Anna Von Hausswolff                 Iconoclasts     

Artist taking the pipe organ as her instrument of choice. On Iconoclasts, her sound evolves again, bringing a poppier and more vibrant element to her moving songs.

Micah P Hinson              The Tomorrow Man     

Americana/folk singer-songwriter presents a set of all new compositions beyond the long-lost country classic ‘The Last Train To Texas’.

Guided By Voices          Thick Rich and Delicious         

It overflows with hooks. It plays through front-to-back like a power pop classic, but don’t misconstrue pop for soft. The basic tracks were cut live and hot to tape and are presented with minimal overdubs.

Maria Iskaraiot               Wereldwaan    

Dutch-language punk band from Ghent with a clear sense of purpose and a deep love for distortion.

Helen Anahita Wilson                Nightshade      

The first ever album to explore the Solanaceae plant family through experimental music. Premiered at hcmf// 2024, the album fuses Wilson’s training in both Western and South Asian classical traditions with free improvisation, DIY electronics, and biodata gathered directly from the plants themselves.

Optic Sink         Lucky Number              

It finds the band both refining and expanding their hypnotic mix of post-punk and dance music, resulting in a sharp and moving exploration of surfaces, shadows, and self-delusion.

Joseph Kamaru              Heavy Combination 1966 – 2007         

Recorded over the course of five decades in Kenya, and compiled with his grandson, sound artist KMRU, the seventeen tracks included on ‘Heavy Combination’ run the gamut from vibrant dancefloor chants with high life-esque guitars, to afro funk, drum machine and keyboard driven disco grooves, and folk style laments.

Claire Rousay                 A Little Death 

Shaped around field recordings she captured at dusk, the album is an homage to the gentle drifts and lurking disquiet of twilight.

Hilary Woods                  Night CRIÚ       

Its intimate ecosystem of seven songs uses layers of vocal harmony and lyrics as ways to re-enter the body, to uproot old scripts and to make the unconscious conscious.

 

The Belair Lip Bombs  Again   

Australian band that has defined a sound inspired by classic rock pillars like the Rolling Stones and Television as well as indie stalwarts like the War On Drugs and Stephen Malkmus.

 

 

Witchfever        Fevereaten      

Heavier, darker, and stranger than its predecessor, the record draws from metal, ambient, hardcore, and slowcore, layering cello, noise textures, and haunting melodies atop their ever-pummelling foundation.

néomí                 Another Year Will Pass             

The Dutch/Surinamese singer-songwriter crafts songs that feel like quiet revelations, drawing from moments of deep introspection, fleeting observations, and the kind of wandering thoughts that arrive when the world goes quiet.

Luvcat                 Vicious Delicious         

A glitter-soaked ode to addiction, power play, and bad romances you just can’t quit. Blending smoky Parisian cabaret with British bite and a wink of rock’n’roll melodrama.

i am waiting for you last summer        Without/Within             

Russian cinematic post-rock, industrial electronic, and ambient abstract project.

The Charlatans              We Are Love    

Tim Burgess cites hauntology and psychogeography as two concepts that swirled in his head as the band dug into the making of their 14th album.

Hotel Lux           The Bitter Cup

Written completely collaboratively and recorded live to replicate the emotional intensity of their live shows, this new record finds the band at their most vulnerable, while, also, at their most confident.

Daniel Avery    Tremor

The album features collaborations with an unexpected array of vocalists including Alison Mosshart, NewDad, yeule, Ellie, yune pinku, Walter Schreifels, bdrmm, and first single ‘Rapture In Blue’ features Cecile Believe.

Cedarsmoke    Under The Rainbow    

Storytelling is front-and-centre in their songs and their genre-bending sound drifts between folk, indie, and country

Holy Sons          Puritan Themes            

Its relaxed aura is focused through a laid-back west coast 70’s lens, injecting Amos’ wry wit and tinges of darkness into lush songs that drift like dreamy, featherlight clouds.

Thea Gilmore   My Own Private Riot: 2008 – 2015       

7CD boxset from stripped-back acoustic reflections to richly layered pop and folk-rock arrangements.

High School      High School     

The trio present a fully flushed out evolution of their lo-fi energetic garage sound.

My Violence     Monday’s Child            

While echoes of Sugarplum Fairies’ signature blend of Americana folk-rock, lulling shoegaze, and pop remain, Ryder’s new project ventures into darker, more cinematic territory that is entirely her own.

Florence + the Machine            Everybody Scream      

Her sixth album treads through womanhood, partnership, aging and dying; exposing the murky in the mundane.

Moonspell         Opus Diabolicum        

Recording of Portuguese band performing their first-ever symphonic show, dubbed “Opus Diabolicum”, at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal‘s capital city.

JEFF The Brotherhood Meets Blanc du Blanc               Magick Songs in Dub 

An immersive four-song EP that sees material from the Nashville-based band’s 2018 double-LP Magick Songs reimagined through the hypnotic lens of dub to create an expansive new incarnation of sound system ritual.

The Boojums    The Boojums   

Their sound is a throwback and a leap forward—melding ‘60s garage rock, ‘70s punk, ‘80s alternative, and ‘90s power-pop.

Avatar                 Don’t Go In The Forest              

Heavy metal band who have had a fossil named after them!

Aephanemer    Utopie

Blending ferocious melodic death metal with cinematic grandeur, Utopie sees the trio unleash an ambitious, razor-sharp assault of epic melodies, relentless speed, and philosophical depth

One of Nine      Dawn of the Iron Shadow        

Rock band summons pure Tolkienian sorrow.

Better Joy          at dusk EP        

A vivid indie-pop guitar project backed by a band, better joy fuses sparky melodies with strong guitars and pulsating bass lines, coated in lyrics that delve deep into all things vulnerable.

Her New Knife                chrome is lullaby: re  

A deluxe version of their 2024 EP featuring remixes from TAGABOW, Angel Emoji (Frost Children), Grimace, Red Rakes, Certain (Sword II), and SILICONE VALLEY.

Joyeria                Graceful Degradation

He describes the EP as a collection of songs that don’t fit neatly into boxes: “little boxes of shadows and unexpected laughter… raw, like a skinned knee. Honest, in the way a chipped teacup holds the stain of too much tea.”

Christian Kjellvander                 Ex Voto / The Silent Love         

Originally conceived as an album of ten soft, calm country songs, Ex Voto gradually evolved into something more expansive, yet the embryo of that intention remains, pulsing gently beneath every track.

Penelope Trappes        A Requiem: Æternum EP         

Seven previously unreleased compositions, drawn from the prolific and emotionally raw recordings that birthed ‘A Requiem’.

Etta Marcus      Devour EP        

Five track EP that follows recent single ‘Wolf River,’ a tribute to lost heroes inspired by Jeff Buckley.

Roger Eno          Without Wind / Without Air    

The new album includes both solo piano pieces and tracks orchestrated for various combinations of clarinet, guitar, bass, strings, synths, percussion and electronics.

Bruise Blood    You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor      

The debut album by the new project from Mike Bourne from Teeth of The Sea.

Black Soul Horde          Symphony of Chaos   

The band dives deeper into the realms of horror and mythology, reimagining modern terrors through sharp, explosive songwriting, soaring power metal melodies, and crushing riffs.

JP Cooper         Just A Few Folk             

Singer-songwriter with an album that speaks of everyday stories and experiences – family bonds, personal relationships, intimate moments.

sundayclub      Bannatyne        

Taking cues from artists like Metric, DayWave, The 1975, Clairo, beabadoobee, and Alvvays, the duo blends hazy indie-pop and dreamy shoegaze textures with raw, unfiltered storytelling.

Skorts                 Incompletement          

Debut album that represents pure passion from their live shows, pressed into permanence — polished, stadium-ready rock with a DIY edge.

WitchDoktors                 Izzatso?             

Described by UK Rock’n’Roll Magazine as “the missing link between rockabilly, blues, 1970s prime-time punk and 1960s garage,” their sound is a riotous blend of snarling guitars, infectious hooks, and raw energy.

Lily Lyons          Re-Open The World    

Perceptive lyrics, delivered in a voice for the ages, examine the multiplicities of self, giving space to it all whilst believing in the power of music to soothe and to heal.

A Thousand Knives       A Thousand Knives      

A new band from the north revisiting the raw energy of the 90s grunge combined with the grandiose feel of the 00s stadium rock.