Tune-Yards Better Dreaming
Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date.
Carmel Smickersgill Unsolicited Advice EP
Modern classical / outsider pop artist whose new EP is subtly darker in tone to its predecessor, Smickersgill is keen to stress that “Unsolicited Advice still has a good amount of taking silly noises very seriously.”
Ezra Furman Goodbye Small Head
An orchestral emo prog-rock record sprinkled with samples. Twelve songs, twelve variations on the experience of completely losing control, whether by weakness, illness, mysticism, BDSM, drugs, heartbreak or just living in a sick society with one’s eyes open.
Billy Nomates Metalhorse
It is a fuller album, exploring blues, folk and piano-driven arrangements that take Billy Nomates’ stark punk sound in a more pastoral direction.
Adam Badí Donoval a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided
It sounds like The Caretaker, if his ballrooms were infected by echoes drifting from Burial’s late EPs.
TAMIW Farewell
as a full live band on stage, TAMIW base their studio sound around electronic tracks featuring bass music and hip-hop elements, with an extensive use of sampling and analog synths.
Theo Bleak Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers
EP drawing on influences from artists such as Radiohead, Mazzy Star, and Pinegrove.
Farmer’s Wife Faint Illusions
The EP inspects reality in the context of love along churning guitars and bone-chattering whimsy.
Miso Extra Earcandy
Throughout Earcandy, Miso Extra takes us on a journey of lovelorn vulnerability, growth and self-empowerment, melding genres such as K-Pop, UK Garage, 80s sonics and R&B, to create a sophisticated and self-aware pop record.
Sleep Theory Afterglow
Sleep Theory combine energetic hard rock and metalcore, alongside the powerhouse vocalist Cullen Moore.
Pelican Flickering Resonance
A band with roots in a panoply of punk-related subgenres.
Friendship Caveman Wakes Up
Their capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement and was fronted by James Tate.
Soot Sprite Wield Your Hope Like A Weapon
“When I started Soot Sprite I was hooked on Clean by Soccer Mommy and Hovvdy’s Cranberry but with this record I was listening to a lot of Sweet Pill’s catalogue, Ovlov & Wednesday,” explains Elise Cook
Hooveriii Manhunter
Psych pop with elements of glam and garage, while also nodding to their more expansive, cinematic style.
Steve von Till Alone in a World of Wounds
An album of sweeping gothic-tinged Americana, tripped out drones, beautiful world-weary vocal melodies and slowly unfurling cello arrangements.
Push Puppets Tethered Together
Melodic indie rock five-piece band creates songs with earworm melodies and shiny production that belie the often bittersweet sentiments in the songwriting.
A.M.Boys Present Phase
Combining the clean minimalism of the post-punk era with a contemporary approach to rhythm and arrangement.
M(h)aol Something Soft
Gritty post-punks with an unapologetic approach to intersectional feminism, animal welfare, consumerism, and the struggle to find a place in a world lacking in empathy.
Peter Baumann Nightfall
A defining force in the Berlin School of electronic music, both as a member of Tangerine Dream in their most essential era, and as a solo artist, Baumann has always bridged the cerebral and the cinematic.
Mark Fry Not On The Radar
He is perhaps best known for his debut album, the acid-folk benchmark ‘Dreaming With Alice’, recorded in Rome in 1972. After a hiatus of almost four decades, in which Fry focused primarily on painting, he began recording again, with a critically acclaimed 2011 collaboration with The A. Lords, ‘I Lived In Trees’, and a further album inspired by the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ‘South Wind, Clear Sky’.
Mares Of Thrace The Loss
Canadian mixed-race mixed-gender duo Mares of Thrace deal in a brand of heaviness that draws as much from noise rock and hardcore as it does from the doom metal they’re commonly grouped with
Swimming Bell Somnia EP
An EP that invites listeners into an ethereal sonic realm – an underwater dreamworld where melodies drift effortlessly and rhythms pulse like ocean currents.
Amine 13 Months of Sunshine
Building on his disco soul foundations, his new album pays greater reference to Aminé’s Ethiopian Eritrean heritage
Taz Modi Involuntary Memories
Best known for being a founding member of Submotion Orchestra and keyboardist for Portico Quartet, Taz Modi has built a reputation for blending jazz, classical, and electronic influences into an immersive sound world.
Pridian Venetian Dark
Estonian metalcore force.
Deadset A Place Called Home
EP from post-punk goth quartet whose influences include The Cult, New Order, Fontaines DC and Interpol.
The Gentle Good Elan EP
A psychedelic portrait of Cym Elan which incorporates a full band, complete with layered vocals, electric guitars, vintage synths, flute and French Horn. Adventurous string arrangements by composer Seb Goldfinch sit beside distorted guitars, sparse piano and eerie synthesisers.
Bob Howla What You’ve Lost Isn’t Failure
Liverpudlian indie band’s second album. Produced by Rod Jones from Idlewild.
benches Kill The Light EP
The title track is cinematic, poignant and lightly paranoid, this first offering searches for a temporary fix to drown out feelings that have gotten too loud.
Coffin Prick Loose Enchantment
A record about the confusion of modern life that includes contributions from Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Alejandro Salazar-Dyer (Rincs), Kathy Lea (Soft Location), John Herndon (Tortoise), and Aaron Fernandez Olson (LA Takedown).
