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Temples

Bliss

Temples’ name has become synonymous with a band with an adventurous spirit; constantly exploring new ideas.

On their fifth album, 'BLISS', they shake up the perception of the Kettering-formed four-piece with a record that ventures into electronic territory while staying true to their core DNA. Euphoric and melancholic melodies of late ‘90s dance music blend with psych-tinged riffs and loops to create something fresh.

Though the band missed the late ‘90s rave culture firsthand, 'BLISS' channels that era’s bittersweet euphoria, drawing inspiration from Faithless, Underworld, Prodigy, Air, Röyksopp, Moby, Massive Attack, Orbital, Portishead, and more. Psych and dance share a natural lineage, with repetition, loops, and trance-like states forming the album’s foundation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jet Stream Heart
2. Revelations 
3. Megalith 
4. Glimmer 
5. Blue Flame 
6. Vendetta 
7. Jaguar 
8. Horizon 
9. Waiting On The Echoes 
10. Fantasy Realm

The Veils

Fragile World

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRACK LISTING

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

Hard-Fi

Sweating Someone Else's Fever

Recharged and looking sharply at a world gone sideways, Staines' finest Hard-Fi make their long-awaited return with brand new studio album 'Sweating Somebody Else's Fever', their first in 15 years.

Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their longtime ex-taxi-office-turned studio Cherry Lips, and produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the album looks outside the window to the fractured present, and paints it in bold musical strokes, with the same sharp-eyed social commentary that powered their classic debut 'Stars of CCTV', but with fresh perspective, new sounds and hard-earned freedom.

TRACK LISTING

1. They Ain't Your Friends
2. Digo Nada (feat.Mike Kalle)
3. You Rule My Heart
4. When The Summer's Gone
5. Humpback Whale
6. Looking For Fun
7. A Rose Electric (feat. Krysten Cummings)
8. Always And Forever
9. Arise
10. Ain't Going Out Tonight (feat. Krysten Cummings)
11. Now And Then
12. Don't Go Making Plans

Idlewild

Idlewild

Immediately, there is the sense of a band in motion, their storied past not an anchor but a spur. Idlewild's songs offer a string of compelling answers: "Everything adds up to the present moment, doesn't it?" Woomble asks.

Idlewild have been a lot of different things. They were a teenage punk band, slinging buzzsaw riffs and barbed refrains, before becoming one of the most compelling mainstream rock groups of their generation. With 2019's 'Interview Music', they made sprawling art-pop. On 'Idlewild', they welcome each of these past selves into the room.

Work on a follow- up to 'Interview Music' was initially planned to begin immediately after the band wrapped up touring, but the pandemic put things into a skid. Touring the 20th anniversary of 'The Remote Part' in 2022 was a visceral reminder of where they'd been and a prompt for what might come next.

They assembled songs that celebrated pop hooks and livewire distortion, as well as expressive interplay. Writing continued at Post Electric Studio in Edinburgh and the Isle of Iona Library, before a short, sharp burst of recording in early 2025.

The result is a lean, focused document -- 10 tracks that get in and out in 30 minutes and change. With Jones engineering and mixing, the production refects a collaborative, in-house approach. "We were referencing ourselves... realising that we had a 'sound'," Woomble says. Facing forward, not back, Idlewild captures beauty, nuance, and clarity from three decades of sound and feeling -- spontaneous, purposeful, and unmistakably them.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I've always been a big fan of Idlewild's brand of grungy, melodic indie music and particularly enjoyed their most recent output. It's a source of some joy that 'Idlewild' is indeed representative enough of both their early, punky days and their more recent matured sound to be a self-titled album. Brilliant as ever.

TRACK LISTING

1. Stay Out Of Place
2. Like I Had Before
3. It's Not The First Time
4. (I Can't Help) Back Then You Found Me
5. The Mirror Still
6. Make It Happen
7. I Wish I Wrote It Down
8. Permanent Colours
9. Writers Of The Present Time
10. End With Sunrise


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