Rowena Wise Bad Things Feel Good
Indie folk artist. Through candid poetic lyricism and raw live band production, the songs explore themes of heartbreak, estrangement and mental health.
Sesame Girl Butterfly Wing In A Silver Locket EP
Citing 90s alt-rock, grunge and shoegaze, pop, and alt-country as touchstones for where their sound lands, they also sit neatly alongside contemporary artists such as Beabadoobee, Soccer Mommy, Clairo, Pale Waves, Beach House, and Momma.
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies Cathedral
Designed as a fully immersive project, ‘Cathedral’ functions as both soundtrack and narrative engine: each track aligns with a chapter of the graphic novel, with liner notes guiding listeners through the story.
Blums Sunk Cost Fantasy
A project collaged out of fragments of time and every experience she has captured and coveted: a childhood spent tearing up VHS tapes of old Hollywood musicals, the move to New York to study at an actor’s conservatory, time cutting her teeth playing the Bushwick show circuit in a power-pop band, singing backup vocals on tour with friends’ bands, losing and rediscovering her footing in the rush of the slipstream.
The Mountain Goats Days
Songs in a major key that are loosely about the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which is to say they’re about the accumulation of days, each one a little further back than the next.
Maya Ongaku Nothing Space Music
Drawing inspiration from the experimental rock of the 1960s and 70s, Japanese folk and psychedelia, avant-garde art movements, literature, philosophy, cultural anthropology and, on this record, a desire to reconnect with silence.
Margaret Glaspy I Am Both
Folk-leaning indie rock selection of songs that span from fictional vignettes to unguarded self-revelation to empathetic observation of the troubled world around her.
Judy Death of a Ladies’ Mutt
Their music connects the dots between The Velvet Underground, The Shangri-Las, The Donnas, The Beatles, Fountains of Wayne, Guided By Voices, Leonard Cohen, and The Ramones.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw Cannonball
London six-piece gaining a reputation for their visceral performances, wry lyricism and genre-shapeshifting sound.
Lawrence English The Rest Is My Ghost
The music evolves like a storm cloud – at times, it’s heavy like a downpour; sometimes lightning strikes, and sometimes there is a beam of sunlight when the storm passes.
Cancer Bats Give Me Dirt
Eighth album from Canadian hardcore, JUNO-nominated band.
Role Model Chuck Timely & The Hourglass
Blending candid lyrics with breezy melodies and his signature wit
Ravyn Lenae Blue Island
A record that takes in her long-standing influences (Janet Jackson, Santigold, Tracy Chapman) as well as her current listening diet (Blondie, The Sundays, The Cranberries, Martin Rev and Bollywood soundtracks.)
Citizen Halcyon Blues
Emerging from the 2010s emo boom, their stylistic restlessness has seen them traverse raw emo, menacing post-hardcore, anthemic alternative, garage-y indie pop.
Hana Stretton tiarn
Ambient folk producer and composer takes us to the Australian shores of the Pacific Ocean where classical and electronic arrangements move with an ever-present longing for connection and nature.
Hawkwind Friends & Relations Volume 6
The release presents a broad snapshot of the creative world surrounding the band today, from space rock and psychedelia to experimental electronics and atmospheric instrumentals.
Ceremony Tell Me Your Dream
Ten songs whose breadth runs from bristling hardcore to post-punk — all while taking fundamental inspiration from Discharge, Crass, and other anarcho-punk troupes
Nicola Miller SPIT!
A more extrovert affair than its predecessor foreground both layered, intricate avant-jazz ensemble writing and fiery improvisation alongside everyone’s keen ears for texture and timbre.
abracadabra peel away EP
Six songs that sift through luck, privilege, repair, abundance, anger, and self-reflection, wrapped in the project’s signature blend of psych-pop, leftfield electronics, dubby grooves, and playful sonic experimentation.
Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy Nebula
Montgomery’s cyclical, decaying compositions are shaped through intricate guitar and piano work, blending post-rock, folk, and drone. Murphy, meanwhile, possesses a rare gift for transformation; though her vocals often resemble fragments of words, consonants, or vowels, they frequently function as pure sound.
Keyside Keyside
Noting modern indie influences, such as Djo and Sombr, alongside legendary songwriting titans including The Strokes, The Smiths and The La’s.
Strawberry Alarm Clock Where’s One?
Their first album of new music since 1969. The psych rock band still contain five of their original members.
Sheep, Dog & Wolf Ceiling Waves
Marrying frenetic rhythms, dense harmonic structures, and deft instrumentalism with moments of heartwrenching delicacy and subtlety.
God of War Molly Picture
The Philadelphia DIY trio have joined forces to create songs with layers of droning metallics, twisted riffs, Nintendo-esque sounds, and supreme pop songcraft under a blanket of melancholy.
Wormwood A
Their EP is a characteristic fusion of extreme metal, Scandinavian melancholy, folk influences, and cinematic storytelling.
Prisoner Prisoner
Driven by fuzz-heavy riffs, motorik rhythms, insistent repetition, and a stripped-down analog sensibility, the largely instrumental album unfolds as a continuous cinematic experience.
Xandria Eclipse
Classic, ‘80s-inspired metal riffs stand alongside low-tuned modern metal guitars; cinematic orchestral sounds meet Celtic folk influences, and dark electronic elements blend with intimate rock moments
New Sun Hanged’s Fate
Positioning themselves as a new force in modern Italian extreme metal, defined by intensity, purpose, and clarity of vision.
Flo Therapy at the Club
Second album from contemporary R’n’B group.
Various Kenion Street
A celebration of Cargo and Suite Sixteen Studio featuring fresh interpretations of tracks by the Stone Roses, The Fall, Happy Mondays, New Order.
