Ye Vagabonds All Tied Together
Irish band initially achieving renown as purveyors of their ancestors’ music mixed with folk-based originals, the Mac Gloinn brothers – Brían and Diarmuid – have increasingly focused on honing their own material, enlisting trusted co-conspirators to distil voice and vision into potent tunes.
Sebastien Teller Kiss The Beast
Kiss the Beast unfolds as an ambitious mosaic, carried by Owen Pallett’s strings, Nile Rodgers’ guitar, and the contributions of Kid Cudi and Slayyyter. An album in which Tellier distills and transcends his experiences: an extravagant love letter to pop, both intimate and universal.
Lande Hekt Lucky Now
Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars
Tash Dorji low clouds hang, this land is on fire
Are Tashi’s punk anthems for the year 2026 — for all the years, really — to be thrown to the people outside the walls, to aid them in their quest to be allowed in. It’s a sound that lives within silence; a striking signal, meditative and melancholy, with a delicacy comparable to the lineage of Loren Connors or Bill Frisell.
Blackwater Holylight Not Here Not Gone
The album is shaped by location change, refining a strain of heavy, ethereal doom and shoegaze.
Annabelle Chairlegs Waking Up
She finds herself exploring grittier, more mechanical textures, while maintaining her knack for blissful hooks and melodies.
James Adrian Brown Forever Neon Lights
Debut album from former Pulled Apart By Horses guitarist who has begun paving a new path in instrumental electronic music and composition.
Tyler Ballgame For the First Time, Again
It boasts 12 finely crafted tunes rooted in classic rock, indie and Americana. Ballgame’s infectious melodies draw the listener into a story, and his message of belief in one’s true self resonates deep and wide.
Daemönik Fonce DFII
A sonic love letter to the music and artists the band grew up with. From Sex Pistols, T Rex, Hawkwind to Fairport Convention and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Only The Poets And I’d Do It Again
A bold 14-track alt-pop statement brimming with raw honesty, soaring hooks, and widescreen ambition.
snake eyes cash rich
Gritpop duo whose debut album contains a comical self-reflection on the past and the present, but eco-anxiety and the future of our planet are lyrically at the centre of the record.
Yumi Zouma No Love Lost To Kindness
It marks a turning point for Yumi Zouma—both sonically and emotionally. Departing from the shimmering dream-pop of earlier records, Yumi Zouma pursued a rawer, heavier sound.
Plantoid Flare
Staying true to the band’s math-rock roots, the album is awash in heavy, reverberated guitar licks, tempo changes, and mind-altering chord progressions—all while expanding Plantoid’s signature sound towards new horizons, like wall-of-sound shoegaze and vocal-forward rock-pop.
Whitelands Sunlight Echoes
Their second album sees them develop a more expansive sound that takes them out of the shoegaze shadows to somewhere bigger, better and brighter.
Buzzcocks Attitude Adjustment
Bursting with 14 new tracks, Attitude Adjustment finds Buzzcocks doing what they do best: combining raw punk energy with melodic smarts and lyrical bite, all delivered with trademark heart and humour.
Eric Bibb One Mississippi
The album contains thirteen original songs written by Bibb or co-written with his Grammy-nominated producer Glen Scott, plus a cover of “One Mississippi”, written by iconic singer-songwriter Janis Ian – whom Bibb has known since they were at high school together in New York in the ’60s – and Fred Koller.
Self Torque A Brutal Nadir
Pop sensibilities wrangle with a primitive approach akin to the first wave pop-punk bands like Buzzocks and Stiff Little Fingers. Also imbibed in the band’s sound is a garage punk energy reminiscent, at times, of bands like Hot Snakes, Young Livers, Rocket From The Crypt.
Barry Walker Jr Paleo Sol
Pedal steel guitarist whose technical prowess is rooted in traditional forms and whose compositions push into entirely new frontiers. Rooted in country and folk traditions, his playing explores minimalism, ambient and spiritual music.
QASU A Bleak King Cometh
Black metal trio delivers a crushing and otherworldly sound that fuses blackened psychedelia, occult techno, and warped sound design into a singular, terrifying vision.
The Soft Pink Truth Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
Melding the electronic dance floor and the classical conservatory with lavish orchestrations
Indira Paganotto Arte Como Amante
Spanish techno protagonist whose debut album is high-pressure, high-energy, and deeply personal.
Pem other ways of landing EP
Earthy yet elusive songwriting is paired with analogue crackles, string based sound design and field recordings.
Ronker Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever
Think IDLES meets METZ on a caffeine rush, with a touch of Refused’s chaos and Voivod’s weirdness.
Malena Zavala If This Life Could Start Again
She creates an atmospheric dream pop world, weaving singer-songwriter intimacy with synth pop, Argentine folk, indiepop, rock and experimental music, threaded together by her blissful vocals and dreamy guitar work.
Stabbing Eon of Obscenity
Brutal death metal band inspired by the likes of Disgorge and Deeds of Flesh.
ER Jurken To Be Continued
His songwriting is inclined to wander through the past century or so of American music with a uniquely insouciant flair.
Various CGBG – A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986
A 4CD boxset that takes in names associated with the club such as Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads and Television together with a host of lesser-known acts.
David Moore Graze The Bell
A collection of soul-stirring, mesmerizing solo piano pieces.
Ty Segall & The Muggers “LIVE” “AT” “THE” “BBC”
EP collecting their Marc Riley 6 Music session from 2014.
Dani Larkin Next Of Kin
A sonic and lyrical exploration of life’s most universal milestones; from the innocence of birth to the acceptance of life’s end.
Geologist Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights?
Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colours.
Scattered Purgatory (破地獄) Post Purgatory
Album from Taiwanese occult force where downtempo beats collide with doom metal riffs, contemporary sound design and granular sampling summon a surreal, dark tropical atmosphere.
Parkwalker The Extra Mile
They craft a compact blend of emopop and slowcore: intertwined clean guitars, insistent bass, laid-back drums, and warm vocals.
Steve Poltz Joyride
He has spent more than three decades as a singer-songwriter-performer with his brand of rockin’ countrified folk Americana.
Radium Dolls Wound Up
Australian band known for their high-energy live shows and ’70s-inspired rock ‘n’ roll.
Kanonenfieber Die Urkatastrophe
Black and death metal album based on factual reports, letters and original documents from the surviving and deceased soldiers from the First World War.
Indica Blues Universal Heat Death
Think Electric Wizard-sized riffs, Sleep-level weight, blues-soaked sludge, and dual-guitar fire collapsing into seven tracks about war, revenge, teenage destruction, and the literal end of the universe.
Large Marine Life
Centred on language-driven songs that balance assured production with lyrical nuance, Large occupies a space between classic and contemporary indie, drawing comparisons to Wilco, Belle and Sebastian, and Andy Shauf.
