With Autumn fast approaching, the release schedule gains pace with plenty of top choices to pick from this week.
James Yorkston Songs for Nina and Johanna
The album is his sixteenth on Domino and his third to be recorded in Stockholm in conjunction with members of The Second Hand Orchestra. Nina Persson (The Cardigans), who teamed up with James on his previous critically acclaimed album The Great White Sea Eagle, this time shares singing duties with Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit).
Water From Your Eyes It’s A Beautiful Place
“It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space,” says Nate Amos. “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.”
TOPS Bury The Key
When pressed for which artists get airplay in their van, some expected names appear, Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan, but dig deeper and the veneer of artists like China Crisis, Prefab Sprout, and Francois Hardy, Missing Persons, and Everything But the Girl start to fill out the playlist.
Eves Adams American Dust
An ode to the beauty of the American Southwest, where vast desert landscapes hold stories both stark and tender. Eve Adams’ characteristic folk noir weaves a vivid tapestry of love, sacrifice and quiet revelation, conjuring images of dust storms, stray dogs and far off trains.
Glitterfox Decoder
A bold, genre-blurring collection that fuses garage rock, new wave, southern Americana, and pop.
SunYears The Song Forlorn
Second album from Peter Morén of Peter, Bjorn and John sees him getting vocal assistance from Lisa Hannigan, Sam Genders, Nicole Atkins, Madison Cunningham and de clair.
Scott Lavene Cars, Buses, Bedsits & Shops
The album is polished like a classic 70’s American singer songwriter album, an ode to Wings, to yacht rock and Neil Young. Like if Wilco and Bruce Springsteen’s baby was raised in Basildon.
Mac DeMarco Guitar
Mac comments, “I think Guitar is as close to a true representation of where I’m at in my life today as I can manage to put to paper.”
TV Death Neon Dreamland
The quartet has been captivating audiences with their visceral sound and thought-provoking lyrics, reminiscent of the sensual anarchy of bands like The Cramps and The Birthday Party.
Sugar Spine Violent Heaven EP
High-energy metalcore outfit.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Gush
A classically trained American composer, performer, and producer from the Pacific Northwest. Her music is a form of auditory interpretation, powered by curiosity and her toolkit of modular, analog, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral textures, and voice.
Jim Bob Automatic
A full band album that bursts with melody, wit and soul. Big songs. Big hooks. Big heart.
Jim Bob Stick
Lean, loud and loaded, Stick is the punkier sibling — a dirty, power-trio guitar record with its amps cranked and its tongue still firmly in cheek.
Greg Freeman Burnover
Ten tracks that meld energetic indie rock with an ambling twang.
Kerala Dust An Echo of Love
A dynamic blend of art rock, electronica and Americana.
Spaceface Lunar Manor
Third album from the groovy neo-psychedelic dream-pop brainchild of singer-songwriters Jake Ingalls (formerly of The Flaming Lips) and Eric Martin.
Bec Lauder and the Noise The Vessel
The eleven tracks are psychedelic, sexy, and laced with electricity. One moment, it’s playful and funky; the next, it dives into something sultrier, aching, even cinematic.
Lissie Promises EP
A collection of cover songs consisting of Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’, The Bangles’ ;Eternal Flame’, Simon & Garfunkle’s ‘America’, Low’s ‘Just Make It Stop’ and Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Everywhere’.
Rún Rún
They say, “there was a variety of sacred music, acid-folk, cosmic jazz, stoner / sludge-metal, avant-garde composers and a hint of R&B being ground up and baked in with everything else in our wonky witches’ kitchen.”
Case Oats Last Missouri Exit
Band featuring Spencer Tweedy, son of Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.
Old Dominian Barbara
Having written hits for Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Sam Hunt, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton and Kelsea Ballerini, Old Dominion’s singular sound is a melodically-driven, harmony-based and fired by multiple guitars. Between country, rock and pop.
Superchunk Songs in the Key of Yikes
A signature Superchunk album: visceral and timeless and catchy as hell.
Hand Habits Blue Reminder
Having spent a big part of the last decade on the road, both as a solo artist and as a touring member of Perfume Genius, Duffy’s affinity for playing live in a room with other musicians was the impetus for the record, which was largely tracked live.
really big really clever …huh
The raw and emotive, occasionally off-kilter, yet pure-melody-fuelled tracks they’ve released from the record so far, exemplify what a blast it is listening to ‘…huh’
Apollo Junction What In The World
Leeds band that has enjoyed support slots for Shed Seven, Kaiser Chiefs, Richard Ashcroft and performing at festivals including the prestigious Isle of Wight Festival.
Hand to Earth Ŋurru Wäŋa
With the exception of “The Crow”, which was recorded in New York, these songs landed in single takes in one session recording just the voice, bilma, and yidaki with some synth drones and other materials.
Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars Amazing Things
An album about death which isn’t morose, slow, or quiet. Instead, it is packed with joyful, melodic guitars and some of Darren’s prettiest tunes.
Double Wish Double Wish
Darkwave pop duo with their blend of styles, boundary-pushing POV, and restless experimentation
Winter Adult Romantix
Dream pop and shoegaze inspired by romantic-period texts like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as ‘90s rom-coms—indulging in heady melodrama and romantic and platonic longing, while also embracing a light-hearted, youthful innocence.
Ami Taf Ra The Prophet and the Madman
A transcendent, sonic palate cleanser that draws from Moroccan gnawa, gospel, and spiritual jazz, the album is a personal and poetic meditation on duality, healing, and ancestral memory.
Dean Johnson I Hope We Can Still Be Friends
Across 11 tracks, Johnson’s haunting tenor vocals crest over muted instrumentals peppered with brushed drums and slide guitar swells.
The Planet Smashers On The Dancefloor
Montreal ska-punk group dive back into their 2Tone roots, delivering 13 tracks of horn-soaked joy, punk grit, and tongue-in-cheek charm.
Small Shake Platonics EP
The EP’s rich blend of expansive and lo-fi sound was intimately shaped by the collaboration with LA-based producer Andrew Pelletier (Fur Trader).
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die Dreams of being Dust
Experimental post-rock sextet whose album is inspired by a world ravaged and devastated by late-stage capitalism, neo-liberalism and neo-fascism.
Royel Otis hickey
They have drawn from an endless source of good hooks and spirit — riding on their musical chemistry that exudes into mixes of melody and bittersweet humour.
Andrew Spice With Animals
Follow up to his 2003 debut during which time he has obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology is rich with powerful emotions, characteristic lyrical flair and classy introspection
Visitant Rubidium
The band turn personal experiences into ghost stories, creating what they describe as ‘epic, moving, bleak, beautiful, and uncompromising’ music.
Arcadea The Exodus of Gravity
A futuristic synth-rock odyssey unfolds in a world where gravity no longer holds us down and emotion rises in its place from a trio with Mastodon’s Brann Dailor on lead vocals.
Honk Closing Down Sale EP
Purveyors of Trashcan Country – a raucous, rough-edged twist on twang that’s dragged through the back alleys of punk, doused in garage-rock grit and left out to dry in the blazing sun.
Squanderers Skantiago
A trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol) alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer (Galaxie 500, Low, Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham) — also the founder of the iconic NYC label Shimmy-Disc.
Dinosaur Pile-Up I’ve Felt Better
Alt rock band with 12 songs to draw a line under a half-decade of sickness and struggle, a distillation of his agonising uncertainty and self-analysis.
Desaster Kill All Idols
German black/thrash conjurors who have been churning out their unique and unholy blend of extreme metal since 1989 return with their tenth studio album.
Deftones Private Music
Tenth album from multi-platinum Grammy winning heavy band.
Caity Baser There, I Said It
Eight track EP which marks a stark difference in sound and lyrical content from Caity’s debut releases.
UMI people stories
She sings about ego, healing, identity, and connection—all filtered through her signature tranquil songwriting and seamless ability to weave across genres like soul, R&B, folk, and pop.
Hebephrenique Decathexis
Following their deranged debut EP Non Compos Mentis, Decathexis is a deeper, sharper descent into dissonant death, industrial black metal, and disturbing chaos.
heddlu Tramor
Electronic artist offers a series of intimate and volatile songs, detailing years of loss, estrangement, trauma and hope.
