An absurdly busy week. Listening to new music could be a full-time job! There is lots to enjoy.
Emma-Jean Thackray Weirdo
The album blends influences as diverse as spiritual jazz, Detroit house, northern bassline, and psychedelic rock. It is a virtuosic work from Thackray who composed, played, recorded, mixed and arranged every note on the record. Its themes are grief, gratitude and selfhood while the music has the air of a 1970s soul-jazz masterwork.
Deerhoof Noble and Godlike in Ruin
Each album presents a challenge to themselves, to discover some previously unknown combination of candy-coated hard-rock riffs and free-jazz percussive freakouts, sideways pop hooks and fearsome dissonance, trenchant social commentary and surrealist humour.
SUMAC and Moor Mother The Film
A collaboration between SUMAC – a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration of noise – and the visionary award-winning avant-jazz poet, scholar, activist, and punk rocker Moor Mother.
Patrick Wolf Crying The Neck
In his first album for 13 years, Wolf went back to the origins of his music making, taking inspiration from the techniques and tools he had at the time, and thus was able to move forward. He wanted to return to instruments including the viola, the Appalachian dulcimer, baritone ukulele, kantale, and the Atari he used to programme as a teenager
ESINAM and Sibusile Xaba Healing Voices
Rooted in their ancestries – Belgian-Ghanaian (ESINAM) and Kwazulu Natal-South African (Sibusile Xaba) – their collaboration on Healing Voices showcase a rich tapestry of music influences, drawing from Ghanaian highlife and traditional songs from Zulu and Ewe culture.
BRUIT ≤ The Age of Ephemerality
French instrumental experimentalists with an expansive and intensely emotive hybrid of ambient electronica, modern classical and panoramic post-rock.
Hannah Rose Platt Fragile Creatures
For her second album, the folky dream-pop artist collection of electro-acoustic compositions that remain experimental at their core, referencing genres like post-rock, shoegaze, and psychedelic, while evoking aural memories of ancient times.
Rebekka Karijord The Bell Tower
Its origins are in Karijord recording 25 female, non-binary, and male singers from all over the world, and building a sample instrument out of the individual voices, as well as her own. The album is constructed by manipulating the pitch, delay, and other characteristics of the samples.
Self Esteem A Complicated Woman
It contains all Taylor’s musical thumbprints – complex thought processes unfolding in real time, an effortless knack of exposing the feelings women are required to labour under – but set on a larger, brighter landscape.
The Moonlandingz No Rocket Required
It delivers brassy squawks, motorik convulsions and sinister soothing vocals from a righteous line-up of guest singers and ranters: Nadine Shah, Iggy Pop, Jessica Winter and Trainspotting actor Ewen Bremner.
Steph Cameron Blood Moon
The album draws from the eclectic sounds of 1960s British folk and the rich, evocative tones of 1970s country, folk, and rock, and artists like Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Fleetwood Mac, and Joni Mitchell. Its songs share her curiosity about the mystical world as well as dealing with more directly political issues.
Femi Kuti Journey Through Life
It sees the Afrobeat legend revisiting old tracks with fresh perspectives and producing entirely on his own for the first time, the album captures Femi’s journey as an artist, activist and father.
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus Devotion to a Noble Ideal
Liverpool experimental band with a part retrospective and part reimagining of their work, the EP contains 4 tracks, each produced in collaboration with a different creative partner, offering a sometimes radical reinterpretation of three previous works as well as one new piece.
Tide Lines Glasgow Love Story
The album is a lyrical series of glimpses into fictional lives and stories – each of them taking place simultaneously in this vibrant city that Tide Lines have come to call home.
Soft Loft Modern Roses EP
This new collection of caramel-sticky songs turns its lens on affection, exploring the small gestures we make to collapse the distance between us, even if just for a tiny bit.
Rialto Neon & Ghost Signs
Their first album in 24 years sees them on a nocturnal party prowl that the album pursues with a passion.
Lookers Deeper
A band that flirts with influences of pop, noise, post-punk and disco, generating a sound and presence all their own.
Ben Le Jeune A Stranger To Your City
The lyrics are imbued with a dark and dramatic romanticism and recount stories of love and a world gone wrong. Ben is perhaps better known as the firebrand frontman of The Creature Comfort, a cult underground fixture of the Manchester scene in the late 80’s / 90’s. They were stubborn rock’n’roll outliers who attracted a crossover audience from the punk, metal, goth and grunge scenes.
Point Mort Le point de non-retour
A sensitive universe made up of pop, rock, electro and even hip hop, all linked by a direct, raw, hardcore energy.
Oria The Future Wants Us Dead
Greek progressive groove metal act known for their ferocious intensity, cinematic moments, and deeply introspective storytelling,
Viagra Boys Viagr aboys
Stockholm post-punk group’s third album channels the band’s sharp observational humour and unique ability to dismantle everything and nothing at the same time, while juxtaposing real life with high art.
Himalayas Bad Star
Cardiff band taking in influence from Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, Royal Blood and Foo Fighters.
Floral Image Gone Down Meadowland
Album on which the Norwich band aim to produce a brand of East-Coast psychedelia that reflected the natural lusciousness and glorious solitude of the immediate world around them.
Goose Everything Must Go
Drawing from the feel of its live performances, the album features a carnivalesque cast of characters — primarily songs written throughout the band’s recent years of growth, including re-imagined live staples and songs that capture the band’s evolving, dynamic sound.
Laura Reznek The Sewing Room
Composer conjuring soundscapes through guitar, violin, analog synth and piano. Listeners of Fiona Apple, Adrianne Lenker, and Tim Baker will feel immediately at home with Reznek’s lyrical poeticism.
Eska The Ordinary Life of a Magic Woman
Follow up to her Mercury-nominated album is an exploration of motherhood, artistry, and the delicate dance between daily rhythms and creative transcendence.
Stereophonics Make ‘em Laugh, Make ‘em Cry, Make ‘em Wait
A tight and heavy-hitting record that maintains their reputation for blending rock sensibilities with soaring melodies
The All Seeing I Pickled Eggs and Sherbet
Reissue of the 1999 album from a group initially lumped in with the Big Beat scene but who brought together all the disparate threads of the Sheffield music scene past (and then) present on an album that could only have come from the ‘Steel City.’
Silver Synthetic Rosalie
Rosalie welcomes you with cosmic west-coast warmth, crossed with The Velvet Underground, Television plus a dash of 90’s Glaswegian-Soul & post-grunge feel.
Tennis Face Down in the Garden
Their seventh album sees the indie pop duo offsetting intuitive melodies with unusual arrangements, the new album sees the duo returning with music that both feels familiar but also resists convention.
Conflict This Much Remains
First album in two decades from a band that set about crafting a whole new kind of punk that totally upped the ante in terms anger and confrontation.
The Blue Knots Becoming Noise
Inspired by the compositions of Francis Poulenc, she embraces the piano’s ability to create realms of emotion, drawing from a classical foundation while pushing toward the experimental.
Màiri Morrison and Alasdair Roberts Remembered in Exile
Ten traditional Canadian songs with Scottish roots that draw heavily on the pioneering work of Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton.
Syird Syird EP
His dynamic, nostalgia-soaked sound blends electronic styles (deep house, techno, jungle) with acoustic elements and pop sensibility.
BIG/BRAVE OST
The overarching concept was to make a film score for a film that had yet to be created, to use minimal instrumentation, or more specifically not their standard band instruments, and to improvise within these parameters.
Fib Heavy Lifting
The album sees them trading lo-fi recordings for refined riffs while synthesizing post-punk sounds into poppy hooks.
Maria Somerville Luster
Irish musician creates a sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal guitar strums, sparse percussion, and hushed lyrical vignettes.
Salami Rose Joe Louis Lorings
A record made almost entirely autonomously on her trusty Roland MV8800 workstation and addressing themes of imposter syndrome, falling in love, heartbreak, the idea of family and parenthood, superficiality, her frustrations with the music industry
Kardashev Alunea
New album from progressive deathgaze band. “Words you could use to describe our music are ’atmospheric, progressive, emotional, dynamic, and contrast,” explains drummer Sean Lang.
Friend of a Friend Desire
The duo—Claire Molek and Jason Savsani—craft music that feels cinematic and immersive, threading themes of yearning, transformation, and resilience through a palette of lush synths, tactile rhythms, and haunting vocals.
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas Totality
A combination of Natural Information Society’s ecstatic all-world jazz and Bitchin Bajas’ microtonal soundscapes.
Lila Tirando a Violeta Dream of Snakes
Producer and vocalist who has positioned herself on the vanguard of an aesthetic that reframes South American melodies and percussion inside avant-garde soundscapes and hard-edged machine beats equal parts IDM, industrial, techno and gabber.
Soon Actions Made Audible
Experimental radiophonic electronic explorations from new collaboration between Meat Beat Manifesto’s Jack Dangers and Adi Newton of Clock DVA.
Kanonfieber Live In Oberhausen 2024
Live album from metal band who are huge in Europe
Cloth Pink Silence
Twin sibling duo whose feather-light approach and intrinsic quiet drama remain fundamentals of the Cloth sound here. They are joined by Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Portishead’s Adrian Utley, and Owen Pallett on their third album.
Vendredi sur Mer Malabar Princess
It marks a return to the softness and nostalgia of her early work, following a more combative phase.
Mano de Piedra Tales From The Burnt House
Spanish band shaped by influences from stoner, hardcore, metal, hard rock, and crust.
The Bablers Like The First Time
Veteran Finnish guitar pop group with their new version of the long-out-of-print album previously unheard outside Japan and Finland
Soapbox Lock In EP
Pulling from influences like The Damned to Soft Play, Amyl and the Sniffers and Viagra Boys while loudly proclaiming their anti-Nazi politics.
Column258 Interloper (Workshop Sessions Vol 1)
They combine mischievous art-rock with a psychedelic atmosphere Blending analogue and digital: bluenote brass, korgs, screaming vocoders and hypnotic guitars with inventive song cycles. Multi-vocal looping, poems written on the back of gas bills and electric pinecones.
Violent Garcia & Hora Lunga I’ll wait for you in the car park
The first full length collaboration between Argentinian cellist, improviser, and composer Violeta García and Swiss musician and composer Hora Lunga. Drawing from the realities of life on two continents, and embodying moods ranging from stoic desire to violent bursts, the album enciphers so-called ordinary moments from everyday life into an alluring collection of musical scenes
Los Pepes Out of the Void
Their sixth album delivers garage pop sensibility with the raw attitude of late 70s punk and the raw power of early 80s hardcore.
Uwade Floreilegium
Nigerian-born, North Carolina-raised musician Uwade will release her long-awaited debut album Florilegium. Uwade has been everywhere over the past few years, quietly. Her emotive voice is what opens Fleet Foxes’ Grammy-nominated album, Shore.
