SILVERWINGKILLER     Desperate Struggle EP             

Raw African and Asian soundscapes dragged head-on into distorted Manchester electronics, the same illicit pulse as the debut, now with nothing holding it back.

Lowly   Softy    

Danish quintet blending dream-pop, electronic textures, art-rock experimentation and luminous dual vocals, their music feels both intimate and otherworldly — constantly shifting, yet unmistakably their own.

Sam Burton      Fairweather Friend     

Sam Burton writes, essentially, folk music, but to limit him to the genre doesn’t feel like it does justice to his work.

Gloria De Oliveira         The Lying Swans          

Drawing inspiration from poetry, literature, film and visual art as much as music, de Oliveira crafts an album that moves between the spectral and the pastoral, where echoes of Fantasy and Giallo film scores, ancient folk traditions and the rhythmic tenderness of Bossa Nova, MPB and Tropicália converge.

Clinic   Wild In The Streets      

The Liverpool duo comprised of Ade Blackburn and Jonathan Hartley take the current temperature of the nation in their own inimitable style. The dozen songs are marked by urgency, surreal wordplay and trademark wit.

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan  Industrial Growth        

With sleek, engrossing synthesis, Kraftwerkian odysseys, proto-kosmische and uncanny atmospheres, the album dramatically confronts the spectre of societal decline.

Ziyad Al-Samman         Elastic

The album marks another step forward for the London based artist of Syrian and British heritage, whose music moves between indie, psychedelia, glam pop and electronic music.

Queens of the Stone Age          Perfecth            

Their latest is full of distorted bass, big riffs and deadpan menace, but all come with a 1970s studio rock sheen.

Ex:Re    Save As             

Daughter’s lead singer chronicles the gnawing minutiae of human consciousness: the over-thinking that consumes us, and the places we travel to escape. Its central theme is how we remember these moments.

Kali Malone      Burning Song  

Organist joined by Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O’Malley on bowed acoustic guitar, the same trio that honed a profound connection based on deep listening through the development of Malone’s work Does Spring Hide Its Joy.

Piss       you made me / skin on linen

Vancouver, B.C. band combines punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the line between personal and political.

Acts of Gross Indecency          8/10 (has bass)

EP by a queer trans punk band from Cardiff.

Kingdom Collapse        Survivor            

San Antonio, TX hard rock band alchemizes unfathomable tragedy, trauma, and loss into massive and magnetic anthems powered by pummeling instrumentation and arena-size hooks.

Joe Sparks        Regina In Her Purple Coveralls Inside The Circle      

Genre-fluid inde

pendent release that moves between alternative rock, groove-based experimentation, melodic pop sensibility, and reflective songwriting.

Andy Koh           Taking the Long Way   

He returns with a collection of nine songs spanning nearly forty years of writing — recorded with first-call session players including bassist Sean Hurley and mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Darrell Thorp.

Editors                Surface, Echo & Sound            

After three albums written and recorded very much as in-the-studio projects, Editors felt they wanted to go back to a more natural approach, something that harked back to their earliest days, sat in a practice room in Stafford, facing each other as they worked through songs together.

Moody Joody   Plain Jane        

A concept album full of highs and lows, twists and turns, the pursuit of chasing your dreams and finding your most authentic self along the way.

The Big Moon   Forever              

Forever is brimming with hook-heavy alt-pop gems, not least because Jackson had fallen out of love with writing verses. “Over the years I’ve got more impatient with music,” Jackson explains with a grin. “I just like getting straight to the point.”

Aruba Red         Latent Echo     

An album of cosmic soul to heal your heart. Its themes reflect intense personal experiences (including the aftermath of spending a decade in a relationship of coercive control, struggles with endometriosis, POTS and chronic pain) through to mystical explorations and fairytale imagery.

Disgusting Sisters        Skin & Blisters

A mix of horror, humour, musical influences that span from electro to emo and a wealth of joint experience, it speaks to a childhood of pet rats and pranks; world-building and wicked games.

The Duskfall     The Everlasting Shadows        

Nine tracks of melodic death metal.

Nickelback       Everything Under The Sky       

Towering arena-ready anthems collide with reflective songwriting, undeniable melodies, massive guitars, and the chemistry that has defined the band for more than three decades.

Nouvelle Vague             A Date with Depeche Mode

They invite a new generation to rediscover these iconic songs through a warm, cinematic and effortlessly cool lens.

Weather Happy             Moth EP            

New UK alt/rock duo delivering instantly compelling alt/rock with crunchy, mathy undertones and lyrical depth.

Hair Control     Electric Pleasure          

Multi-faceted album that moves between multiple eras and sonic touchstones across its 40 minutes.

Thao     Show Me          

A suite of lush, lovingly crafted and powerfully voiced songs that act as portals into THAO’s kaleidoscopic inner life.

Sennen               New Quiet        

Touchstones for the album include Mercury Rev, Sonic Youth, The Feelies and Yo La Tengo.

Pallas                  A Song For Tomorrow 

A return for the Scottish progressive band which places the voices of all four band members at its heart, with each musician sharing both lead and backing vocal duties.

HMS Morris      SACI HACS      

The band continue to evolve their distinctive blend of real instruments and electronica, combining playful orchestration with warped textures, dramatic melodies and joyful experimentation.

Drag Talk           Drink The Ocean          

The new record finds the band melding 90s indie rock, shoegaze, and Britpop, solidifying their brand of hook-forward dream-pop.

Fujiya & Miyagi               New Shiny Object        

A succinct reminder of their art-pop skills, and the prevailing power of honesty in their work.

Eric Angelo Bessel       Illusion of an Inland Island    

Across eighteen interconnected compositions, he charts a hidden landscape assembled from familiar roads, forgotten infrastructure, weathered shorelines, shifting light, and the quiet persistence of the natural world.

Princess Goes                3

The trio met over a dozen years ago on a Broadway Stage in wigs and make-up  performing in the award winning rock musical, Hedwig & The Angry Inch.

Black Mekon    13 Songs About Monsters        

13 fizzing, lo-fi punk-blues nuggets just right for every party, Halloween or otherwise! 13 tales of monsters, murder, witchcraft and just plain ghoulish happenings!

Genital Shame               Wellness Plan

The solo project of Erin Dawson whose approach is informed by a background in music education and classical guitar, which she brings to her own strange iteration of experimental music rooted in black metal.

Derik & The Disasters                Derik & The Disasters

New album from punk rock legends Charlie Harper (U.K. Subs) and Del Greening (Peter and the Test Tube Babies).

BITW     Gaddo Glaw    

His first entirely Welsh-language release confronts geopolitical conflict, the climate crisis and the general feeling that things are falling apart, all delivered in easy-to-digest pop song form.

Haiden Henderson       bleach

With bleach, he challenges conventions of the modern male pop star, bringing rawness, humour and carefree sexuality back to pop.

Victoria Lies     Vendetta           

Metalcore explores themes of power, violence, deception, trauma, and transformation, all while pushing their sound into new territory with elements of pop, trap beats, saxophone.

Radio Free Alice            What’s In Between      

Hook-laden yet self-aware; full of nuance, humour and a strange kind of joy; a group for those who often find themselves on the margins of the party.

Gretta Ray        Heartsong        

It brings her back to the flowing melodies, evocative songwriting and stripped-back folk intimacy of her earliest work.

India Gailey & Leah Plave        The Way Appears         

They offer a slate of uniquely collaborative new music for two celli. Abandoning the standard template of soloist plus continuo, the program of commissions highlights the strong individual voices of both players.

CHLOÉ                Shape of the Unknown             

Her fourth proper studio album is her most immersive and exploratory. Its predecessor, Endless Revisions, was released in 2017. Nine years have passed. Nine years during which CHLOÉ has continued digging for music, DJing at internationally renowned clubs and festivals

Bad Waitress   In The Hollow 

Toronto punk quartet whose album grew out of the collective and personal isolation the band experienced over the past several years, with its members revisiting old memories and relationships from the uncomfortable vantage point of having changed themselves.

Sek       Wallenstein’s Garage 

Fuzz. Delay. Galloping bass. Crushing drums. Dreamlike synths. Mandolin. Doom. Drone. Chaos. An album inspired by The Thirty Years War.

Aaron Dilloway              No Skill Comedy Mind Reading           

Collection of characteristically jarring absurdist material. Marked by his signature distortions and contortions — feedback-shrouded found sounds, field recordings, and vocal improvisations.

MorMor              No One Alive Will Listen          

The record reveals a creative shift: from solitude to synergy, embracing collaboration and intuition while broadening both sonic scope and perspective.

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela                 Rejoice              

40th anniversary reissue of the collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz.

Acid Casuals   Omni   

20th anniversary reissue for an album whose ten tracks move freely between electronic abstraction, ambient melody, skewed pop, vocal experimentation and psychedelic songcraft.

Katrina Ford     To The Lighthouse        

She varied textures of 1980s pop as well as the scores for classic films like Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun as central influences for the record’s sound:

Dog Unit            Runners             

Tracks that move between kosmiche-tinged jangle pop, blissed-out drone fests and glorious miniatures that explore the most organic and synthetic extremes of the Dog Unit spectrum.

Zach Stephenson          I Needed To Hear Me Say It     

Solo debut from Hockey Dad singer finds influence in the timeless songwriting of artists such as Nick Lowe, the infectious hooks of New Radicals and the cinematic scope of The Last Shadow Puppets

OR         Music For Empty Stadiums    

New musical project from John Talabot, the Catalan producer, electronic musician, and  DJ. The record exhibits a more left-field side of Talabot’s repertoire, featuring a tangle of cartwheeling synth hooks bursting with colour and looping electronics.

Sophie’s Body                Zero     

Through her band’s self-dubbed ‘bubble grunge’ sound — a fiery blend of grunge guitar, alt rock drums, and emo and pop-tinged lyricism — she finds a comfort in the unknown.

Caleb Lee Hutchinson               Long Line of Losers     

The album was influenced by the Classic Country vibes of the seventies — easygoing twang, barroom rhythms, and self-mythologizing lyrics.

Heimdalls Wacht          Sphärenschänder: Echoes Of An Old Belief – Part I 

Elements of folk and doom metal coexist with traditional progressive and melodic metal, while traces of thrash and death metal add further weight and intensity.

Council              This Day, Every Day    

The album finds Kahane and Kuusisto moving freely between piano, electric guitar, acoustic and electric violins, harmonium, whistling and voice.

Matt Finucane                Ruination          

Artist who has been compared to David Bowie, Mark E Smith and Lou Reed. He crafts a raw and introspective musical world – an atmospheric, angular and brooding sonic assault on the senses that burrows into his subconscious, excavating themes of alienation, introspection, and the darker corners of human experience.

Korrupt               The Weight We Carry 

Huge riffs, hooks, hardcore fury and absolutely zero mercy.

Chloe Herington            The Archivist Original Soundtrack      

Herington describes her process, “I raided my studio and field recording archives to build each track so there are recordings of my boiler, birdsong, bassoon, recorders, my childhood Fisher Price carousel, synths and drum machine.”

Caulbearers     Brothers at the Wheel              

Manchester outfit blending diverse musical styles, including soul, funk, hip-hop, dub, nu jazz, folk and post-punk influences.

Rocketship       Hurt Feelings  

From chamber ballads and the Bee Gees to Jobim, folk, and pseudo-metal.

Essence Martins           It All Comes To An End EP

Across seven songs, she explores time, identity, love, heartbreak, money, expectation and the pressure to keep up appearances — songs that feel like individual diary entries while collectively documenting a young woman becoming increasingly determined to take control of her own story.

Alas De Liona  Noble Rot         

An up-tempo, cinematic drama that draws on indulgent 80s pop and post-punk. With dense lyrics, haunting vocals, heavy vampire symbolism, it doubles as a solo concept album and the first soundtrack to a vampire tale De Liona is developing for the screen.