@ Autosmile
The band expands the scope of their vision, weaving prog, hyper, and a myriad of experimental influences into indelible harmonies, honouring a long line of freaked-out troubadours including Fairport Convention, Neutral Milk Hotel and Animal Collective.
Arborist Looking For Love
His inventive Americana places us firmly in his hometown of Belfast, allowing it to act as a microcosm of the wider world, with all its foibles and charms.
Sophie & the Silhouettes Body Parts & Broken Hearts EP
4 track release from Manchester queer three-piece bringing together indie, punk and new waves. Their songs are infectious and hook ladened while exploring heartbreak, mental health and the search for meaning.
Bugeye The Shape of Things
Queer alt rock band formed in 2018 with dirty guitars, disco beats, sizzling synths and bass riffs that accelerate into the catchiest hooks.
XO Need To Know
Mini-album debut is a Gen Z version of Girl Power.
Kid Bookie Cheaper Than Therapy II
Artist who has spent over a decade dismantling the barriers between UK rap, alternative rock, and heavy metal. The album features guests including Corey Taylor, Rose McGowan, Kate Nash and Lady Leshurr.
Bhajan Bhoy Electrisol
It arrives like a weather system drifting in from some uncharted zone where psychedelic folk, dub science, kosmische electronics, shoegaze drift and field-recorded ghosts all coexist in a strange but entirely logical ecosystem.
Flora Hibberd Mammoth
After a debut that lent toward acoustic, folk sonics, this collection represents a turn towards modular synth-driven rock and energised pop.
Allegories By accident, On purpose
Indie rock structures dissolve into shoegaze haze, buoyant melodic moments drift into unstable abstraction, and familiar forms are constantly recontextualized.
Eels Cookie Happened
Of the title, E explains, “All of this will be forgotten. Every joy, accomplishment and hardship will one day become so irrelevant it will be as if none of it occurred. But as the great philosopher of our times, Cookie Monster once said: ‘Me no cry because cookie is finished. Me smile because cookie happened.’ This will all be forgotten. But isn’t it still a beautiful thing that it happened?”
Danxgerous Old Soul
Danxgerous crafts a musical universe suspended between indie-rock, dreamy pop, and contemporary indie-folk.
Two Shell Infinite Now
Made with the latest technology, voices dissolve into synthesisers and underground sounds become recontextualised with pop sensibilities.
Kilimanjaro The Ascension (Inkawami) EP
Nine-track EP from Zambian-Scottish artist with a deeply personal and reflective body of work that captures a pivotal moment in his journey.
Elysion Identity
Greek dark atmospheric metal band whose songs explore themes of self-discovery, personal struggle, resilience, belonging and unity in an increasingly fragmented world.
Badvril Lethal
Noise-pop project founded by singer Becket Schroeder, the band is rooted in a DIY ethos shaped in rural Eastern Washington, where he learned to create out of necessity – building stages, making merch, and recording music with whatever was available.
Holy Motors Heaven’s Night
On their third album, they experiment with pop hooks and new wave textures, marking uncharted territory for the band.
Detalji Imagine Life
Blending cinematic synths, alternative electronica, dreamlike melodies and introspective songwriting, the album explores love, desire, heartbreak, freedom and self-discovery through a distinctly nocturnal lens.
TVOD The Farm
TVOD further polish their sharp, danceable brand of post-punk—driving basslines, punchy drums, and angular guitars with vocals that feel both detached and urgent.
Defects Artificial Icons
A release that fizzes with anger, frustration, and the balance of survival. These songs aren’t just stories; they’re personal fights via homelessness and addiction, messed-up systems, and broken connections.
Gotts Street Park Somewhere Between
A departure from the soul, jazz and hip-hop-inflected nature of their previous work, Somewhere Between takes sonic cues from folk, psychedelic and Americana sensibilities.
Insomnium Netherworld
Blending haunting melodies with crushing heaviness, it captures the essence of the band’s signature sound while exploring the emotional depths that define the album.
Nieve Ella How Long Will It Take?
Across eleven songs, she explores the messy reality of becoming, navigating identity, relationships and self-worth while feeling like everyone else has somehow got there first.
Margo Mann Love is a Day Out
From moments of intense vulnerability to dry wit, indie guitars to pop earworm hooks, and cinematic crescendo articulated on grand piano – it’s an album that explores every corner of her sonic palette.
Coal & Crayon Coal & Crayon
German band that have spent nearly two decades developing a distinctive sound that merges progressive metal, post-rock and atmospheric heaviness.
Bruce Cockburn The Blood of Others
The album gathers material written by others, tracing a musical lineage that stretches from the gospel and blues records he heard as a child in Ottawa to the folk clubs and coffeehouses where he first found his voice.
Grace Elizabeth Harvey Songs of Devotion EP
Mixed and mastered to tape, birdsong drifts through open windows as Harvey’s delicate – almost spoken-word delivery – sits at the centre of a performance shaped by both the sound of language and its meaning.
Gollylagging Real Life
Boston quartet whose sound mixes shoegaze, bedroom pop, punk and alt-country.
Devonwho Hibeams
An expansive collection of intuitively crafted loops and non-ambient ambience for hardware synthesis.
We’re In The Water The Dome
Third and final instalment of his 2026 mind, body & soul trilogy.
Venus Grrrls To Die As Lovers May EP
The quartet weave goth-grunge intensity with evocative, otherworldly storytelling.
Fervence Constructs
Progressive metalcore act whose sound is an ethereal blend of harsh and lush, navigating between moments of sheer aggression and poignant vulnerability.
Darren Hayman I’m Your Team
A studio album of aching, minimal and soulful Dead Tech Pop.
heavens to betsy baby’s gone
A 16-track mission statement comprising a never-before-heard demo tape originally recorded in February 1992 by Bratmobile’s Molly Neuman (who also provides liner notes for the forthcoming release), plus the 1993 These Monsters Are Real and the 1994 Direction 7” recordings.
World News In Purgatory
London band somewhere between post-punk and jangly indie pop.
Headaches We’ll Make Our Beds When We Get Home EP
Lo-fi pop exploring city life, feeling young, stagnant and detached.
Puzzle Muteson Mechanical Kiss
Thick beats, submerged basslines and dark electronic textures became a kind of hidden architecture; not a backdrop, but a pressure system.
Mathilda Homer Love Gets Bigger
Across its 11 tracks, ‘Love Gets Bigger’ moves through the contradictions of a life that has expanded and changed in unexpected ways, balancing intimacy and humour with tenderness, uncertainty and the everyday chaos of family life.
Paerish Rita
French alt-emo band whose album is named after the patron saint of lost causes.
Club Cactus 3
The atmosphere is at once direct and unflinching, soft-edged and ambiguous. Drums supported by electric washes—or perhaps the other way around. Suspended noise? Earthbound ambient?
Gently Tender This Was Once Fields
Their stirring indie rock sound is built from lush harmonies and pastoral melodies, touching on elements of folk, punk and soul.
Strange Pains The Diamond District I
The record pairs shimmering guitars, towering hooks, and expansive arrangements with lyrics that resist fixed meanings.
Chrissi I Hate You Don’t Leave Me!
The album draws from The Supremes, Nat King Cole and the soca music of her Trinidadian upbringing alongside Labi Siffre, Ravyn Lenae, stitching together a seemingly eclectic set of influences into one distinctive world.
Claudia Isaki Everywhere You Go, There You Are
Combining UK rock, R&B, and soul with her French-Congolese roots, she’s crafted a sound that’s both expansive and deeply personal.
Grant the Sun Biomes
Norwegian progressive metal explorers delivering a record shaped by technical precision, textured atmospheres, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Giant Rooks If Heaven Exists, This Might Be It
One of Germany’s most compelling modern indie exports – defined by emotional songwriting, a powerful live presence, and steadily growing global reach.
Ash 1977
30th anniversary reissue of album that saw the band go from completing their GCSEs to having a number one album. It won affection for its breakneck energy, razor-sharp hooks and unforgettable anthems including ‘Girl From Mars,’
Nevaeh Dyson Tapes From The Hive EP
With a voice that pairs the clarity of Joni Mitchell with the uncompromising edge of Stephen Wilson Jr., she creates intricate folk-rock songs that are raw, deliberate and unflinching.
Marla Kether Luso EP
Afro-Latin electronic producer, global-sounds inspired DJ, and Little Simz bassist.
A Shoreline Dream Waiting
Colorado band whose sound is rooted in shoegaze, psychedelia, post-punk, and expansive guitar-driven experimentation.
Black Thunder Time Obliteration
Polish band mixes black metal atmospheres with sludge weight, technical precision, infectious grooves, and unexpected avant-garde elements.
fish narc Uncle
It finds them strumming out the complexities of aging with the conviction of a group that’s fully found its footing in well-crafted rock and powerpop.
Why Horses? These Hands EP
A singular mix of danceable drums, post-punk and slowcore-inspired guitars and Lester’s forthright vocal delivery that finds a middle ground between Mark E Smith and Ought’s Tim Darcy.
Movietone Day & Night
Reissue of an overlooked diamond of 90s British music, Day And Night is a perfectly crafted slice of atmospheric post-rock that floats somewhere between late-era Talk Talk and Broadcast with a healthy dose of Alice Coltrane.
Ella Thompson Triumph and Sadness
The sort of classy vintage soul pop you might expect on Daptone Records (she’s supported Jalen Ngonda, Lee Fields, Thee Sacred Souls). Thompson, though, is as much inspired as much by Patti Smith as Nina Simone.
The Upsides In the Maze
It sees them heading into bolder, more emotive sonic territory than their jangly garage rock roots.
Bethlehem Bethlehem
Band that established themselves as the founding fathers of Suicidal/Depressive Black Metal.
Great Falls The Bite That Grows Up
A chaotic listen with disorienting rhythms and dissonant riffs that are difficult to pin down.
Hallelujah Trial Hallelujah Trial
Twelve songs of voice, guitar and piano, closing with a chorus of friends and family singing under the church ceiling from Tom Roberts (Cranebuilders, Beatowls) and John Canning Yates (Ella Guru).
Ruta Di Onwards and Upwards
London-based, Lithuanian singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer Ruta Di’s virtuosic guitar playing, instrumental vocals and strong ensemble writing, brings together improvisation, texture and melodic clarity.
