When Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita was invited to create the soundtrack for Expo 2025’s vast living nature installation, 'Forest of Tranquility', he immediately envisioned a relaxing public space in which visitors could tune out the noise and restore their energies. Inside this green open-air sanctuary – visited by millions of people during the landmark Osaka event, which ran for six months – stood a central pond and 1,500 real trees, all rescued and repurposed from Expo’s former ‘70 site and other parks in Osaka.

It’s from this honourable commission that Fujita’s new album for Erased Tapes, 'Forest of Tranquility', grew. Like the Japanese kankyō ongaku (environmental music) pioneers Hiroshi Yoshimura, Midori Takada and Haruomi Hosono before him, Fujita makes gentle, mind-massaging music intended to blend harmoniously with its environment, Fujita set about deepening the listener's connection to the complementary ebbs and flows of the natural world using dynamic shifts and gentle arcs to shift the mood. The result was a living tapestry that mirrored the surrounding forest, with nonlinear patterns and textural twists and turns — creating a portal into the unexpected.

For Expo ‘25 visitors, this synchronicity – the forest setting intertwined with its associated sounds – would have bettered their experience of being outdoors; for at-home listeners, this synergy now takes the form of a serene transportive pod, capable of taking you anywhere you wish.

On the follow-up to 2024’s 'Migratory' LP, the organic resonance of Fujita’s acoustic instruments – marimba, vibraphone, and percussion, with Armenian duduk from Hayk Karoyi and Japanese shō from Mattias Hållsten – acts as a showcase of nature’s design. Field recordings of birds and frogs make a hidden home among its branches and broad leaves, and bring the album’s biomimicry and ecological quality into even sharper focus. As do the atmospheric drones and burrs of white noise that evoke the wind whipping through the mountains. But, mainly, the objective was to carve out a roomy sound world for reflective thought. “I wanted to have a lot of space in between the sounds,” says Fujita.

TRACK LISTING

1. Portal to the Universe
2. Departure
3. Forest of Tranquility
4. Light, Wind and Water
5. Komorebi Dance
6. All Creatures Bow to Evening
7. Time to Go

Best known as one half of the innovative German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, Jan St. Werner also pursued a solo career as Lithops and under his own name. He began releasing solo music in the mid-’90s (around the time of his collaboration with Markus Popp as Microstoria), and through a series of 7 records he has innovated and explored the boundaries of electronic music. Werner’s latest album, 'Squares Will Fall', began in 2012 as an electronic composition lasting exactly thirty minutes, created to mark the thirtieth birthday of a friend. Over time, the piece continued to evolve, eventually forming the foundation for an improvisation by Justin Vernon and Jan St. Werner during Mouse on Mars’s Dimensional People sessions at Vernon’s studio in Wisconsin. In 2021, 'Squares Will Fall' assumed a new form as a multidirectional loudspeaker choreography created for the Ural Industrial Biennial. Three independent layers of the composition were transmitted through loudspeakers suspended via long ropes from the circus ceiling and were continuously repositioned by the performers. In 2026, Werner completed 'Squares Will Fall' and created the first stereo mix at Mouse on Mars’s Paraverse Studios. Andi Toma (Mouse on Mars) joined the final mixing sessions, contributing bass elements that subtly expanded the work’s sonic depth. The resulting stereo version brings together more than a decade of transformations, preserving the piece’s open, cut up character while translating its spatial and performative origins into a form suitable for focused listening. Taken together as an album, the songs are a joyous musical adventure. Understanding the complexity of the songs origins is not required; as with all that he does, Werner’s love of music and collaboration shines through in this inventive boundless listen.

TRACK LISTING

1. Squares Will Fall
2. Swamp Brains
3. Flötotto

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut...from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee 'Nuclear War', there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to 'Nuclear War', Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. 'Fireside Chat...' offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist’s intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything... except predictability. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Nuclear War
2. Retrospect
3. Makeup
4. A Fireside Chat With Lucifer

Praised by Rolling Stone, NME and the New York Times on release — this is the 1996 debut from the members who went on to form Bright Eyes & Cursive. 'Blanket Warm' is a genuine buried-treasure reissue: a record contemporary critics compared to the Rolling Stones, Guided by Voices, and Tindersticks, and one a new generation of listeners has rediscovered as a missing link to Neutral Milk Hotel and Sufjan Stevens’ chamber-folk. Lullaby for the Working Class formed in Lincoln, Nebraska in the winter of 1994, when multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis and singer-guitarist Ted Stevens began writing together. Working from two home-recorded demos — and without having played a single live show — the band signed to New Jersey’s Bar/None Records in 1995. 'Blanket Warm' was recorded and mixed by the Mogis brothers between December 1994 and April 1996 at their own Whoopass Recording Studio in Lincoln. Bar/None issued the album on CD in September 1996, while the vinyl LP went out through Lumberjack/Saddle Creek imprint in a pressing of just 1,000 copies — long out of print, and the edition this reissue restores to the format. The result splits the difference between rustic and ornate: acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, and upright bass sit alongside a chamber ensemble of violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet, and trombone.

TRACK LISTING

1. Good Morning
2. Honey, Drop the Knife
3. Turpentine
4. Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows
5. Boar’s Nest
6. Eskimo Song Duel
7. Three Peas in a Pod
8. Rye
9. Queen of the Long-Legged Insects
10. The Drama of Your Life
11. February North 24th Street
12. The Wounded Spider
13. Good Night

Portugal-based percussionist Gabriel Ferrandini spent years honing his skills in various free jazz ensembles, where he demonstrated his absorption of the styles of pioneering rhythm liberators like Sunny Murray and Milford Graves while forging his own energetic and agile sound. During this time, Ferrandini performed with everyone from Evan Parker and Alexander von Schlippenbach to Thurston Moore and Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai. At some point, the percussionist grew restless and began taking a more compositional approach, using his drums as primary sources from which to produce spectral tones and timbres via electronic manipulation.

In Ferrandini’s hands, cymbals become generative instruments with endless reverb tails and choir samples are distilled into vapor. With its subtle evocations of light and color and meticulous editing, 'Romance' suggests an almost cinematic scale. The strings and grainy synthesizer of 'Crying Game' lend an air of giallo dread to the deep sub-bass rumbles; 'Afters Lisboa' processes cymbal crashes through a Leslie speaker to create a siren-like Doppler effect; 'Fallen Angels', one of the few tracks to feature Ferrandini’s mostly untreated percussion work, stacks layers of reverb effects of varying lengths (an old Autechre trick) to add friction and give the spatialized sounds a dissociative quality. Album highlight 'Cova da Vaporwave' utilizes creative sidechaining, warbly VHS like tones and drums amplified through a Fender Twin to gather apocalyptic momentum.

'Romance' is a formidable artistic statement, establishing Ferrandini as one of the most vital composers on the contemporary avant-garde music scene. He is influenced by Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, whose passionate yet dissonant chromatic approach can be detected throughout the album’s seven uncanny tracks.

TRACK LISTING

1. Green Ray
2. Crying Game
3. Itacoatiara
4. Afters Lisboa
5. Fallen Angels
6. Cova da Vaporwave
7. Growing Pains

Black Sheep is the influential hip‑hop duo from Queens, New York, formed by Andres “Dres” Vargas Titus and William “Mista Lawnge” McLean. Although both members hail from New York, they met as teenagers in Sanford, North Carolina, where their families had relocated. The duo became part of the celebrated Native Tongues Collective (alongside Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul), a movement known for its creativity, positivity, and forward‑thinking approach to hip‑hop. After joining forces in 1989, Black Sheep made an immediate impact with their 1991 breakthrough single “Flavor of the Month”, followed by their acclaimed debut album A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing. The record earned widespread recognition for its inventive rhythms and sharp, witty, often humorous lyricism.

Their second album Non‑Fiction arrived in 1994, reaching No. 14 on the U.S. R&B/Hip‑Hop chart and continuing their signature blend of jazzy hip-hop and clever, tongue‑in‑cheek storytelling. Following its release, the group remained largely inactive throughout the decade, with the exception of Dres, who recorded a solo project under the moniker Dres The Black Sheep. Black Sheep eventually returned in 2006 with their long‑awaited third album 8WM / Novakane. Shortly thereafter, Mista Lawnge departed, while Dres has continued to release music under the Black Sheep name.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Non-Fiction Intro
2. Autobiographical
3. B.B.S.
4. City Lights
5. Do Your Thing

Side B
1. E.F.F.E.C.T.
2. Freak Y'all
3. Gotta Get Up
4. Let's Get Cozy

Side C
1. Me & My Brother
2. North South East West
3. Peace To The Niggas
4. Summa Tha Time

Side D
1. We Boys
2. Who's Next?
3. Without A Doubt
4. Non-Fiction Outro

'La Ola Nocturna' explores the most adventurous side of Spanish pop in the 1980s. Spanning post-punk, new wave, synth wave, darkwave and experimental electronics, this compilation brings together 25 tracks that capture an Spain in transition, suspended between the euphoria of newfound freedoms after Franco’s dictatorship and the uncertainties of an emerging modernity.

Far beyond the familiar story of Madrid’s Movida, 'La Ola Nocturna' uncovers a rich and often overlooked independent scene where offbeat pop, nocturnal soundscapes, punk feminism, cybernetic utopias, gothic romanticism and DIY experimentation flourished side by side. From Madrid and Barcelona to San Sebastián, Vigo and the Canary Islands, these artists forged a distinctly Spanish musical language, shaped as much by international influences as by the unique context of the country’s democratic transition.

A journey through a decade of freedom, contradictions and relentless creativity, 'La Ola Nocturna' reveals the roots of Spain’s future indie movement while celebrating a generation that turned the night into a laboratory for artistic invention.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aventuras de Kirlian - En invierno
2. Ciudad Jardín - Homúnculo
3. El Guerrillero Rojo - Vueltas
4. Kremlyn - The Girl Is Mine
5. &Nil - Tilly
6. Los Monaguillosh - Voces en la jungle
7. Aerolíneas Federales - Soy fea
8. Esclarecidos - El muro acabo con Matt (Berlín)
9. Zush & Tres - On the Rooms of Mush
10. M-ak - Atseden une bat
11. Línea Vienesa - Te vas a morir
12. Alphaville - Ataque lateral
13. Víctor Nubla - Cloaca Máxima II
14. Parálisis Permanente - Bacanal
15. Ataque de caspa - La pesca
16. El Aviador Dro y sus obreros especializados - Obsesión
17. Fracción del Ejército Rojo - Apoyo Internacional
18. Aventuras de Kirlian - Marnie la ladrona
19. Javier Segura - Camino largo
20. Esclarecidos - Música para convenios colectivos
21. Mataparda - La llegada del cometa
22. Agrimensor K - Nuevas factorías
23. El Último sueño - Los muebles están volando
24. Alphaville - Paisajes nocturnos

What makes a life well lived? Career, home, savings, family: these are the milestones that make adulthood legible as success. Friendship, meanwhile, is often treated as something that either endures or doesn’t, more a matter of luck than a relationship requiring its own devotion, maintenance, and care. When really, as the world becomes more isolated and artificial by the day, friendships may be the most important thing a person ever builds.

“A lot of times in life I feel like a late bloomer, like I'm still trying to get my shit together in a way that other people have already figured out,” says Chastity Belt drummer/vocalist Gretchen Grimm. “But then I reflect on my adulthood, and my top priority has largely been my friends, which I do not regret at all.” That priority feels like the guiding principle on the band’s sixth album, 'All My Friends'. Not that they set out to make an album about friendship—during mixing the band's longtime collaborator and engineer, Samur Khouja, pointed out that a lot of the songs referenced the subject. Which makes a lot of sense.

Julia Shapiro (guitar/vocals), Lydia Lund (guitar/vocals), Hunter Truscott (bass/vocals), and Grimm have been making music together for 15 years. Friendship has sustained the Chastity Belt project as its members have grown alongside one another, both as people and as musicians. Across a resonant catalog, they’ve moved from the raucous wit of their early records toward the lush, introspective moods they’ve refined on each album since via trademark intertwining guitars, meticulous rhythms, and double exposure of melancholy and optimism.

'All My Friends' comprises songs recorded across multiple years, time zones, and studios, including Seahorse Sound in LA, Way Out in Woodinville, and a centuries-old house on the Greek island of Hydra. The oldest track dates back to around 2018; the newest were finished within the past year. These days, the band spans three cities (Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago); less writing/rehearsal time means songs are often worked out in the studio, relying on the spontaneity and instinct that comes from knowing one another so well. The result is rawer and less polished than their last couple of records, closer in spirit to the band’s roots.

TRACK LISTING

1. Friends for This
2. Designs
3. To Decide
4. I Could Say Less
5. Not Today
6. Be Kind
7. Pavement
8. Talk About
9. Trash
10. Hold My Own
11. Live Laugh Love

Does this soundtrack amuse you? It should, as Scorcese's music choices are always exquisite and the songs featured here on this soundtrack are no exception. From the swagger of 'Mannish Boy' to the majesty of 'Layla(Piano Exit)', the scenes in Goodfellas would just not be the same without these pieces of music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tony Bennett – Rags To Riches
2. The Moonglows – Sincerely
3. The Cadillacs – Speedo
4. Billy Ward And His Dominoes – Stardust
5. The Chantels – Look In My Eyes
6. The Harptones – Life Is But A Dream
7. The Shangri-Las – Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)
8. Aretha Franklin – Baby I Love You
9. Bobby Darin – Beyond The Sea
10. Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
11. Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
12. Derek And The Dominos – Layla (Piano Exit)

Since the mid-1990s, British composer Matt Elliott has been exploring sonic textures and pushing at the boundaries of sound.

Bristol came first. Elliott played with Movietone and Flying Saucer Attack before striking out on his own as The Third Eye Foundation.

His debut album, 'Semtex' (1996), was followed by a deal with Domino, which released three further records: 'Ghost' (1997), 'You Guys Kill Me' (1998) and 'Little Lost Soul' (2000). Post-rock? Dark, haunted electronica? Baroque trip-hop? Labels, categories and scenes sit uneasily with the shadowy, troubled atmosphere of Elliott's music. Perhaps "ghost rock" comes closest to describing it.

Nancy came next. Elliott settled there in the early 2000s and began releasing albums under his own name in collaboration with Ici D'Ailleurs. 'Drinking Songs' (2005), the first installment of a trilogy, was a brooding dark-folk record that brought him an ever-growing international audience. Matt Elliott has since recorded nine more albums under his own name, as well as two further records as The Third Eye Foundation, establishing a place entirely his own within the musical landscape.

Matt Elliott's music crosses borders and draws freely on traditions from across countries and continents. Its many strands include Delta blues, the dark jazz of basement clubs, the raw soul of Portuguese fado, Greek rebetiko and the music of the Balkans, with its mingled exhilaration and ache.

'This World Is No Place for Children', Matt Elliott's tenth studio album, opens with a deceptively jaunty waltz. Listen more closely, however, and the song reveals itself as the story of a toxic relationship coming to an end. Elsewhere, the album ventures into some of humanity's bleakest territory: boundless greed and our collective failure towards the young. Yet, as so often in Elliott's work, a glimmer of light finds its way through the darkness. These songs can sound like laments or pagan prayers, but they also offer solace. A delicately plucked classical guitar, Matt Elliott's low, gentle voice, at once intimate and distant, an elegiac saxophone and strings that seem to belong to another age: this is music with an immediate, physical pull.

After twenty years of support from Ici D'Ailleurs, to whom due tribute must be paid, 'This World Is No Place for Children' is Matt Elliott's first album to be released by Talitres.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Aftermath
2. I Noticed
3. Guillotines for Billionaires
4. This World Is No Place for Children
5. We Almost Made It
6. Falling

What exactly is Folk Soul? It’s not the contemporary roots-rock or country-adjacent ballads you’re probably familiar with. Folk Soul sits right before, if not directly along - side, the black music diaspora of the midtolate 60s through the early 70s. Where Spiritual Soul channels the ethos of pro-black liberation and the broader struggle of its era, Folk Soul lived in the dissection, classification, and outright denial of the status quo — confronting the complex, rigid power struggles of the time through minimalist, classically trained, and forward-thinking approaches to song craft. This LP Kills Fascist.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
A1 Blue Eyed Soul - Burn
A2 Trevor Dandy - Don’t Cry Little Tree
A3 Shira Small - My Life’s All Right
A4 Shirley Drumgole - I’ll Never Give You Up
A5 Otis The 3rd - Time
A6 LaVice & Company - Yes I Do

SIDE B
B1 Willie Wright - Africa
B2 Tony Brown - Til I Saw You
B3 Dwain Vinyard - Searching For The Truth
B4 Just Us - Love Is All We Need
B5 Alice Swoboda - Potter’s Field
B6 Donald Thomas - Black Night Is Calling Me Home

Grapefruit Records is proud to announce the release of 'Flourish', Sarah Mary Chadwick’s eleventh studio record. It’s a sprawling, 80-minute double album which does what the best double albums attempt to do—take us on a journey with a cinematic arc in kodachrome honesty. In this case it’s a hero’s journey as 'Flourish' is furious, feminist, funny and occasionally danceable as it documents a near paralysingly difficult year.

While spoken word and hip-hop is a departure for Chadwick, her literate lyricism invites us to challenge what we think we know about her as a songwriter. It is equal parts Death Grips, Kim Gordon, Earl Sweatshirt and Girls On Fire. In a masterclass of songwriting she uses women’s hairstyles as a metaphor for how talented women are depicted as dangerous or crazy: “Change your hair, ask for the Anne Sexton…..Ask for the Sylvia Plath, you’ll look good with that…Get your hair done fresh, ask for the Anne Heche.” She also name-checks Janet Frame, DMX, and transforms Stephen Crane’s famous line into “because it is glitter, because it is my heart.”

Musically, it’s DIY and scrappy as Chadwick recorded, mixed and mastered the album herself at home while figuring out how to get the fried sounds and sonic plunderphonics necessary for her dive into a new musical language. One can hear the pure joy of discovery she finds in looping and sampling and spitting out lyrics in a new way. She is playful, vengeful and confessional twirling the idiom in her freshly manicured hand like a shiny disco ball.

The record details and deconstructs Chadwick’s recovery from an abusive relationship, a life event that is dwarfed by the powerful rhetoric around a woman’s experience and violence towards women. À la The Guerilla Girls, her feminist ferocity is palpable and liberating as she takes swipes at pop culture and the patriarchy with humor and withering wit.

TRACK LISTING

1. Flourish
2. New Toy
3. Lavender
4. Just Met Jordan
5. AMA
6. Wave Then Wave
7. Player One
8. JT Leroy
9. Am I Lonely?
10. Almost Maybe
11. Fuck This I’m So Over It
12. Vomit Aisle Nine
13. 101 Salvations
14. Counter Licked
15. Better Luck Next Time
16. Atypical

Having called an indefinite hiatus on Lack of Afro following ‘Love Dealer’ – his most recent release for a project that has carried him through the best part of two decades – Adam Gibbons returns to the place it all began. ‘Music For Motion Pictures’ is Gibbons’ second album under his own name, arriving five years on from 2021’s ‘The Last Bastion’, and it finds him leaning further into a cinematic obsession that predates his releases as Lack of Afro. Before the funk, soul, disco (and much more) of his musical alter-ego took hold, Gibbons aspired to be a film composer, growing up on the scores of John Barry, John Williams, Thomas Newman and, more recently, David Holmes, Daniel Pemberton and Ludwig Göransson.

“The material I put out under my own name is designed to scratch the itch I’ve always had of writing music to picture,” says Gibbons. “A film composer was what I wanted to be – I was obsessed with it for a number of years. I actually thought the Lack of Afro material would be a side project or even a distraction. It ended up being the other way around.”

Where ‘The Last Bastion’ scored a film that has never existed, ‘Music For Motion Pictures’ takes a different route. It isn’t tied to any picture at all, but plays like one anyway - charting a real relationship track by track. “It’s a soundtrack to a period of time that happened in my life,” Gibbons explains. “It’s not a film – we didn’t record any visuals of what happened – but it’s a musical journal, an audio diary if you will. Each track relates to certain events that happened in & around a relationship I had.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Saw You On TV
2. Making Playlists
3. Black Coffee
4. Hidden Dinners
5. Dripping In Chemistry
6. Does Your Boyfriend Know?
7. Latin Ping
8. Eddie Redmayne
9. For The Long Term
10. Gone
11. No Phone Call, No Answers
12. Anna Keeps The Artwork
13. Avoidant 24/7
14. Alfie's Reprise

There is a peculiar freedom that accompanies an upheaval.

Even as change tears through the structures that once held us together, the wind flutters in and the mind begins to dance. Fine Food Market’s debut album 'Alas Time Has Passed' is an intimate and dynamic folk-pop cocktail narrating a new world.

Following a period of big changes—moving out on her own, leaving a long-term relationship, and squaring off her discomfort with solitude—Sophie Perras began looking around and asking, what is left now? She retraces her childhood memories in nine groove-infused vignettes, unintentionally reevaluating all the masculine relationships in her life, familial and romantic.

Recorded live off the floor in a cabin in the Laurentian mountains, the album carries the immediacy of its songwriting into the recording process. Each song assumes the form it requires– from country-inflected arrangements featuring pedal steel, fiddle, saxophone and a full choir, to stripped-back piano ballads.

Fun-loving pop hooks, playful turns of phrase, and theatrical melancholy coexist. Perras’ charm lies in her emotional elasticity, balancing adventure and airiness with a stark sadness and sensitivity. Rather than resolving these tensions, the album embraces every mood, ultimately casting off any acute intensity in the pursuit of joy and expansiveness.

TRACK LISTING

1. Stranger
2. Dark Moon
3. Take It as It Is
4. You'll Be There
5. Waiting on That Chair
6. Haunted House
7. Losing at Life
8. Blue Sunday
9. New Mountain
10. Alas Time Has Passed

The Embrooks have been providing the finest blend of hard Garage, Freakbeat and Psychedelia since late '96, putting a mid-late 60s stamp on the now! Consisting of Lois on drums (at some point also in The Dirty Burds, The Lyds and Thee Jezebels), Alessandro on guitar/vocals (also previously in Head And The Hares, and a few other projects) and Mole (at some point also with Stewed, The Higher State, The Mystreated, The Jack Cades and The Lyds, but now also making noise in The Baron Four, The Capellas, The Galileo 7 and sometimes Groovy Uncle). Mole is also head buff at State Records and North Down Sound Studio. Lois and Alessandro are also one half of Odd Men Out!

The Embrooks hibernated in 2005, but woke to release the storming Nightmare/Helen double header single on State Records in 2016, swiftly followed up by their fourth studio album, 'We Who Are' in 2018, followed by four further 7" singles, one of which being 'Human Living Vampire' on Spinout Nuggets in 2021.

The Embrooks continue their goodness, this time with the new long player 'Fragments Of Yesterday'.

From the raw garage of 'Closed Doors' and 'That's When Happiness Began' through the slightly-delic 'Love, Love, Love (Thou Hast Forsaken Me)', the near-protest of 'Black-Hatted Lady' and folk-rock jangle of 'My Way, It's Here' and '(Please) Don't Ask Me Anymore' to the acoustic acid folk of 'Where Are We Going (Life Takes Different Paths)', this is eclecticism personified! The use of unusual instruments such as celeste, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, trumpet and recorders helps convey a myriad of moods.

TRACK LISTING

1. Girl Of My Life 
2. Closed Doors 
3. My Way, It's Here 
4. Black-Hatted Lady 
5. Don't Talk About Love
6. Love, Love, Love (Thou Hast Forsaken Me) 
7. The Crave 
8. Terry And Julie
9. Dear Ebenezer 
10. That's When Happiness Began 
11. (Please) Don't Ask Me Anymore 
12. Where Are We Going (Life Takes Different Paths)

The original double album of Pinegrove tracks from 2010-2015, now updated with a third LP of 8 unreleased recordings from that time period.

Includes new artwork along with the original 12x12 16 page full colour booklet.

TRACK LISTING

1. New Friends
2. Angelina
3. Problems
4. Need
5. Overthrown
6. Size of the Moon
7. Need 2
8. Namesake
9. V
10. &
11. Unison
12. Palisade
13. The Metronome
14. Mather Knoll
15. Over My Shoulder
16. Peeling off the Bark
17. Morningtime
18. Recycling
19. Sunday
20. On Jet Lag
21. Days
22. Thanksgiving (demo – ESF “Bonus Round”)
23. Bicycle Day (ESF “Bonus Round”)
24. Burnout (ESF “Bonus Round”)
25. Lorazepam (ESF “Bonus Round”)
26. Housesitting (ESF “Bonus Round”)
27. Offer (ESF “Bonus Round”)
28. Away (ESF “Bonus Round”)
29. Pepper (ESF “Bonus Round”)

Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and performer La Roux returns with her long-awaited fourth album, 'Old Flames'.

Composed, written, produced, and arranged by La Roux herself, 'Old Flames' clears the space for something new.

TRACK LISTING

1. Old Flames (Intro)
2. Cabin Fever
3. Lose Myself
4. Falling
5. To Make Our Love
6. Your Lover
7. Final Fantasy
8. Night Vision
9. I Just Keep Crying
10. Baby Line
11. Old Flames

Best known as the longtime DJ for Sugar Ray, DJ Homicide_ brings decades of turntable experience to this pair of soul-soaked hip-hop edits. 'You're No Good (Flip)' rides a classic boom-bap groove, layering warm samples and heavyweight drums into an effortlessly head-nodding cut, while 'Rich Kind Of Poverty (Flip)' digs even deeper with smoky brass, vintage soul textures and laid-back swing. Unfussy, authentic and built on faultless foundations, both sides underscore Homicide's knack for transforming familiar sounds into grooves that feel fresh.

TRACK LISTING

You're No Good (Flip)
Rich Kind Of Poverty (Flip)

Fabio Santanna is a respected scene veteran in his native Brazil and has a wide array of styles in his arsenal, from Balearic, downtempo and chill-out to Latin, lounge and pop. He always brings a modern MPB touch to classic sounds and now lands on the superb Scruniversal. 'Negro Sentimento' opens with a low-slung swagger and claps that sound straight from a Chicago house record in the 80s. 'Funk Na Veia' is even slower and more purposeful with a sexual energy and libidinous, funky vocal.

TRACK LISTING

Negro Sentimento
Funk Na Veia

Anglo-Maltese quartet ĠENN team up with Aidan Moffat on new single ‘Jaguar Sun’ released on a glass clear 12” vinyl. Unfurling over 6 minutes, ‘Jaguar Sun’ is ĠENN as the masters of atmosphere, with sprawling sonics and vocalist Leona Farrugia is equally at home delivering whispered couplets as spreading her wings with soaring runs. Always recognizable Moffat adding an extra surreal dimension to this single co-produced by the band with Johnny Hostile (Savages/Jehnny Beth), Grammy Award winner Johnny Breakwell (Pinkpantheress) and Tom Hill .

TRACK LISTING

1. Jaguar Sun
3. Jaguar Sun (Instrumental)

Three late works by Éliane Radigue, composed in intimate dialogue with singular instrumental voices Charles Curtis and Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, reveal the extraordinary technical control and sensitivity required to realize Radigue’s radically reduced sonic language. Presented here for the first time on LP, these works stand as a landmark document of the composer’s late acoustic practice, where microscopic shifts in tone, texture, and resonance become the music itself.

TRACK LISTING

1. Occam XIII For Bassoon
2. Occam River XI For Bassoon and Cello
3. Occam V For Cello
4. Occam River XI For Bassoon and Cello

Hailed as a masterpiece of it’s genre, and considered by many as ground zero for Deathrock, 'Only Theatre of Pain' is a seminal work of unholy power and pitch black emotion. Whilst this record may have it’s roots in punk - the origins of this true original version of Christian Death took place in Southern California during the early 80’s hardcore explosion - it cannot be overstated how important this record was in shaping the subsequent landscape. Emerging like an adrenaline shot into the heart of darkness, this unrestrained and mysterious recording still remains unclassifiable.

Featuring the late visionary Rozz Williams (then only in his teens) alongside punk luminary Rikk Agnew (guiding light in the Adolescents), James McGearty and George Belanger, Only Theatre of Pain’s musical exploration is adorned with psychosexual lyricism and an innate struggle with faith. Rozz’s vocals creep and possess, demonic and haunting, against the captivating, unmistakable guitar work of trailblazer Agnew. It’s a performance, but also a truth, perhaps 'Only Theatre of Pain' is an art show, as much as it is an era defining record.

Aside from their spellbinding sound, it may have also been the lore of Christian Death that set them apart from other LA goth bands of the time. A near-nude Rozz Williams nailed to a cross at the Whiskey a Go Go may have played a part, but what it is apparent when you listen to the unhallowed musical stages on 'Only Theatre Of Pain' is a depth of vision and orchestration that goes beyond the simple stance of brooding many of their contemporaries emulated, delving into the realms of pure unadulterated catharsis. The result is an eradefining statement that remains as unsettling, innovative, and resonant today as it was over four decades ago.

'Only Theatre Of Pain' is presented here newly remastered with early demo’s and rare material, further demonstrating why Christian Death stood alone in their sound and approach. This journey of religious depravity, recorded by the legendary producer Thom Wilson in a matter of days, harnesses the huge concepts of band projecting older than their years. Ahead of the curve in sonic artistry and visual aesthetics, this slab of sacrilegious American punk is nothing short of essential listening for the gothic inclined. A must for fans of The Misfits, Bauhaus and The Cramps.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cavity- First Communion
2. Figurative Theatre
3. Burnt Offerings
4. Mysterium Iniquitatis
5. Dream For Mother
6. Stairs - Uncertain Journey
7. Spiritual Cramp
8. Romeo’s Distress
9. Resurrection - Sixth Communion
10. Prayer
11. Dogs
12. Romeo’s Distress
13. Deathwish
14. Desperate Hell
15. Spiritual Cramp
16. Cavity - First Communion
17. Sleepwalk (1982 Demo)
18. Invocation (1982 Demo)
19. Cavity-First Communion (Alternate Version)
20. Lord’s Prayer (Alternate Version)

Futurismo are proud to present DEVO’s 'NITROUS NIGHTMARE, Halloween Live ‘75'. Never before released, or heard in it’s entirety, this legendary live performance is presented here in it’s full chaotic glory.

The live release all hardcore Devo fans have been waiting for, Nitrous Nightmare demonstrates a band harnessing their artistic greatness in the purest of forms. This mythic performance captures Devo perfecting some of their most iconic concepts in the raw. Expertly restored, this live recording makes for a thrilling experience, it also captures Devo as a lightening rod for hostility.

On Halloween 1975, Devo took the stage at the WHK Auditorium in Cleveland, in a supporting capacity for jazz legend Sun Ra, to perform for a raucous crowd dressed in the finest of Halloween cliché. Already riding high on Nitrous Oxide and booze supplied by the sponsoring radio station, this unaware horde was expecting to see a slick cover band churning out renditions of Bad Company hits, only to be subjected to an act of subversive performance art that would send the growingly aggravated crowd into eventual meltdown. Physical threats ensued, but Devo played on.

Acting as a live companion release to Futurismo’s much lauded 'Art Devo', the tracklist featured here showcases the origins of de-evolution theory in a live setting. These songs would become some of their most famous material, with this recording believed to be the very first time ‘Jocko Homo’ was performed in front of a live audience; the full 12 minute version documented here is sure to please fans, even if it displeased the urban hippies and horror masked onlookers that evening. Whilst Devo may have felt they were trapped inside a negative energy vortex during that era, it is clear in retrospect that the band was using this energy to carve out the genesis of a sonic and visual art that has truly stood the test of time. The music performed that evening would mutate culture for decades to come, long after the denizens of the auditorium packed away their cheap vampire costumes and returned to their day jobs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Secret Agent Man
2. Subhuman Woman
3. Bamboo Bimbo
4. “We Gotta Go Low With Devo”
5. Buttered Beauties
6. I Been Refused
7. Auto Modown
8. Space Girl Blues
9. Smart Patrol
10. Fraulein
11. Jocko Homo
12. Shimmy Shake
13. Midget/My Lai Mama
14. I Need a Chick
15. “Beer Can Rebellion”
16. Baby Talking Bitches
17. Chango
18. Beulah

Feeble Little Horse is naturally delighted to present their third full-length LP, 'Bitknot'. The album was written, arranged, produced, and recorded by Sebastian Kinsler, Lydia Slocum, and Jake Kelley across their respective homes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A spirited investigation into the unnatural space created between human nature and a culture of convenience, a synthesis of dirt and digital, 'Bitknot' by Feeble Little Horse creates a language wherein one can re-imbue a sanctity of interdependence away from consumptive “self-suciency” and materialism. Slocum’s meandering introspection playfully harmonizes against Kinsler’s hooks, walls of noise, a supercharged car battery’s worth of synths and samples dropped in the ocean of their guitar-driven songwriting framework. Meanwhile, some of Kelley’s most laser-focused drums to date create a sonic chimera that is as likely to be found nascently developing in the early aughts as some unknown, chromatic future.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Roaring distorted guitars and swirling chorus give the impression of a more melodic 90's shoegaze aesthetic, but it's the off-kilter percussion and lilting vocal that bring this into a much more (personally) desirable 90's grunge / pop-punk aesthetic. A superb album either way, and a truly remarkable listen.

TRACK LISTING

1. Doorway
2. Poison
3. Rewind
4. Shady
5. Dior
6. Paris
7. Cradle
8. Upside Down
9. Guts
10. Shopping
11. DMT

Three years after the release of their debut album, Do Nothing return with their much anticipated sophomore, 'Friend World'. The Nottingham four piece consisting of Chris Bailey, Kasper Sandstrøm, Charlie Howarth, Andrew Harrison, emerge bolder, self-assured and more energetic than ever.

Lead single 'Stars' is a synth-laden track with hypnotic riffs, meandering vocals and bouncing basslines. The single, already a fan favourite, paves the way for listeners to enter the 'Friend World' that Do Nothing have created. At first glance, the album is overflowing with hard hitting guitars, infectious rhythms and frontman Bailey's signature razor-sharp witted lyricism, but dive deeper into tracks such as 'These People Want Blood' and standout track 'Loner', to find an alternative take on the album, representing a softer and more pensive side of the band's writing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Misery
2. The Nail
3. Act Natural
4. These People Want Blood
5. Stars
6. Smile
7. Dog 2
8. Loner
9. Yes
10. Paris Jesus
11. Incommunicado

'Jealous / Git Buck' offers a first glimpse into the world of 'Cadillac Warning', DJ Spanish Fly’s forthcoming collection of previously unreleased Memphis rap recordings.

'Jealous' opens with a field recording made by Fly in the early 1990s, capturing the talking alarm system of his prized 1978 Cadillac Coup DeVille as it warns would-be carjackers to “move away from the vehicle” – a moment that would later inspire the album’s title. One of the foundational figures of Memphis rap, Spanish Fly helped define the city’s raw, bass-heavy sound long before it spread across the globe. Built from eerie synths, booming 808s and DIY production, 'Jealous / Git Buck' captures the hypnotic street energy that made his homemade tapes legendary throughout the South.

Championed today by figures including A$AP Rocky, Legowelt and NTS Radio, Fly’s pioneering work continues to find new audiences across hip-hop and electronic music alike. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Jealous
2. Git Buck ft. Lady Dia

Scott Fagan’s new album 'Soon', 55 years in the making, revives songs from his lost 1971 Broadway rock opera.

Alongside songwriting partner Joe Kookoolis, Fagan conceived and wrote the rock opera, an age-old story of an artist forced to make a devil’s bargain between their principles and success, intending it to be the follow-up to his classic 1968 debut, 'South Atlantic Blues'. But fate intervened. The production (which starred Fagan and a young Richard Gere) closed early, the album was shelved, never to be recorded or heard. Until now.

Recorded over seven days in July 2025 at the hallowed Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with a crack rhythm section, the thirteen songs on Soon illustrate Fagan’s extraordinary facility and range as a singer and songwriter of great sensitivity, passion, and humour.

From its rousing gospel opener ('Let The World Begin Again'), through fiery, protest songs ('Faces Names and Places', 'Straight'), and tender-hearted ballads ('Child of Sympathy', 'To Touch the Sky'), the album is by turns, uplifting, mournful, righteous, giddy, soulful (title track, 'Soon'), and anthemic (closer, 'Please Be Well'). This feels like an album of lost classics waiting to be rediscovered.

Scott Fagan has been waiting a long time for the world to hear these songs. The long, long wait is over, 'Soon'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Let The World Begin Again
2. Soon
3. Music Music
4. Roll Out the Morning
5. Faces Names and Places
6. Child of Sympathy
7. Straight
8. Wait
9. To Touch the Sky
10. What’s Gonna Happen To Me When I’m 50
11. Sing a Happy Song
12. It Won’t Be Long
13. Please Be Well

'Beam Cottage' is the new album from singer, musician and actor Johnny Flynn and his sister Lillie. Gathering music from their childhood alongside reworkings of tracks from Johnny's extensive catalogue, the album opens with new original 'The Music of the Spheres' and includes Lillie's songwriting debut 'Brockwell Park'. It features reinterpretations of traditional songs and covers including Paul Simon's 'The Boy In The Bubble' and Hank Williams' 'Rambling Man', and closes with a lullaby penned by their father. Produced by Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman, London Grammar), lead single 'The Ghost Of O'Donahue' features acclaimed South African vocal harmony group The Joy.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rambling Man
2. The Music of the Spheres
3. Brockwell Park
4. The Ghost of O'Donahue ft. The Joy
5. Hares on the Mountain
6. The Boy In The Bubble
7. Between the Wars
8. The Lady is Risen
9. Dink's Song
10. Tell Old Bill
11. Idumea
12. Moon River
13. Been Listening
14. Sleepy Head

A UK Top 5 album upon original release, 'For Your Pleasure' is the second studio album by Roxy Music. Commercially even more successful than their debut album, it cemented Roxy's position as one of the UK’s most inventive rock bands and is widely seen as both their definitive album and as one of the greatest art-rock/glam-rock albums of all time.

Originally released on 23 March 1973 by Island Records, the album expands on the experimental nature of their self-titled debut, featuring more elaborate production and experimentation. It was their last album to feature synthesiser player Brian Eno. 

TRACK LISTING

2LP Tracklisting:
1. Do The Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure
9. Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake
10. Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake
11. Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes
12. Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake
13. The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake
14. Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake
15. For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes 

2CD Tracklisting:
1. Do The Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure
9. Pyjamarama - AIR studios outtake     
10. Beauty Queen - AIR studios outtake  
11. Strictly Confidential - AIR studios outtake     
12. Editions Of You - AIR studios outtake     
13. Bogus Man - AIR studios outtake     
14. Grey Lagoons - AIR studios outtake  
15. For Your Pleasure - Eno Tapes 
16. Pyjamarama - 2026 remaster
17. The Pride and the Pain
18. Grey Lagoons - BBC Paris Theatre, London, August 1972
19. Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973   
20. Do The Strand - Peel Sessions March 1973 
21. Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973     
22. For Your Pleasure - Peel Sessions Nov 1972 

3CD/DVD Box Set Tracklisting:
CD1 – For Your Pleasure:
1. Do The Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure

CD2 – Demos, Rehearsals & Studio Outtakes:
1. Pyjamarama - guitar & vocal
2. Do The Strand - piano & vocal
3. Beauty Queen - tremolo piano
4. Beauty Queen - electric piano
5. Beauty Queen - piano & vocal
6. Strictly Confidential (segue into)
7. Editions Of You - electric piano
8. In Every Dream Home A Heartache - farfisa & guitar
9. In Every Dream Home A Heartache - tremolo guitar
10. For Your Pleasure - electric piano
11. Pyjamarama - Rehearsal 1973
12. Bogus Man - Rehearsal 1973
13. Grey Lagoons - 1971 Demo (Original title The Bogus Man Part 2)
14. Pyjamarama - AIR Studios outtake
15. Beauty Queen - AIR Studios outtake
16. Strictly Confidential - AIR Studios outtakes
17. Editions Of You - AIR Studios outtake
18. The Bogus Man - AIR Studios outtake
19. Grey Lagoons - AIR Studios outtake
20. For Your Pleasure - Eno tapes

CD3 – Live sessions, Singles & Instrumentals:
1. Grey Lagoons – BBC Paris Theatre (London) August 1972 (first live performance)
2. For Your Pleasure – Peel Sessions November 1972
3. Do The Strand – Peel Sessions March 1973
4. Editions Of You - Peel Sessions March 1973
5. Pyjamarama - Peel Sessions March 1973
6. In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Peel Sessions March 1973
7. Pyjamarama A side single
8. The Pride And The Pain B side single
9. Do The Strand (instrumental)
10. Beauty Queen (instrumental)
11. Strictly Confidential (instrumental)
12. Editions Of You (instrumental)
13. In Every Dream Home A Heartache (instrumental)
14. The Bogus Man (instrumental)
15. Grey Lagoons (instrumental)
16. For Your Pleasure (instrumental)

DVD – TV & Live Performances:
1. Pyjamarama – Top of the Pops (lost tape)
2. For Your Pleasure – Full House November 1972
3. Grey Lagoons – Full House November 1972
4. Do The Strand – Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Old Grey Whistle Test April 1973
6. Do The Strand – Live at Montreux April 1973
7. Grey Lagoons - Live at Montreux April 1973
8. Beauty Queen - Live at Montreux April 1973
9. The Bogus Man- Live at Montreux April 1973
10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache- Live at Montreux April 1973
11. Editions Of You- Live at Montreux April 1973
12. Do The Strand – Musikladen 1973
13. Editions Of You – Musikladen 1973
14. In Every Dream Home A Heartache – Musikladen 1973 

Striped Light was conceived by Benge several decades ago and in 2007 he enlisted Sam Genders (Tunng) to co-write the songs and over a period of a few years, invited Hannah Peel, Elizabeth Bernholz (Gazelle Twin), Serafina Steer, Juliana Venter and Tara Busch (I Speak Machine) to record vocals, bringing in session bassist Kuma Harada (Van Morrison, Billy Ocean), the Minimoog player Max Middleton (Jeff Beck, Kate Bush), and lead guitarist Mike Lindsay (Tunng) to complete the recordings before John Foxx came on board to create the album’s artwork and Eoin Richardson illustrated the band.

'For All This Beauty' is a work of great passion, celebrating the music that Benge was brought up on, using a spectacular array of vintage synthesisers and recording gear, talented writers and musicians, and the beautiful voices of all the singers involved. It is an album of sparkling electronic alt-pop, nearly 20 years in the making.

TRACK LISTING

1. Atoms (featuring Tara Busch)
2. Foolish (featuring Elizabeth Bernholz)
3. Between The Trees (featuring Tara Busch)
4. Dive Deep (featuring Hannah Peel)
5. Echoes (featuring Serafina Steer)
6. Motorcade (featuring Tara Busch)
7. The City (featuring Hannah Peel)
8. Wake Up (featuring Serafina Steer)
9. Sleep (featuring Julian Venter)

Nashville’s Jess Kerber focuses on the profound resonances of simple moments, pairing delicate acoustic guitar lines with her rich and captivating tenor. 'The World Is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny', her second LP for Felte, is a deeply affecting collection of homespun poetry and natural artistry that finds the artists reflecting on personal history, the emotional intricacies of relationships, and the value of cosmic perspective. She explains,“These songs come from a space of feeling a little left behind, so a lot of the album is about realizing and accepting impermanence, and learning how to be good to yourself and to others.”

Opening with 'Familiar Strangers', Kerber gets to the heart of her greatest talents: fluid fingerpicking, emotive vocal cadences, feather-light touches of piano, and subtle harmonies. 'Louisiana Song' positions a lyrical chain of childhood recollections up against the literal rising waters that will one day submerge a cherished place: “I think about being southern / and the sand on the gulf coast / When I think about returning / I am wading in a graveyard”.

Throughout 'The World Is Dark...', Kerber navigates an emotional tightrope, fully aware of the ills of the world while trying to find connections and peaceful corners. Even with all their nuances and challenges, she suggests, our relationships are essential to staying grounded, even when we lose them. “Much of my writing is about facing the struggles head-on, balancing what you need to do to survive while remaining true to yourself,” she says. There are echoes of influences like Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, and Lomelda, though Kerber injects her own unique wit, wonder, and humility into every passage, allowing the listener into her head for a spell while quietly taking up residence in theirs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Familiar Strangers
2. Louisiana Song
3. When You Look Down
4. The World is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny
5. A Size 2 Big 4 U
6. My Very Best Friend
7. Who Do You Know
8. Changing
9. All I Wanna Do Is Shine

A haunting, cinematic journey into a village that exists beyond time and place, ‘Requiem For A Village’ is Steven Wilson’s most intimate and imaginative work yet.

Blending dark folk, rock and electronica, the album unfolds as a continuous 54-minute “film for the ears,” populated by strange archetypes and eerie folklore. The album is narrated by David Tennant and written with Andy Partridge (XTC).

Steven Wilson is one of contemporary music’s definitive auteurs. A six-time Grammy nominee and founding member of Porcupine Tree, Wilson’s last three solo albums have all been top 5 in the UK. His most recent albums have garnered career best reviews, including one that noted Wilson had somehow pulled off the unusual trick of being able to do whatever he wants, whilst still achieving a level of commercial success.

A pioneer in the world of spatial audio, Wilson has recently remixed New Order, The Who, King Crimson, Suede, XTC and Tears For Fears among many others.

TRACK LISTING

1. Swirl In a Lark's Eye
2. Requiem for a Village
3. The Same River Twice
4. Now Departing
5. Hireath
6. On Chapel Slope
7. Murmuration
8. Cursus Fingerprint
9. A Basket of Bees
10. Great Green Map
11. Wheel
12. The Old God is Buried

Recorded on May 16, 1976 this 3LP set contains the complete Fort Worth, TX performance on the second leg of the legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour. The audio was remixed from the original multi-track tapes and 18 of the 22 tracks are previously unreleased.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mr. Tambourine Man 
2. It Ain’t Me, Babe 
3. Vince Van Gogh 
4. Maggie’s Farm 
5. One Too Many Mornings 
6. Mozambique 
7. Isis 
8. Blowin’ In The Wind 
9. Railroad Boy 
10. Deportee 
11. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
12. Shelter From The Storm 
13. I Threw It All Away 
14. Stuck Inside OF Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 
15. Oh Sister 
16. You’re A Big Girl Now 
17. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 
18. Lay, Lady Lay 
19. Going Going Gone 
20. Idiot Wind 
21. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door 
22. Gotta Travel On 

Lower the drawbridge, raise the gates. Texas-based composer Graham Reynolds (A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Hit Man) returns to the world of 'The Portcullis' with a brand-new LP of music. This deluxe edition brings together the original album and The Portcullis Expansion Pack across two LPs, housed in a die-cut slipcase.

Following the original album’s release in May 2026, the Expansion Pack ventures deeper into a medieval world of knights and merchants, almoners and thieves. Percussive medieval textures, fretted guitars, brass fanfares, atmospheric strings and piano reshape dungeon synth into something vividly Reynolds’ own: an imagined soundtrack steeped in folklore, fantasy and adventure.

What began as an investigation into Reynolds’ family lineage, tracing his name back to Launceston Castle, has grown into a world extending beyond the record.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pevensey
2. Hastinges
3. Warwic
4. Douera
5. Lincolia
6. Exonia
7. Grantebrycge
8. Eboracum
9. Dunelmum
10. Oxeneford
11. Wintonia
12. White Tower
13. Lauceston
14. Portcullis
15. Knight
16. Merchant
17. Peasant
18. Almoner
19. Thief
20. Alchemist
21. Knight (Reprise)
22. Merchant (Reprise)
23. Peasant (Reprise)
24. Almoner (Reprise)
25. Thief (Reprise)
26. Alchemist (Reprise)

This is Hologram Teen’s collection of reimagined tracks from her Captain Fluo album that she released last year (an Electronic Sound Top 20 Album Of The Year).

Pyramid Disko (Captain Fluo Night Versions) opens a secret portal beneath the dance floor. From Morcheeba's Kraftwerk-inspired glide and Julia Holter's dreamlike deconstruction to Acid Washed's French Touch-infused disco and YACHT's synthesized oddity, each remix reveals a different side of Captain Fluo. µ-Ziq, Voyag3r, Sorcerer, Jonny Oso, and Demonia Disco also join the party, taking Hologram Teen's latest opus somewhere beautifully unexpected. Think ancient Egypt meets neon-lit autobahns, Balearic sunsets, and the world's strangest nightclub.

Hologram Teen is the solo project (and anagram) of former Stereolab keyboardist Morgane Lhote. Her colourful, playful songs blend disco, synth-pop, and '80s French pop with a distinctly cinematic flair. Originally from Paris, Morgane now lives in Los Angeles, where she continues to craft her unique world of retro-futuristic pop.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
01 - Actarus (Jonny Oso Remix)
02 - Connection transpacifique (Morcheeba Remix)
03 - Wolkman (Julia Holter Remix)
04 - Donovan Magic Orchestra (Voyag3r Remix)
05 - Macadam Bubblegum (Sorcerer Remix)

SIDE B
06 - Pack Ur Patience (Yacht Remix)
07 - Fréquence Gaie (µ-Ziq Remix)
08 - Lust Pill! (Acid Washed Remix)
09 - Danceteria (Demonia Disco Remix)

Los Angeles quartet Exploding Flowers return with 'Alphabet Window', their fourth and most accomplished album to date. Across twelve beautifully crafted songs, the band expands its signature blend of jangly guitars, soaring harmonies and richly layered arrangements, creating a record that feels both timeless and strikingly fresh.

Drawing inspiration from melodic guitar-pop traditions without ever sounding nostalgic, 'Alphabet Window' effortlessly balances immediacy and sophistication. Piano, organ, synthesizers, vibraphone and shimmering guitars enrich the band's warm, hook-driven songwriting, resulting in an album that reveals new details with every listen.

Already praised by Bandcamp Daily as "a colorful and kind-spirited amalgamation… full of jangling guitars, handclaps and sparkling melodies," Exploding Flowers continue to establish themselves as one of the most exciting contemporary guitar-pop bands.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Middle Way 
2. Space In Between
3. Dining On Fire
4. Flowers Under Cracked Cement
5. Spinning Carousel
6. Ruffled Feathers
7. Build A Garden
8. A Youthful Hurricane
9. Crumbles Into Sand
10. Catch The Moment
11. Information Dark Age
12. Music

Bristol trio Jabu return with their first release for two years. Following on from their widely acclaimed third LP ‘A Soft and Gatherable Star’, this stand-alone double A-side Disco Mix 12” features four exclusive new tracks, while signposting fresh material currently being written, recorded and mixed for their forthcoming LP, due 2027.

If 2023 LP ‘Boiling Wells’ documented Jabu learning to be a live band, leaning into writing collectively in-the-moment, ‘A Soft and Gatherable Star’ took that record’s ad-hoc/mixtape blueprint, and fleshed out their transformation from an outfit rooted in hiphop and dubstep, to a guitar-based band with a unique take on dream-pop. It saw them described by The Face as “an experiential trio blending the raw edge of industrial dub with dreamy layers of ambient pop and shoegaze", and by The Wire as “like Mazzy Star remixed by The Mad Professor“.

Jabu have continued to grow in the space between releases, touring regularly for the first time, playing festivals such as Rewire and Le Guess Who?, and supporting the likes of Maria Somerville and AR Kane. Their extended live line-up now regularly incorporates those that contributed to ‘A Soft and Gatherable Star’, with new material often further developed as it gets passed back and forth between collaborators. Cellist Josh Horsley (Powders / Nightingale Floor) and multi-instrumentalist Will Yates (aka Memotone) both feature here, under the guiding hand of Birthmark’s mixing.

Titled after the rural, estuarine landscape bordering their Bristol hometown, ‘Severn Flood Plain’ sees the band pivot towards a more jagged and up-tempo, post-punk sound. It runs on a nagging drum machine pulse that feels closer to Joy Division than Sly Stone; while the echo-laced vocals and tremolo guitar phrasing hark back to the ‘50s slapback sound of Lee Hazlewood or Duane Eddy. Written and sung by Jasmine Butt, the lyrics describe a visit to a friend near the mouth of the Severn, and hint towards a darkness that can also be felt across that tidal landscape.

Dropping the pace to a languorous, sensual sprawl, ‘Where You Run To’ is plaintive and yearning, an opiated, ethereal flipside to ‘Severn Flood Plain’s more urgent, anxiety-laced opener. Alex Rendall’s vocals glide over a stripped, metronomic backdrop, eventually entwining with Memotone’s ghostly, processed clarinet.

If the band’s musical reference points appear to have shifted, their process remains indebted to dub and still very much rooted in the multicultural cross-pollination peculiar to their home city of Bristol. Both tracks are extended, with dub versions courtesy of Birthmark. The band sat in on those sessions, completing the circle that began with J’s on-stage mixing of their live sets. The strands provided by Will and Josh provide introspective counterpoint to the sound system leanings.

TRACK LISTING

1. Severn Flood Plain
2. Fallow Land
3. Where You Run To
4. Hideaway

Over the past decade, Rex Orange County has discreetly become one of the most emotionally resonant artists of his generation, transforming vulnerable, diary-like lyricism into global anthems while amassing over 9 billion of streams and topping albums charts worldwide. In 2026, Rex Orange County returns with his most self-assured album yet, 'Dream Fatigue'. Moving beyond his DIY roots, the 12-track album features collaborations with Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, and Turnstile’s Brendan Yates. Driven by gentle melodies and curious hooks, 'Dream Fatigue' occupies the liminal space between soul, pop, and classic singersongwriter storytelling.

TRACK LISTING

1. Penelope
2. Elvis (feat. Brendan Yates)
3. Handsome
4. Grandma Song
5. Hannah Montana
6. Iron Man
7. The Colosseum (feat. Mustafa)
8. Boyfriend
9. Empty Stage
10. Indecision (feat. Daniel Caesar)
11. Roleplay
12. Dream Fatigue

A very special edition of the classic 'The Race For Space', released to coincide with the bands sell out show at London’s Alexandra Palace.

Includes Bonus Ltd Edition 7" Featuring 'Korolev' & 'We're Going To Climb It' (previously unreleased on vinyl).

Recorded at The Pool Studios and Abbey Road in London and, once again working with exclusive archive footage from the British Film Institute, the album tells the story of the American & Soviet space race from 1957 – 1972 via the duo’s eccentric mix of guitar-driven electronica, propulsive drumming and spoken word samples culled from this uniquely rich period of modern history.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Race For Space
2. Sputnik
3. Gagarin
4. Fire In The Cockpit
5. E.V.A.
6. The Other Side
7. Valentina [Ft. Smoke Fairies]
8. Go!
9. Tomorrow.

7”:
1. Korolev
2. We're Going To Climb It

Skepta returns with his highly-anticipated new album, 'The Fork and Knife'. A record rooted in the sounds, energy and culture of contemporary Britain, while looking firmly beyond its borders. Shaped by decades spent immersed in sound systems, clubs and rave spaces, 'The Fork and Knife' moves freely between grime, garage, house, jungle and electronic music. At its centre is Skepta as a rapper, writer and producer - reflecting his position at the centre of rap and his instinct to continually push the sound forward. Identity runs through the heart of the album. Skepta explores what it means to be British, the son of Nigerian immigrants, and to exist between cultures. Rather than viewing diaspora through a lens of struggle, 'The Fork and Knife' embraces it as a source of strength, a superpower that has informed Skepta’s resilience, work ethic and creative instinct. The visual world of 'The Fork and Knife' draws on 1980s Nigerian-British imagery, football culture and documentary realism, connecting the history of the Windrush generation with the energy and reality of modern London.

TRACK LISTING

TBC

Library of the Occult presents The Empress the collaboration between Paul Elliot (Pleasurewood) and Paul Osborne (Project Gemini).

Turn the card and follow your destiny into a dreamscape of vintage magic. .Fortune Teller. is a deck stacked with analogue glamour and midnight omens where fuzz and mysticism collide. But who is the mysterious Empress? Some say she’s a soothsayer of sound whose grooves are eternal. Others say she’s a front for instrumental masterminds.

Paul Osborne of Project Gemini and Paul Elliott of Pleasurewood, paying homage to library labels like Sonoton, MP 2000 and CAM. No matter the truth, this is an album that foretells what’s yet to come via electronic sorcery, acid invocations, and some hot hot synths.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blood Money
2. Hell or Highwater
3. The Fools Ritual
4. Fortune Teller
5. Sweet Nightmares
6. Bitter Almond
7. The Harbour Mash
8. Switch Blade
9. Close to the Edge
10. Chasing the Sunligh

British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist and composer, Klein has built a cult following since her 2016 debut, working across music, sculpture, drawing, film and performance in pieces that blur fact and fiction and draw on surveillance, hip hop, noise and identity. In 2018 she took up a residency at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, which commissioned Care, the play she adapted into her 2021 social care film, directing, shooting and scoring it with a cast of non-actors, grime MCs, musicians and cultural theorist Fred Moten before it premiered at Peckhamplex and screened at MoMA PS1. Moten also wrote the liner notes for 'Harmattan' (2021), her release on classical label Pentatone, and she has since put out 'Touched By An Angel' (2023), 'Marked' (2024) and 'Thirteen Sense' (2025), along with her 2025 art book Rack It!. She has covered The Wire (2021), FACT (2022) and T: The New York Times Style Magazine (2023), with features in Dazed, i-D, Pitchfork, Vogue and Resident Advisor. Her collaborators include Mica Levi, Mark Leckey, Wu Tsang, MIKE, Ecco2k, Dean Blunt, Rome Streetz, Jawnino and Charlotte Church, and she has scored Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS, the final episode of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and Akinola Davies Jr.’s BBC documentary Rituals. Björk picked her to join her on tour, and Klein has headlined the Barbican Main Hall in London, Sónar in Reykjavík and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, with exhibitions at Galerie Buchholz, Kunstverein München and Serpentine. Her awards include the PRS Daphne Oram Award, the PRS Composer Award, and the Art Foundation’s Fellowship in Experimental Music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Forever Yours
2. Princess Of The Souf
3. Spiritual Warfare
4. C Thru
5. Suspect
6. Treasure
7. Siren Reloaded (feat. Sasha Scott)
8. The Illuminati Ends Now
9. True Blood
10. Man In The Mirror
11. Bridge The Gap
12. Promise To Come Home

Issue #5 brings you the latest from the poptastic minds at Supercrush! We have…

🌊 An interview with legendary pop experimentalist Van Dyke Parks, the pen behind Beach Boys hits such as Heroes and Villains and Surfs Up, a collaborator with fellow icons Haoromi Hosono, Harry Nilsson, and Joanna Newsom, as well as the creator of his incredible solo work - none more celebrated than Song Cycle.

🎈 More interviews with the likes of Eddie Flowers - a founding member of Midwest rockers The Gizmos and key mind behind Gulcher Records. The Gillis sisters - two legendary Canadian indie poppers who feature in bands such as Plumtree and Overnight. Mancunian madmen YAANG whose dance floor filling guitar pop is hypnotic. And many more including The Freebies, St. Cecilia, Chateau, and the ever brilliant Committee of Sleep!

💥 Our Greatest Hits column returns with Supercrush staff writer Georgia taking us through their dream XTC Best Of!

✂️ A look at the film that should be every indie pop kid’s favourite musical - Yard Work Is Hard Work!

Our fifth issue also features the return of our horoscope, beautiful poetry on John Prine and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and much more! 🌟

AMINE HOCINE - ‘X3’ 
'X3', by Amina Hocine, draws progressively, subtly and inexorably on the complementary nature of sound materials. Patiently and delicately blending pure sine waves, field recordings and sounds produced with a ‘foghorn organ’ (an instrument developed by Hocine herself), 'X3' invites both introspection and contemplation. Inspired by a symbol of the Danish mystic Martinus Thomsen representing the evolution of a being in the physical world, Amina Hocine invites us on a long journey, balancing between the static and the changing, between the almost imperceptible and the grandiose, with rare elegance and grace. It is a music of transition that Amina Hocine offers us, a music where the mediation of sound, wave after wave, becomes meditation.

ESPEN SOMMER EIDE - ‘PHONOPHANI – UNTIL THE FISH EYES SHINE’ 
In 'Until the Fish Eyes Shine', Espen Sommer Eide takes an inspired panoramic and retrospective look at his musical work, often produced under the pseudonym Phonophani. By revisiting and reimagining the sounds of his early years, with the late 1990s ambient techno scene in Tromsø as a background, Eide summons a music that is anything but nostalgic, but instead offers a kind of ‘geological stratification’ where eras and protocols collide, overlap and complement each other, revealing the remarkable singularity of the Norwegian artist’s sound palette. The piece also expresses the extreme consistency and authenticity of his musical vision, a vision in which technological innovations, the contemplated environment and lived emotions converge in a space apart, that of dreamlike music, always to be invented, always in motion, always in transformation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Amina Hocine - X3
2. Espene Sommer Eide - Until The Fish Eyes Shine

Ten years since its original release, Fat White Family’s 'Songs for Our Mothers' remains one of the band’s most ambitious and distinctive records. Blending psychedelic rock, post-punk, glam and electronic influences, the album captures the band at their most adventurous, with tracks including 'Whitest Boy on the Beach', 'Hits Hits Hits' and 'I Am Mark E Smith'.

TRACK LISTING

2LP Tracklisting:
1. Whitest Boy on the Beach
2. Satisfied
3. Love Is the Crack
4. Duce
5. Lebensraum
6. Hits Hits Hits
7. Tinfoil Deathstar
8. When Shipman Decides
9. We Must Learn to Rise
10. Goodbye Goebbels
11. Oh Sebastian (New Platz)
12. I Am Mark E Smith
13. I Am Joseph Stalin
14. The Drones
15. Hits, Hits, Hits (Trashmouth Remix)
16. Pneumonia Boogie
17. Ulster (Lias Vox Version)
18. I Am Mark E Smith (Live At Ramsgate)
19. Conan Moccasin
20. Set Them Free (Demo Version)

Revolution in the Head goes to the heart of The Beatles – their records. Drawing on his unique knowledge and experience to 'read' their tracks, Ian MacDonald offers a detailed examination of the 241 tracks the Fab Four wrote, placing them in their musical, cultural and social context and creating an engrossing classic of popular criticism. Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series.

The long overdue autobiography from singer-songwriter and '80s pop sensation Nick Heyward. In 1981, Nick Heyward and school friends Graham Jones and Les Nemes signed their band Haircut One Hundred to Arista records. Less than two years later, frontman and principal songwriter Heyward had left.

But within that short period, they scored four Top 10 singles, a number two platinum album with Pelican West and countless magazine covers for Heyward who had become both a pin-up and a star. Forty-four years later and the original reunited Haircut One Hundred have finally released their second album. The intervening years saw Nick carve out a critically acclaimed solo career, one that saw him at home on the eighties nostalgia circuit whilst being feted by the cream of nineties britpop aristocracy when he signed to Alan McGee’s Creation in 1998. Since 1983 he has released nine solo albums.

This is Nick’s story. It is a book about childhood dreams and jealousy, about international fame and being a commercial outcast, about depression and enlightenment and about the longest overdue comeback in pop music history. In Fantastic Days, singer-songwriter and ’80s pop sensation Nick Heyward tells the story of his time as frontman and songwriter for Haircut One Hundred, his depression and breakdown following the band’s split, time spent on Creation Records in the mid-’90s, his (non-denominational) spiritual reawakening and the subsequent reformation of the band he left in 1982. Fantastic Days is a funny, self-deprecating and soul-searching read.

'What’s In Between' is the debut album from Radio Free Alice, one of this year’s most exciting breakout bands. Recorded across three continents with producers Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), Ewan Pearson (The Rapture, M83) and Finn Billingham, the Melbourne-based indie rock band’s debut LP blends infectious melodies, sharp songwriting, clever humor and global ambition.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crying With You
2. Undressed
3. Rule 31
4. What’s In Between
5. Kick In The Shins
6. Big Ideas (feat. Rachel Brown)
7. Lunch Money
8. Bottleshops
9. Four Leaf Clover
10. The Intersection
11. Waiting

With 'Golden Crown' and his interpretation of Prefab Sprout’s 'Enchanted', Forest Law brings together two songs that reflect both his songwriting and his musical influences. One is an original composition from 2018, rediscovered years later and revived almost unchanged, pairing bright pop melodies with a sharp meditation on power.

The other pays tribute to a song that became a personal obsession after his long-overdue discovery of Prefab Sprout. Together, these recordings highlight Forest Law’s gift for understated arrangements, memorable melodies and lyrics whose depth unfolds with every listen.

TRACK LISTING

1. Golden Crown
2. Enchanted

Second studio album by the English singer/songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde, best known as Birdy. The 11 track LP is pressed on 100% recycled vinyl and features her multi-platinum single 'Wings’ as well as enduring hits ‘No Angel’ and ‘Strange Birds’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wings
2. Heart of Gold
3. Light Me Up
4. Words as Weapons
5. All You Never Say
6. Strange Birds
7. Maybe
8. No Angel
9. All About You
10. Standing in the Way of the Light
11. Shine

‘The Clocks' was originally issued in 2007 as a CD-only limited edition of 110 for members of 'The Bevis Frond Online Community'. It comprised 19 previously unissued tracks. Most of these were home demos featuring just Frond frontman Nick Saloman on all instruments and vocals. Since then, it has never been re-issued in any format. It is therefore with great pleasure that Blue Matter are re-issuing it for the first time, and now as a vinyl double album and limited CD. Due to certain circumstances, three of the original tracks could not be used, so these have been replaced these with another three previously unheard tracks from Nick Saloman's extensive archives. These songs include the seven minute 'She's Taken It All', originally intended for 2004's 'Hit Squad' album but dropped at the last minute due to timing constraints. The beautiful 'You Better Make Do' and the edgy 'Devil Doll' have also been added. We are delighted to be able to make this 'long lost' album available once again and think it will be a welcome addition to the Bevis Frond canon.

TRACK LISTING

Side One.
1 Worlde Is Older
2 The Clocks
3 Home Is Where The Head Is
4 Cut To The Quick
Side Two.
5 Bless Him
6 Anything You Say
7 Devil Doll
8 God
9 When I’m Gone
10 I Need The Rush.
Side Three.
11 Watch The Sun
12 You Better Make Do
13 Little Ray
14 She’s Taken It All.
Side Four.
15 Things He Said
16 I’ll Save Myself
17 I Wasn’t There
18 I’m Better Now
19 Shades 

With 'Tyranny' (2014), The Voidz – Julian Casablancas’s radical project – deliver a raw and abrasive debut where dissonant guitars, chaotic rhythms, and eclectic influences (punk, metal, world music, retro synths) collide to create a dystopian soundscape.

Breaking away from classic pop formats, the band channels both political critique and artistic experimentation, confirming Casablancas as a musical agitator unafraid to push boundaries.

TRACK LISTING

1. Take Me In Your Army
2. Crunch Punch
3. M.utually A.sssured D.estruction
4. Human Sadness
5. Where No Eagles Fly
6. Father Electricity
7. Johan Von Bronx
8. Business Dog
9. Xerox
10. Dare I Care
11. Nintendo Blood
12. Off To War

'Megz of Ram', the surprise new EP from The Voidz, unveils four hypnotic and abrasive tracks, born in the same East Village basement that once saw the birth of 'Is This It'.

With this new release, The Voidz continue to cultivate their taste for dissonance and surprise. The EP is driven by glistening synths that shimmer against sharp post-punk rhythms, while Julian Casablancas’s voice, filtered through Auto-Tune, mutates into something between a human confession and an otherworldly signal. The atmosphere is at once nostalgic and futuristic, drawing from the ghosts of New York rock history while imagining a fractured tomorrow. Each track feels like a secret transmission from a parallel world, intimate but alien, chaotic yet strangely magnetic. Recorded in a place already loaded with myth, 'Megz of Ram' doesn’t merely revisit that past but twists it into new forms, confirming that The Voidz are less interested in repeating formulas than in inventing new languages for their music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Unholy Lover
2. Blue Demon
3. Russian Coney Island
4. Drifto

North London’s DIY icon Delilah Holliday's latest album 'Fat Cat', released via One Little Independent Records. The project marks a significant progression in her sound, weaving together downtempo electronic art pop, trip-hop textures and rich, synth-led production shaped by club influences.
 
Rooted in independence and creative freedom, Holliday has consistently developed a sound that resists easy categorisation. Her work blends emotional honesty with sonic exploration, establishing her as a distinctive voice within the UK’s alternative landscape.
 
Formless offers an entry point into the album’s wider world, signalling a collection that is both expansive and cohesive. Across 'Fat Cat', themes of identity, control and transformation are explored through immersive production and a vocal style that remains both powerful and unmistakably her own.
 
With 'Fat Cat', Holliday continues to evolve on her own terms—delivering a record that feels refined, confident, and fully realised.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fat Cat
2. Loop 7
3. Formless
4. Dream In Colour
5. Dred
6. God Willing
7. Free State
8. Odyssey
9. This Is
10. Love Bits
11. Skyline

DJ Spanish Fly is one of the foundational figures of Memphis rap. Long before the city's underground sound would influence artists across the globe, his homemade mixtapes circulated hand-to-hand throughout Tennessee and the wider South, defining a raw, bass-heavy style that would become the blueprint for generations of rap producers.

'Cadillac Warning' collects a wealth of previously unreleased recordings from the 1990s, excavating the eerie, hypnotic world Fly built from primitive home recording equipment, drum machines and booming car stereos. Named after the talking alarm system in his prized 1978 Cadillac Coup DeVille, the album captures a period when the car was both status symbol and mobile headquarters, carrying his music from clubs and college campuses to gas stations and neighbourhood streets across Memphis.

Championed by the likes of A$AP Rocky, Legowelt, LIM, and more - DJ Spanish Fly's lasting impact on the wider hip-hop landscape is seeing a renewed global interest from underground rap and electronic music communities alike.

TRACK LISTING

1. Who's The Man
2. U Cain't Hide ft. Capt C
3. Jealous
4. Badguy
5. Git Buck ft. Lady Dia
6. Cocaine Call
7. Come Back
8. Shake Dat
9. The Medicine
10. Rollin’ In My Cadillac

What happens after happily ever after? And how do you make forever count? These are the preoccupations at the heart of The Big Moon’s buoyant yet beautifully bittersweet fourth album, Forever.

Four years on from last LP Here Is Everything – and a further eight since frontwoman Juliette Jackson first laid the foundations for the band – the London-formed four-piece find themselves in a very different, if similarly challenging, headspace. Where that record was conceived in the context of COVID and found Jackson processing the life-altering experience of new motherhood, Forever examines what’s left when you’ve already checked off many of the major milestones, and is tempered by a first-hand understanding of life’s fragility.

The truth is, the past couple of years have been a big readjustment for Jackson. In 2024, she was diagnosed with a cholesteatoma – a benign but destructive cyst inside the eardrum which has to be removed with surgery. Jackson explains, “I permanently lost most of the hearing on one side, which was pretty much existential, because writing songs is my job and my identity.”

Stoic by nature, Jackson forged forward with songwriting regardless but found herself faltering. “I couldn't hear properly, everything sounded out of tune and I was just struggling to find a point at all, just writing these miserable songs I couldn't really hear.” The answer was to shift her outlook completely, manifesting “a happy ending that didn’t exist yet.”

“I just decided to write songs for this imaginary time, one or two years in the future, when I would be all healed and happy again. I didn’t know if I would ever get to that point but, by projecting and almost tricking myself into it, it actually became a really nice way of writing.”

It proved an extremely fruitful approach, producing some of the brightest songs of The Big Moon’s career to date. Recorded over three weeks at Norfolk’s Bam Bam Studios, with Kevin Morby-collaborator Sam Cohen co-producing alongside the band, Forever is brimming with hook-heavy alt-pop gems, not least because Jackson had fallen out of love with writing verses. “Over the years I've got more impatient with music,” Jackson explains with a grin. “I just like getting straight to the point.”

As bandmate Celia Archer explains, they hope the album proves uplifting. “They're not trivial songs lyrically or thematically or musically, but Jules has shown us you can face all this stuff and choose to be hopeful and find power from it. Hopefully other people can apply that to their own lives.”

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Gravity
2. Three Things
3. Fun
4. F.O.R.E.V.E.R
5. Sounds

Side B
6. You Remind Me That I'm Dying (and that it’s good to be alive)
7. Speed Bump
8. Can I Get A Reading Please
9. I See You, Honey
10. Chill

More than twenty years after reinventing post-punk with their now cult debut, Nouvelle Vague opens a bold new chapter with 'A Date with Depeche Mode', a full-length reimagining of one of the most influential and beloved catalogues in modern music.

Few bands have shaped pop culture like Depeche Mode. Few artists have mastered the art of musical reinterpretation like Nouvelle Vague. Bringing these two worlds together feels both completely unexpected and utterly inevitable.

Recorded between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, the album transforms thirteen Depeche Mode classics into intimate, cinematic and deeply emotional songs. What were once driven by machines become warm, organic and timeless, revealing the songwriting at the heart of these iconic compositions.

Performed by an exceptional international cast of guest vocalists - including Skye Edwards (Morcheeba), Beth Hirsch, Flavia Coelho, Mélanie Pain, Phoebe Killdeer, Fredrika Stahl and more - each track offers a unique encounter between a voice and a song, staying true to the signature Nouvelle Vague approach.

From 'Enjoy the Silence' and 'Personal Jesus' to 'Stripped', 'Just Can't Get Enough' and the fan-favourite 'Ice Machine', these timeless songs are reborn through bossa nova, jazz, French pop and Latin influences without ever losing their emotional power.

TRACK LISTING

1. Enjoy the Silence (feat. Skye Edwards & Larry Love)
2. Never Let Me Down Again (feat. Flavia Coelho)
3. Only When I Lose Myself (feat. Mélanie Pain)
4. Shake the Disease (feat. Fredrika Stahl)
5. A Question of Lust (feat. Beth Hirsch)
6. Behind the Wheel (feat. Lily Oaks)
7. Personal Jesus (feat. Skye Edwards)
8. Halo (feat. Phoebe Killdeer)
9. Leave in Silence (feat. Nedime Girisken)
10. Any Second Now (feat. Morenike)
11. Just Can't Get Enough (feat. Eva de Marce)
12. Stripped (feat. Eva de Marce)
13. Ice Machine (feat. Lisa Crawley)

California-based couple Allie Schulz and Alex Pasternak are Florecer, a producer and vocalist combo who draw on the energy that having their daughters gave them. 'Babies' and 'energy giving' are not often heard in the same sentence together, given the demands newly born small people often have on parents' time and sleep, but judging by these sounds, this pair have been fully inspired. The title cut is tropical and dub and kosmiche all collide into an undulating rhythm that's bright and demanding of your attention. Coyote dubs it into a more smooth affair and then 'What I Knew' rides world dub with steel drums. 'Running Behind' slows to a deep, soft plod with whimsical vocals this time, and Chris Coco turns up the reverb for a lovely, sleepy dub of his own.

TRACK LISTING

Sleep Training
Sleep Training (Coyote Dub)
What I Knew
Running Behind
Running Behind (Chris Coco Dub)

The Needles, active in the late 1990s, were a fistful of energetic and powerful punk rock. The band, dealing with the grueling schedule of recording, touring and daily life, split. Exiting the stage for the final time but leaving a legacy of great rock songs behind. Recently there has been signs of a resurgent interest in the band with the Newcastle band Bear Park covering 'Teenage Bomb'. Powell said of live performances, "well if the records are well received we are hopeful of reuniting the band for a couple of gigs or so - I know Eric is really keen to get the band back on stage, would be fantastic wouldn't it? A major influence on the band was the producer Mark Nicol - the production values Nicols brought to the band developed their sound from raw sugar cane, rough at the best of times, to a high octane, take no prisoners rock n roll.

The original band comprised Dave Dixon, Paul Curtiss, Richey Wolfe and Johnny Wolfe. United by a shared hatred of the same things, school friends. When self confessed ‘loser’ Dave Dixon and ‘teacher’s pet’ Paul Curtiss decided to do something with their lives they roped in the only other person they knew who was into the same music, Johnny Wolfe, laying the foundations for what would become The Needles.

The fiery three-piece played their first gig at an Internet café in April 1996, after several pub and club gigs in their hometown of Aberdeen, coaxed another friend, Richey Wolfe, onto keyboards. With the line-up complete they were ready to take on the world. Richey made his debut with the band at Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree… with his leg in a plaster. Long-time Needles stalkers, the newly formed Lithium Records aka Mark Nicols, approached the band in April ’98 and asked them if they wanted to ‘do’ a single. They did. The result of this was ‘Teenage Bomb’. Dave, on the band’s writing style said, “when we started, so many popular bands were writing wanky, ironic songs that didn't mean anything. We just wanted to strip everyone down to their raw emotions and make them burst into tears and burn their record collections for being so futile and pointless.” Teenage Bomb was a success – capturing the live spirit of the band. It was short, straight to the point, and pricked up the ears of music lovers and radio stations around the country and abroad and flew out of records stores far and wide/ “There is no perfection. We are artists, we strive on chaos.” The band finally split in 2007 to pursue new projects. Dave, Paul, and John went on to form the Hidden Masters with Nic Denholm (Owsley Sunshine) and former Bangtwister bassist Alpha Mitchell. The Hidden Masters went on to record an album entitled 'Of This And Other Worlds' for Rise Above/Metal Blade Records and perform backing vocals on Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince Billy's 2012 album The Marble Downs. Singer Dave Dixon later went on to front The Shiverin' Sheiks, who released the debut single 'Guided Missiles' on BrewDog Records in 2013, while bassist Paul Curtiss (née Milne) formed London-based psychedelic pop band The Magnetic Mind, which released the 7" single 'Maybe the Stars, Maybe the Sun, on Heavy Soul Records in 2012.

TRACK LISTING

1. Let You Down
2. Girl I Used To Know
3. Stop Messin Me Around
4. Only If You Want Me To
5. Because I Can Dream
6. Back Where I Belong
7. Starting To Worry Me
8. Devil At Your Door
9. We Got The Soul
10. Beautiful Dream

It’s hard to think of a single musician from the state of Utah - a lamentable statistic that has recently been disproved by the emergence of Sam Burton, an idiosyncratic young voice that flowered in the land of salt flats, beehives and bigamy and is now flourishing in Los Angeles, where he has quickly made a name for himself.

Burton is the natural heir to a long line of unsung singer songwriters - such ‘downer folk’ troubadours as Bob Desper, Dana Westover and Tucker Zimmerman - whose recordings he weaned himself on at an impressionable age. Following in the footsteps of the forgotten, and having keenly absorbed the music of the ages, Burton has honed his talent with passionate discipline. With his shadowy baritone and subtly intricate picking, his carefully crafted songs ooze rock hard resignation and melancholy conviction, and he has arrived at a style that is both timeless and deeply personal.

‘Fairweather Friend’ features production by Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Angel Olsen, Margo Price) in Topanga and Echo Park and is influenced by the environment of Los Angeles and Burton’s relationship to his own heart and integrity.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fairweather Friend
2. After Days Slip Away
3. I'm A Stranger
4. Lilac Man
5. Tomorrow Takes A Dream To
6. Find
7. Picture People
8. Before Waking
9. Free Again
10. Light Gone Away
11. Start Over
12. Do You Still Know Your Man

“When I was a teenager, Charlie Harper was my hero,” admits Del Greening, guitarist from notorious Brighton punks Peter and the Test Tube Babies. “I saw him on Top of the Pops snarling through ‘Stranglehold,’ like a man trying to start a riot on his own, and that was it. I was in. Not long after, I was crushed against the front barrier at Crawley Leisure Centre, watching the UK Subs, half suffocated, probably deaf for three days and loving every second of it.

“I met Charlie a few times over the years,” continues Del. “Always seemed like a decent chap. Then he started turning up at Peter and the Test Tube Babies gigs, not just casually, either. Every time I looked up, there he was, front row, arms folded, watching my hands like a mechanic inspecting a suspicious engine noise. Slightly unnerving, if I’m honest. I kept thinking, what does he want? Should I be playing better? Afterwards, he’d come over. “Love your guitar playing. We should do a project together…”

And so the seed was sown for a beautiful new punk rock partnership. Charlie, as established, is a long-time admirer of Del’s guitar playing and is also based in Brighton. With Del no longer touring with the Test Tubes and Charlie doing ‘slightly’ less gigs with the Subs, they both had time to start something new and fresh. And fresh it certainly was. With no rehearsals, no pre-production and some skeletal song ideas, Del and Charlie, alongside Vicky Smith from the Ramonas on bass and Marley Perez (Charlie's grandson) on drums, they headed to Brighton Road recording studios and got to work in October 2025.

The result was the debut self-titled album by Derik & The Disasters. Fourteen songs that tap into both Charlie and Del’s musical legacies whilst creating a sound that is unique and vibrant, with lyrics that don’t shy away from tackling the many issues facing the world today. ‘New Palestine' is taken from the album while ‘False Flags’ is exclusive to this single. Play loud!

TRACK LISTING

1. New Palestine
2. Flase Flags

Brighton kosmiche pop outfit Fujiya & Miyagi announce brand new album 'New Shiny Object’, released 30th October through Impossible Objects Of Desire.

Fujiya & Miyagi know when something is worth waiting for. ‘New Shiny Object’ is an album which has been through multiple iterations over its four-year recording span, only to emerge with the truth. An ode to the transfixing, magical properties art can have, it’s consciously the work of older musicians – or as David puts it, “people who’ve lived a life.” The new record also marks 26 years of Fujiya & Miyagi and 20 years since their breakthrough album 'Transparent Things' became a global hit. This saw the band tour the world for the first time and gain notoriety of a different kind through a Jaguar car advert featuring the slinky rhythms of 'Collarbone'. Follow up third album 'Lightbulbs' (2008) led to a synch in 'Breaking Bad' the hip-shaking funk of 'Uh', securing their place in many new fans’ hearts - and in the Spotify playlist foreverland.

Initially the plan was for 'New Shiny Object' to have been recorded live, with Fujiya & Miyagi stripping back their sound to the bare essentials. Aspects of that stripped back approach remain, with ‘New Shiny Object’ emphasising directness, and the band’s melodic prowess. “I wanted us to write melodies that really touched people,” David explains. “There’s tendencies to pour your guts out on everything, whether that’s musically or verbally. I think music’s better when it’s got a bit of space. We wanted all the parts of each song to connect like the mechanism in a watch.”

It’s a record that can discuss personal loss and fatherhood, often openly emotive while also displaying a wry sense of humour. David Best's lyrics are match fit on this record and full of his vivid, pithy take on the world. A succinct nine tracks, ‘New Shiny Object’ speaks to you in a direct, often moving fashion. “I think, as I get older, I'm more open,” David observes. “I’m trying to let my guard down. When you get to a certain age and you’re trying to express emotions, you need to be a bit braver and say exactly how you feel.”

‘New Shiny Object’ is the work of a band for whom the latest challenge is always the most thrilling. The title song draws from the stubborn energy that has kept Fujiya & Miyagi motoring along for more than two decades, navigating a difficult industry with values and dignity intact. “When you
are writing a song or coming up with ideas; it's always the new ones that are most exciting,” David points out. “At its core though it’s about the thirst for new ideas and the joy in creating something from nothing. Which will never not be a magical thing.”

For fans of LCD Soundsystem, Neu!, CAN, Talking Heads and New Order, 'New Shiny Object' is Fujiya & Miyagi's unique and thoughtful take on everyday life, transformed into art and ready for the dancefloor. 

TRACK LISTING

1) 'Lowest Common Denominator'
2) 'Point 33 Recurring'
3) '158'
4) 'Elasticated Waste'
5) 'Simple Pleasures'
6) 'No Green Light'
7) 'Yakult Classics'
8) 'New Shiny Object'
9) 'Manufacturing Delays'

'Stone Age Is Now: Poems from Lithic' is the new album by musician and poet Caleb Nichols - both a companion piece to his book Lithic: A Hyperballad (Harbor Editions 2026) and a follow-up to his album 'Stone Age Is Back' (Royal Oakie 2025). Across twelve tracks Nichols interpolates poems from Lithic: A Hyperballad with tracks from Stone Age Is Back, bringing new depth to his indie-rock and alt-folk compositions. A meditation on grief, but not in the ways you’d expect, the album explores what it means to be living and dying right now, in this moment of extraordinary change.

Inspired by the raw immediacy of Neil Young, early REM, and Califone, Nichols adhered to a first-take best-take rule and tracked the album in just five days. Produced by Nichols, the album was engineered by Jay Pellicci (Deerhoof, Om, Sleater-Kinney) at Brother’s (Chinese) Recording in Oakland, CA, with Nichols later recording the spoken word overdubs after hours at an empty bar in San Luis Obispo, CA. Pellicci later mixed the tracks and David Glasebrook (Patti Smith, Peter Case, Sugar Candy Mountain) mastered the album at The Garden Shed in Oakland, CA.

Featuring even more experimentation than 'Stone Age Is Back', the album is peppered with field recordings captured by Nichols from many locations, including Kew Gardens, London; Llan Tysilio, Yns Mon; Treborth, Gwynedd; a secret beach in Bangor; Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow; and Broad Street in San Luis Obispo, CA. In addition to contributions from band members John Metz and Aaron Kroeger, the album features saxophone by Lorenzo Coretese , and Rhys Trimble provides the Welsh translation and performance you hear on 'Orme Dream At The Car Park'. Additionally, Nichols took some liberties adapting the poems from the book to the recordings. “You’ll notice that there are differences between the printed poems and the poems recorded here. That is because a poem is never finished and can exist in multiple instances at the same time, like in quantum mechanics. The cat in Schrodinger’s box is both alive and dead; at the bottom of the cliff, our eyes are both: closed and open” says Nichols.

TRACK LISTING

1. Stone Age Is Now (Is Now Is Now)
2. A Feeling of a Feeling of a Feeling
3. Licio
4. Agor
5. Midlife with John Lennon
6. Hunting for the Northern Lights
7. Orme Dream at the Car Park
8. Lithic
9. Quartz Elegy
10. Persistence of Memory
11. Hyperballad Poems
12. Gorffenhaf

The seminal psych-rock classic 'The Evil One' by Roky Erickson And The Aliens is reissued by Fire Records in a deluxe 15-track edition, restoring the original front cover from San Francisco’s 415 Records release for the first time since 1981. Presented across two LPs cut at 45 rpm for maximum sonic depth and clarity, the release brings together the complete recordings from the legendary 1978 and 1979 sessions. The package includes a collector’s booklet with liner notes by acclaimed Austin music journalist Joe Nick Patoski, who attended a recording session for The Evil One in 1979. Alongside rare photographs and archival images from the collection of Roky’s then manager, Craig Luckin.

Following his release from Rusk State Hospital in 1974, Erickson formed The Aliens and channelled his experiences and fascination with horror and science fiction into a singular new sound. Moving beyond the psychedelic garage blues of the 13th Floor Elevators, the band created harder, more ferocious rock built around jagged guitars, strange melodies and a propulsive rhythm section.

Produced by Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook, The Evil One includes some of Erickson’s most celebrated recordings, including ‘Two Headed Dog’, ‘I Walked With A Zombie’ and ‘It’s A Cold Night For Alligators’. Erickson’s unmistakable voice and surreal lyrics, populated by zombies, demons, vampires and atomic monsters, gave the album a character unlike anything else in rock. Both the LP and CD editions feature rare photographs and images from the archive of Erickson’s then manager and the sessions’ executive producer, Craig Luckin.

'The Evil One' has since become a landmark of cult rock, with its songs covered by generations of artists and its influence extending across punk, alternative and psychedelic music. As Craig Luckin recalls, “Roky considers 'The Evil One' to be his favourite album that he ever recorded. He really loves that album.”

Austin music journalist Joe Nick Patoski, who attended one of the album’s 1979 sessions, contributes a new essay to the LP and CD packaging, exploring Erickson’s extraordinary career, enduring influence and place in Texas rock history.

More than a standalone reissue, this deluxe edition of 'The Evil One' opens an exciting new series honouring Roky Erickson’s extraordinary body of work, with 'Gremlins Have Pictures' and 'Don’t Slander Me' to follow in 2027.

TRACK LISTING

1. Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)
2. I Walked With A Zombie
3. Night Of The Vampire
4. Mine Mine Mind
5. White Faces
6. Creature With The Atom Brain
7. The Wind And More
8. Bloody Hammer
9. Don’t Shake Me Lucifer
10. Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play
11. If You Have Ghosts
12. Cold Night For Alligators
13. Stand For The Fire Demon
14. Sputnik
15. I Think Of Demons

The South Facade is the long-awaited debut album from Ugly.

Since forming in Cambridge in 2016, the six-piece have spent the best part of the last decade relentlessly gigging which eventually led to 2024’s breakout EP Twice Around The Sun, which drew critical acclaim and established Ugly as one of the UK's most exciting and ambitious new bands.

Written over almost three years, The South Facade has been taking shape alongside much of that journey. Rather than bringing finished material into the room, Ugly would gather together and build collectively. Early writing sessions took place during extended retreats in a converted barn overlooking Ely Cathedral, before songs followed the band through rehearsal rooms, bedrooms, studios and eventually onto stages. Ideas were passed between members, arrangements dismantled and rebuilt, choruses rewritten at the eleventh hour and individual parts debated down to the smallest detail.

Some of the songs on their debut album have already become familiar fixtures of Ugly’s live shows. Audiences have effectively watched The South Facade evolve in real time and this October they finally get to hear where the band landed.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1. Wasteland
A2. Marina
A3. Nat Cora & The Nations
A4. Die Another Day
A5. In Samphedoo

Side B
B1. Gavement
B2. The South Facade
B3. Gallowine
B4. Orance

For two decades, The Oscillation has occupied its own space within the psychedelic underground, continually reshaping a sound built as much from texture, repetition and atmosphere as it is from conventional songcraft. On 'Interference', released October 30th 2026 via Fuzz Club, Demian Castellanos pushes that approach further than ever, creating what he describes as "a painting of sound rather than music”. It’s an album where noise and melody constantly collide, dissolve and reform into something strangely beautiful: “I wanted it to be accessible but also quite extreme, a sort of beautiful noise. I did my best to push out the parameters whilst trying not to allow it to disintegrate into something with no meaning or focus.”

Chasing an elusive balance between accessibility and abstraction, the result is a record that feels simultaneously immediate and disorientating: dense layers of drones, feedback and motorik rhythms give way to unexpected moments of warmth, colour and even uplifting euphoria. Across its runtime, chaos never overwhelms; instead it becomes another instrument, carefully sculpted into hypnotic, immersive compositions.

Much of the album emerged through instinct rather than intention. Fragments originally conceived as intros, outros or abandoned ideas gradually eclipsed the songs they belonged to, with tracks revealing themselves organically through a process Castellanos likens to "playing Chinese whispers with musical instruments." Elsewhere, two long-forgotten compositions – ‘Stasis’ and ‘When You Close Your Eyes’ – finally found their place after lying unfinished for almost twenty years.

Recorded and mixed by Castellanos at his home studio in the Czech Republic, ‘Interference’ also benefits from a key collaboration with Lorena Quintanilla of Mexican band Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, who provides a transformative presence. Her haunting vocal on ‘La Alusion’ (which she also wrote the lyrics and melody for) became the breakthrough moment that crystallised the album, turning an instrumental sketch into a dreamlike centrepiece and helping shape the final sequence. She also lends her voice to ‘Isolation Freeway’, adding another layer of mystery to an album that continually blurs the line between structure and dissolution.

Perhaps most remarkably, ‘Interference’ was created during a period in which Castellanos had largely stopped listening to music altogether: “My hi-fi broke a couple of years ago so I kind of wanted to see what would happen if I didn’t listen to too much music.” Instead of consciously absorbing outside influences, he trusted instinct, memory and experimentation to guide the process. The result is one of The Oscillation's most adventurous and emotionally resonant records to date: a vivid collision of hypnotic repetition, spectral beauty and controlled sonic disruption that confirms Castellanos remains one of modern psychedelia's most singular voices.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bring It On
2. Infinite Plane
3. La Alusión (feat Lorelle Meets The Obsolete)
4. Stasis
5. Isolation Freeway (feat Lorelle Meets The Obsolete)
6. When You Close Your Eyes

For their second LP, Iconoclast HaHa, San Francisco fourpiece Aluminum take the shoegaze, big beat, and alt-pop of their debut, Fully Beat (Felte, 2024), and raise the temperature to a boil. In contrast to previous self-recorded efforts, the album comprises a set of electrifying, full-band studio performances all recorded, mixed, and mastered across an inspired week with recording engineer Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden Studio in Oakland. Lead vocalists and songwriters Marc Leyda and Ryann Gonsalves continue to strike a balance between pop catchiness and experimental abandon while infusing these songs with spontaneity, immediacy, and post-punk tenacity. “We intended for this to be a more guitar-forward album,” notes Leyda, “so we recorded through Marshall stacks to give it a heavier feel, and to get a faster, more punkish sound that will be massive and immersive in a live setting.” Thematically, Gonsalves notes major inspiration from “the frustration of living within a societal system that sets you up for failure, always ‘not being enough’ or ‘being too much’, and all the anger, exhaustion, and pressure to comply.” Reflecting on the confluence of mood, message, and maelstrom across Iconoclast HaHa, Leyda elaborates with his ultimate artistic question: “When it feels like the world is tipping toward devastation, you keep pushing and trying to make something powerful and meaningful, because what else can you do?”

TRACK LISTING

01. Give Me A Reason
02. Killing Time
03. Shell
04. Feels Just Like It
05. Lovely People
06. Distant Noise
07. An Opportunist
08. Paper Cup
09. Styptic Powder
10. I’ll See You There
11. Still Life
12. So Low
13. Skip

Emerging from Manchester’s underground, SILVERWINGKILLER (Yushang Ni and James Baca) are a high-energy electronic two-piece carving out their own uncompromising corner of the UK music scene.

“Manchester is the first place I ever felt free,” says Shanghainese Yushang, a freedom that underpins the duo’s unrestrained sound. Their music is a collision of cultures and technologies: world music influences twisted through analogue arpeggiators, aggressive basslines, frenetic live breakbeats, and vocals split between English, Mandarin and Shanghainese. The result is a sonic assault—urgent, chaotic, and impossible to ignore.

Inspired by human culture, science fiction and deep cut video games, the duo bring an otherworldly yet deeply human perspective to their work. The SILVERWINGKILLER live show is visceral and infectious, as witnesses to their shows with Machine Girl and Fat Dog will testify, equal parts punk ferocity and electronic experimentation, demanding the audience move, react, and confront the intensity head on.

Ear-gouging synth stabs, rib-snapping breakbeats, and vocals which swerve enticingly between Mandarin, English, and Shanghainese are unleashed with a danceable vigour that is nigh-on impossible to resist… We’re dead excited!

TRACK LISTING

Side A
人民公園 (PEOPLE'S SQUARE)
S.W.K.
ROOF ON FIRE (X OVER9000)
JING'AN TEMPLE
HOLD UP (ALL FIREARMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM)

Side B
KID AFRICA
WORLDSTAR
电子水稻田 (E-SILT)
GUNMAN CORNER
SHANG FILM

'Songs for Sinners' is an album about the push and pull of belief: running toward something, running away from it, and living in the charged space between the two. Throughout this LP — his second solo album and first in six years — Moses Boyd doesn’t preach or offer answers. Instead, he makes a record that treats faith as something deeply personal, unstable and human — a force that can comfort, unsettle, divide and restore. Gospel is part of the language, but not the whole sentence. Across a vocal-heavy set that folds together jazz, soundsystem culture, 808s, choir harmonies and Caribbean rhythm, Boyd asks what sacred music can sound like without arbitrary rules boxing it in.

Boyd is already one of the most inventive figures in music: a MOBO Award winner, Mercury Prize-shortlisted artist and a drummer, composer and producer who has spent years expanding the possibilities of jazz without ever treating the genre as a museum piece. A decade after 'Rye Lane Shuffle' helped introduce his restless imagination to a wider audience, 'Songs for Sinners' feels like a return and a leap forward — an album that reintroduces Boyd as a brilliant player and singular artist with a vision that reaches beyond category.

Musically, 'Songs for Sinners' is as open-ended as its themes. It is gospel-influenced, but not in the traditional sense. The album moves through different textures with ease: bruised jazz chords, bass-heavy soundsystem weight, electronic pulses, organ swells, handclaps, choral lift and moments of raw, communal singing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Precious
2. War - Moses Boyd, Raelle
3. More To Life - Moses Boyd, Shantéh
4. Say Yeah
5. Saviour
6. Criticise - Moses Boyd, Amber Simone
7. Praise
8. Guess I'll Be Alright
9. I Surrender All (Interlude)
10. I Surrender
11. It Is Well
12. I Believe

'Love & Other Lies' teems with a dark sentimentality and a pronounced gloomy sensibility drawing from British new wave, post-punk, goth, and 1960s rock n’ roll. Strains of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tears for Fears, and even The Beatles abound. Hegna’s emotive baritone is swathed in period-perfect Prophet-5 synthesizers and glistening counter-melody guitars lines, and supported by intricate but lyrical basslines and cold and mechanical drums. The lyrics are veiled, visceral, and abstract, yet peppered with shard’s of truth from Hegna’s life and his observations. They reflect a modern world where reality itself feels increasingly tenuous, truth is subjective, communities are shattered by irreconcilable division, and a collective malaise hangs in the air. In this dystopia, if love is merely another lie, it suggests a bleak outlook for our future; essentially, the title is a fancy way of saying that “We Are All Fucked.” 'Love & Other Lies' picks up where it’s previous album, 'Reverb & Seduction', left off. That album was a radical departure from Federale’s previous releases which featured mostly instrumentals. “There are a lot more similarities than you think,” he says of the group’s seemingly two distinct aesthetic periods. “When we were referencing the obscure influences, we liked the drama and darkness. Those elements are in new wave, goth, and post-punk. I just grabbed another couple of colors from the Crayon box.”

TRACK LISTING

1. A Strange Vice
2. Thick As Thieves
3. Kill The Rabbit
4. No Cure
5. Sad Machine
6. Fear Naught
7. I Want A New Drug
8. The Score
9. It Ain't Easy
10. Hey

Following a handful of limited singles, The Operator Sound INC. is back with a full debut. Out on Library of the Occult’s 21st Century Library Music series, 'Esoteric Audio for Space Age Witchcraft' was tracked straight to tape using modular synths, an old electronic organ, and basic rhythm boxes. Expect that classic 60s/70s space-age lounge vibe, but twisted into something dark, occult, and beamed straight from a 1970's planetarium.

TRACK LISTING

1. SPACE AGE SWITCHBOARD (PLEASE HOLD)
2. APPEL EN ATTENTE (CALL WAITING)
3. THE LUNAR LOOP
4. PLANETARY SWITCHBOARD (VENUS)
5. MOON BASE BACHELOR MUSIC
6. COSMIC CROSSTALK (CROSSED WIRES)
7. PLANET MOOG
8. INTERPLANETARY INCANTATION
9. L'APPEL INTERGALACTIQUE
10. ESOTERIC SPACE AGE WITCHCRAFT
11. SPACE ECHO SEANCE
12. RENDEZ-VOUS AT THE SPACEBASE 51 LOUNGE
13. NIGHTLINE TO SATELLITE 9

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five were a pioneering hip hop group formed in the South Bronx, New York City. Known for innovative DJ techniques and socially conscious lyrics. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

This compilation album features some of the most influential hip-hop single of all time in 'The Message', together with 'Scorpio' - one of the greatest electro recordings ever produced.

A gritty, plain-spoken and vividly cinematic portrait of black street life in New York circa ‘82 and a fascinating time capsule of rap's early attempts with the album format - this album earned respect on its own terms.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Message (Greg Wilson and Che Dub Mix)
2. White Lines (Don't Do It)
3. Scorpio (4.53 Mins Version)
4. New York New York (7" Edit)
5. The Message (Extended Version)
6. It's Nasty (Genius of Love)
7. Freedom
8. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel - (Extended Version)

'3TWI' - Fatima Al Qadiri’s new EP - is Kuwaiti femme slang for dirty old man; literally “male alley cat.” Over four regional club tracks, Al Qadiri explores this humorous background character with vocal collaborators Bobo Secret, Lama3an and Gumar, conceptually following her long-term pre-occupation with dance music, gender identity and performance in West Asia. A musical homage and love letter to WA folk dance traditions, '3TWI' celebrates the region’s ethnic diversity and the shared love of music lore across borders through a coy queer lens. Lyrically split between suggestive spoken word and yearning anthems, the songs are queer in intent and largely improvised, in Kuwaiti and Classical Arabic, and the 3eemi Farsi dialect.

TRACK LISTING

1. 7ilween feat. Bobo Secret & Lama3an
2. Zan Kardeh Ya Nah feat. Gumar
3. Zilim feat. Bobo Secret & Lama3an
4.Tta3alay feat. Gumar

It’s that time of year again! Are your copies of 'Now! That’s What I Call Christmas' and 'A Motown Christmas' finaly feeling worn out? Strut has the ideal antidote this year, as they dive into the world of festive records made by African artists spanning the late 1960s to the 1980s with their new 'Krismasi: Christmas Sounds From Africa' compilation.

Taking in music from across the continent from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa and Zimbabwe, Krismasi draws from a wide range of sounds from fun novelty records and spur-of-the-moment jams to spiritual and gospel favourites. Featured artists include Ghanian great Kwadwo Donkoh with a meditative highlife praise song from his much-loved Christmas Africana album. Elsewhere, pop star turned pastor, Jerry Boifraind, has some fun with a song celebrating seeing friends at Christmas and Nigerian pop favourite Martha Ulaeto features with the lilting lead track from her own Christmas Africana release. Strut pick out some choice Central and East African sounds with Kakai Kilonzo’s brilliant Kilimambogo Brothers Band and Congolese legend Baba Gaston’s Orchestra Baba National capturing the joy of the festive season. They stop off in Zim for a rare Dorothy Masuka acoustic piece and one of the country’s great musicians post-independence, Paul “Dr. Love” Matavire with ‘Christmas Yaswedera’ (‘Christmas Is Near’). Township jazz star Reggie Msomi appears with a joyous township instrumental and, finally, Strut couldn’t release a Christmas collection without some carols. Here they include here a great version of ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ by UK-based Nigerian highlife musician Flash Dominci and a hi-octane funky medley of favourite festive hymns by Ghana’s Oscar Suley.

The compilation is the first in-depth co lection of rare African Christmas recordings, uncovering a rich and often overlooked chapter of the continent's musical history. Krismasi is available on Red & White Inkplosion Vinyl LP and CD. Vinyl restoration is by Colin Young at See Why Audio, mastering is by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, and the album features striking new artwork by Liam Large.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Martha Ulaeto – Keresimesi Odun De (Christmas Has Come)
2. Jerry Boifraind & The Natto Band – Christmas Friends
3. Kwadwo Donkoh & His Abokyi Parts Of Ghana – Afe Aso Ama Makae Masem (New Year Come E Make Me Remember My Matter)
4. Ackim Simukonda – Umwana Wa Chipondo Chandi
5. Dorothy Masuka – Happy Christmas
6. Les Kilimambogo Brothers Band – Shangilia Christmas
7. Flash Domincii & The Supersonics – Amodekunrin Ti Maria (Mary’s Boy Child)
8. Houghas Sorowonko – The Soul Of Christmas

CD Tracklisting:
1. Martha Ulaeto – Keresimesi Odun De
2. Jerry Boifraind & The Natto Band – Christmas Friends
3. Kwadwo Donkoh & His Abokyi Parts Of Ghana – Afe Aso Ama Makae Masem
4. Houghas Sorowonko – Groovy Christmas And New Year
5. Flash Domincii & The Supersonics – Amodekunrin Ti Maria
6. Ackim Simukonda – Umwana Wa Chipondo Chandi
7. Dorothy Masuka – Happy Christmas
8. Les Kilimambogo Brothers Band – Shangilia Christmas
9. Paul Matavire & Jairos Jiri Band – Christmas Yaswedera
10. Orchestre Baba National – Kakolele Viva Christmas
11. Ajuma Bbe – Christmas
12. Reggie Msomi & His Hollywood Jazz Band – Compliments Of The Season
13. Oscar Sulley With “Real” Atlantic Choir, Kaneshie - X’mas Hustle 14 Houghas Sorowonko – The Soul Of Christmas

More than five decades into one of Brazilian music’s most remarkable careers, Joyce Moreno returns with a new collection of songs that reflect the warmth, lyrical sophistication, and innovation that have made her one of Brazil’s most defining musical voices.

Produced by Joyce Moreno alongside her husband and longtime collaborator Tutty Moreno, the album finds the Rio-born singer, guitarist and composer at her most reflective. Across nine beautifully crafted songs, Joyce pairs intricate guitar work, lyrical intimacy, and effortless swing with the musical curiosity that has defined her work for more than half a century.

TRACK LISTING

1. NÃO À TOA
2. NEVER TOO SOON
3. BEIJA-ME
4. CHOVENDO NA HORTA (FOR MY BROTHER DONNA) (FEAT. TONINHO HORTA)
5. SAUDADE
6. RESPIRA FUNDO
7. ALDEIA DO GONGO
8. LUANDA
9. 4:08 (FOUR-O-EIGHT)

Manchester post-punk three-piece LIINES will release their new EP, As Shadows Fall on Friday 23 October – their first new music in over two years and their first physical release since 2020. Written by vocalist/guitarist Zoe McVeigh and drummer Leila O'Sullivan, the EP was recorded at Unit 13 Studios in London, produced and mixed by Paul Tipler (Stereolab, Elastica, Placebo), and mastered by Katie Tavini (Nadine Shah, Bloc Party, Arlo Parks).Across its five tracks, As Shadows Fall sees LIINES return to the taut, driving post-punk that has defined the band’s sound for more than a decade. Reuniting with producer Paul Tipler, who also produced debut album Stop-Start, the EP feels unmistakably LIINES – urgent, raw and direct. Lead singer, Zoe McVeigh, said: "It's been over two years since we put new music out – and even longer since our last physical release. There's been a lot of life in this gap between records. This EP is us finding our way to being properly 'back' as a band – something we love doing more than anything. This is only the start!"

Since forming in 2014, LIINES have built a reputation as one of the most exciting acts to emerge from Manchester in recent years, winning the Manchester Evening News CityLife Awards Breakthrough Act in 2020. The band have toured with Sleaford Mods, bis and The Wedding Present, supported Ladytron, Ash and Hot Snakes, and reached the final of Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition.

TRACK LISTING

1.Look For You
2.Go
3.Always The Same
4.Wait
5.Holding On

Following her foundational role in the early years of The Fall, and then the searing post punk of The Blue Orchids, as well as several tours serving as a backing group for Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico, Una Baines found herself starting 1985 without a band. Drafting together members of the all-female Beyond The Glass, and compatriots associated with her past projects, she entered the studio with a clutch of songs and a willingness to experiment. Separating the sides into “waxing”, for the more traditional songs, and “waning”, where the structures become looser and varied, the resulting album was the sole release on her Taboo Records and seemed quickly lost to time, but feels shockingly current in both feminist content, and freak folk execution.

It is a collection of influences that would emerge decades later in the wyrd folk movement, and Furia is not out of place at an intersection of Devendra Banhart and Meg Baird, but there was absolutely nothing like it in 1986. Upon release, Mark E. Smith famously likened it to Third Ear Band, having to dip back to 1970 for a touchstone. Songs like “Bridget of Ireland” could be traditional ballads from decades past, while “No Romance” is a lo-fi new wave hit waiting to happen. “Sheila/Beats My Heart” fashions The Velvet Underground as a feminist protest band, and “Ritual” plays out like all of the Motown girl groups banding together to tell the world that they don’t need a boyfriend to solve all of their problems. It all draws on sources that are so familiar, yet turns them upside down in a celebratory fashion. Is it freak folk? Pagan punk? Pastoral drone? It is all of that and so much more. It is the sound of a woman, and an artist, truly finding her voice, and it is both magical and compelling.

“Remarkably prescient and weirdly beautiful record. A creative, challenging and memorable companion, with a distinct voice and identity of its own: in turn playful, political and experimental. It's highly recommended.” – The Quietus

TRACK LISTING

Side Waxing
Ceaseless Effort
Bridget Of Ireland (For My Mother)
Sheila (Inspired by Sheila C)
She Beats In My Heart
No Romance
Strength (I) Umbra Solis

Side Waning
Holy Hymn
Who Am I?
Ritual (Poem)
Strength (II) Umbra Solis

A collaboration few would have predicted, and one that makes perfect sense once you hear it. Munich producer Skee Mask (Bryan Müller) has spent over a decade turning hazy, atmospheric techno, breakbeat, dub and jungle into some of electronic music's most acclaimed records, from 2018's 'Compro' to 2024's 'Resort'. North Americans, the ambient country-folk project of guitarist Patrick McDermott, brings a completely different palette of slow-unspooling drones.

'Final Circle' finds these two worlds colliding, pairing rhythmic electronic detail with the wide-open, meditative textures both artists are known for.

Not available on Spotify. 

TRACK LISTING

1. 05012023 
2. 15102021 
3. 22122021 
4. 29072025 
5. 30122021 

“I envisioned myself recording for Folkways Records. That was the label I wanted to be on. That was the label that put out all the great records.” - Bob Dylan

Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Folkways Records: A Visual History of Folkways Records Cover Art’ is a striking new deluxe, heavyweight 12” x 12” hardback book featuring hundreds of unique and visually stunning record sleeve artworks from one of the most-iconic record companies in the world, Smithsonian Folkways.

The Folkways Records and Service Corporation was founded in 1948 by Moses Asch, a Polish émigré living in New York City. Eight years before, Asch had met Albert Einstein, who first encouraged him to document the ‘sounds of the world.’

Between 1949 and 1987, Folkways released over 2,000 recordings of jazz, folk, avant-garde, world, sounds of nature, spoken word, electronic modernism, civil rights speeches and more. Folkways stands head and shoulders above all ‘world music’ record labels in its depth of representation of cultural diversity and its understanding of the nature of sound itself. Asch’s vision of presenting ‘other music’ in all its myriad forms alongside the homegrown indigenous music of the United States of America (jazz, blues, folk and more) showed an unparalleled vision of modern cultural representation.

Much of the success in bringing together such diverse subjects into one cohesive unique and visual identity for Folkways Records is down to the 100s of stunning artwork designs of Ronald Clyne, the primary designer at the record label. Through typeface, colour and design Clyne gave Folkways record covers both an incredibly stylish and unique look and an underlying seriousness of intent and vision, the perfect match to that of founder Moses Asch.

The book focusses on the numerous stunning and striking record designs that feature across Folkways’ vast and idiosyncratic musical landscape - from The Music of Equatorial New Guinea to The Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, from The Songs and Dances of The Flathead Indians to The Sounds of The Tropical Rain Forest in America. Other diverse music you will find here include Outer Space Music, Chinese Classical Music, Sea Shanties and Loggers Songs, Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria, Street Games and Songs of The Children of New York City, Experiments in Computer Music and more.

Folkways recorded some of the greatest names in American music across the fields of jazz, folk, poetry, blues and classical music, including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Nikki Giovanni, Pete Seeger, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Dizzy Gillespie, John Cage and Charles Ives, all of whom are featured here.

Music editors at the company included the esteemed music anthropologists Harold Courlander, Sam Charters and Harry Smith (who compiled the seminal ‘Anthology of American Folk Music’).

As a wholly independent record label with a focus purely on music outside of the mainstream, Asch found unique and innovative solutions to keeping his record company alive for almost 40 years, maintaining the vast catalogue of 2,000 recordings always in print.

Moses Asch died in 1986. The following year, Smithsonian Folkways was created after Asch’s family donated the entire catalogue to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Smithsonian Folkways remains today a major force in the promotion and documentation of a global vision of music and sound.

The Young Gods announce the release of their new live album, recorded on December 19, 2025 at Fri-Son in Fribourg.

The record closes out the ‘Appear Disappear’ tour, which took the band on the road for around 70 shows.

Returning to a venue that has hosted so many defining moments for the band, this recording captures the raw energy and electric power that define The Young Gods on stage.

After months spent bringing ‘Appear Disappear’ to ever-growing audiences, this live album channels the intensity of a set honed by the road, blending tracks from the latest record with staples of the band’s catalogue.

A faithful sonic document of the band’s live experience and a fitting way to close one chapter before opening the next.

TRACK LISTING

Appear Disappear
Systemized
Hey Amour
Blackwater
All My Skin Standing
The Night Dance
Skinflowers
L’Amourir
Blue Me Away
Mes yeux de tous
Shine That Drone
Gasoline Man
Archives Of The Sun

Different Strokes For Different Folks are proud to present the first ever vinyl reissue of Al Basim's legendary 'Revival' album, originally released via private press in 1979. Including elements of out-there guitar jams, spiritual jazz, kosmiche soaked rock and Middle Eastern ambience, this is truly a record to live with.

Head of Label, Oz Adams explains why this record is so special: "Every now and again you come across music that feels like you've opened a door to a room you've never been into before. 'Revival' is unique; a kaleidoscopic amalgamation of Arabic, U.S & European influences. Both reflective and deeply soulful, the songs sound like hymns beamed in from a better world."

'Revival' documents Baghdad-born musician Basim Al-Hashimi's once in a lifetime trip to the U.S in 1978 where his concoction of Arabic styles with the Western '60s and '70s rock so beloved of his youth came together to produce a record almost impossible to categorize. Led by his melodic guitar playing, the band move from psychedelic excursions through to meditative ambient sections, jazz inflected grooves and joyful, progressive motifs. Licensed directly from Basim Al Hashimi himself, this reissue package includes an interview with the man himself, outlining his journey towards the creation of both his U.S experience and the masterpiece it produced, as well as photos sourced from his personal archive.

Despite several attempts, 'Revival' has never been reissued before, so Different Strokes For Different Folks are delighted to release this milestone once again.

TRACK LISTING

1. History Of The World
2. Poitiers
3. Souvenir
4. One Camel In Alaska
5. Open Space

A celebrated jazz musician, composer, producer and keyboardist, Finn Rees is one of the cream of the crop when it comes to Naarm / Melbourne's vibrant DIY music scene. With a reputation for his masterfully expressive keys playing and genre- blending approach, he has been touring far and wide both under his solo project and as one half of dance-focussed duo Close Counters. Not stopping there, he is a go-to keys player for many of his contemporaries. Following the release of his collaborative twotracker with SHOLTO last year, Finn returns to Mr Bongo with this captivating new solo EP.

'Feel The Sun' begins its cycle with 'Another Spring'. A Brazilian-inspired, uplifting jazz fusion dancer encapsulating riding the wave of the sun returning, the rush of seasons and remembering to make the moment while you have it. It's something Finn has been lucky enough to witness across the globe, but as he mentions, "I also reflected on 'spring' as a symbol of the inner creative life force available to us in any moment. Each creative idea feels like a fresh opening of light, a new bud opening up". The track starts with echoes of Cesar Camargo Mariano before dropping into a sweeping, orchestrated dancer. "The odd 7/4 time jam (inspired by the great Brazilian group Zimbo Trio) keeps you on your toes moving between a punchy horn motif and the rich string ensemble that lifts you up and carries you".

Next the title track opens out as a 9-minute jazz dance odyssey. "I've always wanted to create a tune that brings orchestrated elements and lush horns onto the dancefloor. A track that takes you on a real journey throughout, almost like Harry Thumann or David Matthews Big Band. The mood is again about nourishing the good moments while you can. I wrote it after most of the world was able to move freely again in 2022, 'Feel the sun as it comes around, for it cannot stay too long'", Finn says.

Moving forward, 'Torn' leans into the realm of jazzy hip hop, featuring a formidable groove held down by Lucky Pereira on drums and Junior Terry on upright bass as well as a blistering flute solo by Erica Tucceri. "This one is a bit of a nod to Tribe Called Quest and Bobbi Humphrey who were some of my favourite early introductions to jazz and groove", Finn states.

Closing out the EP, Finn joins with his Close Counters partner Allan McConnell to serve up a clubbier take on 'Feel The Sun'. The resulting remix is a cosmic-leaning, synth heavy interpretation, full of celestial nods and bubbling energy.

TRACK LISTING

1. Another Spring
2. Feel The Sun
3. Torn
4. Feel The Sun (Close Counters Remix)

Are Taylor Swift’s lyrics works of literature? Clio Doyle has spent her career exploring that question. An award-winning academic and creator of the UK’s first university module on Taylor Swift and English Literature, she is also – unashamedly – a lifelong Swiftie. In From the Vault, she makes the passionate case that examining Swift’s lyrics through the lens of high art illuminates the complexity, ingenuity, and sheer pleasure of her songs.

This book is an attempt to get to the beating heart of Swift’s writing: what it means to study her work, and what it means to love it. Can you separate Swift from her writing?Does it have a place in the canon alongside The Great Gatsby and The Waste Land?Why does it mean so much to people?What if it sometimes makes you feel bad?And ultimately: is it art?From the Vault is a joyful, nuanced and sharply intelligent exploration of obsessive fandom, the creative work of songwriting, and the value we give to different kinds of art.

Funtown get their mitts on a bona fide disco classic. 

TRACK LISTING

D1. Cash Money (12” Version)
D2. Cash Money (7” Version)

'Sacrament' returns on blackened purple vinyl to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Originally released in 2006, the album includes 'Redneck', 'Walk With Me In Hell', and 'Again We Rise'. 'Sacrament' followed 'Ashes of the Wake' and earned the band its first Grammy nomination with 'Redneck'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Walk With Me In Hell
2. Again We Rise 
3. Redneck 
4. Pathetic 
5. Foot To The Throat 
6. Descending 
7. Blacken The Cursed Sun 
8. Forgotten (Lost Angels) 
9. Requiem 
10. More Time To Kill
11. Beating On Death's Door

DJ Nature continues his flawless run, with another bumper pack of edits for Smoke & Mirrors. Cut loud for maximum dancefloor damage! Limited copies. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Fire (edit)
A2. Gazole (edit)
B. Angel (edit)
C1. C.O.A. Version (edit)
C2. Downtown (edit)
D. Disco (edit)

Unbound And Dangerous is a new live collection compiled and sequenced by Robby Krieger, John Densmore & Bruce Botnick.

Recordings from the tour which made up the album Absolutely Live, these are newly mixed for stereo and Atmos by Bruce Botnick. 

TRACK LISTING

Introduction
Dead Cats, Dead Rats
Break On Through (To The Other Side)
When The Music’s Over
Roadhouse Blues
Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
Back Door Man
Five To One
Build Me A Woman
Petition The Lawd
Light My Fire
Crawling King Snake
Soul Kitchen
Bring Out Your Dead
The End
Thank You And Good Night

This version of the all-time soul gem, “That what friends are for” by the amazing Madeline Bell and Alan Parker, is taken from her solo album. It's uplifting, with just a touch of Latin hip movement. On the flip “That’s the way I like it” is a banging club mover. The band is made up of some of the biggest library legends: Alan Parker, Alan Hawkshaw, Chris Karan and Duncan Lamont to name a few. And when you pair the best British Library musicians with one of the hottest American soul singers, magic happens!

TRACK LISTING

That's What Friends Are For
That's The Way I Like It

The first pressing of Olivia Rodrigo’s 'Expectations' featuring Chappell Roan is available on “LA Behaviour” blue 7” vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Expectations

Father John Misty’s landmark 2015 sophomore album, I Love You, Honeybear, is back on vinyl, remastered and repackaged as a single LP (It was originally released as a double LP).

The now-classic album includes fan favorites “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins),” and the title track, “I Love You, Honeybear.” On release I Love You, Honeybear earned a Pitchfork Best New Music, a perfect score from Exclaim!, and rave reviews from NME, Mojo, Q, Spin, and more. It was hailed as one of the best albums of 2015 by Pitchfork, Billboard, The A.V. Club, NME, and Stereogum. I Love You, Honeybear was produced by Josh Tillman and Jonathan Wilson, and mixed by Phil Ek. This 2024 edition was remastered in 2024 by Adam Ayan at Ayan Mastering.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Love You, Honeybear
2. Chateau Lobby #4 (in C For Two Virgins)
3. True Affection
4. The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt.
5. When You're Smiling And Astride Me
6. Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty Crow
7. Strange Encounter
8. The Ideal Husband
9. Bored In The USA
10. Holy Shit
11. I Went To The Store One Day

Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house scene and inspired generations of DJs worldwide in particular he was a massive inspiration to Daft Punk and the 'French Touch' scene. Releasing a vast amount of music throughout the 1990s for some of the most consistently underground dance labels including legendary Chicago imprints Cajual, Relief and Dance Mania he finally gained global fame with his 1999 hit 'Get Get Down', a dancefloor anthem that topped charts across Europe. Despite facing physical challenges, including losing both legs in accidents, he remained an unstoppable force in music—touring, producing, and uplifting others with his resilient spirit and signature groove.

Originally released in 1996 'Feel The Music' was Paul's second album for Peacefrog Records. Containing some of the classiest house music to hail from the Windy City. Classics such 'A Little Suntin Suntin', 'Summer Heat' and 'I Wonder Why' will have you smiling while you’re jackin’ and the irresistible and infectious 'Hear The Music' was the opening track for Daft Punks legendary Radio 1 Essential Mix.

TRACK LISTING

1. Relax With Me
2. A Little Suntin Suntin
3. You Make Me Say Do Be Do
4. Hear The Music
5. About Your Love
6. Summer Heat
7. I Wonder Why
8. The Groove 

Cruise Music really does what it says on the tin - serve up the sort of grooves that are easy to slip into a ride along with, especially when the sun is out and the mood gets a little more playful than usual. Their 16th edition of this long-running series is another super fly collection of effective groove and classic house attitude. Makito opens with the funky licks and disco colour of 'Jailhouse Funk' while Mark Funk and Danny Cruz pull back and allow plenty of sunshine and jazzy sax warmth into 'The Vibe.' On the flip, Bonetti gets remixed by Vertigini for some filter-driven and dusty house goodness and Raffaele Ciavolino and FederFunk bring a little Latin heat and percussive texture. Classy stuff.

TRACK LISTING

Makito - Jailhouse Funk
Mark Funk, Danny Cruz - The Vibe
Bonetti - Good Things (Vertigini Remix)
Raffaele Ciavolino, FederFunk - Going Home

With Sunrise and the Life We Live, John Beltran returns to his ambient techno roots, the sound that garnered him global appeal in the 1990s. Through ten tracks, the album journeys through lush, aerated textures and beatless expanse. Hypnotic grooves deepen and bloom in a flow of shapes and colors, creating a sound that is both meditative and full of life.

Thirty years after the release of his seminal Ten Days of Blue, Beltran's musicianship, vision and desire to produce remain at a fever pitch. With Sunrise and the Life We Live his gift of extracting emotion from the universe and turning it into a unique musical experience puts him in a class of his own.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Blue Green Eyes
A2. Sunrise and the Life We Live
A3. Austin
B1. The Echo Bridge
B2. Soft Rain
B3. Éire
C1. Lila
C2. The Watering
C3. Meant For Her
D1. Ikibana
D2. Ambala, Anders Ponsaing & Troels Hammer - Quiet Yellow Purple (Beltrans LET IT GO Remix)
D3. Kenneth Bager & Findlay Brown - Stones and Steel (Beltran Remix)

'Doggone' was recorded in Portland, Oregon in January of 2025 at the Center for Sound, Light and Color Therapy with longtime collaborator Ryan Oxford. It features Akron/Family founding member Dana Buoy (drums), Rick Pedrosa (Rose City Band/Abronia) on pedal steel & guitar, and Alex Chapman (bass). Guest contributions come from Devendra Banhart and Portland singer-songwriter Merle Law. The album will be mastered by Amy Dragon (Nathaniel Rateliff, Big Thief, Moon Duo).

'Doggone' centers around themes of community, aging, recognizing your gift is in your blood, carving out your own version of success, planting seeds/growing roots, and the impact of place on creative work. Silverstein continues to explore the intersection of loner-folk, cosmic country, and kraut-laden choogle found across his previous releases.

While writing the songs for this record, Silverstein discovered his uncle was a songwriter and manager for North Country Band, a 1970s Grateful Dead–inspired country-rock group from Minnesota. Silverstein had been DJing the album & showing live performances to friends before knowing his uncle's involvement. This furthered his understanding of his uncle's life in music (performing with Doc Watson, putting on shows for Jerry Jeff Walker, etc.) and gave him the inspiration and motivation to keep pressing on with the album.

Album art features an archival photo of Hat ‘n’ Boots, a famous landmark designed by Pacific Northwest artist Lewis Nasmyth in 1953 for a Western-style gas station, now in Seattle's Oxbow Park due to a community-led effort to save them from demolition. The iconic roadside attraction fell into disrepair after the original gas station closed in 1988. In 2003, the community rallied to have the structures moved, and they were restored and reopened as a park landmark in 2005. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Coming Back Around
2. Out of Tune (feat. Devendra Banhart)
3. Drop of a Dime
4. Portland Works
5. Realize (feat. Merle Law)
6. Patchouli
7. Amblin’
8. Helluva
9. Onlyness

In January 2025 Alex Cameron exploded his life in a controlled detonation largely ignored by the universe. The charred remains of Cameron’s life fragmented and reassembled into 9 synthetic rock songs detailing his world’s deep confusion and regret.

He continues to find pieces of his own reflection in the shattered characters he creates and embodies. The promised Messiah. Agamemnon’s appetite for war. Mel Gibson’s ransom note. Humanity’s Pro-War destiny. A cold war breakup. These are songs of protest against life itself. This is the world our fathers feared and here is its soundtrack.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. No Soldier
2. Statue Down
3. Stand-in Man
4. Testoterone in Blue
5. Jesus Never Had No Porno

Side B
1. Ricochet
2. No Guns, Come Alone
3. Red Hook Rain
4. Violent Man

The quintet NOVA FELLOWSHIP was formed at the initiative of producer Antoine Rajon for a performance at the NUITS SONORES 2026 festival to pay tribute to the short but fruitful collaboration between musicians Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) and Steve Reid. A discreet yet essential figure on the American music scene, the African-American drummer Steve Reid (1944-2010) left his mark on the history of free jazz, funk, and rock. His collaborations included the Sun Ra Arkestra, Albert Ayler and Miles Davis (Tutu), James Brown (on the classic Popcorn), and Martha & the Vandellas. The end of his career was marked by his encounter with the Englishman Kieran Hebden, an emblematic pioneer of electronic music known as Four Tet, with whom he recorded four hybrid, experimental, and spiritual albums between 2006 and 2010. NOVA FELLOWSHIP, a group of friends who have collaborated in several bands, recorded the album CONTINUUM live at Studio Pigalle in Paris, with Kieran Hebden in attendance, who was captivated by the group's first concert at the Nuits Sonores festival. On this album, NOVA FELLOWSHIP covers three 1970s classics by Steve Reid & the Master Brotherhood, three tracks by Four Tet, and a composition by the duo Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, "Morning Prayer," which appears on their first joint album. Missouri drummer Zach Morrow brings to the group the dynamism he has displayed in recent years touring with poet Aja Monet. Heir to the versatility of Steve Reid, his playing is imbued with the full spectrum of Great Black Music. Versatile pianists Tony Tixier, arranger of an explosive version of the Nova/Free Spirits tracks created by Steve Reid, and Rob Clearfield, known for his work with Makaya McCraven, create hypnotic bass lines and captivating synth textures on their shared keyboards and synthesizers. Eritrean/American trumpeter Hermon Mehari and Italian saxophonist Francesco Geminiani, both Parisians and active on the European scene, form a powerful brass section. On ‘Morning Prayer,’ Francesco uses for the first time a flute of his own design, the Nautilus, which resembles an ocarina. This instrument, carved from maple wood and stylized on the album cover, was designed according to the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. Its use celebrates the mystical and exploratory nature of the duo formed by Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, whose musical alchemy has left its mark on all those who have attended one of their concerts. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. SIXTH HOUSE
A2. LIQUEFACTION
A3. NOVA/FREE SPIRITS
A4. AND THEY ALL LOOKED BROKEN HEARTED

B1. LIONS OF JUDAH
B2. MORNING PRAYER
B3. PLASTIC PEOPLE 

Shadowy Detroit duo The Fantasy continue to offer up "secret mixes fixes" - high-grade, sonically spectacular re-rubs inspired by the original reel-to-reel re-edit era and the now iconic DJs behind the movement (Ron Hardy, Danny Krivit and Larry Levan included). The Motor City twosome kick off number 5 in their ongoing series with 'Working Girl', a throbbing, San Francisco style electro disco workout peppered with spacey synth riffs, before turning a Bay Area drum machine workout into a breathless peak-time percussion-fest. Over on the reverse, 'On Fire Warp' is another percussion-laden revision of what sounds like a post-punk era industrial funk gem, while 'Lovefingers' is a break-driven translation of an ancient psychedelic rock workout.

TRACK LISTING

Working Girl
Blue Sunday
On Fire Warp
Lovefingers

Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Brigitte Fontaine’s landmark 1970 Saravah album 'Comme à la Radio', recorded with Areski Belkacem (who sadly died last June), Wadada Leo Smith and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. This deluxe edition pairs the original album with rare bonus material. The release is accompanied by a lavish 24-page bilingual booklet featuring an introduction by journalist Andy Beta, essays by Wadada Leo Smith, Brigitte Fontaine biographer Benoît Mouchart and Benjamin Barouh, plus a recent interview with Brigitte Fontaine and the late Areski Belkacem. The booklet also includes complete lyrics and a selection of rare archival photographs by Jean-Pierre Leloir and Philippe Gras.

TRACK LISTING

1. Comme À La Radio 
2. Tanka II
3. Le Brouillard 
4. J'ai 26 Ans
5. L'été L'été 
6. Encore 
7. Léo 
8. Les Petits Chevaux 
9. Tanka I 
10. Lettre À Monsieur Le Chef De Gare De La Tour De Carol 
11. Comme À La Radio – English Version 
12. J’ai 26 Ans – English Version 
13. Le Goudron – 7’’ Single 
14. Le Noir C'est Mieux Choisi – 7" Single 
15. Les Beaux Animaux – 7’’ Single 
16. L'été L'été – Early version 
17. L'été L'eté – Instrumental Version
18. Tanka I – Instrumental Version 
19. Tanka II – Instrumental Version with Flute 
20. Le Brouillard – Instrumental Version 
21. Lettre À Monsieur Le Chef De Gare – A Cappella English Version

Welcoming Tori Kudo back to A Colourful Storm with a new edition of Maher Shalal Hash Baz’s 'Faux Départ', a document of a stateside tour that culminated in a recording session at the legendary Dub Narcotic Studio with a one-time ensemble of Greg Saunier and Chris Cohen (Deerhoof), Andrew Maxwell, McCloud Zicmuse, Arrington de Dionyso, Takashi Ueno, Saya Ueno, Naoki Otani, Akiko Hotaka, Masaaki Endo and Naoki Otani. Always spontaneous, never rehearsed. Music in and of this world, seemingly teetering on the verge of collapse.

"We flew to the US for a show with Red Crayola in Los Angeles and initially stayed at Rick Potts' house. There, I met up with The Curtains and hit the road in their car. We headed north, writing down every melody that came to mind. I slept in the gap between the wall and the sofa and got interrupted by a herd of cows along the way, but I finally arrived in Olympia and recorded all the melodies I’d written down, which became 'Faux Depart'. There, I found McCloud, a noble beggar who was sleeping in the studio and playing the bassoon on the street." - Tori Kudo, 2026

"Chris Cohen, who played in Deerhoof from 2001-2006 or so, was an obsessive Maher fan. When our other band, The Curtains, was given a chance to support Maher on a West Coast tour, we got to see up close how Tori leads - often by not leading. He is an unpredictable, wild musical genius and card-carrying eccentric." – Greg Saunier, 2026

TRACK LISTING

1. Seal and Seagulls
2. Route 5
3. Faux Dépar
4. Honey
5. A Will
6. Rock Garden
7. Cumulonimbus And Thunderstorm In A Morning
8. Cumulonimbus And Thunderstorm In A Morning
9. Cumulonimbus And Thunderstorm In A Morning
10. Cumulonimbus And Thunderstorm In A Morning
11. Cumulonimbus And Thunderstorm In A Morning
12. A Wind
13. Lightning
14. Lightning 
15. Palms
16. Palms
17. Trees
18. Trees
19. Bright Lights
20. Seal and Seagulls

For two decades, Pokey LaFarge has walked his own iconoclastic road — forthright, genuine, unafraid to put it all out there. 'Rent Money' marks another step forward, arguably his finest collection yet: both a heartfelt personal statement and no-nonsense social commentary. Twanging guitars, plucky rhythms, and captivating melodies make the album soar and swing, its joyous refrains masking an undercurrent of worry fitting for troubled times. As ever, the Illinois native crosses genre boundaries with ease, blending strains of 20th-century American music through earnest songcraft and subversive creativity. Rent Money stands as a high-water mark for LaFarge — a defining work from a one-of-a-kind artist of rare ingenuity and candor, crafting deeply human music all his own.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Thing
2. My Baby Loves Me
3. Hambone
4. Rent Money
5. Stick Together
6. Work
7. Stranger
8. Can't Take it With You
9. Told You No
10. Big Boss Man
11. On and On