Poor Creature All Smiles Tonight
Group comprised of Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody, all three are members of other bands (Landless and Lankum respectively) who have built a large following on re-interpreting songs from the past. Songs that have existed for centuries can seem immutable and anchored to time. A new generation of Irish musicians are keen to acknowledge that musical legacy, while reimagining the songs within a contemporary context.
Gwenno Utopia
Songs that range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus.
Africa Express Africa Express Presents… Bahidora
Featuring artists from four continents but with roots firmly planted in Mexico, it entwines rich musical traditions ranging from cumbia, hip-hop and kuduro through to soul, salsa and the sweetest pop.
Matt Benson Sit Back Down Again
It exudes the sleek, soulful vocal class that has embodied Benson’ s releases so far, it also takes on a far different ambience. Its haunting, lurching menace feels a little like a cousin to the darkness of Nick Cave’s ‘Henry’s Dream’ album.
Tami Neilson Neon Cowgirl
The album features guests JD McPherson, Ashley McBryde, Grace Bowers, Shelly Fairchild and Neil Finn. Tami and her band are joining Willie Nelson, and then Willie and Bob Dylan, on this year’s Outlaw Festival tour.
Plume Girl Unnameable Glory
Bringing together Hindustani classical improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and experimental pop.
Barry Can’t Swim Loner
Follow-up from the electronic artist whose first album was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.
Calva Louise Edge of the Abyss
Metal, punk, electronica and art rock weave through grandiose narratives and cinematic storytelling with a mind-blowing visual delivery.
Cian Ducrot Little Dreaming
Put together with a tight-knit group of trusted collaborators, it sees him showcase dazzling ‘70s and ‘80s-tinged sounds – influenced by greats such as Elton John, Michael Jackson and Queen – all the while baring his soul through heartfelt, authentic songwriting.
MF Tomlinson Die To Wake Up From A Dream
Encompassing folk, shoegaze, art-rock, prog and orchestral traditions.
Wet Leg Moisturizer
An album of manic love songs and well-timed kiss-offs, delivered by a clan of the UK’s most beloved oddballs.
Amy Macdonald Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For
Songs full of cathartic release and escapist energy.
Cleavers Bad Luck, You Can Make It Next Time
Passionate and energetic melodic punk rock FFO The Wipers, IDLES, Pup, Murderburgers and Paint it Black.
Autocamper What Do You Do All Day
Like a Northern kitchen sink rendering of The Vaselines’ call and response motif, their world-weary reflections on bedroom tiffs and hungover misdemeanours capture the jangle pop spirit of the ‘80s without the C86 revisionism
Peter Salett Suite for the Summer Rain / Dance of the Yellow Leaf
These song cycles, hung together via interstitials, are deeply informed by Salett’s cinematic bona fides. He contributed “Heart of Mine” to 2000’s Keeping the Faith and co-wrote the Dracula puppet musical “A Taste for Love” in 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Rip Van Winkle Blasphemy
The latest musical endeavour from Robert Pollard, Blasphemy is reminiscent of the no-holds-barred experimentalism of Guided By Voices’ 1993 record, Vampire on Titus.
Allo Darlin Bright Nights
11 years since the last Allo Darlin’ album, the Anglo-Australian indiepop quartet are back with a new record “Bright Nights
Mike Polizze Around Sound
The second solo album from Mike Polizze of veteran Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya is a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks.
Gina Birch Trouble
The Raincoats co-founder whose second solo album consists of 11 fiery-yet-deeply introspective new songs, fusing post-punk, dub, experimental rock.
Qur’an Shaheed Pulse
Qur’an fuses formal classical training with a deep commitment to improvisation, guided by spurts of instinctual, jazzy vocalization and lyrics that incant dreams of an exalted future
Kill The Robot Kill The Robot
It takes the listener on a journey that incorporates massive stadium rock anthems akin to the Foo Fighters, QOTSA and Muse, the prog of Pink Floyd and Steve Wilson, hints of Killing Joke darkness, and adds a hefty dose of 80s UK pop and electronica – à la Thomas Dolby, Howard Jones, Tears For Fears and even mid-career Adam Ant.
Charlotte OC Seriously Love, Go Home
The EP is rooted in grief, emotional reckoning, and eventual self-renewal, the EP is an unflinching snapshot of a woman processing the chaos and rediscovering her strength.
Deep Thrills How Deep Is Your Thrill EP
Deep Thrills, the moniker of Matan KG, is an LA-based artist who is one-half of indie-electro outfit Paper Idol. His new EP How Deep Is Your Thrill?, was inspired after he had a brush with death during a near-accident on a freeway overpass. Deep Thrills’ music is described as hyperclash, a brazen mix of hyperpop and electroclash.
Duncan Lloyd Unwound
Solo album from the primary musician behind Maximo Park.
Fez The Kid Body Mover EP
Artist who channels the energy of the 90s through a distinctly new-gen lens with the sounds of classic jungle infused with footwork, hardcore and rave nostalgia with cheeky “pump up the bass” vocal samples.
Raissa Desire Path EP
Pop artist who revels in contradictions and draws from a deep well of creative influences, everything from antique Gothic literature to vintage anime.
Empty Nesters Deaf Monks EP
An ever-evolving project that began in the realm of indie shoegaze and is now diving headfirst into the raw, visceral terrain of hardcore punk.
Pillars of a Twisted City Brimstone Prophecy
Emerging from a foundation of black and thrash metal, the project has steadily evolved into a genre-defying force that embraces post-punk, gothic textures, and cinematic atmospheres.
Cluster Cluster II
Cluster can be counted among the most important international protagonists of the electronic avant-garde. Some credit them with having invented ambient music, others as pioneers of synthesizer pop, whilst to some they are firmly embedded in the krautrock universe.
Johnny Butler Meet Me In The Wayback Field
13 tracks swimming in otherworldly electronica soundscapes and transcendent jazz flourishes,
My Baby Echo
Band who are currently supporting Alanis Morissette
Soft Hearted Scientists The Phantom of Cantom
Cardiff based band who can loosely be described as psychedelic, in the sense that they create a technicolour sound using a huge variety of instruments and sound effects, whether guitars or vintage keyboards. T
Flooding Object 1 EP
They infuse pop-forward songwriting into their sound, trading spoken word for melodies and thinking like pop stars when cultivating the energy of their live show.
The Shipbuilders This Blue Earth
On their second album the band has added musicians, grown further in confidence and created an album of literary, occasionally raucous, folky-rock.
