Now that it is September, bedlam ensues with numerous quality releases clamouring for attention. Here is our weekly guide.
Go Kurosawa soft shakes
Solo debut from Kikagaku Moya member. Each day, Go would head to the studio, pick up whatever instrument was around and simply play. The process was slow and instinctive. “If something still moved me the next day, I’d add to it. If not, I’d start something new. One step at a time, without pressure.”
Tigers and Flies Smashing Scene EP
Four tracks of wiry guitars, brass-knuckle horns and Arthur Arnold’s lyrics slicing through modern malaise.
Gwenifer Raymond Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
A hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos.
Lucrecia Dalt A Danger to Ourselves
A signature work of surreal experimental electronics and arguably her most emotionally candid work to date. Featuring + co-produced with the abidingly influential, innovative English artist David Sylvian (Japan, Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborator) and also featuring Argentinian artist Juana Molina.
Suede Antidepressants
Brett Anderson describes the album as “If Autofiction was our punk record, Antidepressants is our post-punk record. It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called Antidepressants. This is broken music for broken people.”
Saint Etienne International
Their 13th and final album sees them asking friends include Erol Alkan, Nick Heyward, Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll to collaborate with them.
Ghostwoman Welcome to the Civilized World
Hypnotic spells of psych-grunge, decaying Americana and instrumental locked-horns. Uschenko, who presides over the vocals, insists they are not important. Much of the lyrics are nonsense, not written as much as abstractly sketched to feel out the shape of the music itself.
Big Thief Double Infinity
For their sixth album, they would play for nine hours a day, tracking together – simultaneously – improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries.
David Byrne Who Is The Sky?
On his new album, Byrne is joined by musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco.
The Jacques Make Repetition!
A riotous love letter to the golden age of alt-rock, the track fuses the groovy psychedelic swagger of The Stone Roses with the jangly urgency of early R.E.M.
Etceteral Kimatika
A visceral plunge into the raw undercurrents of futuristic jazz, motoric propulsion, free improv and elastic compositions.
Fleshwater 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
Group that has shared bills with Deftones and The Mars Volta while building a reputation for blending heaviness with melody
Rome is Burning Rome is Burning
Gritty and hook-laden mix of hard rock and grunge with nods to QOTSA and 90s alt-rock legends.
Fuckwolf Boone
Sheer pop in amongst dollops of psychedelic wallop and scuzz-wave blitz.
Biolence Violent Obliteration
Their fifth studio album and, by their own words, their most cohesive, direct, and violent to date, simply a nuclear blast of Death/Thrash Metal rooted in themes of war, corruption, and planetary ruin.
Richard Hronský Pohreb
Squeaking of wooden floors, dim afternoon sunlight coming through the window with bird songs and static in the grandfather’s radio playing in the garage – the record entails the melancholy of growing up and saying goodbye to our loved ones and the world we shared with them.
holybones I got a good night’s sleep EP
They share a cryptic transmission of danceable melancholy, glitched-out texture, second-hand sounds and poetic spoken word… fuelling that feeling of hazy intimacy.
Junior Brother The End
Artist pushing the boundaries of what modern Irish folk can look and sound like.
Leonie Jakobi What Are The People Gonna Say
Classic rock from former LIPA student. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen amongst others
Lawn Chair You Want It! You Got It!
German American indie punk band
Ambush Evil In All Dimensions
Championing the genre’s roots while setting a new benchmark for modern heavy music with their signature high octane vocals and riff driven anthems.
La Dispute No One Was Driving the Car
Conceptual band grapples with malaise in the shadow of the looming apocalypse, which has noticeably been worsened by the advancement of tech.
Weval Chorophobia
Dutch electronic duo whose album title refers to a fear of dancing. Their unrestricted, genre-crossing ethos made room for guilty pleasures, higher BPMs, big drops and an increased number of hi-hats.
Blank For.ms After the Town Was Swept Away
Confronting both grief and joy, its twelve tracks of tape loop manipulation festoon and murmur — the imperfect cyclicality of tape itself at once a metaphor for the record’s meditations on time, and the actual physical support shaping its sounds.
Jean-Michel Jarre Live in Bratislava
Recording of his open-air concert from May 2024 featuring a collaboration with Brian May.
Beauty School Dropout Where Did All The Butterflies Go?
LA based rock band who since their explosive debut in 2022, they have been disrupting the scene with a riotous blend of rebellion, freedom, and unapologetic self-expression.
Modern Life is War Life on the Moon
Known for their distinctive blend of raw emotion and confrontational intensity, Modern Life Is War once again deliver a mix of gritty realism and poetic despair,
Alexei Shishkin Good Times
A collage of spur-of-the-moment inspiration. Process-wise, the album features surrealist techniques (automatism, collage, improvisation) both in the music and the lyrics.
Titanic Hagen
Mexico City-based band of composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Héctor Tosta (aka I. la Católica) and composer/cellist/singer Mabe Fratti
Electric Jaguar Baby Clair-Obscur
45 minutes of fuzz-soaked garage-psych-stoner-punk mayhem all recorded live and loaded with raw, unfiltered energy.
John Tejada The Watchline
Across eleven tracks, it marks a clear shift—emotionally focused, sonically weathered—built around dense, guitar-led textures that ask to be unravelled. It’s a body of work less concerned with form than with feeling.
Carsick Tough Luck
Indie rockers with nihilistic anthems for the late-stage capitalism generation
Hot Chip Joy in Repetition
Compilation covering tracks from seven albums and including new track, ‘Devotion’.
Metronomy Greatest Hits
Celebrating 20 years of the band defining and redefining the electronic alt-pop landscape through 20 of their best-loved songs.
Metronomy BBC Sessions
Featuring 17 previously unreleased live versions recorded for the BBC.
cheerbleederz prove me wrong EP
London indie punk trio address themes of taking control of your own life and responsibility for yourself, and feeling disillusioned with growing older and apart from friends.
Pompey I’m Scared
Pompey’s own music has found its own way into the spotlight through posting super personal and relatable snippets of songs to social media. Pompey has recently seen rapid growth and recognition–SZA reposted a song of his.
Street Eaters Opaque
Oakland post-punkers with seven tracks that thrum with both rage and redemption.
Dead Famous People Wild Young Ways
80s New Zealand band on Flying Nun who combined sweet vocals, delicious harmonies and sophisticated arrangements. The songs dealt perceptively with universal follies of youth and yearning in tandem with a then-unusual twist of lyrics dealing matter-of-factly with her sexualityat a time when ‘women’s music’ was seen as exclusionary.
Wolves Self Titled
A ten-track maelstrom of Every Time I Die-style swagger, atmospheric post-metal vastness, Dillinger-grade technicality, and Poison The Well-level emotion.
Fleshwater 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
Group that has shared bills with Deftones and The Mars Volta while building a reputation for blending heaviness with melody.
Pickle Darling Battlebots
Lukas Mayo didn’t set out to break their laptop while making Battlebots, but in the end, the machine just couldn’t take it. Files became too heavy, too unwieldy, too layered with chopped-up guitar notes, warped voice memos, and fractured drum loops.
Trout Bait EP
She deepens her signature sound – a raw, grunge-inflected blend of scuzzy guitars and gentle electronic twists, wrapped around lyrics that cut close to the skin.
Will Linley Don’t Cry Because It’s Over
Blending introspective storytelling with polished pop production, the album moves through themes of connection, heartbreak, nostalgia, and growth.
Âellin Constellations
An imaginative and genre-traversing work that fuses folk-rooted instrumentation with electronic textures, philosophical inquiry and narrative ambition.
Crayola Lectern Disasternoon
Their third album channelling Crayola’s signature pastoral psychedelic tendencies into a melting pot where theremins, cornets and mellotrons battle it out under pianos and incantations.
Robbie Fulks Now Then
Fulks continues his long-standing exploration of different sounds, concepts, and genres on the new album, with 12 songs that span folk to power pop, jazz to old-time country.
Monty Oxymoron The Piano Plays ‘til Midnight: Monty Oxymoron Plays The Songs of The Damned
Oxymoron has played keyboards with The Damned since 1996, has written songs for the band, and played with Captain Sensible and Dr Space Toad before that. He is a retired psychiatric nurse and trained in art psychotherapy. Monty is keen on “free improvisation” and plays in and around Brighton where he lives.
Orsak:Oslo Silt and Static
Known for their introspective blend of psychedelic haze and dystopian post-rock, the band capture a fragile balance between atmospheric beauty and crushing depth, recorded live and entirely without a roadmap.
Matt Von Roderick The Perfect Storm
Jazz trumpeter and vocalist with an album of made up of mostly original songs with an exception being a cover of the Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize.”
