'Sexistential' is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s 'Honey', the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining 'Body Talk' trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing”, she says. “That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.”

Co-produced mainly with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, 'Sexistential' is emphatic and punchy, defiant about both emotional and biological pleasure, need and softness. The album’s title started life as an in-joke before she realised it said everything she wanted to say. “Exploring my sensual life is the same feeling as when I make a good song,” she explains. “It’s such a beautiful kind of sensitive vibration that takes so much work to keep afloat. I feel like the purpose of my life is to stay horny - it doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Clattering technoid percussion, throbbing bass pulses and stabbing saw-waves work their way beneath Robyn's jagged vocals, leading to a renewed sense of dynamism and drive, resulting in one of her best albums for years. Proper dancefloor business.

TRACK LISTING

1. Really Real
2. Dopamine
3. Blow My Mind
4. Sucker For Love
5. It Don't Mean A Thing
6. Talk To Me
7. Sexistential
8. Light Up
9. Into The Sun

The story of 1000 Rabbits begins in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. From those coastal beginnings, they have grown into an off-kilter art-pop picnic telling stories through human sounds that are both intimate and extroverted. Comprising Laura (violin), Liv (synthesiser), Paolo (guitar), River (vocals), and Luke (drums), the five-piece have performed across London’s independent venues, becoming regulars at The Windmill in Brixton, where their enigmatic, high-voltage performances earned them a word-of-mouth reputation as local “powerhouses”. It was there that they caught the attention of Young, who release “Virgin Soil” today.

“Virgin Soil” has been a long time coming. The track began life with a vocal melody and riff by River. Smooth, almost soupy sections emerged during writing sessions with Paolo, while the closing passage draws on Luke, Liv and Laura’s teenage experiments with live drum and bass. Since its debut at The George Tavern, the song has evolved across more than 50 live performances to become a centrepiece of their set, shaped as much by the stage and the crowd as by the band’s time together in rehearsal rooms.

With “Virgin Soil”, 1000 Rabbits bottle the spirit of a band in motion, curious, unpolished in the best way, and deeply connected to the physicality of performance. Grounded by playful bass synthesiser, expressive vocal lines weave through a colourful tapestry of violin, guitar, and drums. It is a debut that honours where they started and hints at just how far they are set to go.

Reflecting both origin and intention, “Virgin Soil’ represents the band’s beginnings - experimenting together and making music with no rules,” 1000 Rabbits explain. “It feels right as our first track out in the world.”

TRACK LISTING

A: Virgin Soil
B: Bear Hunt

Originally released on 29th May 2015, 'In Colour' quickly established itself as a modern classic - a kaleidoscopic journey through UK dance culture that continues to resonate with fans and critics alike.

It received widespread acclaim upon its release: Pitchfork awarded it Best New Music, hailing it as “a dazzling and deeply emotive record that reimagines the club as a space of memory, euphoria, and introspection.” Rolling Stone praised its “masterful blending of genres and eras,” Mixmag crowned it their best album of 2015, while NME called it “a modern masterpiece.” The album appeared on countless more year-end and decade-end best-of lists, cementing its status as one of the most important electronic releases of the 2010s.

Featuring standout tracks like 'Loud Places' (featuring Romy), 'Gosh', (with its epic Romain Gavras-directed music video) and 'I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)' (featuring Young Thug and Popcaan), 'In Colour' struck a rare balance between underground credibility and crossover appeal. It earned Jamie xx multiple GRAMMY, Brit and Ivor Novello Award nominations alongside a shortlist for the 2016 Mercury Music Prize. A decade later, 'In Colour' endures not only for its production brilliance but also for the emotional depth it brought to the dancefloor – a record that transformed a personal love letter to UK club culture into a global, generation-defining statement.

TRACK LISTING

1. Gosh (featuring MC Moose)
2. Sleep Sound
3. SeeSaw (featuring Romy)
4. Obvs
5. Just Saying
6. Stranger In A Room (featuring Oliver Sim)
7. Hold Tight
8. Loud Places (featuring Romy)
9. I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) (featuring Young Thug & Popcaan)
10. The Rest Is Noise
11. Girl

In 2025, two decades and seven albums into his career, American musician, composer, and academic John Maus will release his most transcendent work yet: 'Later Than You Think'. Arriving via his new label YOUNG, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare - coalescing into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful, the truth and the real.

Written, produced, and recorded in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri, 'Later Than You Think' spans 16 tracks and contains multitudes - the lush and the bare, the sacred and the profane, minimalist discipline and maximalist indulgence, counterpoint and simple pop harmony. At its core, the album reaffirms John Maus’ commitment to radical sincerity and emotional truth in an age of alienation. Powered by confrontation, faith and transformation - driven by the urgent belief that meaning still matters, and time is of the essence.

Holding a degree in experimental music from CalArts and a PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii, Maus has been dubbed a “philosopher pop star” and “analog futurist” for the way he merges academic rigor with lo-fi synth-pop aesthetics. His influence spans genres and generations—from UK grime icon Skepta, who sampled his track 'I’m Only Human', and Gen-Z rapper nettspend, to filmmaker Josh Safdie, actor Natasha Lyonne, and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. His track 'Cop Killer' features in the 2025 film Friendship, underscoring his continued relevance across high and low culture.

With five previous albums under his belt - 'Songs' (2006), 'Love Is Real' (2007), 'We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves' (2011), 'Screen Memories' (2017) and 'Addendum' (2018) - Maus has carved out a singular path where irony, grief, joy, and absurdity can coexist and gained a cult following along the way. On 'Later Than You Think' Maus doesn’t just return—he confronts, confesses, and transforms. The result is not only a career-defining work, but a rare artistic offering: one that dares to believe in meaning, beauty, and the possibility of transcendence

TRACK LISTING

1. Because We Built It
2. Disappears
3. Reconstruct Your Life
4. Shout
5. Came & Got
6. I Hate Antichrist
7. Theotokos
8. Let The Time Fly
9. Out Of Time
10. Tous Les Gens Qui Sont Ici Sont D’ici
11. Tonight
12. Let Me Through
13. Water
14. Pick Me Up
15. Losing Your Mind
16. Adorabo

Anyone familiar with electronic music will know Mechatok, aka Emir Timur Tokdemir. He made his name touring globally and releasing a series of records and collaborations with some of the most forward-thinking artists of the past decade, from Drain Gang (Bladee, Ecco2k, Whitearmor, Thaiboy Digital) to Charli XCX to Lorenzo Senni. Often subtle in delivery, these works circulated widely across underground and adjacent mainstream scenes, subtly shaping the direction of experimental pop and club music.

Tokdemir treats Mechatok as a kind of fictionalization experiment—an avatar that allows him to explore new facets of himself and brings a sense of openness and freedom to the creative process. He cites artists like Daft Punk and Gorillaz as inspirations: timeless figures who turned the concept of the artistic project itself into an artwork.

After years of honing his sound as Mechatok, Tokdemir is stepping up to share 'Wide Awake', his kaleidoscopic debut solo album. The record crystallizes a journey that is entirely his own, establishing Mechatok not just as a standout collaborator, but as an undeniable solo artist fully in command of his vision. Through the Mechatok persona, he accesses forms of expression that feel paradoxically more intimate - and more timeless.

Everything on 'Wide Awake' is tied together by a playful yet deeply intuitive sonic palette and a set of core, haiku-like lyrical themes. The album poses questions about the possibility of authenticity and the status of self-expression in the context of algorithmic flattening. Mechatok declines to propose utopian solutions and chooses instead to live with strange ambiguities, tapping their generative potential.

Featuring Bladee, Ecco2k, Isabella Lovestory, Tohji, and others, 'Wide Awake' spans a wide emotional and stylistic spectrum while remaining filtered through Tokdemir’s precise vision. The result shines as a meticulously crafted electronic pop opus; a collection of addictive, personal mantras, fragments that feel at once fleeting and enduring.

TRACK LISTING

1. You Don't Exist
2. Don't Say No Ft. F5VE
3. Expression On Your Face Ft. Bladee, Ecco2k
4. Everything
5. Virus Freestyle
6. 200 Ft. Tohji
7. Addiction
8. House Of Glass
9. She's A Director Ft. Isabella Lovestory
10. When You Left
11. Sunkiss

Within the UK, there are a select few burgeoning icons, artists that push the boundaries with their musical output while embodying a presence across all mediums that feeds into mass intrigue and curiosity. London-based rapper, poet and producer John Glacier is one of the few that can lay claim to this status. 

Referring to the seamlessly neverending threads of relationships and responsibilities that overlay to form the ribbon of modern existence, 'Like A Ribbon' finds John Glacier providing an accurate snapshot of her life as it has played out on her meteoric rise; from a insular, simple existence growing up in Hackney, to projecting stories to the world while aiming to maintain a semblance of normalcy in what is a very extraordinary life. Executive producer Kwes Darko helps to lay the sonic tapestry for the weaving of John’s own tale, alongside contributions from the likes of Flume, Mk.gee contributor Andrew Aged, Surf Gang, Eartheater, Sampha and more. 'Like A Ribbon' is the story of living in a modern world, told through an imaginatively otherworldly lens.

A highly feted vocalist whose work was subject to huge demand even before her debut project SHILOH: Lost For Words was released, John Glacier has pushed the boundaries of what defines UK rap with a diaristic approach that shines a light on the mundanities of everyday life and the complexities of human emotion, all through her own unique phrasing and perspectives. This sensibility, alongside her own externally perpetuated mythology, has also provided allure for the fashion world, with John becoming one of the faces of and providing bespoke poetry for Daniel Lee's iconic debut campaign for Burberry, as well finding fans in the likes of Bottega Veneta, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, J.W. Anderson, Miu Miu, Alexander McQueen and so many more. Her debut album 'Like A Ribbon' gives John Glacier the platform to explore the outer reaches of her immersive sound, traversing her own psyche in a way that's both abstracted and wholly relatable. Her poetic style takes center stage on the LP, defining modern life as a young woman growing up in Hackney; tied to the place she was born while existing on a whole other plane.

TRACK LISTING

1. Satellites
2. Don’t Cover Me
3. Money Shows (feat. Eartheater)
4. Emotions
5. Nevasure
6. Steady As I Am
7. Grands!
8. Cows Come Home
9. Whole Or None
10. Poster
11. Found
12. Home
13. Ocean Stepping (feat. Sampha)
14. Dancing In The Rain
15. Heaven’s Sent

Eusexua is a state of being. A feeling of momentary transcendence often evoked by art, music, sex, and unity. Eusexua can be followed by a state of bliss and feelings of limitless possibility. Also used to refer to: ‘The pinnacle of Human Experience’. It is united through any moment in which we are fully embodying ourselves, present in the moment, disconnected from technology, synthesized with those around us. It was moments of Eusexua that birthed 'EUSEXUA' the album, as twigs cites her late nights in the underground techno scene of Prague.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Jagged, glitchy pop music and euphoric, trance flavoured minimalistic electronica, both phasing in and out beneath the sometimes haunting, often ethereal vocal passages. Perfectly crafted, constantly moving and drawing influence from all over the musical spectrum.

TRACK LISTING

Eusexua
Girl Feels Good
Perfect Stranger
Drums Of Death
Room Of Fools
Sticky
Keep It, Hold It
Childlike Things
Striptease
24hr Dog
Wanderlust

Nine years on from the release of his seminal GRAMMY, BRIT, Ivor Novello and Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut album 'In Colour', London musician, DJ and producer Jamie xx announces his long-awaited second album 'In Waves'. Across 12 tracks including 'Baddy On The Floor', his joyous summer collaboration with club culture icon Honey Dijon, Jamie xx replicates the emotional crescendos and thrilling volatility of an almost mystical night out and features further collaborations with Robyn, The Avalanches, Kelsey Lu, John Glacier and Panda Bear, Oona Doherty and his The xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim. Created over a four year period ushered in by his much-loved 2020 Essential Mix and peppered with periods of self-reflection, a global pandemic, the blinking reemergence into the strobelight and a newly discovered love of surfing as escapism, it’s an album that's on course to eclipse the heights of its globally acclaimed predecessor.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Nine years have elapsed since the release of one of Piccadilly's most requested LP's, Jamie XX's 'In Colour', and the world is certainly ready for the next outing. So what's on the cards? Well, it's beautifully rich, driven dancefloor electronica that moves deftly between the outer reaches of house, trance and IDM with a lovely selection of guest vocals including Romy and Oliver Sim. Though In Colour was a bright and impactful statement, 'In Waves' shows a marked maturation of sound and execution. Brilliant.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wanna
2. Treat Each Other Right
3. Waited All Night (Jamie XX Feat. Romy, Oliver Sim & The XX)
4. Baddy On The Floor (Jamie XX Feat. Honey Dijon)
5. Dafodil (Jamie XX Feat. Kelsey Lu, John Glacier & Panda Bear)
6. Still Summer
7. Life (Jamie XX & Robyn)
8. The Feeling I Get From You
9. Breather
10. All You Children (Jamie XX Feat. The Avalanches)
11. Every Single Weekend
12. Falling Together (Jamie XX Feat. Oona Doherty)

Deluxe Edition Bonus 12":
1. F.U. (Jamie XX Feat. Erykah Badu)
2. It’s So Good
3. Do Something
4. LET’S DO IT AGAIN
5. KILL DEM

Washington calls 'Fearless Movement' his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music - expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.”

Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, 'Fearless Movement' focuses in on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago.

“Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality - realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.”

The album features Washington’s daughter - who wrote the melody to 'Asha The First' during some of her first experimentations on the piano - as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The inimitable Kamasi Washington returns for another suite of impeccably crafted jazz missives and includes a host of huge names to boot. If you've heard anything Kamasi's done, you'll know that this is an essential purchase. Epic, beautifully crafted and impeccably presented as ever.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lesanu
2. Asha The First Featuring Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin
3. Computer Love Featuring Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman
4. The Visionary Featuring Terrace Martin
5. Get Lit Featuring George Clinton
6. Dream State Featuring André 3000
7. Together Featuring BJ The Chicago Kid
8. The Garden Path
9. Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance)
10. Road To Self (KO)
11. Lines In The Sand
12. Prologue

Sampha releases his highly-anticipated, sophomore album LAHAI. Taken from his paternal grandfather’s name, which is also Sampha’s middle name, LAHAI revels in the awe and magic of our existence, synthesizing the exquisite chaos that one experiences confronting the cycle of life and the beyondness. Spanning 14-tracks, with contributions from some of Sampha’s closest friends, peers and collaborators including: Yaeji, Léa Sen, Sheila Maurice Grey (Kokoroko), Ibeyi, Morgan Simpson (Black Midi), Yussef Dayes, Laura Groves and Kwake Bass, LAHAI, in contrast to Process, is a communal affair seeing Sampha explore the many ways in which we as humans connect to each other, and to something bigger than ourselves. On the album’s latest single “Only,” premiering today via a new music video directed by Dexter Navy in collaboration with Sampha, which follows the recent “Spirit 2.0,” we meet a newly energized Sampha, as he spits melodically over a fragmented hip-hop hued beat with co-production from El Guincho.

Not unlike its maker, LAHAI defies clear categorization. Spanning jazz, soul, rap, dance, jungle and west African music, LAHAI sees Sampha elevating his production and vocal ambition to great new heights. A notable singer, songwriter and producer, it’s no wonder that artists like Kendrick Lamar, Stormzy, Travis Scott and previously, Drake, Solange, Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne and Alicia Keys have all tapped the artist for his inimitable voice plus songwriting and production contributions to their music. His work expands across multiple disciplines, with previous creative partnerships including the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, the Shy Light zine with Durimel (who also shot the LAHAI artwork) his Process film with director Kahlil Joseph, and most recently creative director Jonny Lu, with whom Sampha worked to create the LAHAI album artwork and logo.

If Process, Sampha’s 2017 Mercury-Prize-winning debut album, was an artist figuring out his own place in the world, engulfed in the shadows of grief and loss, LAHAI is an exercise in the radical acceptance and joy in the human condition, and the beauty in the journey itself. Welcome to Sampha’s next musical chapter: LAHAI.

TRACK LISTING

1. Stereo Colour Cloud (shaman’s Dream)
2. Spirit 2.0
3. Dancing Circles
4. Suspended
5. Satellite Business
6. Jonathan L. Seagull
7. Inclination Compass (Tenderness)
8. Only
9. Time Piece
10. Can’t Go Back
11. Evidence
12. Wave Therapy
13. What If You Hypnotise Me?
14. Rose Tint

Yorkshire-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and producer Ethan P. Flynn’s debut album, Abandon All Hope pours twenty-four years' worth of experience into 8 eclectic tracks. Featuring backup vocals from rising singer, Ava Gore, Abandon All Hope is a bold statement to mark Ethan P. Flynn arrival as a true artist in his own right.

Abandon All Hope is the culmination of an intensely fruitful period of personal creativity that has seen the young artist collaborate with a host of familiar names including David Byrne, FKA Twigs, Jockstrap, and Vegyn. 44 minutes long, 22 minutes on each side (intentionally to be the traditional length of a 12” LP), recorded at Narcissus Studios in 12 days, the album is bound together by a unifying theme; an album in the old-fashioned sense. It recalls 70s greats like Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson while exploring feelings of longing and losing power to hope in situations of relationships, love, navigating anxiety, and the coming of age in the 21st century.

TRACK LISTING

1. In Silence
2. Abandon All Hope
3. Clutching Your Pearls
4. No Shadow
5. Leaving The Boys Behind
6. Bad Weather
7. Crude Oil
8. Demolition

Mid Air is an album about celebration, sanctuary and salvation on the dance floor. It's an album that deals with love, grief, relationships, identity and sexuality and is a love letter to the queer clubs where Romy found community and connection. It’s a coming-out album in a way, although she came out in her personal life a long time ago, but it’s also a coming-through album – through grief and heartache, towards euphoria.

Mid Air sees Romy working alongside producers Fred again.. and Stuart Price, as well as her bandmate Jamie xx on recent single “Enjoy Your Life”. Also featuring the previous single (and crossover anthem) “Strong”, Mid Air is the perfect encapsulation of a sound Romy describes as “emotional music to dance to”. It’s a sound that’s set to unify dancefloors, distilling Romy’s love of club classics and classic song writing and finding the sweet spot – like much of Romy’s favourite music – between euphoria, escapism, sadness and melancholy.

To celebrate news of the album, Romy today releases her latest single, the Fred again..-produced “Loveher”. It’s a pivotal track for Romy and acts as both the album opener and the first song to be written for the record. Romy and Fred were first paired together to write songs for other people, but their fast friendship and musical connection proved to be a spark for something new. After writing “Loveher”, a declarative pop song about the intimacy of falling in love with a woman, “Fred asked me, who could this be for?” explains Romy “and I tentatively said… ‘maybe me?’”. A proud and positive queer love story, this was the beginning of Mid Air.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Romy of XX fame present a wonderfully evocative set of crystalline dancefloor bangers, high energy synth lines and her instantly recognisable vocals, calling upon Fred Again, Jamie (of aforementioned band) and a lovely bit of sampling of the endlessly talented Beverly Glenn-Copeland on 'Mid Air'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Loveher
2. Weightless
3. The Sea
4. One Last Try
5. DMC
6. Strong Ft. Fred Again..
7. Twice
8. Did I
9. Mid Air Ft. Beverly Glenn-Copeland
10. Enjoy Your Life
11. She’s On My Mind

Daniela Lalita ‘s debut EP Trececerotres on Young. A direct reference to the apartment - 1303 - in Peru where Lalita grew up with her mother and grandmother, Trececerotres is rooted in magic, ritual, healing and the matrilineal relationship.

Every song on Trececerotres feels like a different mode of ancestral channeling. The Peruvian creative - whose practice spans music, costume design, film, performance and fine art - stretches her voice into raw guttural depths, reaching brutally emotional heights throughout the record to startling effect. A testament to a childhood talent of learning to do different voices for TV commercials as her first job, Lalita’s vocal distortions mesh together with drums, gnashing electronica and esoteric glossolalia to craft a sound both modern and mystical. Working with the buchla synth Lalita found a world without limitations of traditional scales, the instrument provided boundless experimentation for the artist whose practice of recording and layering vocals were implemented in the production of Trececerotres to craft a multiplicity of sonic worlds.

TRACK LISTING

1. Trececerotres
2. Tenía Razón
3. Atrás
4. No Para
5. Pisoteo

The debut solo album from Oliver Sim - vocalist and bassist of The xx, Hideous Bastard is a deeply self-confessional journey of fear and shame inspired by the queer horror films he loves. Oliver is joined by Jamie xx, who produces Hideous Bastard with an elegant touch, and Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat/Communards), an angel, who takes us to the heavens. Full of surreal pop sounds that escape into the ether and break free, Hideous Bastard is a bold and ambitious debut that sees Oliver explore his voice and his capacity to evoke emotion, melding masculinity and tenderness, beauty with a baritone.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Debut solo album from bassist and vocalist of The xx, "Hideous Bastard" is a deeply important project for Oliver Sim. With fellow bandmate Jamie xx on production duties, and the assistance from Jimmy Somerville on the opening track, "Hideous Bastard" tackles themes of shame, fear, masculinity and Sims' HIV status. A truly vulnerable, beautiful and ultimately powerful record.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hideous
2. Romance With A Memory
3. Sensitive Child
4. Never Here
5. Unreliable Narrator
6. Saccharine
7. Confident Man
8. GMT
9. Fruit
10. Run The Credits

Ethan P. Flynn presents the ‘Universal Deluge’ EP.

Plunging into the darker side of experimental pop, Flynn combines electronics with stripped-back acoustics, underpinned by his well-recognised idiosyncratic voice; a style which has seen Ethan work with the likes of FKA Twigs, David Byrne and Black Country, New Road, and pinned “as great as Bowie, I’m just waiting for the world to see it… he’s a legend in the making” by slowthai.

TRACK LISTING

Father Of Nine
Distraught
Vegas Residency
Spoils
Cheerleader
The Universal Deluge
Enough Is Enough