An astounding week for new releases. Some unmissable ones are included in this list.
Clara Mann Rift
Influenced by artists like Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Judee Sill, and Tom Waits, her debut album navigates the fractured environment of the in-between—those liminal spaces exposed between light and dark, growth and remorse, loss and reclamation. For a taster of this record’s power, have a listen to her gripping Riley and Coe 6 Music session.
The Burning Hell Ghost Palace
The band presents their most joyful collection of songs about death to date, always finding something to smile about in the decay. Mathias Kom’s maximalist lyrics are underlined with fluorescent highlighter, with surprising twists and turns through pop culture, animal life, history, architecture, and science fiction.
Will Stratton Points of Origin
The puny, beautiful, sun-bleached lives of truckers, surfers, runaways, drunks, thieves, CIA operatives, foresters, arsonists, lawyers, and painters intertwine, fall apart, and are ultimately reduced to dust in the 10,000 year-long span of Points of Origin, a heartbreaking and expansive album of songs by Will Stratton set in the freeway wilds of California.
Cryptosis Celestial Death
A record that showcases the group on a darker, heavier, more melodic and extremely cinematic journey across its 11 tracks / 42 minutes of playing time.
Los Pirañas Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida
Columbian avant/Latin experimentalists who have been pushing the boundaries of instrumental Latin tropical music with bold infusions of psychedelia, dub, minimalism since 2010.
Bob Mould Here We Go Crazy
“On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar pop songs. I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity, “Mould says, “Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes. Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainly and unconditional love.”
Raging Speedhorn Night Wolf
Ten tracks of the sextet’s ferocious, riff-centred metal that’s packed with strength, power, and, ultimately, song-driven groove.
Sasami Blood on the Silver Screen
The polymath combines her classical conservatory-trained skills as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless and bombastic stage persona to create her most realized music to date: the all-out SASAMI pop record.
Destruction Birth of Malice
A tight metal-machine, switching between ruthless thrash and pounding melodic moments.
Smith/Kotzen Black Light/White Noise
It features stratospheric guitar solos and raw, bluesy vocals as well as soulful touches and intricate playing.
Skloss The Pattern Speaks
Austin/Glasgow duo blends heavy psychedelia, post-metal drones, meditative drums, and raw distorted riffs.
Da Googie + Cara Tivey The Golden Thread
A record of seemingly contradictory sonic elements: thick-but-minimal soundscapes, dub’s openness put across in a densely claustrophobic style reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine, a bass-driven sound melding effortlessly into moments of delicate piano, and lyrics that convey depths of meaning with a mere handful of words.
Moreish Idols All in the Game
Produced by Dan Carey, the album nods to Sonic Youth, Watery, Domestic-era Pavement and nineties-era Flying Nun releases.
Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek Greyhound Days
Pieces for tenor saxophone and digital keyboard, accented by traces of additional instruments, balancing between spontaneity and intention.
Housewife Girl of the Hour EP
Continuing the sprawling indie-pop energy Housewife has become known for.
Violeta Garcia In / Out
Cellist, composer and curator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in Bern, Switzerland. Working across a broad spectrum of artforms including improvisation, contemporary classical and electronic music.
Edge of Paradise Prophecy
Cinematic metal band rage against the existential crisis of what is commonly known as “The Singularity,” the prophesized moment in time in which humanity loses control of artificial intelligence, leading to potentially cataclysmic shifts to life as we know it.
Kaiser 2nd Sound
Finnish stoner rock group with a fuzz-drenched journey inspired by the likes of Kyuss, Sleep, and High on Fire.
Killerstar Live at the 100 Club
A 2024 gig featuring a line-up on the night led by core KillerStar duo Rob Fleming (vocals/guitar) and James Sedge (drums) alongside renowned David Bowie collaborators Mike Garson, Mark Plati (bass), Kevin Armstrong (guitar) and Emm Gryner (backing vocals). They were joined by Dom Beken (synths, also of Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets) and Ulrika Bergelind (backing vocals, James Bay) along with Simon Bates on Sax.
March of Scylla Andromeda
French progressive band with gravity distorting riffs.
The Tubs Cotton Crown
A kaleidoscopic range of influences: everything from soulful pub rock to Husker Du aggression to melancholy Smiths-like pop gets a look in.
Ella Jinks The In Between EP
Songwriter whose bluesy, soulful indie-folk singer-songwriter style possesses a timelessness which echoes influences such as Laura Marling, Joni Mitchell and Lianne La Havas.
Lake Bucolic Gone
A work of sophisti-pop that embodies an adult, contemporary sound—intimate, serene, mournful, and hopeful in equal measure.
Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor All Worlds
The album marks a shift in tone, moving away from Lust For Youth’s synth-driven post-punk roots. Instead, ‘All Worlds’ embraces a dance-oriented aesthetic, weaving pulsating rhythms and techno-inspired motifs with layered vocal samples.
Frog Eyes The Open Up
The Canadian band’s tenth album consists of huffy-puffy rock and roll, open-ended mid- tempo dreaminess, sad and soft love songs.
Jerzy Mączyński DO 555PS
Saxophonist and producer Jerzy Mączyński fuses utopian electronics and organic improvisation on a sci-fi jazz odyssey.
Kinski Stumbledown Terrace
This release continues their exploration of heavy, provocative guitar-driven songs, sonorous rhythms, and emotional release.
Black Foxxes The Haar
Their sound intertwines the raw emotion of grunge, the accessibility of indie rock, and the poignant storytelling of Americana.
Baby Said BS
Portsmouth-based Italian/Punjabi sisters inspired by Maneskin.
Guiltless Teeth to Sky
Debut album from a band born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge, and doom.
Lady Gaga Mayhem
It marks a return to Gaga’s pop roots. The album explores themes of chaos and transformation, celebrating music’s power to unite, provoke, and heal.
Oh My Sun Apocalypse Baby
A London-based duo centred around a return to analogue life and organic songwriting harkening back to the golden era of 70s songwriting with a contemporary twist.
Earth Ball Actual Earth Music – Volume 1 & 2
Two caustic yet alluringly unreal live sets from Canadian noise-rock entropy hunters.
Takuro Okada The Near End, The Dark Night, The County Line
Ambient guitarist whose album contains selections from the expansive archive of recorded material Okada has amassed over the past decade.
Kilimanjaro Makalelo
EP from London-based Zambian/Scottish producer with distinctive afro-centric rhythms and melodies.
Turbo Diesel Turbo Diesel
The new project from Lewis Sharman, formerly of Sheffield fuzz rockers Best Friends (FatCat Records, Art is Hard). Backed by a heavy rhythm section of Ben Chapman (Knorke) and Rory Loveless (Drenge), Turbo Diesel channel an uneasy and distorted pop sensibility.
Agender Berserk
A quartet that makes schizo, synthy, paranoid, post-punk with a dash of dysmorphic desire.
Franc Moody Chewing the Fat
This duo, steeped in the gravelly realism of 1950s blues, jump and swing, sure know their Wynonie Harris’s from their Dave Bartholomews. After trying to be jazzers, bluesmen and various stripes of heritage Americana, thanks to Jon’s growing interest in the bottomless world of synthesisers, they decided to get contemporary.
Pale Blue Eyes New Place
The indie band’s third album reflects the end of an era and embracing new beginnings.
Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance
Band that has “attempted to write our heaviest album to date. We wanted to put out something that was shockingly menacing and brutal.”
