The quietest week in ages, as if everyone is having a well-earned post-Glastonbury rest. Here are the week’s new releases. A prelude to a much longer list next week.
Rival Consoles Landscape From Memory
Ninth album from an artist who has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late 00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad different styles and aesthetics.
Kae Tempest self titled
A body of work that sees Kae reconnect with his Hip Hop roots while paying a gentle homage to contemporary pop.
Big Special National Average
The new album moves on from the many crises of the debut and instead zeroes in on the ways that their lives are changing. Via the blackest humour, it’s an album that wrestles with the guilt of getting what you want and still being depressed.
Later Youth Living History
Dudderidge returns his unmistakable voice and signature Wurlitzer electric piano to centre stage, blending raw, heart-on-sleeve lyricism with fresh, idiosyncratic takes on classic rock, soul, blues, and alt-country.
Dmitry Evgrafov Research Centre
Moving from post-classical composer to electronic producer, the album is a rich, deep, emotional collection of eleven compositions that draw on both AI and a wide frame of influences, resulting in a joyful, kaleidoscopic, and iridescent journey that feels textural, exploratory, and elevating.
Nilufa Yanyer Dancing Shoes EP
Pop electro. Supporting Lorde on tour in 2025
The Worm Pantilde
Otherworldly folk music; a work of ethereal musicality & fantastical lyricism, capturing an imaginary oral history of everyday village life in an alternative Celtic landscape.
Attawalpa Experience
A record whose broad sonic vocabulary helps upgrade the shapeshifting baroque pop-rock groove template of debut long player, ‘Presence’.
Fantazmaz Fantazmaz
Brazilian band blending blistering punk energy with a fearless stage presence.
Tucker Zimmerman Music By River Words By Ear
A collection of previously unreleased tracks from 2002 by the songpoet who has recently collaborated with Big Thief.
Dropkick Murphys For The People
The record shows courage and confidence, speaking up against the injustices happening in the United States, doing so with the strength and power that harkens back to Dropkick Murphys’ earliest punk rock roots.
Littlemen 5 Steps To…
Their latest has a notably harder edge and songs such as the title-track “5 Steps” and “Fake News” are hard-hitting with a political slant, with Littlemen weaving a sonic fabric of electronica and acoustic instrumentals in stirring harmony.
Tomas Doncker Hard Is Hard EP
Elements of soul, blues, funk, rock and some jazz are thrown in and show Doncker’s innate knack for genre fluidity. The EP lyrically explores themes of racial inequality, social injustice and keeping a positive mental attitude through hard times.
We Lost The Sea A Single Flower
The fifth album from Australian post-rock band.
Warkings Armageddon
Power metal anthems that journey through some of history’s most pivotal conquests—moments where warriors stood firm, empires crumbled, and the world was forever changed.
