Jeanines How Long Can It Last
A distinctive course through the history of pop, evoking influences as varied as the 60s folk of early Fairport Convention and Vashti Bunyan, the sunshine pop of Margo Guryan and Laura Nyro, and indiepop touchstones like Dear Nora, Marine Girls, Dolly Mixture, and the post-Black Tambourine projects of Pam Berry.
Lightheaded Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming
Band that has the sunshine sparkle of The Left Banke and Margo Guryan, the C86 charm of Dolly Mixture and Would-Be-Goods, and the cinematic swell of Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura.
Sharpie Smile The Staircase
A lush and energising contemporary pop record built on heart-swelling minimal/maximal electronic production and deep feels.
Mareux Nonstop Romance
Throughout ‘Nonstop Romance’, Mareux sets up his songs like Venus fly traps, beaming romance and thumping beats underlit in a sinister red.
Lammping Never Never
Lammping started as a heavy psych band, but things shifted when producer Mikhail Galkin returned to the kind of hip-hop production he was doing in his teens. Remixing records for Badge Époque Ensemble and Uh Huh under the Lammping name cracked the project wide open-what began as a one-off stylistic swerve became a long-term permission to make anything, in any genre. Now, whether it’s boom-bap, fuzzed-out folk, beat tape interludes, or full psych freakouts, it all fits.
Blonde Redhead The Shadow of the Guest
A dreamy, slightly uncanny reimagining of their critically acclaimed 2023 album Sit Down for Dinner. Enlisting the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the album offers newly expanded versions of multiple songs.
Paul Vickers & The Leg Winter at Butterfly Lake
Paul Vickers and The Leg have long delighted in their uproarious array of musical phantasmagorias and fantastical delights. Over four albums of junkyard Beefheartian clatter offset by Vickers’ punk-vaudeville howl, Vickers and co have proved themselves to be Edinburgh’s wildest cards.
Me Lost Me The Material Moment
The project of Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent delights in experimenting with songwriting, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre.
Tian Qiyi Songs for Workers
It brings together brothers John Tian Qi Wardle and Charlie Tian Yi Wardle with their father, legendary bassist Jah Wobble (John Wardle). The band’s unique sound reflects their rich family heritage, blending their father’s pioneering work in post-punk and dub with the Chinese cultural influences of their mother, Zilan Liao.
BC Camplight A Sober Conversation
An enthralling, sometimes haunting quasi-concept record marked by ruthless tragic-comedic purging and sublime, intricate melody, knitting lyrical screenplays to dazzling arrangements.
Brighde Chaimbeul Sunwise
Scottish composer and small pipes player pushes forward experimentally but also immerses her music more deeply in tradition, folklore and mystery.
Deciduous Forest Fields of Yore A richly textured journey through melancholy, memory, and myth, blending elements of atmospheric black metal, neofolk, and cinematic ambient into a sound that’s both haunting and luminous.
We Contain Multitudes Minako A heavy psych-rock instrumental trio consisting of ex-Bitch Magnet members Jon Fine (guitar, keyboards) and Orestes Morfín (drums) with Simon Kobayashi (bass).
The Jacques Make Repetition
Spiky guitars, deceptively big hooks and a balance between melancholy and liberation from a band drawing influence from Blur, Pavement, Elvis Costello and The Jam.
Gelli Haha Switcheroo
Every song on Switcheroo makes use of a myriad of recording toys; wacky analog effects, such as the Eventide Harmonizer, MXR Pitch Transposer, and various Electrix units, fashion an intentionally flawed and strictly silly texture throughout the album.
Late Night Drive Home As I Watch My Life Online
The suite of tracks is a series of online vignettes that hammers home the band’s message: the photos on your phone shouldn’t be your identity; your posts aren’t your inner monologue.
All Men Unto Me Requiem
Marrying traditional Anglican soundworlds of electro-pneumatic church organ and stacked choral vocals with heavier sounds, closer to experimental/noise rock and doom metal, Requiem sits at times near Swans, Kayo Dot, Lingua Ignota, Greet Death, and Scott Walker.
Bruce Springsteen Tracks II: The Lost Albums
Seven previously unheard Springsteen records. The 83 songs were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released.
Aerial Salad Roi de l’herb
A concept album but rather than being about a band, it’s from the perspective of an individual pushed to the brink of insanity by the ever-present quest from commercial success.
Sodom The Arsonist
German thrash metal band.
Frankie Cosmos Different Talking
Indie-rock four-piece with a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
Heaven Shall Burn Heimat
The album is about a much wider sense of the term ’Heimat‘: the homelands for many different people and also about the spiritual home, something that shapes and determines our thoughts and actions.
Dotson Moon Tiger
An album that is, both in spirit and sound, influenced by M83’s epic ‘Before The Dawn Heals Us’ and New Order’s ‘Ceremony’ and ‘Temptation’ phases.
Greet Death Die In Love
Their music, loud and full of melodic sensibility, draws from shoegaze, doomgaze, and a little-bit-of-everything-gaze, creating an emotionally maximalist palette.
Pan American and Kramer Interior Of An Edifice Under The Sea
Kramer is a composer/musician/filmmaker and the founder of Shimmy-Disc. Mark Nelson is also a member of Labradford and Anjou.
Daisychain All In A Name
Psych rock trio featuring sounds from wood winds, chimes, pump organs, mixed with synthesized vocal and guitar harmonies.
Kaj Duncan David Only Birds Know How to Call the Sun and They Do It Every Morning
Sci-fi chamber music exploring language, human development, AI, altered states of consciousness & more – RIYL Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Jan Jelinek, James Ferraro, Hanne Lippard, Sun Araw.
Starling Forgive Me EP
A four-piece alternative band born and based in Los Angeles, CA, creating music with a soft heaviness, weaving from grunge to songwriter to shoegaze.
Lorde Virgin
Her first full-length body of work in four years and promises a bold evolution in her sound and storytelling.
Sister Sadie All Will Be Well
An all-female bluegrass band whose latest contains elements of 90s country.
Motorhead The Manticire Tapes – List Album From 1976
In August 1976 the band set up at Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s legendary Manticore Studio in Fulham forty nine years later, this long-lost tape has surfaced, been dusted off and restored in all its raw glory, to celebrate the seminal hard rock bands 50th anniversary
Deadlands Seven EP
New York band exorcise stress, anxiety, doubt, and trauma via melodic metalcore.
Skies Turn Black Broken Hearts and Bad Habits
Electronic metal band from the North of England, taking influence from guitar driven heavy metal and incorporating features of dance music.
King Potenaz Arcane Desert Ritual Vol. 1
Southern Italy’s King Potenaz return with a scorched-earth sermon of fuzzy, raw, and occult-fueled doom
Luiz Ser Eu Sarja
Artist who creates headspinning, gauzy adventures in freaky, mutant, sound-art pop.
Isabella Lovestory Vanity
Experimental pop artist whose collage-like approach to music ponders every turn of the radio dial from her childhood across Honduras, Virginia and Montreal.
Grace Hayhurst The World is Dying
Starting life as a pianist before moving onto French Horn, performing with various orchestral ensembles across Europe, at age 18, Grace began dabbling on guitar with the likes of Yes and Opeth acting as her gateway drug. She proudly composed and recorded the bulk of the instruments, with other notable featured musician Robin Johnson of Kyros fame composing and playing the drum parts.