An absolutely mega week in which it would be impossible to cover all the great releases in the depth that we would like. Here is our precis of the new releases.
The Cords The Cords
Sisters Eva and Grace take their cues from forebearers like Dolly Mixture, Shop Assistants, Heavenly and Tiger Trap, reinvigorating the C86 sound with style and infectious enthusiasm.
Professor Yaffle Everyone Wants To Dream
Scouse psych-folk storytellers offer clear-eyed reminiscence: sifting through personal and collective memory to find truth in the rubble.
Kathryn Williams Mystery Park
Folk singer-songwriter with a reflective, textured work shaped by time’s shifting tides and featuring contributions from Ed Harcourt and Paul Weller.
Studio Electrophonic Studio Electrophonic
This is an album that finds big feelings in small details. Loneliness, beauty, longing and loss all linger in the everyday occurrences.
Sir Richard Bishop Hillbilly Ragas
Nine improvised pieces for solo acoustic guitar, each one representing a different excursion into the dark woods—the untamed explorations of a musical loner, an outsider, maybe even an undesirable, embodying a peculiar folklore and turning it into sound—creating his own American folk music in the process.
Neko Case Neon Grey Midnight Green
Simultaneously her biggest-sounding and most intimate-feeling album yet.
Sam Prekop Open Close
Open Close melds more abstract textural noise of his modular synth debut Old Punch Card into his lush synthetic landscapes.
Ani Glass Phantasmogoria
Futuristic, fascinating pop. Ethereal vocals, lush instrumentation and swirling synth pulses echo early Goldfrapp or Enya.
Immersion WTF??
Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Contact) combine unease with hope, minimally hypnotic songwriting with taut melodies and inventiveness with groove.
Cate Le Bon Michelangelo Dying
As guitars and saxophones are pushed through pedals and percussion and voices are fed through filters, an iridescent, green and silky sound emerges, with flashes of the artistic singularities of David Bowie, Nico, John McGeoch and Laurie Anderson surfacing and disappearing below the waterline throughout.
Patrick Watson Uh Oh
Singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist with 11 original songs meditating on the idea of life being a series of “uh ohs”: a little phrase uttered in response to everything from childhood accidents to our most overwhelming anxieties.
Cerys Hafana Angel
A deep exploration of minimalism, traditional and avant-folk music and Hafana’s primary instrument the Welsh triple harp.
Tom Speight Perfect Strangers
Exploring his love of folk and timeless songwriting with guest appearances from Lydia Clowes, Charlotte OC, The Mayries, and PP Arnold, alongside members of renowned UK acts Feeder, Turin Brakes, Snow Patrol, and Embrace.
Grandbrothers Elsewhere
On German Turkish pianist Erol Sarp and Swiss engineer/software designer Lukas Vogel’s new album, for the first time, drum samples, analogue synths and new rhythmic structures come into play.
Lucky Horse Red Lucky Horse Red
They blend psych, rock ‘n’ roll, indie, Americana roots, folk, jazz and punk. It’s sexy and fast and slow. It is mysterious and vulnerable. It is a cinematic universe with an authentic 1960s analog sound projected within the female gaze.
Night Tapes portals // polarities
Three electronic producers with a penchant for analogue, Night Tapes exist in a world that is dreamy and widescreen with plenty of bite.
Unbelievable Truth Rich Inner Life
The Oxford band’s first album since 2000.
Olivia Dean The Art of Loving
It follows the critical success of Olivia’s 2023 debut, Messy, which saw her cement her status as one of the most compelling voices in neo-soul and pop.
Sons Hallo
With the follow up to Sweet Boy, the four-piece enter a new era, one in which their explosive garage-rock gives way to songs that now also shine and sparkle.
Whiskey Myers Whomp Whack Thunder
Band marrying Southern swagger with arena-sized rock and soul-searching songwriting.
Your Heterosexual Violence Some People Have Too Much To Say
Their evolving sound consists of post-punk with jagged edges, left turns into punk jazz, and a fiercely DIY spirit
Revocation New Gods New Masters
Extreme music for extreme times.
Sprints All That Is Over
Written on tour buses, in soundchecks and very much in real time, it’s an album set against the backdrop of a litany of atrocities – the war in Gaza, the wildfires in LA, Trump’s executive order denying the rights of trans people – that sees SPRINTS trying to make sense of a society gone mad.
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Hard Road
Fourth collection from GRAMMY® Award-winning blues, rock ‘n’ roll, soul, and R&B musician.
Daffo Where The Earth Bends
A coming-of-age album that finds powerful catharsis in painful confession.
Rage A New World Rising
A positive, ultra-heavy thrash metal firework which blends that typical Rage sound with contemporary elements.
Mega I Am Enough EP
EP built on her signature foundation of stripped-back production, rich vocal harmonies, and soul-stirring vocals.
Mel Blue Nomorejacketsplease
An album informed by, and devoted to, London’s unique and vibrant underground dance music scene.
Alex E.T. Color of Strange
From the ever-evolving California neo-psych scene, LA based songwriter/guitarist Alex E.T. (Alexandra Elaine Tapié) and her band of the same name come out swinging in full technicolour on a scorching sophomore album
Geese Getting Killed
It balances a disarming new tenderness with an intensified anger, with each member of the band wielding an earned, unshakeable confidence and a hearty disdain of conventional music structures.
Brain Pills Goatshead Part 1
Primitive but deadly drums, pulverizing heavy riffs – lots of fuzz and distortion going on coupled with Adam Stones demented and haunting vocal style.
Jana Vaga Chicory
Artist blending a mixture of influences from classical music to songwriters like Janis Ian, James Taylor and Paul Simon
Kanadia The Fire That’s Tearing Through Our Home
Alt rock band showcases an abundance of dreamlike rich soundscapes, massive hooks, and haunting melodies throughout its expansive 50-minute journey examining the fragility and beauty of human emotion.
Good Neighbours Blue Sky Mentality
It’s a record bursting with songs that feel as cinematic and far-reaching as they are grounded in everyday realities: indie-pop nostalgia washed in shimmering choruses, hopeful charm and introspective clarity.
Rochelle Jordan Through The Wall
Her music reflects diasporic movement and hybrid identity, all while rooted in the emotional precision of classic 90s R&B, drawing comparisons to the greats before her such as Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Aaliyah.
Fred Armisen 100 Sound Effects
His goal was to create a number of specific and evocative sounds; some follow the basic blueprint, like doors shutting and glass breaking, while others are more abstract scenarios.
Amanda Shires Nobody’s Girl
The 12-track record features Amanda’s moving vocals and signature fiddle playing set to meticulously crafted songs ranging from achingly raw ballads to rock-infused anthems.
Jeff Tweedy Twilight Override
Triple album whose three chapters stand alone, but together, they tell a story of the past, present and future.
Solar Eyes Live Freaky! Die Freaky!
It sees Brummies Solar Eyes take the Spaghetti Junction Western vibes of their debut and add in darker, broader, bleaker shades of ragged glory.
Absolute Losers In The Crowd
Rock trio with an emotional, nostalgia-filled homage to summers spent with bandmate and brother Josh Langille at the cottage on their grandparents’ blueberry farm in Flat River, Prince Edward Island.
Daiistar Fuzz Club Session
A road-hardened blend of shoegaze, neo-psychedelia and Madchester-inspired grooves.
Automatic Is It Now?
Automatic makes deviant pop music that cuts through the brainrot. Balancing irreverence with sharp commentary, the L.A. three‑piece approached their third album with a dark sense of humor and a swing in their step.
Bitchin Bajas Inland See
Showcasing jewels from their world music and jazz archives, then returning to their undulous source drone, riding smoothly back into silence.
Nobukazu Takemura Knot of Meanings
An acclaimed artist and composer, Takemura is known for his idiosyncratic music and video artistry as well as his prolific collaborations including those with Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, DJ Spooky and Steve Reich.
GRDN. particles, coarse
It continues his deliberate journey toward the outer edges of electronic sound. The album thrives on a raw, glitch-infused, and organically textured sonic language that deliberately rejects conventional song structures.
Beta Trip Superette
A concise, melodic, and emotionally grounded album that balances grit and shimmer. Fans of Elbow, Radiohead, Nada Surf, and 90s alt-rock will find lots to love here.
Night Cap It’s Happening
Texan indie rock band whose style nods to bands like Two Door Cinema Club, Wallows, and Phoenix.
Adore Biter EP
Sucker punch that proves this band can be brutal and unexpectedly moving at once. Drawing from horror films, vampire folklore and lived experience, exploring the quiet ways we contort ourselves to fit in – these are songs that howl and unravel; where fear becomes fuel, softness becomes defiance, and biting back is the only way out.
Mark Fry Not On The Radar (The Demos)
An artist in the truest sense of the word, renowned equally for his decades-long career as a painter of vibrant abstracts and as a cult psychedelic minstrel turned intimate, evocative singer-songwriter.
Mulatu Astatke Astatke Plays Astatke
It realises his long-term vision of Ethio-jazz, intricately balancing Western jazz arrangements with the rich sounds of traditional Ethiopian instruments including the krar, masenqo, washint, kebero and begena.
Alex Fernet Modern Night
A vampiric seduction that merges ‘post’: soul, funk, italodisco, and new wave with a noir cinematic aesthetic—linking David Bowie to Gaznevada and David Sylvian, Scott Walker to The Human League and the Style Council.
Cheikh Lô Maame
Sung in Wolof, Dioula, Malinké, and French, Maame is a mosaic of languages, cultures, and sounds — a global journey anchored in African identity.
After Earth Dark Night of the Soul
Nearly two years after their acclaimed debut The Rarity of Reason, the Swedish melodic death metal quintet return with a darker, more ambitious release.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise Bones
Genre-bending live sensation.
Rosa Anschütz Sabbatical
Swapping pulsing club beats for a raw, cinematic intimacy, Anschütz channels the spectral beauty of Moon Pix-era Cat Power, the mystique of Nico, and the experimental clarity of Björk and Dead Can Dance.
Last Hyena Suspect Your Elders
Bristol-based band’s third EP blends elements of math-rock, post-rock and ambient noise, creating intricate rock soundscapes to explore themes of unpredictability, complex emotions, and the dark side of the internet.
