julian - Muggle-Wump Party
15. Oli Julian - Back In Business
16. Oli Julian - The Twits On The Stairs
17. Oli Julian - Not On My Watch
18. Oli Julian - Stealing The Orphanage
19. Oli Julian - Making An Escape 
20. Oli Julian - Upside Down
21. Oli Julian - The Dreaded Shrinks
22. Oli Julian - Saving The Twits
23. Oli Julian - Goodbye To The Twits
24. David Byrne - If We Were Good (Demo)
25. David Byrne - We’re Not Like Ev’ryone Else (Demo)

'Extinction Burst!' is the new invocation in album-form by Guttersnipe, Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent XFCER (XFCER: Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock) duo. Slamming at full speed to multi-dimensional oblivion, 'Extinction Burst!' is the most full, hi-definition lurid dream-mare yet spewed out by Uroceras Gigas & Tipula Confusa. Engineered and mixed by Ross Halden at Hohm Studio in Bradford and mastered by Rashad Becker, 'Extinction Burst!' follows 2018’s 'My Mother The Vent', which garnered universal critical adoration. Nevertheless, this long-awaited follow up is more extreme: it is wildness beyond reason, splitting new tears in the reality gauze, ultimate hallucination through sound ecstasy.

2026’s Guttersnipe are evolved, mutated by 8 years of touring together and with the labyrinthine network of groups both Guttersnipe members are involved with - Tristwch Y Fenywod, Nape Neck, Petronn Sphene, Yexxen to name a few. On 'Extinction Burst!', as with previous material, the duo are heavily augmented with technology. Tipula Confusa's drum kit triggers chasm-causing synth pulses with thumping low end attack.. Strafing from all over the stereo field the constant shatter of the cymbals and toms feel like Sunny Murray or Rashied Ali in full flight during a John Coltrane session in 1967. Uroceras Gigas’s guitar + synth storm is by-now similarly an instantly recognised tool kit in underground music. Switching from screeching guitar atonality to intricate riffs from the black metal/Voivod hinterland to ultra-distorted synth meltdown, it’s an utterly overwhelming, essential and vital pouring-out of the full emotional spectrum. Both artists vocalise, ecstatic and primal, drawn out or yelped in pain or pleasure or panic.

'Alive On Tuesday' begins with some of the only space on 'Extinction Burst!'. Digital crackles and tight-delays blow out into a full-throttled death-dive into sweet opaqueness, offset by the duo’s vocals. There’s a popular believe that Guttersnipe is chaos, but over 9 mins here the group are clinical in their control of the simulated entropy. Mincing while the Maelstrom Churns’s guitar is modulated into jagged atonal atonement, duetting with the virtuoso drum patterns before it thuds into gear at quadruple the speed. 'Threads Of Radical Unaliveness' veers close to the extreme Metal influences with blast beats and guttural vocalisations until the track exhausts itself into unaliveness. 'Keep Honking...' summons a demonic digital panic, with the duo re-incarnating in real time as haunted versions of themselves, almost translating the lurid, ultra vivid, simultaneous hell+heaven of being alive in this dimension. 'Primordial Invagination' harnesses No Wave’s dissension of normality before the structured collapse of 'Skräckblandad Förtjusning', in which Tipula Confusa’s accelerating drums simulate a bouncing barrel of brimstone descending into a primordial gunky ooze, a respite in the middle before the record splutters to a stuttering finale, both members’ vocals out there in the neon realness, alive with crisis energy.

There is nothing on this cursed earth like Guttersnipe. For over 10 years they have whirled in a wiggliness both woebegone and wonderstruck on a mission of radical mutant exaltation using rock music weaponry loaded with a queer hysterical ammunition to rupture the fabric of the known Rock universe and unleash a tendril-soft hallucinatory violence; thrumming with the bracing vividness of insect bodies, crazed with alien synaesthetic emotions, harnessing jagged excoriating illogic as a face meltingly snazzy affront to redundant macho mediocrity with the hope to break minds, squeeze hearts, explode pelvises and maybe even reset the parameters of reality.

TRACK LISTING

1. Alive On Tuesday
2. Mincing While The Maelstrom Churns
3. Threads Of Radical Unaliveness
4. Keep Honking! We're Stuck In A Memetic Bottleneck
5. Primordial Invagination
6. Skräckblandad Förtjusning

“Alle Sorgenti Delle Civiltà Vol. 3 - Africa, Australia, Nuova Zelanda” (1971) is the third and final chapter of a triptych of folk-based sound recordings released by Folkmusic. The album contains a total of fourteen tracks by Braen and Raskovich, i.e. the a formidable multi-instrumentalists Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini, each grappling with seven different compositions characterised by a tribal mood. Among the grooves of this record, repressed on vinyl for the first time by Musica Per Immagini, it is possible to discern an in-depth study of one of those forms of popular culture referring to a specific geographic area, comprising the types of traditions often handed down orally and concerning knowledge, beliefs, fairy tales, legends, myths, narratives linked to the dimension of the fantastic, customs and traditions, namely music. Festivals and propitiatory rites, fights and dances, magical and sacred representations were all expressions of life whose sound and rhythm contributed to an appropriate description of the environment. Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini have chosen some of the most significant musical characters that even belong to specific ethnic realities scattered across two distant continents, where the use of some of the typical instruments has favoured the realisation of sonorities of considerable interest.

TRACK LISTING

A1.Echi Tribali
A2.Danza Della Pioggia
A3.Totem
A4.Danza Della Morte
A5.Rito Della Fecondazione
A6.Danza Di Guerra

B1.Rito Nuziale
B2.Iniziazione
B3.Rito Del Sole
B4.Invocazione
B5.Rito Della Fertilità
B6.Danza Dello Stregone
B7.Rito Di Propiziazione
B8.Adorazione

It's been more than ten years since Rolando debuted with his sought after self-titled EP on 030303 and it is thrilling to see the producer - who has always managed to remain a sort of best kept secret, admired only by the heads - still surf those high waves of creativity. "Lifephorce" is bound to be an instant classic, leaving instant marks on the listener's soul with unsettling yet mesmerising chord changes, a heavy throbbing bassline and generally a deep, introspective outlook on the dancefloor. "Sterilize The Club" brings back memories of face masks (thank you Rolando), but soundwise this is face to the ground stomping braindance material. Just as driving but more melancholic are "Dot Zoner" and "Exit Your Own Realm". Classic Rolando Simmons, this one. If you know you know...

TRACK LISTING

1 Lifephorce
2 Sterilize The Club
3 Dot Zoner
4 Exit Your Own Realm

Annie Taylor recorded their third album between the rock band's US tour and concerts in Europe. It's called 'Out of Scale' and is characterized by intense emotions, chaotic relationships, and big dreams.

The band's first album, 'Sweet Mortality', brought them international fame seemingly out of nowhere. They recorded their second album, 'Inner Smile', in England; it was rougher, more honest. And now they have sharpened their style once again. Each song sounds different, yet inevitably follows on from the next. Distorted guitar and empowering grunge rage are followed by repetitive psychedelia – and then a thoughtful song, almost quiet: somewhere between Courtney Barnett and Wet Leg.

Doing your own thing, even if it's not the direct route, 'Out of Scale', outside the conformist standards—that's the message the album conveys and which is already embedded in the band's name. Annie Edson Taylor was a teacher from the USA who led a turbulent life and rubbed people up the wrong way. In 1901, she became the first person to plunge down Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was only injured on the back of her head. 'Out of Scale' motivates us to never stop dreaming. To constantly reinvent ourselves. And to resist stagnation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Alligator
2. Something Ain't Right
3. Lucidity
4. Fire
5. That City
6. The Cure
7. Overload 
8. The Ocean 
9. Silence
10. What Do You Have To Sell?
11. Places

PPP: a whirlwind new link-up between contemporary club heartthrobs Piezo, DJ Plead and DJ Python. A trio of the best in the game come together for a new collaborative project on Facta and K-LONE’s Wisdom Teeth imprint.

The project was recorded gradually over a two year period at Piezo’s studio in Milan. Initial sketches were written when Python came to stay for a few days in late 2023. Later, when Plead travelled through the city, he stopped by to add his own contributions - and the record grew incrementally and organically from there across multiple visits.

The initial MO was to workshop a warped take on early 00s minimal and tech house - but at a certain point the record took on a life and soul of its own, spreading out in a number of disparate yet interconnected creative directions: from the peak-time euphoria/melancholia of ‘Wisco’ through to the shoegazed minimal of ‘Plz’, via proggy psychedelia (‘Bborn Again’), glitched Perlon reconstructions (‘Pez’) and downbeat downtempo (‘Coni’).

At points you can clearly hear their individual voices break through: be it Python’s whale-song melodies on ‘Coni’, Plead’s frenetic hand drums on ‘Wisco’, or Piezo’s sound-design freakouts on ‘Pez’. At other points the joins are harder to find as the record takes on a unique voice far beyond the sum of its parts.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wisco 
2. Bborn Again 
3. Pez 
4. Coni 
5. Plz 

The work of BIG|BRAVE is ever-expanding. The trio’s singular masterful sculpting of sonics into songcraft tucks layers of vulnerability into frenetic storms. 'In Grief Or iI Hope' is an innovative vision of electro-acoustic sound and emotive storytelling, an endless bounty of overwhelming distortions and devastating beauty. in grief or in hope marks a shift for BIG|BRAVE towards denser guitar-oriented compositions. With longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO, Aicher) joining guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie and guitarist Mathieu Ball in the studio for the first time, the pieces are keenly layered with a rich tapestry of harmonics and tonal intricacies. The trio’s instinctual progressions made more vivid through live recording, harnessing the gargantuan and storied sound of their performances. Wattie writes: " All that I could reflect on was grief and hope; death and life; cause and effect; shared experiences of being a human person.” The tenth album for the ensemble, 'In Grief Or In Hope' pays homage to their past while looking into their future. Standout 'The Ineptitude for Mutual Discernment' expands on lyrical themes first explored on 2015’s 'Au De La' where 'Verdure' echoes melodies from the title track of 2014’s 'Feral Verdure'. These references to their past serve as potent reflections on BIG|BRAVE’s evolution as artists. A sonic whirlpool of string instruments surround Wattie’s commanding vocals as she shifts from spectral undulations on pieces like 'What May Be The Kindest Way To Leave' to the direct, spare declarations of the title track. The ambiguity of mountainous chords on 'An Uttering of Antipathy' are coupled with autotuned phrases emphasizing the protagonists’ isolation inside the fray. Together the trio shift deliver emotional momentum that vividly describes the complex and deep feelings of struggle, pain, and transcendence. 'In Grief Or In Hope' transmits that sense of humanity with every gesture.

TRACK LISTING

1. What May Be The Kindest Way To Leave
2. A Shape Of Shame
3. The Ineptitude For Mutual Discernment
4. Holding Tongue
5. Verdure
6. Skin Ripper
7. An Uttering Of Antipathy
8. In Grief Or In Hope

'Elephant Eyelash' is the second studio album from Why?. Originally released by anticon. in 2005, this reissue is in celebration of it's 20th anniversary. This release also contains the 'Sanddollars' EP, 'Dumb Hummer' EP, and a special unreleased song called 'Bangs'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crushed Bones
2. Yo Yo Bye Bye
3. Rubber Traits
4. The Hoofs
5. Fall Saddles
6. Gemini (Birthday Song)
7. Waterfalls
8. Sanddollars
9. Speech Bubbles
10. Whispers Into The Other
11. Act Five
12. Light Leaves
13. Miss Ohio's Nameless
14. Fingernails
15. Sick 2 Think
16. Sanddollars
17. Vice Principal
18. Next Atlanta
19. Pantone Cyan
20. Mutant John
21. Dumb Hummer
22. Pick Fights
23. Deceived
24. Bangs

‘Aquáticos’ is a captivating new record from Los Angeles producer Eddie Ruscha and Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento. Blending Nascimento’s expressive, Afro-samba and choro-inflected guitar with Ruscha’s cosmic, groove-driven sound, ‘Aquáticos’ marks the start of a vibrant musical partnership—an organic, free-spirited collaboration full of interplay and vitality.

Conceived during the early 2020’s, ‘Aquáticos’ grew from a series of recording sessions in which the music unfolded naturally, in a state of effortless flow. Album opener ‘Nascer,’ the very first piece they recorded, captures such a moment perfectly: Nascimento’s 7- and 10-string nylon guitars weave seamlessly with Ruscha’s modular synths, drum machines, and vintage keyboards. Like much of Ruscha’s work under Secret Circuit and E Ruscha V, it is rich in lush, rhythmic textures—pulsing and bubbling with vibrant energy.

The initial session that produced the opening track set the tone for the record, establishing a template of intuitive interplay and musical freedom. Each subsequent session built upon the last, gradually shaping ‘Aquáticos’ across nine tracks, all characterized by melodic richness, rhythmic depth, and an unshakable sense of spontaneity.

‘Aquáticos’ pulls the listener gently into a celebration of musical conversation — a radiant, immersive journey where Ruscha and Nascimento’s instruments breathe together, echoing the joy, curiosity, and playful spirit that define their collaboration.

Sleeve art and design by Michael Willis.

TRACK LISTING

Nascer
Rain
Chegada
Bio
Purpose
Solar
Leaves
Immerso
Rio Inverso

Irish band Dea Matrona return with their second album, 'Hate That I Care'. Darker and more emotionally intense, the record finds Mollie McGinn and Orláith Forsythe coming into their own, embracing alt-rock with a sharpened edge. Written with a deeper awareness of the world around them, 'Hate That I Care' explores desire, rebelling against expectations and the complicated process of self-discovery

TRACK LISTING

1. Hate That I Care
2. My Own Party
3. A Rebel Song
4. Aisling
5. John Doe
6. Wait
7. Magic Spell
8. Summer Rain
9. Siren Song
10. Told U I’m Strange

Providence-bred Deer Tick returns with their 9th album, 'Coin-O-Matic'. Rooted in their hometown, it draws from the city’s colorful & once-seedy past, telling stories inspired by the characters that shaped its reputation & the hardworking people who call it home. Named after the former Atwells Avenue headquarters of the Patriarca Crime Family, 'Coin-O-Matic' blends nostalgia with universal themes, delivering the kind of hook-filled, lived-in songwriting longtime fans have come to expect.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dog Years
2. Mary Singletary
3. Endless Loop
4. Sweetest Things
5. ACI
6. Everything Born
7. Eyelid
8. I Am An Island
9. 507 Smith
10. Exit Door
11. Candy Cigarettes

Turma da Bênção – A Semba Gathering Across Generations

"Conjunto Angola 70 & Paulo Flores"

The Turma da Bênção project brings together Conjunto Angola 70, a collective dedicated to recreating and preserving the golden-era sound of Angolan music from the 1970s, and Paulo Flores, one of the most important ambassadors of semba worldwide and one of the creators of kizomba. Throughout his career, Flores has built bridges between tradition and modernity, helping shape the global understanding of contemporary Angolan music.

Recorded in Lisbon in 2018 in an intimate 'roda de semba' setting, informal jam sessions rooted in collective rhythm and storytelling, Turma da Bênção gathers legendary musicians such as Botto Trindade (guitar), Joãozinho Morgado (congas) and Teddy N’Singui (guitar); mid-generation artists including Galiano Neto (percussion), Paulo Flores (vocals and artistic direction) and Pirika Duia (viola); and younger creators such as Mayo Bass (bass), Jéssica Pina (trumpet) and Armando Gobliss (keys).

The result is a powerful dialogue between eras. Classic Angolan repertoire meets new compositions, all deeply rooted in semba — the rhythmic and poetic foundation from which kizomba later emerged.

The album revisits emblematic songs such as "Runfo da Liberdade", "Memórias de Gui" and "Lamento de Duia", while introducing new works including "Morgadinho", "Catuta 45", "Boas Festas Conterrâ" and "Réveillon", the latter awarded Semba of the Year at the Angola Music Awards in 2020.

Before this LP, Keep On Pushin Records released the singles Turma da Bênção presents: "Joãozinho Morgado" and Turma da Bênção presents: "Botto Trindade", building anticipation for what now becomes the label’s first full-length vinyl release.

Issued on vinyl in the year Angola celebrates 50 years of Independence, Turma da Bênção stands as a symbolic statement, honoring the elders, empowering the present generation, and ensuring that the pulse of semba continues to resonate across borders.

Turma da Bênção is more than an album. It is a rare intergenerational encounter and a living celebration of Angola’s musical heritage.

TRACK LISTING

Boas Festas Album Version
Reveillon
Memoria De Guy
Morgadinho Album Version
Catuta 45
Rufo Da Liberdade
Agarrem
Lamento

"I wanted to travel / Home into somewhere," Ana Roxanne breathes across an eerie suspended drone on 'The Age of Innocence'. "I wanted to try / And go very far." These are the first words we hear on 'Poem 1' and reintroduce an artist who's in a conspicuously different phase of her life than she was when her debut album, 'Because of a Flower', sprouted nearly six years ago.

Heartbroken and reflective, Roxanne surveys the transformations that followed and displays a new-found boldness. Her voice is naked, vulnerable and alive, no longer shrouded in tape noise or looped and echoed beyond recognition beneath layered electroacoustic textures.

Throughout the course of 'Poem 1', Roxanne displays her skill as a singer and songwriter in the classic sense, using the limited instrumentation simply to accent her exposed tones. Muted piano phrases and plucked bass notes languidly trail her anguished siren song on 'Berceuse in A-flat Minor, Op. 45', making each word count.

On 'Keepsake' meanwhile, she sounds as if she's alone in an abandoned bar, stroking the dust off the piano's keys as she inventories her emotional scars. There's a smell of old whisky in the air, but 'Poem 1' is a remarkably sober album; never wallowing in self pity, Roxanne finds catharsis in the logic of her expressions, twisting out the edges of her memories into surreal, cinematic asides. 'Untitled II', the album's pronounced, uninhibited centerpiece, delivers on the Lynchian promise that's been present since her first EP, 2019's '~~~'.

And when she interprets the Robert Schumann's lied 'Stille Tränen' on 'One Shall Sleep', she turns Justinus Kerner's words into a whispered echo of her own grief, narrating the 19th century poem over syrupy synthesizers and strings. There's a light emerging on the horizon, though; burying her past on the choral standout 'Cover Me', Roxanne shifts the pace and the mood on 'Atonement', lifting her voice into a gentle lilt. 

TRACK LISTING

1. The Age Of Innocence
2. Berceuse In A-flat Minor, Op. 45
3. Keepsake
4. X
5. Untitled II
6. One Shall Sleep
7. Wishful (Draft)
8. Cover Me
9. Atonement

Sultans' 'Ghost Ship' LP was originally released on Sympathy For The Record Industry in 2000. While RFTC looked for a new drummer, Speedo (armed with an 8 track tape machine and 3 microphones) devised yet another alias as “Slasher” and concocted this primordial ooze of moped scuzz, punk rock and roll. 'Ghost Ship' was met with enthusiasm by those seeking blistering relief from the weak, whiny, wretched and wimpy wannabes du jour. The sound is full on, straight ahead with only starting gates and finish lines between songs. The band played some shows around California and would slightly evolve on their second LP 'Shipwrecked'. 'Ghost Ship' is Sultans at their most thuggish and hairiest. Taking inspiration from Australia’s Chosen Few, Ramones bootlegs, Misfits bootlegs and then challenging themselves to be as thrifty and impatient as possible, the songs are intentionally brief, similar and burly.


After this was recorded these tapes lay dormant in a shed for over 20 years. When the tapes were recently unearthed it revealed unreleased songs recorded after Ghost Ship yet before the band’s follow up LP Shipwrecked. Some of these songs would later be absorbed by RFTC and re-recorded. These songs are included here as bonus tracks and offer no relief to the record’s unrelenting pace.

TRACK LISTING

1. Just A Fool (That's Down)
2. Hold You Down
3. Heartbreaker
4. Shakedown
5. Put Up A Fight
6. Trust No One
7. It's Over
8. My Sights Are Low
9. Chances Are
10. (This Ain't No) Solid State
11. Your Mouth Is Open And Your Eyes Are Shut
12. The Year Of Regret
13. All City Warning
14. Running Far From Home
15. Don't Hurry (To Come Back To Me)
16. Despise
17. Out Of Control
18. No Way At All
19. Pictures Of Lenny
20. On The Prowl
21. Come On Everybody

San Diego’s Mrs. Magician has always bent surf music and punk into something delightfully off-kilter — sun-soaked, hook-heavy power pop with a lyrical fixation on life’s darker undercurrents. Their 2012 debut, 'Strange Heaven', was a nihilistic pop statement that grew into a cult classic. The 2016 follow-up, 'Bermuda', sharpened the edges with punchy, nervy songwriting. Both records were produced by John Reis (Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu), cementing the band’s place in Southern California’s underground lineage.

Now, in 2026, Mrs. Magician reemerges with their long-awaited third LP, 'Spiritual Hangover'. Recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 and Singing Serpent Studios with producer Christian Cummings, 'Spiritual Hangover' finds songwriter Jacob Turnbloom trading youthful nihilism for something more reflective. Where earlier records wrestled with existential dread through anthemic defiance, this new collection embraces uncertainty — an admission of ignorance in the face of the human condition, paired with a genuine longing for connection and understanding.

The humor remains. The hooks are sharper than ever. But the perspective has shifted. These songs feel less like a declaration of dominance and more like a celebration of fragility — an acknowledgment that life is fleeting, confusing, and still worth enjoying.

The album features Andrew Montoya (drums) and Mark Rivera (bass) of The Sess, Ian Fowles (guitar) of The Aquabats, and John Reis (guitar).

'Spiritual Hangover' channels the bright urgency of late-’70s power pop through a distinctly Californian lens — warm, melodic, and irresistibly alive.

TRACK LISTING

1. Die In Cleveland
2. High Resolution
3. Don’t Wear Me Out
4. Fear Of The Living
5. Sanctuary
6. Dead Alive
7. Public Meltdown
8. Depression Song
9. One And Only Girl
10. Pill
11. The World Doesn’t Need Your Jive

They Might Be Giants treat the entire history of popular music as a trampoline rather than a rulebook. Like two pinballs pinging off of each other through musical murals stretching into a giddy ether, TMBG moves by ricochet. On their album 'The World Is to Dig', the multi- Grammy- winning duo continue bouncing through the pop multiverse, digging into whatever they find with playful zeal. John Linnell and John Flansburgh continue to fire ideas off one another like particles in a perpetual motion experiment, each collision producing a new angle, a new melodic left turn, resulting in tracks packed with esoteric references, mischievous details, and left- field detours. Untethered from trends, immune to nostalgia, and equally ready to draw from Tin Pan Alley theatrics and contemporary pop culture references, 'The World Is to Dig' is the sound of a band very much in motion; not chasing relevance, but generating it on their own terms.

TRACK LISTING

1. Back In Los Angeles
2. Wu-Tang
3. Sleep's Older Sister
4. Je N'en Ai Pas
5. Outside Brain
6. Let's Fall In Lava
7. Telescope 
8. Garbage In 
9. What The Cat Dragged In
10. They Might Be Feral
11. Get Down
12. New Wave Will Never Die
13. Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
14. Character Flaw
15. Hit The Ground
16. What You Get
17. Slow
18. In The Dead Mall

Woven throughout 'These Are The Days', the sixth full-length album from Nashville's Michaela Anne, is a tenderness.

With life comes change, and love must deepen to hold it all together. While Michaela Anne's past work searched for satisfaction in the external world, 'These Are The Days' brings the gaze mindfully inward toward a re-grounding of values.

Following two years of major life transitions in which she became a mother at the same time that her own mother suffered a stroke, Michaela Anne used songwriting to shape her understanding of a commonplace life. "The humdrum is holy," she sings on the title track, reminding us that the small moments are what make a life. There's no escapism here, no gloss. 'These Are The Days' reinforces how gratitude and unconditional love are essential to surviving the ordinary. In challenging chapters, the mundane becomes expansive; simplicity, sacred.

Michaela Anne recorded the album at her home studio--a backyard sanctuary handbuilt by her husband, producer Aaron Shafer-Haiss, and his father, and it marks the debut release on her own label, Georgia June Records. 'These Are The Days' reconnects with her rock roots, moving away from classic country toward something raw and resonant. Textured, vibrant, and deeply human, it's ultimately a coming-of-age statement written with the wisdom of a woman in her 30s: a recognition that there is no love without grief, and that growing up means holding both.

TRACK LISTING

1. We're All Good
2. These Are The Days
3. Will You Still Love Me With A Broken Heart
4. Two Pianos
5. That's What I Tell Georgia
6. If Your Body Fails You
7. BSides
8. The Shadow Of A Star
9. We've Got Bigger Plans

Chicago stalwart Dave Maze is back with more "Disco Yams" on his D&E imprint straight outta tha Windy City!

Joining up edit elite such as Rahaan & Pete Blaker, Dave Maze has been spearheading the new school with a vintage flavour, well sourced material and exceptional details to the mixing and mastering - making these "Disco Yams" somewhat of a collectors piece amongst disco aficionados both sides of the pond.

On this excursion Dave keeps the source material well known but the snips adventerous meaning you're twice as likely to turn heads in the dance! Dave's sympathetic hand and keen ear for musicality mean he gets right down to the nuts and bolts of the tune; so not only does he breathe new life into these dancefloor staples, he offers up a fresh, contemporary interpretation. Top stuff! 

Limited import copies. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. I'm Alive
A2. Jazz Carnival 
B1. A Groove That'll Make You Move
B2. Speak About It

Musician and painter Steven Lindsay (The Big Dish) releases 'Chords & Colours'. It is the fourth solo album from The Big Dish frontman, and his first with independent label Last Night From Glasgow. His previous solo album was released under the moniker of Interlopers in 2022.

"It's probably the most interesting and challenging album I've made. The idea was to take the painting titles and write songs. From them....taking me on whatever path that took me down....shackles off so to speak. In the process of this I have visited styles of music that have influenced me throughout my life....from glam rock, punk. post punk, country, dance, ambient music...it's all in there. This has made the process like my life's journey in music and the Arts, and a document of 40 years experience of writing and producing records"

TRACK LISTING

TBC

Long celebrated as one of America's most inventive DIY singer-songwriters, Shakey Graves (born Alejandro Rose-Garcia) has built a singular career on experimentation and emotional honesty.

'Fondness, etc.' feels like a window into his most personal world yet - and a full creative reset - placing emphasis on lo-fi sound and analog warmth, packed with soft vocals, haunted guitars, experimental textures, and tender imperfections.

Shakey Graves' songs explore trying to do better and holding onto fleeting beauty in a chaotic world. The title is a twist on "absence makes the heart grow fonder," delivered with classic Shakey self- effacing charm - capturing moments of life, love, and fatherhood with striking vulnerability and sonic exploration. An album built purely for joy, reminding us that the quietest moments often hold the most profound beauty.

TRACK LISTING

1. Don't Change A Thing
2. When The Love Is New
3. Time Flies
4. Suddenly
5. Away It Goes
6. The Boilermaker
7. I Once Was An Ocean
8. On My Own
9. No Place To Be

Musician and animator Sean Solomon had great expectations. But when his hopes for an abundant world crashed against an unforgiving reality, he decided to feel nothing. For a time, the Los Angeles-born-and-raised singer/songwriter and cartoonist/animator gave into the void, but artistic expression can be a release valve - a way to comprehend the world and build community, which is exactly what Solomon does on his debut solo album 'The World Is Not Good Enough'.

The album art features Sean's winking take on a Richard Scarry book cover and mirrors the cognitive dissonance that pervades the album, which seamlessly moves from bare-bones acoustic guitar to a Neutral Milk Hotel-esque cacophony of marching drums and horn blasts. "I was thinking about those books and how they show an idyllic version of the world," Sean says. "I thought it was kind of funny -- the contrast between the title and the images. Like, there's a dog walking a dog on the back cover, an elephant drinking out of a coffee cup with its snout. It was fun to study these children's books and think about what my version would be."

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Solomon felt especially drawn to both music and animation and immersed himself in episodes of The Simpsons and illustrated stories by graphic novelist and Ghost World author Daniel Clowes. Meanwhile, Sean was an avid fan of seminal '90s and early 2000s punk and alternative acts such as Daniel Johnston, Elliott Smith and Nirvana, the latter of whom he admired for the way they preserved their artistic integrity in the face of global stardom. Adopting his own punk sensibility, Sean and his high school band, the folk-punk Moses Campbell, played all over LA, booking their own shows at coffee shops, houses, and famed DIY venue The Smell. This was followed by playing in the three- piece band Moaning who released two albums on Sub Pop.

After Moaning went on indefinite hiatus in 2023, Solomon thoughtfully wrote and recorded his first solo songs over the better part of two years, culminating in what would become 'The World Is Not Good Enough'. The contemplative eight tracks feature fellow Sub Pop veteran and Sean's former roommate Shannon Lay on backing vocals and guitar and producer Jarvis Taveniere (Whitney, Purple Mountains, Waxahatchee), who produced and stood in on bass and some percussion.

TRACK LISTING

1. Car Crash
2. Finish Line
3. Shooting Star
4. Overdose
5. Remember
6. Postcard
7. Black Hole
8. Korpo

Peach Discs' first release of 2026 comes from fast-rising star of the Manchester scene PACH. (pronounced 'pack'). Five slippery rollers built for dark rooms, wafty terraces and the most locked-in of afters.

"The Wake-Up Call" EP represents the full spectrum of the PACH. sound, one rooted in the minimal tunes coming out of Romania but with a cheeky playfulness that can only come from a life spent in the trenches of UK club culture. The A1 "Keep It Bubblin’" is a prime example, as Todd Edwards-style vocal chops flirt back and forth with dub-inspired feedback lines, or "5am Wake-Up Call's" skipping, UKG-adjascent hats. Things get a little rowdier with "Complex Waveform's" scuzzy bassline that wouldn't sound out of place coming from the Clone Records ecosystem. Here it's bolted to a chassis of tough, techy drums and trippy vox that tickle at your peripheries. Flip to the B-side for something a little deeper – the dubbed-out percussion and disembodied voices of "Not That Kinda Party" contrasting with the moody, low-key synthetic tones of "Book The Dungeon", both sharing a mutual concept of smartly stripped-back, hypnotic jams that focus on heads-down grooves and rolling energy.

TRACK LISTING

Keep It Bubblin
5am Wake-up Call
Another Complex Waveform
Not That Kinda Party
Book The Dungeon

"The story began with the contemplation of lines drawn in the white gravel of a Zen garden: that of the Tokaian temple in Kyoto, which was off-limits to visitors, a few years ago. From that stolen moment, suspended in time, came the inspiration for my new album, 'The Complexity of the Simple'.

"I worked on these instrumental pieces with meticulous craftsmanship, over a period of nearly ten years (2016-2025), continuing on my path towards minimalism. An aesthetic nourished by the visual arts — in particular the sculptor Pierre Labat, who also took the photograph for the cover.

"With this new opus, I want to draw attention to an issue that I believe will be crucial in the forthcoming years and decades. The music industry was born thanks to fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) - which are responsible for the excess CO² we emit every day - and it is dependent on them at every single stage.

"But the use of these energies is set to decline sharply in the future: either because of the need to decarbonise our societies in order to limit climate change, or simply because they are non-renewable and their peak and decline are inevitable. This transition, in our time of ecological backlash, is a colossal and long-term undertaking. It will take many years, probably decades. And we know that in any case, the sooner the better.

"In this context, when do we get to work? When do we start preparing for a future world without hydrocarbons, and probably more sober? What new ways of producing, playing and listening to music will emerge?"

Sylvain 

TRACK LISTING

1. Le Zen Dans L'art Du Tir À L'arc
2. The Guitar Piece I Wrote For Masumi
3. Wabi Sabi For Beginners
4. Sen No Rikyu
5. Lignes Tranquilles Dans Le Gravier Blanc

First ever CD release for this incredible live concert from Ian Dury & The Blockheads at London’s Dominion Theatre on Christmas Eve 1980. Originally transmitted as a special TV performance for the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ on BBC2 TV and for John Peel on BBC Radio 1. This live album is exclusively partnered with a bonus second CD of long out of print live album ‘Live! Warts 'N' Audience....Plus!’ recorded at the Brixton Academy a decade later in December 1990 presented together in deluxe 2CD gatefold packaging.

Following on from the run of singles 'Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3', 'I Want to Be Straight' and 'Sueperman's Big Sister' 1980 saw the release of new album ‘Laughter’ by Ian Dury & The Blockheads.

The ‘Laughter’ tour took place in December 1980 and on Christmas Eve Ian Dury & The Blockheads performed at London’s Dominion Theatre live on Radio 1 and on TV via BBC2’s ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ – introduced on TV by Annie Nightingale and on radio by John Peel.

With The Blockheads now featuring former Dr Feelgood frontman, Wilko Johnson on guitar taking the place of the now departed Chaz Jankel the live show also features additional musicians Don Cherry (father of Neneh) and Topper Headon (The Clash) in addition to the Blockheads line up of lan Dury, Davey Payne, John Turnbull, Norman Watt-Roy, Mickey Gallagher and Charlie Charles.

Fast forward 10 years to a concert recorded at the Brixton Academy, London, 22 December 1990 and a line up that featured the returning Chaz Jankel along with amongst others Norman Watt-Roy, Johnny Turnbull, Mickey Gallagher and Davey Payne. This live concert long out of print has previously released as 'Live! Warts 'N' Audience....Plus!, Warts 'N' Audience' (Live: 22 December 1990) and 'All The Best, Mate....'

TRACK LISTING

CD1 - Live In London 1980:
1. Upminster Kid (Kilburn And The High Roads)
2. Clevor Trever
3. Sink My Boats
4. I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra
5. Sueperman's Big Sister
6. Yes And No (Paula)
7. Uncoolohol
8. Delusions Of Grandeur
9. Dance Of The Crackpots
10. What A Waste
11. Hey, Hey, Take Me Away
12. Manic Depression (Jimi)
13. Oh Mr Peanut
14. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
15. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

CD2 - Live In London 1990:
1. Intro
2. Wake Up And Make Love With Me
3. Clevor Trever
4. Inbetweenies
5. If I Was With A Woman
6. Billericay Dickie
7. Quiet
8. My Old Man
9. Spasticus Autisticus
10. Plaistow Patricia
11. There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards
12. Sweet Gene Vincent
13. What A Waste
14. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
15. Blockheads
16. Reasons To Be Cheerful Pt.3

The definitive autobiography from Alice Cooper, the Godfather of Shock Rock and one of the world's most iconic musicians with a career spanning six decades.

Kelley Stoltz is an American songwriter, multi‑instrumentalist, and DIY innovator whose career stretches back to the late 1990s, when he began self‑recording lush, psych‑tinged pop and garage rock in his San Francisco home studio. Born in New York City in 1971, and raised in Michigan, Stoltz has released a remarkable catalog of albums on labels including Sub Pop, Third Man, and Castle Face Records often playing all of the instruments himself and drawing comparisons to the melodic craftsmanship of the major 60’s pop auteurs and the quirkiness of lesser known 80’s power-pop & new wave.

After issuing his 18th album, 'La Fleur' in 2024 to critical notice, he returns in 2026 with his 19th full‑length release, 'If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now', a collection that continues his long exploration of hook‑laden psych‑pop, introspective lyrics, and richly textured arrangements that both honor his influences and push his sound forward, reinforcing his status as one of the most prolific and singular voices in underground rock. Guests Brigid Dawson of the Osees, Karina Denike of Dance Hall Crashers, Pete Straus of the Dwarves and Allyson Baker Dirty Ghosts and other guests provide backing vocals on several tracks.

TRACK LISTING

1. Competitive Bastard
2. Not Gone
3. Turn The Earth
4. Seventeen Lines
5. Repercussions
6. Daughters Of The Golden West
7. Watts Moon Starr
8. Look Again
9. Come On Spirit
10. Radio Station
11. Queen Of Diamonds
12. The Aches & Pains Of Middle Age
13. Love In Any Language - CD BONUS TRACK
14. Heathers House - CD BONUS TRACK

For over four decades, Mr. Fingers has been shaping the core of house music. Now he returns with a new album that continues his timeless journey through deep rhythms, soulful melodies, and immersive atmospheres. Crafted with the warmth and musicality that define him, the record blends deep house, jazz-infused harmonies, and subtle R&B textures. Mr. Fingers once again reminds us why his music remains essential: hypnotic grooves and heartfelt compositions. Not just music for the club, but also for the quiet spaces...

TRACK LISTING

01 Plastic Nightmares
02 Leev Ur Mynd
03 The Happening Thing
04 Menagerie
05 Barndance
06 Enceladus 5
07 April Rain
08 When You Need Me Feat Brianna
09 Tension
10 All I Need Feat Brianna
11 Ribbons
12 Replicate

In the somber group, CEMETERY SKYLINE, Markus Vanhala (Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum) is joined by keyboardist Santeri Kallio (Amorphis), drummer Vesa Ranta (Sentenced, The Abbey), bassist Victor Brandt (Dimmu Borgir and many more) and singer Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect). "With CEMETERY SKYLINE, we're stepping into previously untrodden musical directions – those darker alleys that we hold dear in our hearts but haven't really wandered before. And we're collectively very excited!" says Vanhala.

One of the key words is goth. "We all share a deep love for goth rock from the 80s and 90s - whether it's more synth-driven or heavier guitar-dominated stuff. You know the deal with the best bands from The Sisters of Mercy to Type O Negative", says Santeri Kallio, who shares songwriting duties with Vanhala. "But is CEMETERY SKYLINE a goth band? Maybe to an extent, but that's certainly not the whole story. If you have to describe CEMETERY SKYLINE's diverse music somehow, do us a favor and call us ambassadors of melodic, melancholic and dark rock. Thank you."

The content of the band's lyrics is deeply buried in the dark gothic atmosphere. The concept written by Stanne – for the first time in his distinguished career Mikael uses clean vocals throughout the album – dives irresistibly into the paradoxical world of "northern solitude". "The lyrics are deeply rooted in the self-chosen solitary life of the Nordic people, their anti-social behavior and bleak sense of humor... When writing the lyrics, I took advantage of this feature of ours, which you could call the Scandinavian gothic lifestyle", says Stanne.

TRACK LISTING

1. Torn Away
2. In Darkness
3. Violent Storm
4. Behind The Lie
5. When Silence Speaks
6. The Darkest Night
7. Never Look Back
8. The Coldest Heart
9. Anomalie
10. Alone Together
11. Nothing From This World
12. I Drove All Night
13. Dream Delusion
14. One Another
15. The Coldest Heart (Live Semi Acoustic 2024)
16. Behind The Lie (Live Semi Acoustic 2024)
17. Torn Away (Live Semi Acoustic 2024)
18. In Darkness (Kabbel Remix)
19. Torn Away (ghostbells Remix)
20. Violent Storm (Gost Remix)

Backwoodz Studioz release 'Crayola Circles', a collaboration between rapper Fatboi Sharif and producer Child Actor. While both artists have long standing connections to Backwoodz, this album marks their first collaboration of any kind and breaks new artistic ground for all parties.

Sharif’s previous album, 'Decay', released on Backwoodz in 2023, was a haunting experimental rap masterpiece, an acid trip in a mental hospital. On 'Crayola Circles' Sharif trades menacing psychedelia for a simmering stew of blacklight expressionism, his verses slipping effortlessly through the swells and tides of Child Actor’s masterful production. No matter how uneasy the waves grow, Sharif is at ease, a truth teller whispering anti-riddles in your ear. This album feels like a new chamber for Child Actor, as well. The producer has been on an impressive run since dropping 'CINE'- a collaboration with rapper Cavalier- on Backwoodz in late 2024. Child Actor has shown up in the liner notes of everyone from Navy Blue ('The Sword & The Soaring') to Earl Sweatshirt ('Live, Laugh, Love') to ELUCID ('Revelator') to Open Mike Eagle ('Neighborhood Gods Unlimited'), to Ghais Guevara ('A Quest to Self-Mythologize'), amongst others. On 'Crayola Circles' Child Actor’s production is dynamic, shifting and sliding into new phases and movements in an instant. The beats are full and knotty, leaning into jazz and folk, while remaining tethered to the tender minimalism that is his signature. It’s a difficult balance for any producer, and here it is executed perfectly, placing us in a world of wood and brass, cowhide and undersea piano. On any other record, this soundscape would steal the show — and it very nearly does — but Sharif’s command never wavers, ever in control; a lucid dreamer in an induced coma.
There are no guests, no skits, and no interludes. There might not even be songs, instead 'Crayola Circles' seems akin to a great river; singular, traversing forest and jungle, mountain and valley, running from mouth to endless sea.

TRACK LISTING

1. Six Figurines
2. Assassination Tapes
3. How To Disinfect A Live Grenade
4. Chemo Crystal Ball
5. Saltwater Tantrums
6. Night Terrors
7. Recognition
8. Diagnosis
9. Crayola Circles Of Creativity
10. ANGER
11. Chinese Sunrise
12. Kwaidan Snowstorm
13. Leon Ichaso
14. Willow Trees
15. The Destitute Stashspot

First time CD release for Pixies unique first ever ‘Acoustic’ live performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 2005. This recording sees the reunited line-up of Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering give alternate takes on 22 of the biggest Pixies favourites and is Presented in deluxe 2CD gatefold packaging twenty years after it’s original release on DVD.

Around 6pm on a warm Saturday in August 2005, The Pixies took the stage on the shores of the Atlantic in Newport, Rhode Island to perform this unique set as the same venue where Bob Dylan went ‘electric’.

Playing a completely acoustic performance, the reunited line-up of Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering give alternate takes of classic tracks including 'Cactus', 'Subbacultcha', 'Is She Weird', 'Hey', 'Caribou' and many more

TRACK LISTING

1. Bone Machine
2. Cactus
3. Ed Is Dead
4. Been All Around The World
5. Subbacultcha
6. Monkey Gone To Heaven
7. Is She Weird
8. Here Comes Your Man
9. River Euphrates
10. Velouria
11. Wave Of Mutilation (Newport Surf)
12. I Bleed
13. Crackity Jones
14. Gouge Away
15. Hey
16. The Holiday Song
17. Nimrod's Son
18. Mr. Grieves
19. Caribou
20. Vamos
21. Where Is My Mind
22. Gigantic

Demon Records are thrilled to present a black-vinyl repress of ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Volume 2’, a sequel to the classic 1997 B-Sides compilation by Suede.

Previously a sell-out Record Store Day 2024 exclusive on clear vinyl, the new collection, curated by Suede frontman Brett Anderson, features 19 selected cuts spanning the band’s trajectory from 1999 to 2023. Where ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies’ left off after ‘Coming Up’, ‘Volume 2’ collects the crop of bonus tracks released from ‘Head Music’, in 1999 to 2022’s ‘Autofiction’.

With a reputation for consistently delivering B-sides as enduring and vital as their A’s and album tracks, ‘Volume 2’ serves up another diverse selection of sonic delights, including fan favourites like ‘Crackhead’, ‘Simon’, ‘The Sadness In You, The Sadness In Me’, ‘Days Like Dead Moths’ and ‘There Is No Me If There Is No You’.

This collection also debuts a previously unreleased track, ‘Blinded’, making its first-ever appearance here. Pressed on double 140g vinyl, with complete lyrics, if you missed it last time, ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Volume 2’ is a must-have for Suede fans and collectors.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Sadness In You, The Sadness In Me
2. Dawn Chorus
3. Let Go
4. Crackhead
5. Cheap
6. Simon
7. What Violet Says
8. Still Waiting
9. Manipulation
10. You Don’t Know Me
11. Days Like Dead Moths
12. Since You Went Away
13. Heroin
14. Leaving
15. God’s Gift
16. There Is No Me If There Is No You
17. Darkest Days
18. The Prey
19. Blinded

Released in 1981, the album followed his final album on Stiff ‘Laughter’ (with The Blockheads) and was Ian’s first album with Polydor Records. At a suggestion of Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, Ian Dury flew to the Bahamas to record ‘Lord Upminster at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, newly reunited with his long-time collaborator Chaz Jankel. There they were to work with reggae rhythm duo Sly Dunbar (drums) and Robbie Shakespeare (bass guitar) and keyboardist Tyrone Downie, while backing vocals came from amongst others no less than Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club fame, along with her sister Laura Weymouth.

The album covers a diverse range of musical styles reflecting Dury's influences and background in pub rock, early rock and roll and British music hall whilst also taking in funk and post disco rhythms and is notable for featuring a Sly Dunbar composition in ‘Girls (Watching)’.

There was also not least the single which was deemed controversial enough to be banned from the airwaves ‘Spasticus (Autisticus)’ which was Ian’s protest against the International Year of Disabled Persons, which he considered to be patronising and insensitive. Years later the now critically lauded song was broadcast live worldwide during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, performed by Orbital and members of the Graeae Theatre Company.

TRACK LISTING

1. Funky Disco (Pops)
2. Red (Letter)
3. Girls (Watching)
4. Wait (For Me)
5. The (Body Song)
6. Lonely (Town)
7. Trust (Is A Must)
8. Spasticus (Autisticus)

Released in 1984, this was the second album released by Polydor and the first and only to be billed to Ian Dury & The Music Students. Songwriting duties were shared between Ian Dury, Russell Hardy, Rod Melvin and a young American songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Michael McEvoy.

Whilst performed by effectively a new line up there were many familiar names who worked on ‘4000 Weeks’ Holiday’. Though Chas Jankel did not write any of the songs, he did play lead guitar as a guest whilst Ed Speight and Geoff Castle, who had played on Dury's seminal New Boots and Panties!! LP in 1977, guested on guitar and Moog synthesizer. The sessions also featured celebrated reggae/ska trombone player Rico Rodriguez MBE, whilst most of the recordings were performed by the 'Music Students', made up of McEvoy, Rhys-Jones, drummer Tag Lamche and saxophonist Jamie Talbot.

The single 'Really Glad You Came' was released and the band performed on National TV inc The Tube. The album also contains 'Peter the Painter' written on request from British Pop artist Peter Blake, Dury’s former teacher at London's Royal College of Art. Blake was having an exhibition at The Tate Gallery, London and asked Dury to compose a theme tune for it. 'Peter the Painter' was that theme tune.

The cover art, one of the last ever designed by Barney Bubbles featured Ian Dury with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) logo (the peace sign) into his hair – in 1984 Ian was an official face for the campaign group in Britain.

TRACK LISTING

1. You're My Inspiration
2. Friends
3. Tell Your Daddy
4. Peter The Painter
5. Ban The Bomb
6. Percy The Poet
7. Very Personal
8. Take Me To The Cleaners
9. The Man With No Face
10. Really Glad You Came

Whisper it quietly, but Jasmine Minks frontman Jim Shepherd has created his masterpiece with 'Be Careful What You Wish For', his new album with The Pillars of Creation on the Precious Recordings of London label.

Let’s not call them a ‘supergroup’ – though the ensemble does indeed feature former stalwarts of Alan McGee’s iconic Creation label, headed by The Loft’s Dave Morgan, on drums and synths, and doing the honours on production and mixing). In fact, although this is the first album credited to The Pillars of Creation, it’s really the band’s second after 'The Circle', released in 2022 (on Spinout Nuggets) and credited as a Shepherd solo effort.

However, 'The Circle' featured most core members, who also played on live shows to accompany its release. Now they’re back together for an epic record that represents a radical departure. And one thing’s for sure: the new album is not a record beholden to a typically C86 or early Creation sound.

Layers of sound, beautifully crafted arrangements, strings, spoken word and an 18-minute mini rock opera that takes up almost a whole side. "Ooh, sounds a bit prog!” Yeah yeah, what-evs!

“'Be Careful What You Wish For' was written in a brief period when I took a month off work, because my son was very ill,” says Shepherd.

“I would just sit with him, and my wife Gemma suggested that I write songs while I was sitting around for hours, so out of that came 14 new songs, including an 18-minute suite of songs, based on (and named after) Maurice Maeterlinck’s 'Bluebird', a play about learning to accept reality.

“The songs poured out of me, whether I was being inspired by listening to Prince or watching the news about refugees in boats or reading novels about faraway lands … I wanted to convey optimism but darkness creeps in too. I wouldn’t change a note: everything the guys contributed is perfect.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Be Careful What You Wish For
2. One Way Home
3. Strange Kind Of Lovin'
4. The Eyes That See
5. Aide De Camp
6. The Sea
7. Bluebird
8. I Walk The Path

Big Crown is proud to present the Thee Marloes’ sophomore album, 'Di Hotel Malibu'. It arrives as a widening of the frame — a confident step away from the lines that once neatly held their sound, and toward something more porous, conversational, and deeply Indonesian. It’s been two years since 'Perak', the Surabaya trio’s debut for Big Crown Records, introduced their unique sound. This new record doesn’t abandon that lineage so much as stretch it, showing how much they have grown as a band since the release of their debut and all the experiences that came with it. Composed of vocalist and keyboardist Natassya Sianturi, guitarist and producer Sinatrya Dharaka and drummer Tommy Satwick, Thee Marloes have always worked as a unit, their songs shaped by shared reference points and a lived-in sense of groove. On this album, that collective language expands. The arrangements move across a broader spectrum, with new instrumental colors, unexpected rhythmic turns, and a looser approach to structure. The band describes it as a response to the last two years of living: social realities, love lives in flux, and all that success has brought into their lives.

The album opener 'Under the Silver Moon' is a stone cold two-stepper that addresses the bitter and the sweet of long distance love affairs over a breezy musical backdrop. 'Six Years' is a page from singer Natassya Sianturi’s life and her struggle to take the step of leaving a comfortable and stable daytime job to follow her dreams of a full time career in music. 'Harap Dan Ragu' explores life, death, and the emotions that orbit them, opening with an earworm guitar riff that ushers in Sianturi’s honeyed vocals, this time in her native language of Indonesian. The album continues to switch vibes and tones track to track with the darker, more introspective 'The More'. The gorgeous musicianship and pulsing drums are met with the deeply poetic lyrics that walk the line between futility and an unbreakable resilience. Thee Marloes dip into their drop dead gorgeous ballad bag with 'Through The Changes' with a powerful yet delicate song about how we imagine and deal with what comes after death. 'Boru' sung entirely in Batak, a traditional language from North Sumatera, goes further into asserting heritage as a foundation and mission statement for the group while 'I’d Be Lost' takes us back to the dancefloor with a light and lovely profession of love.

In the end, 'Di Hotel Malibu' is the result of the best type of inspiration: the global attention Thee Marloes have earned, and the chance to play their homegrown music for fans around the world has put wind in their sails. Enjoy the record, then catch them as they tour the globe. Soul Music from Surabaya, another Big Crown Sureshot.

TRACK LISTING

1. Under The Silver Moon
2. 6 Years
3. Harap Dan Ragu
4. The More
5. Through The Changes
6. Di Hotel Malibu
7. What’s On Your Mind
8. I’m Just A Girl
9. Selatan
10. I’d Be Lost
11. Di Dalam
12. Crazy Eyes
13. Boru
14. Rahasia

Following an illustrious stint as founding member of Mercury Music Prize nominated The Comet Is Coming, and also Soccer96, the producer and synthesist Danalogue heralds a new chapter, with his debut solo album Teleportations. His music has been supported by Mike D from The Beastie Boys and Thom Yorke, has been A-listed on BBC6 Music, where he has performed sessions for Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Gilles Peterson and Steve Lamacq. His tracks have featured on numerous TV shows such as I May Destroy You, Black Ops and Utopia. He recently wrote his first video game soundtrack for C Smash VRS on Playstation, his work featuring alongside UNKLE and Ken Ishii. As an integral part of the legendary East London studio/venue/community Total Refreshment Centre, Danalogue has produced/mixed records for Snapped Ankles, Joshua Idehen and Rozi Plain, and collaborated on albums with Alabaster DePlume, and Sarathy Korwar.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Awakening On The Planet
Mother Of Mars
Far Beyond The Sun
Moebius Triptych
You Are On The Right Track 

Side B
Theta Wave Convergence
Arrival At Rho Ophiuchi
Fallen Out Of Phase
Onto The Next Dimension
Earth Remembrance Day

2 more unknown edits but 1 unknown producer. Please Forgive us.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Forgive Me 5
B1. Forgive Me 6

Wanda Felicia returns to Timmion Records with “Reflections Of Love” b/w “All In The Game”, a soulful and deeply human double-sider that highlights two complementary shades of her artistry. Drawn from her debut album Now Is The Time..., this release places the spotlight on Wanda’s expressive voice and emotional clarity, backed by the unmistakable analog warmth of Cold Diamond & Mink.

On the A-side, “Reflections Of Love” brings the tempo up with a laid-back funk undertone. Wanda’s vocal floats above the beat with confidence, delivering a reflection on love that’s as danceable as it is heartfelt. By the time she sings “you really got me now,” the listener is already there.

The flip, “All In The Game”, slows things down into a powerful beat ballad, where patience and perseverance take center stage. Anchored by a slow-burning groove, Wanda delivers a performance full of resolve and quiet strength, reminding us that love – like life – unfolds on its own terms. Together, these two songa form a beautifully balanced record, capturing Wanda Felicia at her most compelling and confirming her place as one of Timmion’s most captivating voices.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Reflections Of Love
Side B:
1. All In The Game

TRACK LISTING

A1 Dean Martin - You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
A2 Tony Bennett - Rags To Riches
A3 The Ink Spots - Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)
A4 The Shirelles - I Met Him On A Sunday (aka "Da Doo Ron Ron")
A5 Robert & Johnny - You're Mine
A6 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
A7 The Cramps - The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon
B1 Jimmy Smith - Walk On The Wild Side
B2 Jimpson & Group - The Murderer's Home
B3 Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
B4 Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night
B5 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Moonlight Serenade
B6 Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man
B7 The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra - Radetzky March
C1 The Harptones - Life Is But A Dream
C2 Bing Crosby With Victor Young's Orchestra - Just One More Chance
C3 Charlie Parker - I'll Remember April
C4 Johnnie Ray - Cry
C5 Benny Goodman - Moonglow
C6 LaVern Baker - Tweedlee Dee
C7 Frankie Carle - I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl)
D1 Ray Charles - Come Rain Or Come Shine
D2 Bo Diddley - Road Runner
D3 Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry
D4 The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
D5 Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade
D6 The Hot Club Of France With Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli - What Is This Thing Called Love
D7 The Danleers - One Summer Night

WOLF welcomes Reagan Grey for the label’s second release of 2026. Based in Toronto, Reagan has been immersed in the underground for over 15 years, with recent releases on Local Talk and her hometown label, Selections.

This four-track EP presents a refined and assured expression of her sound, drawing from the enduring legacy of New York, Detroit, and Chicago house music. The release opens with “Not Giving Up,” featuring vocals from Christie Nelson. It’s a deep, dub-inflected, driving track designed for intimate, late-night dancefloor settings.

“Your Love” follows, featuring Finn Rees (30/70 / Mr Bongo), whose musical sensibility and deft keys add a distinctive touch. On the flip, we’re treated to two further cuts that both fall into the dancefloor sureshot category.

A brilliant debut release full of energy from Reagan Grey proving why she's a strong and welcome addition to the WOLF roster.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Not Giving Up Feat. Christie Nelson
A2. Your Love Feat. Finn Rees
B1. Starlight
B2. Kinetic

Carve is the second full-length by Bay Area artist Kathryn Mohr. Written over the course of five years and recorded over several weeks in a rural singlewide in the Mojave Desert, the album centers on love experienced as a form of grief, not as an aftermath of loss, but as a condition of intimacy itself. Mohr describes Carve as an album about how memory exists outside the body, embedded in places and landscapes. It is shaped by her first return to the American Southwest since a childhood road trip at age five, and by the experience of moving through terrain that holds emotional weight long after its origins fade. The record considers how intimacy feels after years of isolation, and what it takes to carve out a life that allows for trust, presence, and feeling rather than mere survival. The project took form after a difficult tour that ended in Joshua Tree. Mohr pointed her car into the desert and drove alone, crisscrossing the Mojave on dirt roads. Months later, she returned to record the album, working alone with an acoustic guitar, a field recorder, and limited supplies. Following that period, Mohr began to allow for intimacy and connection. The time she spent recording Carve in the desert did not create isolation so much as mirror it. Working alone out of an old, western-themed jail Airbnb, the physical enclosure reflected the emotional conditions under which much of the record had been written: distance, restraint, and long stretches of stillness. In that context, love was not experienced as escape, but as something inseparable from impermanence and the awareness of loss. This tension between connection and inevitability sits at the center of Carve. Some of the album’s songs were written earlier, during a prolonged period marked by emotional distance and apathy. Over those four years, Mohr was working through unprocessed childhood memories and their long-term effects on her ability to connect with others. The work was slow and difficult, involving a fundamental reshaping of how she related to herself and to the world. Carve was mixed by Richard Chowenhill of Flenser labelmates Agriculture. Rather than offering resolution, the album documents the act of remaining present within tension. Carve is not about escaping grief, but about accepting it as inseparable from love itself. Kathryn Mohr’s previous effort “Waiting Room” received the coveted ‘Best New Music' designation and a score of 8.4 from Pitchfork.

TRACK LISTING

1 Bone Infection
2 Doorway
3 Angle Of Repose
4 Commit
5 Property
6 I Do
7 Idiocy
8 Owner
9 Cells
10 Chromium 6
11 Trouble Me
12 Crow Eyes

Shrouded in myth and working quietly at the edges of modern composition, the enigmatic Anichy & Lyemn announces the release of their newest recording on the esteemed Swiss imprint Fabrique d'Instruments—a new label championing radical, visionary sound.
This deeply affecting work unfurls as a meditation on impermanence, memory, and the slow unravelling of time. Across its extended movements, they create a sound world that is at once symphonic in scale and intimate in breath, echoing the aching resonance of William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, the spectral drift of The Caretaker, and the luminous stillness of Gavin Bryars.

Strings sigh, distant sounds dissolve, and tape-worn melodies return like half-remembered dreams. It is music that feels remembered more than heard—a fragile architecture built from erosion, decay, and the stubborn persistence of beauty.
Adding to its mystique, the record features previously unheard collaborations with a legendary British minimalist composer, whose identity remains deliberately withheld. These rare sessions—long thought lost to time—reveal the artist exploring harmonic minimalism with a disarming tenderness, the composer’s unmistakable signature woven delicately through Anichy & Lyemn’s drifting orchestral shadows.

At a moment when the world feels increasingly unmoored, this record arrives as a quiet monument to what slips away, and what remains.
Artist is available for very limited interviews.

TRACK LISTING

Thymine
Cytosine

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen – guitar. Ståle Storløkken – organ and synth. Ole Mofjell – drums. “Weejuns is all about interplay,” explains Mollestad, a former Young Jazz Talent of the Year and Artist in Residence in her native Norway. “Bitches Blues consists of six instrumental tracks, or stretches of music, with an extreme range of dynamics. Some are based around hefty beats, while other tracks are far more lyrical and rubato. It ranges from riff-based rock-ish stuff, to loud chaos, to melancholy ballads and even totally free improvisations.” Taking a cultured yet refreshingly instinctive approach to intertwining instruments and influences, Bitches Blues (a wry play on Miles Davis album Bitches Brew) veers unpredictably from slow and soft, distinctly sectioned songs with disciplined chord progressions to explosive eruptions of cathartic and complex structures. Weejuns (a slang abbreviation of “Norwegians”) introduced themselves in 2023 with a self-titled double live album. Originally assembled by Mollestad for the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, where she’d been awarded the prestigious Musicians Prize, Weejuns’ collective chemistry has proven enduring and alluring, in part as a foil to the Hedvig Mollestad Trio’s heaviest album to date, 2025’s Bees in the Bonnet. A graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music, Mollestad has released eight acclaimed albums with her eponymous Trio, toured across Europe and North America, and performed with the likes of Nels Cline, Colin Stetson, Ingrid Laubrock, Trevor Dunn, and Shahzad Ismaily. The signature of her 15-year career has been fusing serious chops with an overt focus on finding fun in sound. For years, Mollestad obsessed over music and little else. The daughter of a jazz musician, she lost herself in his record collection, studying classic works by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Joe Pass and Jim Hall before discovering riff-raging titans like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Mahavishnu Orchestra in her 20s. This led to the formation of Hedvig Mollestad Trio, whose relentless recording and touring schedule since the early ’10s have earned the guitarist a stream of accolades, including two Norwegian Grammys (Spellemannprisen) and DownBeat magazine naming her one of the 25 artists who “could shape jazz for decades” in November of 2020. Ståle Storløkken is a founder and long serving member of Supersilent and Elephant9, has served as Terje Rypdal´s “right hand” since the mid 90s, and collaborated with Motorpsycho on record and on stage... as well as countless others. Ole Mofjell is the youngest member, active with Krokofant, Signe Emmeluth’s Amoeba and his own free jazz trio 3 Days Of Maceration.

TRACK LISTING

1.Bitches Blues
2.Kompet Blir
3.For A Moment I Thought I Could Hear You
4.Limite
5.Dynamax
6.Recollection Of Sorrow

Manfredi Romano, founder and A&R of Life and Death Records, has been a pivotal figure in electronic music for over two decades. This year marks an important milestone as he is invited to curate the upcoming fabric presents mix for fabric Records, a release that highlights his instinctive storytelling and the distinct musical identity he has cultivated throughout his career. Manfredi’s journey began in Italy around the turn of the millennium, tour-managing punk bands and organizing left-field music events before completing his studies in computer science at the University of Pisa. He went on to form DAZE, Italy’s first booking agency dedicated exclusively to electronic music, laying the groundwork for what would become a globally influential presence in the scene. In 2010, he shifted focus to his own artistic project, DJ Tennis, which quickly gained international recognition for its emotive blend of house, techno, and disco. Renowned for creating intimate atmospheres in even the largest spaces, DJ Tennis has performed at leading clubs such as Circoloco Ibiza, Fabric London, and Panorama Bar Berlin, and at major festivals including Sonar, Timewarp, Primavera Sound, and Coachella. His 2022 residency at Phonox in London further showcased his ability to shape dancefloors with nuance and depth. Since 2017, he has also co-founded and curated Rakastella, the celebrated Art Basel Miami festival created in partnership with Life and Death and Innervisions. As a producer, DJ Tennis draws from early relationships with post-rock pioneers such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Tortoise, and Fugazi, channelling their influence into intricately layered electronic compositions.

TRACK LISTING

A1 - DJ Tennis - Hello Hello
A2 - Rudy With A Hoodie - LOVELOVELOVE
B1 - DJ Tennis, Ashee - I Wanna Know
B2 - Easttown - Bubblicious
C1 - Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness (M-High Edit)
C2 - Andre Zimmer - Simpli-city
D1 - PAURRO - Bubbles
D2 - Vitess - Insane

Moo is the first wide release on my new label MUP! When I decided to make a new record, it only seemed right to go back to what brings me the most joy, which is, Rock & Roll music. I got my Tascam 388 fixed, the same tape machine I had used to record my first album, King Tuff Was Dead. It had been sitting in my parent’s house in Vermont for the past 14 years, but I had finally dragged it out to LA. I stopped caring if there were mistakes. There’s not enough mistakes. I played my old, blue, Gibson SG, Jazijoo, and she spewed mangled electrified gold. For once, I sang and I didn’t hate my voice. I played the drums badly and bounced them in mono to one track and it sounded like glorious shit. I wish it sounded even worse. Rock & Roll is the music of rodents and bugs. It should sound like it crept from a decrepit trashcan or a crypt or a toilet. It is not chill or vibey, autotuned or on the grid. It is not perfect, which is why it’s perfect. And I don’t care if it’s dead or alive, cool or uncool: when I hear it, and when I play it, as a chubby and balding 43 year old punk weirdo, I FEEL ENERGIZED. All in all, MOO is a full circle moment. A return to form. A return to rock. A return to Vermont. A return to myself. Reconnecting the dots. Restarting the engine. Plugging in the stack. Finally letting King Tuff be King. Fucking. Tuff.

TRACK LISTING

1. Twisted On A Train
2. Stairway To Nowhere
3. Invisible Ink
4. Landline
5. Crosseyed Critters
6. Oil Change
7. East Of Ordinary
8. Unglued
9. Delusions
10. Backroads

As Knocked Loose chipped away at what would become their third album, they felt the pressure from all sides. Internally, there was the need to challenge themselves as songwriters while retaining the merciless intensity and unflinching honesty that have always been their calling cards. Externally, there was a whole new set of eyes on the hard-touring Louisville quintet, following a banner year in which they’d brought their underground-seasoned sound to some of the world’s biggest stages, finding themselves the unlikely viral darlings of both Coachella and Bonnaroo.

The creative process was arduous, with the band writing close to 40 songs across a span of four years before locking in the 10 tracks that make up new LP You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. But in the end, vocalist Bryan Garris, guitarists Isaac Hale and Nicko Calderon, bassist Kevin Otten and drummer Kevin “Pac Sun” Kaine honed a diverse, cohesive and savagely intense album that both sums up the massive strides they’ve taken during their decade as a band, and asserts their boundless potential going forward.

TRACK LISTING

1. Thirst
2. Piece By Piece
3. Suffocate (ft. Poppy)
4. Don't Reach For Me
5. Moss Covers All
6. Take Me Home
7. Slaughterhouse 2 (ft. Chris Motionless)
8. The Calm That Keeps You Awake
9. Blinding Faith
10. Sit & Mourn

A Frauta de Pã is a cult classic of 1970s MPB (Música Popular Brasileira), sought after by vinyl collectors and fans of obscure Brazilian gems, which for the first time since the 70s is available on vinyl again. Featuring elite Brazilian musicians such as João Bosco, Hélio Delmiro, José Roberto Bertrami (Azymuth), Gilson Peranzetta, and Roberto Quartin and with a cross-genre appeal, blending MPB, jazz fusion, progressive/psychedelic elements and orchestral arrangements. The record was released in 1975 when Carlos Walker was just 19 and it stands as a cult masterpiece of 1970s Brazilian music, an album where MPB sophistication meets jazz-fusion virtuosity and psychedelic imagination. It delivers a rich, orchestral sound that continues to captivate collectors and DJs worldwide.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. A Frauta De Pã
2. Serenata Do Meio-Dia
3. Estrada Da Intemperança
4. Pote De Mel
5. Via Láctea
6. Cidade Americana

Side B
1. O Cavaleiro E Os Moinhos
2. Modinha
3. Debaixo Do Sol
4. Um Dia
5. Alfazema

A heavyweight collection of classic Jamaican dub drawing on recordings from the genre's golden era.

Featuring legendary artists and studio collectives including The Revolutionaries, The Aggrovators, Niney & The Observers, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Ken Boothe, Gregory Isaacs, Jimmy Riley and Phil Pratt , this release delivers deep basslines, spacious mixes and timeless rhythms.

TRACK LISTING

Jah's Children In Style - Page One & The Observers
Harmony Dub - Fred Locks & The Twelve Tribes Of Israel
Penny For Your Dub - Junior Soul & The Revolutionaries
Happiness (Version) - Revelation
Majority Rule Dub - Jimmy Riley
Garvey Dub - The Aggrovators & The Revolutionaries
Star Wars Dub - Phil Pratt (& The Revolutionaries)
Disco Fashion - Ken Boothe (& The Revolutionaries)
Dread Morning - Little Roy & The Twelve Tribes Band 
Public Eyes - Gregory Isaacs (& The Revolutionaries)
Mafia Dub - The Revolutionaries
Hunting Man Dub - Lawes Rockers Aka The Revolutionaries

Back in 1990 the New Bomb Turks got together as four Ohio State University Students who "just wanted to rock". With Nightmare Scenario, New Bomb Turks returned to their snaggle-toothed first mistress — hard-driving, no-holds-barred American punk rock. With the guitar jive of Chuck Berry, the blinding ferocity of Motörhead and the snot of The Dead Boys, singer Eric Davidson and his backing trio fire off a dozen grenades of authentic old-school three-chord riff-rock in little over a half-hour, with nary a pause for breath between tracks. You can’t quibble with the four-on-the-floor intensity of tunes like opening salvo Point To A Point Blank. It was recorded over four days and nights, the only break being a jaunt over to a bar to see a reunited Real Kids, their first show in years, which floored the band and only added more mezcal to the fire.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Point To A Point Blank
2. Automatic Teller
3. End Of The Great Credibility Race
4. Too Much
5. Killer's Kiss
6. Continental Cats
7. Instrumental Bonus Track

Side B
1. Spanish Fly By Night
2. The Roof
3. Your Beaten Heart
4. Turning Tricks
5. Wine & Depression
6. Quarter To Four

Formed in Galway City, Ireland James McGregor (vocals/ guitar), Sean Connelly (guitar) and Damian Greaney (drums) went to school together there and met Tom Freeman (bass) on the music scene. Relocating to London in 2019, the quartet signed to Alan McGee's new record label 'Creation23' almost overnight. They have since impressed audiences across Europe with live performances at festivals including Rock Werchter, Eurosonic and Electric Picnic, performing to a huge crowd at Sefton Park in Liverpool in support of Kings of Leon, as well as a head- turning televised appearance on Sky 1's Soccer AM. Media have been quick to show their support too plus previous singles, taken from their 2023 debut "Exit Strategy" received praise on BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac on her "New Names" showcase, BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq on his 'Recommends' show, received day-time radio play on RTE 2FM, and impressed the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer on Sirius XM. The four-piece are drawn together by not only a mutual appreciation of music past and present but also a love of films and books, notably the ones on the more 'noir' side of the spectrum. You could say Arctic Monkeys got them into a band, The Strokes showed them how tightly you could distil it and Radiohead showed them how wide you could take it. But these days there not afraid to also put Billie Eilish and Charlie XCX into that mixture and films from director Fellini to "Drive". What matters is that from starting out playing acoustic folk, that turned into 3 minute (post-)punkish songs, they now have expanded a lot from there, taking in all the experience they have now recording and touring. Pushing the emotion by being authentic and creating what you really want despite the noise and haste around you.

TRACK LISTING

How To Exist
Best Days
Getaway Car
La Dolce Vita
Work In Progress
The Actor
Magnificent Seven
The Double
Well Well Wellness
Through The Looking Glass
True Romance
The Entertainment

Plugged In showcases The Wedding Present at their energetic indie rock best, bringing together fan favourites and charting singles.

A vibrant, career spanning collection packed with over 20 tracks, this release is perfect for long time followers and new listeners discovering one of the UK's most influential alternative bands.

TRACK LISTING

Corduroy (Highest Chart Position 25 -1990)
Sucker
Blue Eyes (Highest Chart Position 26 -1992)
Always The Quiet One
Apres Ski
Go Out And Get 'Em, Boy!
Don't Talk, Just Kiss
Loveslave (Highest Chart Position 17 -1992)
A Million Miles
Suck
I'm From Further North Than You
Come Play With Me (Highest Chart Position 10-1992)
It's Not You, It's Me
Crushed
Falling
2, 3, Go (Highest Chart Position 24 -1990)
Click Click
Ringway To Seatac
Brassneck (Highest Chart Position 24 -1990)
Nobody's Twisting Your Arm (Highest Chart Position 46 -1988)
Kennedy
Heather

'Horrorble' is a full-length dub reinterpretation of Mekons’ acclaimed 2025 album 'Horror', created in collaboration with Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu). Songs from 'Horror' are pulled apart and reshaped into a drifting dub landscape. Basslines stretch and dissolve, rhythms echo into open space and tracks are dismantled and reassembled into versions that drift, jar and unravel. Working with Maimone, the album treats dub as subtraction, space and echo rather than simple revision, revealing hidden textures and new emotional weight within the original recordings.

The partnership has deep roots. Mekons first toured with Pere Ubu in 1988 and later worked closely with Maimone in the early 1990s. That shared history informs the exploratory spirit of Horrorble, reframing the urgency of 'Horror' through atmosphere, rhythm and sonic deconstruction.

Featuring a guest appearance from Benji Webbe of Skindred on 'Mudcrawlers', the album transforms familiar material into immersive, echo-laden soundscapes that emphasise tension and depth.

The original 'Horror' confronted climate catastrophe, economic violence and political decay through rock and roll, punk and melody. 'Horrorble' reveals its shadow counterpart. Formed in Leeds in the late 1970s, Mekons have always operated as a collective, working outside trends and expectations. Guided by the belief that the political and personal remain inseparable, they continue to create on their own terms, combining experimentation with a call to organise and resist.

TRACK LISTING

1. Before The Ice Age (Version)
2. Sad And Sad And Sad (Version)
3. War Economy (Version)
4. A Horse Has Escaped (Version)
5. The Western Design (Version)
6. Glasgow (Version)
7. You're Not Singing Anymore (Version)
8. Private Defense Contractor (Version)
9. Sanctuary (Version)
10. Surrender (Version)
11. Mudcrawlers Ft. Benji Webbe (Version)
12. Fallen Leaves (Version)

Debut release on GAMM for San Francisco's edit and reworks maestro King Most.

For this supa funky 7", King Most first takes on Dorothy (Ashby), Dilla (Jay) and Phife (Dog) and puts it all in the blender for a rare groove(ish) hip hop jam...on a slight Detroit tip.

On the AA side King Most hits up Patrice Rushen and blends her with Soul II Soul vocals for a warm and tasteful rework.

Classic old school GAMM material :)

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Iconic GAMM 7" here as new school edit legend King Most chucks a whole host of aceness into the blender, conjuring up two of the hottest hip-hop-soul-funk mash-ups we've had all year. Bar DJs THIS IS YOUR JAM!!

TRACK LISTING

A. Dorothy Dilla Phife
Aa. Honey Caldwell

Melohman and Paco Colombas Unveil 'Palma de Janeiro': A Rhythmic Bridge Between Mallorca and Brazil...

PALMA DE MALLORCA - Producers Melohman and Paco Colombas announce their new EP, 'Palma de Janeiro' on GAMM, a vibrant sonic fusion where Mallorcan tradition meets Brazilian pulse. All together, the result is a highly percussive house workout with a South American feel.

The project centers on a unique dialogue between two worlds: the Mediterranean drone of the Ximbomba and the tropical snap of the Pandeiro.
Inspired by the festive spirit of Mallorca's 'Devil' - a mischievous figure of joy and dance - the EP weaves together communal island roots with the duo's deep-seated passion for Brazilian music.

Born from years of crate-digging and travels across Brazil, 'Palma de Janeiro' is more than a collaboration; it is a celebration of music as a universal language. It is a tribute to the dancefloor, where local heritage and global rhythms collide.

TRACK LISTING

A. Palma De Janeiro
B. Diablo

West Hill Studio is the place where the sound that has defined all the productions and artistic projects connected to the Periodica Records label was developed.
 Located in the hills of Naples, it’s a private recording studio immersed in a small woodland and isolated from the city. A small wooden lodge and vintage equipment made it possible to create and convey, through music and ideas, a precise musical aesthetic that transcends contemporaneity and current trends.
The catalogue is personally curated by Mystic Jungle – born Dario Di Pace – music and executive producer and founder of both Periodica and Futuribile, released exclusively on vinyl and in limited editions. Well known for a distinctive sound that has unpredictably ranged from mutant-disco to soft-rock and reggae-inflected explorations for over a decade, he now presents two new electronic funk/rock tracks in collaboration with Serbian guitarist Igor Sekulovič. A pair of deliberately raw cuts, with the B-side conceived as an homage to a seminal 1985 digital reggae riddim built from a preset on the Casiotone MT-40

TRACK LISTING

A1. Rock The Disco
B1. Shaba Riddim

KSmooth da Programma delivers the “KSmooth Groove” on Love Universal. Recorded & mixed at StressFree Studio, Chicago IL; K Smooth (or Kenneth to his mates) finds his footing against a backdrop of Chicago house history. Soulful, organic, oozing soul and sentiment; three OGs and an instrumental aptly demonstrating the high musicality, deft hand and thorough understand of deep house moods proferred up by this Windy City native. Limited copies. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ksmooth Groove
A2. It Is What It Is
B1. Keep Movin
B2. Keep Movin (instrumental)

Frustrated Funk has always showcased the more adventerous and advanced side of the electro cannonn. Producers not afraid to push the envelope when it comes to synthesis and rhythmic frameworks. This latest release from Second Story is no exception. Featuring a sound palette beamed directly from Jupiter, and utilizing beat patterns that appear foreign at first but somehow resonate with our innate celestial existance; Second Storey presents four slices of scorched mainframe bewilderment designed to twist cerebrums and bust speaker cabinets. 

TRACK LISTING

Ambiguous Systems
Do Everything Now
Viper Returns
Descend To Ascend

Star splicer Rahaan is back on Now Is Not The Time with another bumper pack of disco edits for your next glitterball party! Six extended pleasure seekers, with source material veering from the well known to the totally obscure. Personal favourite is the Ron Hardy flavoured "On & On" edit. Though skillfully constructed and cleverly cut, Rahaan keeps the fun and dancibility levels HIGH throughout the excursion. Pressed at high fidelity, max two tracks per side. Seriously limited copies... Buy now or cry later! 

TRACK LISTING

A. Weekend Love
B1. Hangin’ On
B2. Memories (Version)
C1. On & On
C2. Number & A Dime
D. Welcome To The Club (Instrumental)

The epitome of a modern artist, Jana Bahrich does most things herself, no matter how painstaking - writing, producing, directing, often hand painting t-shirts the day of shows when the band have run out of merch. This has helped give her band Francis of Delirium a unique identity, with her rock confessionals breathing a new life in to the genre and her paintings creating a striking design aesthetic.

Released as she was finishing high school, 2020’s single 'Quit Fucking Around’ was a great introduction and it remains one of her most enduring songs. Shortly after it’s release, she signed to artist-first indie Dalliance Recordings (Gia Margaret, HighSchool, lilo) and three EPs - 'All Change' (2020), 'Wading' (2021), 'The Funhouse' (2022) and a striking debut album - 'Lighthouse' (2024) - on and Jana has Francis of Delirium flying.

While the EP’s fizzed with promise, her debut album 'Lighthouse' landed its punches. Seeking a more vulnerable and open sonic palette, she wove in pop elements to create anthems that celebrated heartbreak and love. Lead singles ‘Real Love’ and ‘First Touch’ were the first tracks she made with an outsider - working with GRAMMY winning producer Catherine Marks (boygenius, The Killers, Wolf Alice) - while the rest of the album was produced by Jana herself and day one collaborator Chris Hewett. 

Live, Francis of Delirium are Jana (guitar and vocals), Jeff Hennico (bass) and Denis Schumacher (drums). Together, their brilliant quiet-loud dynamic and tight interplay only elevate her songs and over the last 5 years, they’ve toured across Europe and North America, playing headline shows, festivals and tours with the likes of Blondshell, Briston Maroney, The Districts, Horsegirl and Soccer Mommy. They’ve also supported The 1975, Alanis Morissette, DIIV and Wolf Alice.

Last summer saw a memorable UK tour with Bôa, the 90s band resurrected by a huge TikTok moment for their track ‘Duvet’. There was a real sense of excitement for these shows with young crowds snaking outside every venue hours before doors and bringing the sort of energy Jana thrives on, she road tested new material to an overwhelmingly positive response, giving her the impetus to go and finish album two.

An artist who seeks to connect with her listener on a deeper level, it’s no surprise then that she’s made hope and inner strength central themes on her new album, 'Run, Run Pure Beauty'. Jana says the title track is “an imagining of the world after it has been destroyed by humans and technology. Thrashing against what humans have left behind, ultimately the pure beauty of nature wins out.” Wanting to bring different perspectives into her songwriting with this record - informed by both her travels and the tumultuous times we find ourselves in - she’s also brought about a progression in her sound with these new songs somehow sounding larger, with undeniable harmonies and more orchestration.

Featuring the singles ‘Little Black Dress’ and ‘It’s a Beautiful Life’, 'Run, Run Pure Beauty' serves as an excavation of hope in bleak times. Produced by Jana and Chris, and mixed by Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors, Silver Jews, Wild Nothing), its eleven songs of discovery, despair and perseverance ultimately serve as a mirror on its creator and is a brilliant next installment in the Francis of Delirium arc.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aliens
2. Out Tonight
3. Run, Run Pure Beauty
4. Higher
5. Damned
6. Little Black Dress
7. Sucker Punch
8. Open Up Your Mouth To Love
9. Requiem For A Dying Day
10. Modern Madonna
11. It’s A Beautiful Life

“When a song comes, I make sure I don’t let it go by,” says Joe Pernice. 'Sunny, I Was Wrong', his first studio album of new material under his own name, was born during a period of concentrated inspiration and productivity. Songs were coming almost more quickly than he could get them down on tape, as though they’d been waiting to pounce at just the right time. With a little help from his friends, Pernice fashioned a handful of them into a beautiful refinement of all the qualities that have distinguished him as a songwriter over the years: his facility for aching melodies, his penchant for arrangements that nod to pop’s past without getting mired in nostalgia, and a deep empathy for the characters who inhabit his verses. Pernice has been catching songs for thirty years now, first with the alt-country legends Scud Mountain Boys and then with the indie-pop mainstays Pernice Brothers. In both of those groups he etched bittersweet stories out of songs that echo Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Williams. He’s the rare artist who can record a Barry Manilow covers album that doesn’t drip with condescension or irony. With Sunny, the album gradually came into focus—or at least an idea of an album. “I knew I wanted to make a studio record, and I knew I wanted to make a record. I didn’t want just a hodgepodge of tunes. I didn’t want to make a concept record, but I wanted something that needs to be heard from start to finish. I wanted it to be a destination. An event.” Sunny, I Was Wrong tallies up all of those things that do get away from us: friends and lovers we haven’t seen in decades, old promises broken, cherished dreams forgotten, best-laid plans unrealized.

TRACK LISTING

1. Peace In Our Home
2. Deep Into The Dawn (ft. Aimee Mann)
3. If You Go Back To California
4. Force Feed The Fire
5. The Black And The Blue
6. It Won’t Be Me (ft. Rodney Crowell)
7. I’d Rather Look Away (ft. Norman Blake)
8. Sunny, I Was Wrong
9. Is It Serious
10. Twenty-Thousand Times
11. It Got Away Rrom Me (ft. Jimmy Webb)

'Transformation' is the brand new album by The Alarm which was written and recorded by lead singer Mike Peters during the final few months of his life while bravely battling a rare and aggressive cancer known as Richter's Syndrome.

Diagnosed on April 22nd 2024, devastatingly, Mike finally succumbed to this dreadful disease on the 29th April 2025.

Mike faced cancer head on with an unswerving, positive attitude until the last... despite suffering the extreme rigours of the disease and whilst enduring a brutal treatment regime that unfortunately proved to be unsuccessful.

'Transformation' by The Alarm is regrettably Mike Peters’ final recorded work.... but it also constitutes Mike's finest output. Positivity, optimism, and an unparalleled determination to fight for life simply explode from this album, whilst the ever-present themes of Love, Hope and Strength - with which Mike Peters and The Alarm have become so synonymous - continue to permeate these remarkable new compositions, providing a fitting testimony to these enduring tenets.

TRACK LISTING

1. New Life
2. Chimera
3. Outler
4. Saviour
5. Metaverse
6. Wired
7. One In A Million
8. Live Today
9. Soul Town
10. In Unity
11. To Be Alive
12. Love Makes Love

Originally released on CD in 2006, It's A Feedelity Affair marked a formative moment in Hans Peter Lindstrøm's early career, compiling key tracks from his first wave of 12-inch releases between 2003 and 2006. Now, twenty years after the founding of his Feedelity label, the album is presented for the first time as a newly remastered vinyl edition.

Upon its original release, the album received widespread international attention, including a Best New Music rating (8.4) from Pitchfork. The track I Feel Space has since become one of Lindstrøm's most enduring and recognizable works. The album also documents some of his earliest collaborations with Prins Thomas and Christabelle, resulting in tracks such as Boney M Down and Lovesick.

Released at a time when electronic music was shaped by extended runtimes and physical formats, It's A Feedelity Affair captured a club culture rooted in patience, atmosphere, and spatial awareness rather than immediacy. Its long-form approach remains central to the album's lasting appeal and resonates strongly with today's renewed focus on vinyl and immersive listening experiences. The album stands as a document of an era marked by experimentation, expansive club tracks, and an open-ended vision of electronic music.

Lindstrøm relaunched Feedelity in 2024, with the label returning in 2025 alongside his most recent album Sirius Syntoms and the single Cirkl, marking a full-circle moment for the imprint. A new studio album is currently in progress and expected in autumn 2026.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Lindstrøm - Fast & Delirious
A2. Lindstrøm - Limitations
B1. Lindstrøm Feat. Christabelle - Music (In My Mind)
B2. Lindstrøm - Cane It For The Original Whities
C. Lindstrøm - There's A Drink In My Bedroom And I Need A Hot Lady
D1. Lindstrøm - I Feel Space
D2. Lindstrøm - Arp She Said
E1. Lindstrøm Feat. Prins Thomas - Further Into The Future
E2. Lindstrøm - Gentle As A Giant
F1. Lindstrøm - Another Station
F2. Lindstrøm - The Contemporary Fix

The second album from the New Orleans country-punk-garage duo. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Is It Real?
2. Wild Connection
3. I Operate
4. Little Seed
5. 100 Bill Is Gone!
6. Peekaboo Hand
7. Not Real
8. Who Could It Be
9. Circus Clown
10. Hurricane
11. White Hot Coal
12. Corpse Pose

Gap Mangione's monumentally influential 'Diana In The Autumn Wind'. And, without question, Be With's White Whale.

They said it could never be done. And with good reason.

Be With have spent the past 12 years trying to license this legendary 1968 recording from Gap and, after much work, it's finally here. Remarkably, this is the first ever vinyl reissue of Gap Mangione's 'Diana In The Autumn Wind', produced with the full and extensive participation of Gap. An exceedingly rare album, it's been coveted by funk, soul, jazz and hip-hop sample fiends for decades.

It's unarguably *the* most sought after album for J Dilla / Madlib sample collectors. It has also been brilliantly sampled by A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor, Ghostface Killah, Kendrick Lamar and Talib Kweli.

But this record is so much more than a sample-spotters curio. It's solid gold throughout. Bursting with killer funky-jazz grooves and tracks adorned with warm electric piano, the release is notable for featuring some extremely significant players at the very outset of their careers; Tony Levin, at 21, whose superb playing on both acoustic and electric bass was the harmonic mainstay of the trio and Steve Gadd, at 23, one of the greatest drummers of his generation.

With acceptable copies of this holy grail changing hands for $400, to call this reissue "much-needed" underplays just how vital it is. Gap's story is told in his words alongside rare photos across a sumptuously designed 2-page insert and, to augment this deluxe edition further, its all wrapped up in a beautiful, no-expense-spared luxury tip-on sleeve, as per the original hens-teeth release. And, while we're talking packaging, just take a look at that cover - a work of art in and of itself.

The tracks are short but complex, with that extraordinary rhythm section backing the beautiful piano, organ and electric piano work of Gap. It's like the best ever library funk breaks record you have never heard - but all your favourite golden age rap producers were all over it, long ago. It's a stunning blend of the vibrant, driving music of the Gap Mangione Trio coupled with the sensitive composition and superb orchestration of Gap's legendary brother, Chuck Mangione, who helmed an amalgam of seemingly disparate elements – rock, big band jazz, solo improvisation and "classical" music - into a spectacularly cohesive whole that has aged wonderfully well. As Gap himself notes in the liners, "with this group I was able to explore and add new and exciting elements from rock, Brazilian and then-current pop music." 

TRACK LISTING

1. Boy With Toys
2. Diana In The Autumn Wind
3. Long Hair Soulful
4. Yesterday
5. The XIth Commandment
6. St. Thomas
7. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 
8. Pond With Swans 
9. You Are My Sunshine
10. Free Again
11. Dream On Little Dreamer
12. Graduate Medley

'Another Country' is the fifth full-length album by Cindy, the San Francisco-based group built around the songwriting of Karina Gill. Recorded, like all of its predecessors, in their hometown and with a consistent line-up held over from their previous record, it is replete with the poetry of private vistas, eavesdropped dramas and confusing winds. These are classic Cindy concerns, and yet, as always, contain new mystery and charm to somehow feel like quiet revelations each time. 'Another Country' is both opaque in its intentions and specific in its presentation, and as such presents the kind of truth that keeps the listener on the search for answers just out of reach.

"The title of this record, 'Another Country', refers to the James Baldwin novel of that name. The book has a kind of drama that makes sense to me. When I look around, the obvious explanations are not enough. The miasma of feelings and ideas that is supposed to account for it all, doesn't. Baldwin washes past that to longings that begin to explain. Cindy songs come out of the x-rays my particular brain makes out of what I see and experience. What you hear on this record is the result of collaboration with the members of Cindy that transforms that shadowy thing into full color, fully fleshed. Each of them, in music, is sure-footed and unblinking, and making this record together felt like, yes, yes, you see what I mean."

TRACK LISTING

1. Another Country 
2. Daytime 
3. Soft Inheritance
4. Killer Kid In The Camaro 
5. Procession
6. The Violins
7. The Thousand First
8. Talking To Mary 
9. Another Country II

Emerging from London’s underground music scene, The Sick Man Of Europe is distinctly monochrome in its outlook. Each note counts in this climate – economical but played with absolute precision and conviction.

Propelled forward by machines and seeking solace in repetition. There are echoes of the post-punk and European art rock pioneers at the cusp of the 80s, but re-tooled for the present. The same fears. Looking for answers or something to believe in, but finding more questions in an age of absolutes.

The Sick Man Of Europe name connects the current post-Brexit landscape to the austerity of Thatcherite Britain and the social conditions that shaped the likes of Bauhaus and Joy Division. These are touchstones for TSMOE, but the influence and discipline of Neu!, Suicide and Swans are just as intrinsic to the sound.

The debut album follows the release of the Moderate Air Quality EP on limited edition cassette and digital in February. (EP tracks are included as a bonus on the CD version of the album.)

Minimal, but with a strong eye for the right detail - on the eponymous debut album, that eye is focussed firmly on the battle between the internal and the external. TSMOE draws on the tensions between human identity, technological advancement and the pursuit of meaning in the modern world.

Produced as a reaction to previous musical projects, TSMOE was looking for clarity and complete control in its creative endeavours. It’s consciously anti-rock in its recorded approach - no low-end bass guitar, minimal effects and no live drums. Dedication to the craft of focussed song writing rather than attempting to follow current production trends.

‘BLENDS PULSATING MOTORIK BEATS , NAGGING BASSLINES AND DRONING ELECTRONICS INTO ALL-CONSUMING ATMOSPHERES….FRONTED BY FOREBODING VOCALS THAT SIT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN IAN CURTIS’ MELANCHOLIC BARITONE AND SOMETHING MORE EXPERIMENTAL, PHRASES ARE REPEATED OVER AND OVER LIKE MANTRAS’ - ELECTRONIC SOUND.

TRACK LISTING

LP: CD:
A1. 1. Obsolete (6:04)
A2. 2. Transactional (4:12)
A3. 3. Sanguine (9:44)
B1. 4. Profane Not Profound (4:48)
B2. 5. Slow Down, Friend (4:08)
B3. 6. Movement (3.52)
B4. 7. Acidity Regulator (2:51)
B5. 8. I’m Alive (2:52)
    - 9. Moderate Air Quality (6:08) (CD Bonus Track)
   - 10. The Son Of A Diplomat (7:42) (CD Bonus Track)
   - 11. Consumption (5:14) (CD Bonus Track)

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Converge Collide
2. Bakelite Dashboard
3. Montage Homage
4. Express Train To Jupiter 
5. Vanishing Exits 
6. Tumultuous Clouds 
7. Flawed Optimist 
8. Hats Off To Pojama 
9. Chemical Miscalculation

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Honorable Discharge
2. Parallels 
3. Finite Universe 
4. Mutations 
5. Suite: East Meets West 
6. Can Eater
7. First Sign Of Light

Brown Spirits are a super-heavy psychedelic three-piece band from the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, home to an ever-growing local music scene that includes Amyl and the Sniffers, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm and more.

Brown Spirits play raw energetic super-charged psychedelic rock heavily influenced by krautrock, free-jazz and deep funk music from the 1970s that gives them a truly unique and highly-addictive sound. The group record and mix their own music to ¼-inch analogue tape at home maintaining a strictly DIY-ethic. Brown Spirits are Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Bushcombe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lysergic Library
2. Kaiser-Panorama
3. Flying And Falling 
4. That River Ain't For Swimming 
5. Xan With Red 
6. Back To Atoms 
7. Another Vintage Phase 
8. Precursor 
9. Optokinetic Response

'Tell Me It's A Dream' is both the title of Rosa Walton's bright, brilliant, skyreaching debut solo album, but also, says the 26-year-old musician best known as one half of Let's Eat Grandma, "kind of like the title of my life."

"It's about being really ambitious, and seeing enhanced beauty in the world, and knowing that seeing things in that way isn't unrealistic," she continues. "It's about striving for that ultimate freedom."

Recorded in a joyful stay at Wales' residential StudiOwz, 'Tell Me It's A Dream' rings with the audible fizz of friends hanging out and having fun. Though many of its lyrics began during a complicated time for Walton, the record itself is a testament to choosing life and pleasure and the people that make it all worthwhile. "A lot of the record is about stretching outwards and acknowledging how far love can take you; about expressing how I feel about the people I love through music in ways that words can't," she says. "It was important to capture that lightness from the recording, because that spirit is in a lot of the songs."

Frequently euphoric and brightly emotional, the songs themselves aim heavenwards. 'Heart To Heartbreak' cracks through the clouds of a break up, taking influence from emotionally-rich bands like The Cure and Prefab Sprout to translate the feeling at its core. "This is a song about feeling like everything in your life has shattered but realising that relationship was holding you back and the world is opening up," she says. "I wanted this song to feel really visual, like things are starting to sparkle and look colourful again."

An album full of light and magic, born from the purist, most uncalculated of intentions, 'Tell Me It's A Dream' is an inspiring clarion call to listen to your own. As Walton says: "I think a lot of the attitude in the songs is about being ambitious in life and following your dreams. And so that's what I intend to do."

TRACK LISTING

1. Heart To Heartbreak
2. Sorry Anyway
3. Taking The Roof Down
4. Wave Machine
5. When Will It All Reveal
6. Halfway Round The World
7. Prettier Things
8. July
9. Romance Is Dead On

While brothers Simon and Robin Lee have kept themselves busy, both with EPs as Faze Action and numerous offshoot and solo projects, it's been almost 12 years since we last heard a fresh, full-length excursion from the long-serving duo - at least under their most famous moniker. Predictably, Distant Dreams was worth the wait, with the Lee siblings continuing their richly organic approach - think live bass, guitars, strings, keys, flute and percussion alongside synth sounds and drum machine beats. Musically, it draws on their now well-known influences - warming disco, jazz-funk and Balearica with nods to other musical cultures - and delivers eight impeccable tracks that undoubtedly sit amongst their classiest work to date. It's good to have them back.

TRACK LISTING

Distant Dreams
Yam Suite
Batanayi (feat Zeke Manyika)
Neutronomy
Journey Through Your Mind
Apex
Radio City
Sungazer

Now available on picture disc vinyl, music from season one of Disney+ original series Andor. Music by Nicholas Britell.

To be an attentive listener to the world as it stands is to be saturated with language. Speech resounds through nearly every space that features human beings, whether unwanted or desired, mundane or profound. Words sit on the page and in the ear, proliferating endlessly. This superabundance has long been a point of fascination for composer and musician Ben Vida, but over the past several years it has led to a new method of music making that simultaneously exalts and interrogates the primacy of language in our sonic and cultural envi- ronments. Gently, playfully, Vida breaks down language’s hierarchy of meaning and sound until they exist in egalitarian harmony.

'Oblivion Seekers' is Vida’s newest album in this mode of composition, following 2023’s collaboration with new music ensemble Yarn/Wire The Beat My Head Hit. Like its predecessor, the music’s focus is on coordinated duets of spoken word in a neutral tone, the variable cadences of the words in motion creating complex internal rhythmic structures. He is joined by the voices of Nina Dante, Christina Vantzou, John Also Bennett, and Félicia Atkinson, creating a singular tone that is neither theirs nor his, fluid in its gender presentation, accent, and diction. The instrumental compositions that form the album’s understory have the casual flow of dialogue, conversational but subdued, rarely the agent of change. Here, Vida likewise called upon an accomplished community of players to accompany him: Dante on harp, Bennett on bass flute, Matt Bauder and Will Epstein on saxophones, Henry Fraser on bass, Cleek Schrey on violin, and Booker Stardrum on percussion.

There are many predecessors to these types of novel confluences of music and speech. Vida’s love of Robert Ashley is well documented, but perhaps even more significant are Mark E. Smith and The Fall, Neil Tennant and the Pet Shop Boys’ spoken verses, the entire history of hip hop, Meredith Monk. The way the words are delivered matters just as much as the words themselves, revealing an inten- tionality and directness that Vida highlights and subverts with the text’s abstract construction patterns. On 'Oblivion Seekers', the omnidirectional din is the marble Vida chips away at to illuminate the way we process the vast strangeness of the world. Its triumph is that we lose none of the beautiful mystery of how these signs bridge our external and internal worlds.

TRACK LISTING

1. Be Yr Own Abyss
2. New Distortion Properties
3. Oblivion Seekers
4. Unmake A World

Multi-instrumentalist Broken Keys brings plenty of laidback Los Angeles cool and sun-baked bliss as he returns to Outer Spaceways ahead of his new album Moving With the Current. 'Do I Have To' is the first single from it and is utterly horizontal, with gentle guitar strums and lazy drums infused with a forlorn, drifting vocal. Beat maker extraordinaire Tall Black Guy brings his Detroit flavour to a dusty, downtempo instrumental with a subtle bass swagger and swirling, cosmic sense of melodic infinity. Gorgeous.

TRACK LISTING

Do I Have To (Album Version)
Do I Have To (Tall Black Guy Remix)

Editing is a specialist game that is easy to play but difficult to master. King Most is more adept than many, as he shows with a third outing here on his own KM label. This one finds him spreading his wings a little, flying away from r&b and hip-hop and migrating towards more worldly grooves with Afro and Latin undercurrents. 'Tony Trinidad' brings swirling guitar echo and coconut percussion to a crispy slow jam, then 'Hermanos Cub' pumps up the funk with blazing horns and vocals. There's lush polyrhythmic looseness and string melodies to 'Zimbabwe Thorn' and earthy disco charm to 'Bebe Cameroon' with its seductive vocal leads. Cultured cuts.

TRACK LISTING

Tony Trinidad
Hermanos Cuba
Zimbabwe Thorn
Bebe Cameroon

Nick Bike rides again with a new trip out on his Chosen Spokes label, and as always, these are on the money mixes for dub disco heads. 'Kiss Me Say It' is devilishly slow and purposeful with rotation dub and funky bass riffs rising and falling to irresistible effect. The strings bring sophistication and the chords a golden charm that swells the heart. The groove feels ever on the rise but never boils over. The flipside dub is even more focused, with the diva vocal doused in echo for a spaced out vibe. Pure perfection.

TRACK LISTING

Kiss Me Say It
Kiss Me Dub It

'XKatedral Anthology Series III' is the third installment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. The pieces presented here focus on the use of synthetic and acoustic sound as well as algorithmic composition as tools for precise work within the realm of spectral exploration.

This double-vinyl set is issued in celebration of the label’s decennalia and contains works from 2014 - 2025. It is released in conjunction with reissues of 'XKatedral Anthology Series I-II'.

'My Falling Sinks' by Kali Malone is a sparse descending melody for justly tuned organ, cello and acoustic guitar featuring Lucy Railton and Stephen O’Malley. The piece is a compositional sketch in septimal just intonation made on an experimental tuning organ at La Temple de La Tour-de-Peilz while in residency at La Becque in 2021.

'Empyrean Flare' by Maria W Horn was composed in 2022 for 'The Dawn Chorus' by choreographer Stina Nyberg. This piece uses the Tintinnabuli technique created by Arvo Pärt to animate four supersaw oscillators in slow diatonic arpeggiation, circling around a minor tonic triad, and destabilizing the harmonic framework by means of glissandi and amplifying the sum of its parts by means of analog tape saturation.

'Tessellation' by David Granström was composed using generative synthesis methods in the summer of 2017. The musical periodicity and harmonic movement heard within the piece emerges as a result of fixed synthesized tape loops - exploring a space that opens up between antithetical worlds.

'To Whoever Shall Inherit the Earth' is the first piece of solo music made by Jessica Ekomane and it came together, according to the composer, almost by accident. The work was recorded late one night a decade ago and captures a fleeting, fragile, and unrepeatable moment preserved exactly as it happened.

'Smoking Mother' by Stephen O’Malley was created for Gisèle Vienne’s 'Der Teich / L’Etang' by Robert Walser. It was composed during a residency at the SMEM synthesis archive in Fribourg in 2018 and produced at EMS in August 2020. The piece draws from the works of Zia Mohuiddin Dagar, Krzysztof Penderecki and Popol Vuh while exploring the roots of minimalism.

'Att böja själarna' by Mats Erlandsson was composed in 2018 and was included in 'On Eternity', a collection of four texts and four ten minute cassette loops released in the form of a limited edition box set in 2021 by Irrlicht Förlag. This work features performances by Gaianeh Pilossian and Sara Fors, on violin and voice respectively.

'This will be my last piece for organ' was composed by Theodor Kentros in 2025 and uses groups of clustered oscillators through resonant feedback to synthesize the fluctuating frequencies heard wandering through physical space when detuning an organ.

'Fault Lines' was composed by Daniel M Karlsson using generative methods with a deterministic and finite output solidified for this release. This piece features vocal performances by Sara Fors, Ansis Bētiņš and Artūrs Čukurs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kali Malone - My Falling Sinks
2. Maria W Horn - Empyrean Flare 
3. David Granström - Tesselation 
4. Jessica Ekomane - To Whoever Shall Inherit The Earth 
5. Stephen O’Malley - Smoking Mother 
6. Mats Erlandsson - Att Böja Själarna
7. Theodor Kentros - This Will Be My Last Piece For Organ 
8. Daniel M Karlsson - Fault Line

'XKatedral Anthology II' is the second installment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers affiliated with XKatedral working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. This double-vinyl set contains an array of pieces dating from 2018 - 2020. This collection of pieces focuses on the use of synthetic sound and algorithmic composition languages as tools for precise work within the realm of spectral exploration. In addition to this, the electronic instrumentation in many of the pieces is augmented by acoustic instruments. This record is released in conjunction with reissues of 'XKatedral Anthology Series I & III'.

The first piece on Side A is Kali Malone’s 'Music for Low Quartet'. This piece is an adaptation of the composition 'Rose Wreath Crown' originally released on The Sacrificial Code in 2019. In this iteration, the music is scored for two double basses played by Vilhelm Bromander and Zach Rowden, and sine tone electronics performed by Malone herself. The recording of this piece was made at EMS in 2019. Closing Side A is Jessica Ekomane’s 'First Light'. This computer music work focuses exclusively on digital sound, layering razor sharp synthetic textures into an otherworldly dynamic weave. The music heard here is an adaptation of a piece originally commissioned by Semibreve in 2020.

Side B contains the work 'Hands Melt In The Sun' by Mats Erlandsson. This composition is built from electronically processed tuned zithers and synthetically generated tones arranged in a series of chordal inversions over a sustained fundamental tone. This music, written as a love-letter to the localized drone tradition of Stockholm in the years 2008-2012, was composed and recorded in seven days while in residence at Ställbergs Gruva in Bergslagen, in the summer of 2018.

Opening the second half of the collection is 'Rough Draft v.7' by Theodor Kentros. Kentros’s compositional practice usually combines acoustic and electronic source material and in this piece he molds the output of the Buchla 200 and a collection of recorded wind instruments into a molten mass of sound. In its original form, this music was presented as a multichannel immersive work and even in the current stereo configuration it retains some of that enveloping sense of depth. The second piece on Side C, 'Inertia', is by Wilma Hultén, who makes her debut on record here. An exclusively synthetic piece, 'Inertia' utilizes internal digital feedback in a sealed synthetic system to manifest a harmonic field that swells and abates throughout the length of the piece, interspersed by small gestural elements.

Closing Side D of 'Anthology II' is Maria W Horn’s work 'Dies Irae' for vocal quartet, pitched glass and synthesis. 'Dies Irae' uses a modified form of traditional tonal harmonic language to invoke an uncanny and restless middle ground between the classical western polyphonic vocal tradition and contemporary electronic music. The version heard here is a live recording from Eric Ericssonhallen in Stockholm on May 30th 2020. Performing the piece here are the vocalists Katarina Henryson, Lisa Holmgren, Vilma Ogenblad and Paula Wegmann, as well as Maria herself on glass and electronics.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kali Malone - Music For Low Quartet
2. Jessica Ekomane - First Light 
3. Mats Erlandsson - Hands Melt In The Sun 
4. Theodor Kentros - Rough Draft V.7 
5. Wilma Hultén - Inertia
6. Maria W Horn - Dies Irae

'XKatedral Anthology I' is the first release in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. This double-vinyl set contains an array of pieces dating from 2010 - 2020. Four of the works included here were originally released on cassette tape early on in the label’s history, while the two remaining pieces were presented by the label for the first time on this compilation. This record is released in conjunction with reissues of 'XKatedral Anthology Series II-III'.

The works 'Ir Himinn, Grooenn' by Kristofer Svensson, 'Disquiet (Heart)' by Marta Forsberg and 'Lamé' by Isak Edberg were first released on the cassette tape compilation 'XKatedral Volume II' in 2016. Svensson’s piece from 2014 combines gamelan percussion and prepared piano intricately interwoven in a way that obscures the boundaries between the two instrument groups. Forsberg and Edberg’s pieces both use a monolithic form to explore the timbral and harmonic spaces provided by the Düben Baroque organ situated in Tyska Kyrkan in the oldest part of Stockholm. While similar in terms of instrumentation the two works differ formally - Edberg’s 'Lamé' composed in 2010 uses the registers of the organ to articulate a seamless spectral transformation while Forsberg’s 'Disquiet (Heart)' from 2014 deals in blocks of sound with a varying degree of opacity, saturation and intensity.

'Glory' for two electric guitars by Caterina Barbieri and Kali Malone was composed and recorded in Tempo Reale in Florence, Italy, and was originally released on the cassette tape compilation 'XKatedral Volume III' in 2016. This music takes the form of an ever-evolving hypnotic pattern shared by the two instruments articulated through an additive and subtractive canon.

'Dissolving Ceremony', composed in 2012 by Edberg/Erlandsson/Lisinski, was first presented publicly on the self-released record Stratum. The music contained in that release was formed from a collection of gamelan percussion instruments augmented by two sets of live-electronic instruments tuned to the harmonic framework formed by the partials of the metal percussion. Originally positioned in the center of the record running order between two long monolithic process-based pieces, 'Dissolving Ceremony' now stands on its own as a memory of a time and methodology from the not so distant past.

The newest piece in this set is 'Shipwrecks' by Daniel M Karlsson. While this work is a recent one Karlsson should be considered one of the forerunners of the musical expression contained within this record set. Active within new music for two decades his strongly articulated musical ideas and constantly evolving craftsmanship has resulted in an enormous body of work, and has served as an inspiration for many of his fellow composers. This piece is a celebration of transposition and its immense capacity for timbral transformation using a vast array of instruments performed, recorded and electronically treated by the composer to form a liquid uncanny topography where a deeply personal harmonic language constantly shifts, slides and shivers.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kristofer Svensson - Ir Himinn, Grooen
2. Marta Forsberg - Disquiet (Heart)
3. Isak Edberg - Lamé 
4. Edberg/Erlandsson/Lisinski - Dissolving Ceremony
5. Kali Malone & Caterina Barbieri - Glory
6. Daniel M Karlsson - Shipwrecks

The most abstract, playful and confounding of reggae subgenres, dub is a vital component of sound system culture that has wielded disproportionate influence. Emerging as an underground phenomenon in Kingston during the early 1970s, dub was wrought by sonic alchemists such as King Tubby, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Prince Jammy and Scientist, conjuring musical mutations at the mixing desk. Dub reached other lands through the Jamaican diaspora and as Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes furthered the form in New York, Dennis Bovell, Mad Professor and Adrian Sherwood conjured their own dub masterworks in London, Jah Shaka and his acolytes subsequently helping dub to achieve global reach.

Widely adopted by post-punk producers and later a crucial influence on the underground dance music scenes of several continents, dub indelibly changed the techniques and aesthetics of music production with far-reaching effects; it's no exaggeration to say that without dub, there would be no hip-hop or house music. Dub is made from studio trickery, its auteurs fashioning something new by subtraction rather than addition, reversing standard recording techniques. It is a music of absence and deception, a ghostly sonic doppelganger with bass primacy and torpedoed song structures, full of holes and unexpected twists.

The evolution of dub marks the birth of the remix and the emergence of the studio as an instrument in itself, a place where songs can be pulled apart and given wild reshaping, rendering a disembodied new form that is often cosmic and typically jagged. Dub's progression is also inseparable from the troubled history of post-colonial Jamaica, blighted by caustic Cold War interventions, attendant gang culture and communal breakdowns. Through first-hand testimony with dub's most noteworthy creatives, David Katz's monumental forensic history of an astounding subgenre that sounds like the future five decades after its inception stands as the authoritative book on a musical art form that continues to fascinate, generation after generation.

Alabama duo Sister Ray Davies follow their debut album 'Holy Island' with an EP of alternative versions and reworkings. The EP features two remixes by Pye Corner Audio, who has made new shapes out of ‘Aidan’ and ‘Morning Bell’; the former with a harder, Suicide-style approach, the latter expanding on the almost ambient nature of the original and elevating it. “This version of ‘Aidan’ found new space, new depths, new melodies and new rhythms,” enthuses singer/guitarist Adam Morrow. “While the mix of ‘Morning Bell’ carries the song into a whole new, mythic place. “I think the EP adds extra layers of depth to the original album. We’re aware that it’s a short record, so having some additional tracks to dive into feels like a way to extend your stay in that space as a listener. There is more waiting down the rabbit hole. Genre collapses a bit, too, which is great.” There’s a Boards Of Canada-style version of ‘Nave’ by Malaphors – aka Chris Tomsett who, in his Innerstrings guise, spent a couple days wandering around Holy Island filming the stunning trilogy of videos that accompanied the album. The band themselves rework the remaining two tracks. The Portside Dub of ‘Iona’ came from them “sending stems to various effects boxes” and capturing the results, while the Guitar Armada version of ‘Big Ships’ takes a similarly fun approach, with the band inviting nine acoustic guitar players into the old Muscle Shoals Sound Studio B and recording live to tape.

“We tried to include as many friends as we possibly could and capture the wall of sound in real time, versus building it up with the studio,” explains Adam. “Music is fun, and it feels good to turn the studio into a big tent and invite people in.” The duo have been surprised to have been similarly welcomed into many people’s record collections. “We really didn't imagine that our record made in a little corner of Alabama would have the reach that it's had or find the crowd that seems to have really gotten it,” concludes Adam. “Finding that community is really wonderful.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Aidan (Pye Corner Audio Mix)
2. Iona (Portside Dub)
3. Big Ships (Live Guitar Armada Version)
4. Morning Bell (Pye Corner Audio Mix)
5. Nave (Malaphors Mix)