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Billie Marten

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Dog Eared

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Billie Marten’s parents did not pretend to like Dog Eared, her fifth album but the first where she begins to tease out the trails and trials of adulthood. They were only two tracks in when a bit of dissonance brushed awkwardly against their ears, 1 minute and 50 seconds into “Crown”—“The minute you are gone/I […]

Billie Marten

Kae Tempest

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Self Titled

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Mercury and BRIT nominated Kae Tempest’s fifth studio album wasn’t meant to be the record you’re listening to right now. Kae had originally written an entirely different project. But something about it didn’t align with the moment. The realisation came after Kae visited Fraser T Smith’s studio to overcome a creative block on a track. Smith, the […]

Kae Tempest

Sababa 5

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Nadir

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Following three acclaimed albums, a string of sought-after 45s, and collaborations with vocalists including Yurika and Sophia Solompon, championed by esteemed tastemakers such as Gilles Peterson, Cerys Matthews, and Jeremy Sole, ‘Nadir’ finds Sababa 5 at their enigmatic and irresistible.   Sababa 5’s latest album, ‘Nadir’, delves into a darker, more sophisticated, and cinematic fusion […]

Sababa 5

BC Camplight

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A Sober Conversation

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Every BC Camplight album has a backstory every bit as compelling as its music.   A Sober Conversation is no different, as virtuoso songwriter and pianist Brian Christinzio documents the last two years of his life, finally confronting a shocking childhood trauma while embracing sobriety, to create his bravest and most revealing record. It’s an […]

BC Camplight

late night drive home

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as i watch my life online

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late night drive home have never known a world without internet — without access to the endless stream of joy, sorrow, and titillation that we all tune in and tune out to on the daily. In many ways, the guys can’t extricate themselves from that reality, but they’re trying to grapple with it. The culmination […]

late night drive home

GoGo Penguin

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Necessary Fictions

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With Necessary Fictions, GoGo Penguin has released a bold and introspective seventh album. The Manchester trio—Chris Illingworth (piano), Nick Blacka (bass), and Jon Scott (drums)—explores new textures, notably through modular synthesizers, while returning to the essence of their musical language. “We wanted to do something sincere, without trying to please,” says Nick.   Tracks such […]

GoGo Penguin

SHIRAN & Bakal

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Electro Baghdad

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‘Electro Baghdad’ expands on the ideas explored on the duo’s self-released 2023 debut EP ‘Electro Hafla, and builds upon SHIRAN’s solo work, which earned her a Songlines “Top of the World” award and widespread praise for her expressive voice and dynamic reinterpretation of traditional Yemeni music – an influence drawn from her maternal heritage.   […]

SHIRAN & Bakal

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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Phantom Island

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“I just woke up from a dream / I was in a place I’d never been or ever seen”   If you’d worried that, 15 years and 26 albums into their epic quest, polymorphous psychedelic voyagers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard might be running out of new frontiers to traverse, new concepts to explore, […]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Duo Ruut

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Ilmateade

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Duo Ruut is like something you’ve never heard before.   Their unique sound ties together a single Estonian zither and two distinct voices. Inspired by the traditions of their heritage, they draw influence from both the beliefs of different cultures and their own contemporary and emotive songwriting. As they are composing on one instrument Duo […]

Duo Ruut

Foxwarren

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2

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No one in Foxwarren has ever made a record quite like 2. The Canadian quintet, built on 20 years of friendship, ostensibly plays folk music, where warm tones and cantering rhythms buoy songs of characters wrestling with existential quandaries inside of twilit vocals. But after touring their lauded 2018 self-titled debut, Foxwarren decided to do […]

Foxwarren

Villeneuve

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Soul Tuning

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French composer and producer Benoît de Villeneuve stands outside any genre, scene or category. Fusing electronics and acoustics, from a meditative to an intense sensibility, his musical practice is rooted in experimentation, in search of emotion.   “I sent this new album to Anthony Gonzalez in 2019. I had met him while working on the […]

Villeneuve

Goddess

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Goddess

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The idea to start the multi-pronged musical project that became known as Goddess came to Fay Milton clear-eyed, confident, and fully formed. The band for which she had been the drummer, the much-lauded, two-time Mercury Prize nominated post-punk quartet Savages, were on hiatus, and while she had picked up some session drumming, she felt like […]

Goddess

Stereolab

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Instant Holograms On Metal Film

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Stereolab announce a new album, Instant Holograms On Metal Film, available on 23 May 2025 via Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp. Their first new record in 15 years, it features 13 new studio recordings written by Laetitia Sadier and Timothy Gane and performed by Laetitia, Timothy, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz.   The […]

Stereolab

Ezra Furman

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Goodbye Small Head

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Ezra Furman today announces the release of her new album Goodbye Small Head due out 16th May via Bella Union. Goodbye Small Head is Furman’s tenth studio album and the follow-up to All Of Us Flames which was released to universal acclaim in August 2022.   Ezra Furman is a boundary-breaking artist whose fearless creativity […]

Ezra Furman

nous étions une armée

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territoire(s) perdu(s) EP

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nous étions une armée (we were an army) stands out with its raw, unadorned vocals that question and leave a lasting impression. With their unclassifiable style, the duo alternates between underground venues and prestigious opening acts, while remaining fiercely independent. Their second EP, territoire(s) perdu(s), more political and radical, claims an intimate and collective fight […]

nous étions une armée

Ekkstacy

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Forever

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After the critical success of his eponymous album in 2024, EKKSTACY made a radical choice: to flee. He headed for Vancouver, his hometown, far from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, where he had settled. A detour via New York? ‘Horrible, miserable’, he says. So he went home to his parents’ house.   ‘Living […]

Ekkstacy

YARD

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YARD EP

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After a particularly remarkable year in 2024, marked in particular by an appearance at the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, the electropunk trio YARD kicks off 2025 with a series of powerful singles from their eponymous debut EP, due out on May 13. Trevor, Appetite, Slumber, and Sunlight make up an intense, daring, and ambitious […]

YARD

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke

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Tall Tales

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If a title like Tall Tales happens to bring to mind the offbeat, whimsical and occasionally sinister aura of a children’s storybook then consider for a moment the effect that a ‘fairy tale’ might have had on you or those you know. Much of the development of our ability for critical thinking is attributed to […]

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke

Sally Potter

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Anatomy

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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Sally Potter announces the release of her new album Anatomy on May 02 via Bella Union.   Sally Potter explores themes of human connectivity, morality and mortality in a career that spans four decades, encompassing works as varied as the speculative historical epic Orlando and the acerbically witty comedy-drama The Party. In […]

Sally Potter

Rebekka Karijord

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The Bell Tower

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From early on in her artistic journey, composer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Rebekka Karijord, has been fascinated by the human voice. Known for her sweeping film scores (like for the Hulu documentary I Am Greta about Greta Thunberg) as well as her work with artist Jessica Dessner and The National’s Bryce and Aaron Dessner in […]

Rebekka Karijord

Antoine Corriveau

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Oiseau de nuit

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At the beginning of Oiseau de Nuit were a host of imagined existences. Drawing from them and from each of the periods in the lives of these characters, Antoine Corriveau has made them collide, multiply and melt into each other, until they become one. How do you write about what’s growing inside you and what […]

Antoine Corriveau

Death Machine

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Dawning Eyes

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Death Machine don’t like straight lines. From the outset, the Danish band has been intent on blurring the lines, exploring the elusive corners of indie folk. Led by Jesper Mogensen, the project has evolved over the years, moving from introspective songwriting to a collective dynamic, with each musician infusing his or her own color. This […]

Death Machine

The Feather

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BB

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The year 2025 marks the return of The Feather, the solo project of Thomas Medard, the iconic voice of the band Dan San. Last June, he unveiled a captivating cover of Everything But The Girl’s ‘Missing’, offering a light-hearted taste of summer. Since then, the artist has embarked on a new creative era with new […]

The Feather

Beirut

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A Study of Losses

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Zach Condon announces the release of the largest and most unexpected Beirut album to date. Out April 18th on his own Pompeii Records, A Study of Losses is an 18-track odyssey commissioned by Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, for an acrobatic stage show of the same name. As a free interpretation of Verzeichnis einiger Verluste, the […]

Beirut

Divide and Dissolve

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Insatiable

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The title for Divide and Dissolve’s new album, Insatiable, came to Takiaya Reed in a dream. The multi-instrumentalist and composer had a vision of a better world, one that gelled seamlessly with the optimism of her take on doom metal: “I saw people committing great acts of harm never being happy, and people committing great […]

Divide and Dissolve

Nell Smith

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Anxious

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Bella Union announce the release of Anxious, the debut solo album from Nell Smith, due out 11th April.   Additionally, Nell’s family has announced the creation of the Nell Smith Memorial Fund to honour her legacy and support emerging musicians, nurturing their artistic growth in recognition of the kindness and support that she was lucky […]

Nell Smith

Momma

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Welcome to My Blue Sky

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Like so many coming-of-age stories that leave a long-lasting impact, Momma’s new album Welcome to My Blue Sky takes place during a charmed and turbulent summer—a transformative moment in time that co-founders Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten sum up as a period of “parallel chaos.” The Brooklyn-based band’s fourth LP, over the course of 12 […]

Momma

Miki Berenyi Trio

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Tripla

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A new chapter, a new-line-up, a newly minted sound; Miki Berenyi Trio’s debut album Tripla is a landmark record for its three creators: Miki Berenyi, KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop and Oliver Cherer. The album’s richly layered, imaginative and uniquely slanted strain of dream pop is an often euphoric and sometimes melancholic mix of guitars and electronica, […]

Miki Berenyi Trio

Hannah Cohen

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Earthstar Mountain

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Since her move to the Catskills in 2018, Hannah Cohen hikes with her rescue dog Jan every day. In the woods, they witness the color of change, the verdant resilience of softness and the necessary cycles of demise and vitality. It’s been five years since her last full length record and in that bubble of […]

Hannah Cohen

Sam Akpro

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Evenfall

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Over the past few years, South London alchemist Sam Akpro has become one of the brightest talents in the thriving UK alternative scene. Hailing from Peckham, London, he incorporates elements of post-punk, no wave, dub, jazz and trip-hop, fueled by a fascinating range of influences (from Joy Division to SAULT, through Miles Davis, Talking Heads, […]

Sam Akpro

Tamino

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Every Dawn's a Mountain

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Mostly written in New York, in his new city, Every Dawn’s A Mountain marks a new beginning for an artist who is already headlining stages in most of Europe and the Middle East, even playing in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza. His songs and stories have astounded friends and fans such as David […]

Tamino

Claire days

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I remember something

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Claire days is Claire’s adventure into saturated, hybrid folk, leaning towards indie rock and breaking free of genres. In 2022 she released her first album, Emotional territory, which was selected by FIP and took her on the road with French and international artists such as Asgeir, Sigur Ros, Herman Dune, November Ultra, Black Sea Dahu, […]

Claire days

The Horrors

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Night Life

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 After nearly 20 years making music, there are few bands who’ve created a canon as determinedly innovative and consistently critically-acclaimed as The Horrors. Emerging as zeitgeist-shaking garage-goths on their 2007 debut ‘Strange House’, before taking a sharp left turn for their Mercury-nominated follow up ‘Primary Colours’, since the beginning they’ve roamed freely between genres. 2011’s […]

The Horrors

Güner Künier

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Yaramaz

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“Yaramaz” is a Turkish word; translated literally, it means something like “good-for-nothing.” The term is often used towards small children when they are being cheeky and rebellious. Güner Künier named her second album “Yaramaz” to tell her own coming-of-age story through the means of punk and post-punk. It is about freeing oneself from societal and […]

Güner Künier

Bambara

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Birthmarks

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The three members of Bambara – singer-guitarist Reid Bateh, his twin brother Blaze Bateh (drums), and bassist William Brookshire – first started playing together in junior high school in Atlanta, GA and pretty much every moment ever since then have been obsessively honing their sound and vision; first moving to Athens, GA and finally heading […]

Bambara

Satellites

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Aylar

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Şatellites blast back into orbit on Aylar delivering a bold evolution on the psychedelic folk-meets-groove sound they established on their acclaimed debut album.   Heavily influenced by the wave of psychedelic rock fused with traditional folk music that swept across Turkey in the 60s and 70s, Şatellites’ self-titled debut album received international acclaim. The record earned support from outlets such […]

Satellites

Will Stratton

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Points of Origin

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When the forest burns, what ghosts rise as steam from the boiling soil?   The puny, beautiful, sun-bleached lives of truckers, surfers, runaways, drunks, thieves, CIA operatives, foresters, arsonists, lawyers, and painters intertwine, fall apart, and are ultimately reduced to dust in the 10,000 year-long span of Points of Origin, a heartbreaking and expansive album […]

Will Stratton

bdrmm

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Microtonic

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“I think this is the best thing we’ve ever done,” says bdrmm’s Ryan Smith. “It’s a proper step up.”   It’s immediately clear that the Hull band – also made up of Joe Vickers, Jordan Smith and Conor Murray – have broken new ground on their latest album, which is, as Ryan correctly points out, […]

bdrmm

Echolalia

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Echolalia

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There is something unique about Echolalia. Conjuring sonic magic in an ancient abbey off the English coast, this band of Nashville pros gathered far from the structures of Music City to create an alchemical haze of earthy audio adventures.   Grounded in friendship and a sense of freedom to follow sounds through whatever windswept fields […]

Echolalia

Ada Oda

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Pelle d’Oca

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Landing on the Brussels scene at the end of 2021, Ada Oda’s up-tempo binary rock is reminiscent of the post-punk aplomb of the 80s and the melodic flights of Italian Pop.   The project was launched in 2020 by César Laloux (The Tellers, BRNS), who met Victoria Barracato on Tinder and, given the sound of […]

Ada Oda

Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko

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Our caling

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The New Duo Album by Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko: Our Calling.   Two decades after their first ever collaboration, British-Italian folk songwriter, Piers Faccini, and Malian kora virtuoso, Ballaké Sissoko, return with a mesmerising album: Our Calling. Set for release in February 2025, this new and captivating musical dialogue — between a prodigious instrumentalist […]

Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko

Jean Claude Vannier

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Jean Claude Vannier et son orchestre de mandolines

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Ipecac is proud to present the new album by legendary musician, composer and arranger Jean Claude Vannier.   Jean Claude Vannier et son orchestre de mandolines is a playful album of beautiful reveries composed for mandolin and accordion, which are both poetic and unbridled.   This is the first time that the ever-creative composer has […]

Jean Claude Vannier

Squid

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Cowards

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Squid’s new album Cowards is about evil. Nine stories whose protagonists reckon with cults, charisma and apathy. Real and imagined characters wading into the dark ocean between right and wrong. Singer and drummer Ollie Judge explains that he used to notice “real life things that I saw on the street. People I knew and people […]

Squid

Biche

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B.I.C.H.E.

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Alexis Fugain knows that, whatever he does, everything is part of a spiral. An eternal restart, the centre point of which becomes increasingly blurred as the years go by. Biche, what was it in the beginning? Five people who didn’t know each other until they got together behind their respective instruments in the rehearsal room, […]

Biche

Helen Ganya

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Share Your Care

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In the summer of 2021, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya’s grandmother passed away. The grief hit the artist hard, not only because it marked the loss of her last remaining grandparent, but also because it felt like her links to being half-Thai were disintegrating, roots quaking and shifting in uncharted territories. Ganya grew up in […]

Helen Ganya

Canty

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Dim Binge

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Canty has something unique. An East London multi-disciplinarian who blends the old with the new, the sacred with the profane, the tender with the explicit, their output both as a songwriter and visual artist occupies its own lane. Moving and distinctive, Canty’s incoming album ‘Dim Binge’ is their truest testimony yet, a work of scorched […]

Canty

Adrian Crowley

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Measure of Joy

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Like many artists, Adrian Crowley doesn’t know where his songs come from. But he knows how he felt each time one was born: a sense of release. Guided by instinct and catharsis, he did not plan a collection. And yet, the songs feel as if they were always meant to be together. I guess nowadays […]

Adrian Crowley

C Duncan

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It’s Only a Love Song

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“I love the idea of something being so romantic that it almost hurts,” says C (for Chris) Duncan of the music he adores. Glasgow’s classically trained multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter honours that idea with tremendous reserves of panache and feeling on his fifth album, It’s Only a Love Song, released through Bella Union on xxx xxxx 2024. […]

C Duncan

Tunng

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Love You All Over Again

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Time flies when you’re being Tunng. Can it really be over two decades since the band’s genre-blurring, self-styled ‘pagan folktronica’ first emerged from an east London studio courtesy of a clutch of Gilles Peterson-endorsed singles on the small but perfectly formed Static Caravan imprint? It surely can, and what’s more, January 2025 will mark the […]

Tunng

Sophie Jamieson

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I still want to share

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In all of the photographs that accompany Sophie Jamieson’s new album, there is a palpable sense of movement. Buffeted by the elements, by other people, never landing anywhere solid. The inside cover of the record finds her in a double-exposure photograph, caught between worlds, present and not present, both at the same time. It could […]

Sophie Jamieson

Jawhar

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Khyoot

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Khyoot, the fifth album by Belgian-Tunisian artist Jawhar, is the fruit of a period of renewal and a desire to return to a certain lightness and to that ‘complex simplicity’ of keeping, both in performance and in recording, the same thrill you feel when a song is born.   Khyoot is the Arabic plural of […]

Jawhar

the innocence mission

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Midwinter Swimmers

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The first studio album from the innocence mission in four years, Midwinter Swimmers sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time, it’s a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and the strange, lo-fi […]

the innocence mission

Solak

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Atlas

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Lukas Somers, under the moniker Solak, embarks on a profound exploration of the emotions that transcend language with his forthcoming album Atlas, due for release on November 15 via Capitane Records. Following the release of his debut album, Green, four years ago, Lukas Somers embarked on a solitary journey of self-discovery. Moving away from compromise, […]

Solak

Bananagun

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Why is the colour of the Sky?

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To say that the intervening 4 years since the arrival of their debut album had been tumultuous for Melbourne/Naarm’s Bananagun would be an understatement. Released during the height of lockdown in the summer of 2020, the group were forcibly “scattered” following the release of The True Story of Bananagun. Australia’s ultra-strict lockdown rules – declaring […]

Bananagun

nous étions une armée

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depuis toujours, j'ai l'impression que ma vie est sur le point de commencer

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“Nous étions une armée, ça veut dire : je suis seul. Ça veut dire : je suis seul, mais hier… Et si hier, alors demain, peut-être… Ça veut dire ça.” (We were an army, it means: I’m alone. It means: I am alone, but yesterday… And if yesterday, then tomorrow, maybe… It means this.) Nous […]

nous étions une armée

MOMO.

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Gira

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London has a bright new Brazilian talent in town, who goes by the name of MOMO. Not so new, actually. One of the recent generation of artists influenced by the Brazilian classics, from 1970s tropicália, Os Mutantes and Milton Nascimento. MOMO. releases his 7th album Gira, on Batov Records bringing together some very special musicians […]

MOMO.

Nicolas Michaux

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Vitalisme

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On October 18th, Nicolas Michaux will release his third album, titled Vitalisme. This album consists of twelve recordings made over the years on the Danish island of Samsø and at the Free House, the studio of Capitane Records in Brussels.
Much like in his previous album Amour Colère, Michaux navigates between polarities in Vitalisme : dawn […]

Nicolas Michaux

Bon Enfant

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Demande spéciale

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Bon Enfant is a quintet as plural as its members and musical horizons, for whom rock is a passion as much as a way of life – a fiery engine that propels them forward. Formed at the end of the previous decade by Daphné Brissette and Guillaume Chiasson to break new ground outside their previous […]

Bon Enfant

Klô Pelgag

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Abracadabra

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Abracadabra, like a quest for the absolute, like a desire to believe in something. For all the knots you have to untie to free yourself and reveal who you really are, fearless and shameless. A formula you wish could fix everything, instantly resolving all problems. A word you repeat while staring out of the window. […]

Klô Pelgag

congratulations

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Slap EP

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‘Slap’ is the second EP from Brighton quartet congratulations, following debut ‘Woo Hoo’, both released on Bella Union. Whilst ‘Woo Hoo’ was honed over months of relentless gigging, ‘Slap’ came together over time in studio sessions – “We’ve done it the other way round this time, previously we played the songs to death live and […]

congratulations

Fervents

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Plastic Snake Factory EP

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Capitane Records is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Fervents’ eagerly-awaited Plastic Snake Factory EP, scheduled for October 4. With this second opus, the electrifying trio from Liège plunge into grittier sonic territory, drawing inspiration from the raw energy of the grunge and hardcore punk scenes.   Plastic Snake Factory shows the evolution of […]

Fervents

Broadcast

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Spell Blanket / Distant Call

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Broadcast unveils two new collections of previously unreleased demos with Spell Blanket and Distant Call.   Spell Blanket features songs and sketches from Trish Keenan’s extensive archive of 4-track tapes and MiniDiscs. The recordings set the scene for what would have been Broadcast’s fifth album, offering a window into the band’s creative process in the […]

Broadcast

Ezra Collective

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Dance, No One’s Watching

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“Dance, No One’s Watching is a statement of freedom” says Femi Koleoso of Ezra Collective, “this record says that you can be who you want to be, regardless of what’s around you, regardless of what people are saying, because on a deeper level – no one is watching. Don’t let the perspective of someone else […]

Ezra Collective

Christian Lee Hutson

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Paradise Pop. 10

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Paradise Pop. 10 feels a lot like finding an unpublished collection of short stories, scrawled hastily on the sides of airsickness bags and cocktail napkins, each one detailing the life of the unwitting passenger fortunate enough to be seated next to Christian Lee Hutson on their flight to Fort Worth.   Anyone who has had […]

Christian Lee Hutson

Cesar Precio

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La Suite Logique des Choses

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Cesar Precio: the name could be that of a hero from a comic strip from your childhood. It could be the name of a forgotten soul singer you picked up in a vinyl bin. It could be a password. A riddle. Or none of the above. Or all of the above.   Cesar Precio is […]

Cesar Precio

Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel

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Nijerusalem

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Mamman Sani’s electronic organ music, first recorded in 1978, made him a national hero in Niger, led to him writing the Niger’s new national anthem, and has long been cherished by aficionados for its unique blend of traditional Nigerien melodies and synth experimentation. Mamman’s music embodies a sense of intimacy, echoing the presence of a […]

Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel

Sarah Davachi

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The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir

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“Silent friend of those far from us, feeling how your breath is still enlarging space, fill the sombre belfry with your pealing.”   The seven compositions on this album, written between 2022 and 2024, form a conceptual suite and an observance of the mental dances that we construct to understand acts of passage; the ways […]

Sarah Davachi

Nada Surf

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Moon Mirror

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Moon Mirror By Maggie Smith   Moon Mirror, Nada Surf’s new record, has everything fans love and expect from them. Bittersweet anthems that begin quietly but explode into soaring harmonies? Check. Songs that are play-on-repeat heart punches? Check. Songs that are poetic and thought-provoking while also being absolute belt-at-the-top-of-your-voice-with-the-windows-down masterpieces? Check. It’s all here.   […]

Nada Surf

Jungle By Night

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Synergy

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In their musical journey spanning 15 years, Jungle by Night always knew their music isn’t about individual talent, but in the blend of all elements its members bring to the table. This realization birthed the theme of their seventh album, “Synergy”.   With the mantra “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” […]

Jungle By Night

Nicolas Repac

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Gramophonie

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In 2004, Nicolas Repac’s album Swing Swing was one of the few references to mark the birth of the Nø Førmat! label. Already well known in the music world for his artistic collaboration with Arthur H, but also for having published a highly personal album of nocturnal, dreamlike atmospheres as a singer-songwriter (La Vile), Nicolas […]

Nicolas Repac

Trentemøller

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Dreamweaver

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Copenhagen’s Anders Trentemøller has long been respected as a creator of extraordinarily memorable melodies and dark soundscapes.   While many artists follow a pattern of invention and reinvention, Anders’ arc has been a series of points along the same curve, playing the long game, with each release representing the next chapter in a constantly evolving […]

Trentemøller

MJ Lenderman

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Manning Fireworks

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No one paid too much attention when Jake Lenderman recorded Boat Songs, his third album released under his initials, MJ Lenderman. Before he cut it, after all, he was a 20-year-old guitarist working at an ice cream shop in his mountain hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, getting away for self-booked tours of his own songs […]

MJ Lenderman

Mercury Rev

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Born Horses

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In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and […]

Mercury Rev

Nala Sinephro

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Endlessness

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Nala Sinephro’s much anticipated new album, Endlessness, will be released on September 6th by Warp Records.   Endlessness is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, mesmerizing celebration of life cycles and rebirth. Following Nala Sinephro’s critically acclaimed […]

Nala Sinephro

Wunderhorse

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Midas

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“I want it to feel like you’re right there in the room with us.” And in 10 songs and 40 minutes, Wunderhorse capture the raw power and energy that has set them apart as one of the most formidable live acts of recent years. With rugged hooks, unfiltered noise, and fierce melodic sensitivity, Midas rips […]

Wunderhorse

Seefeel

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Everything Squared

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After critically acclaimed reissues of their mid-90s material, Seefeel return with their first new music since 2011.   Everything Squared is a one-off 6-track mini-album which presents a contemporary evolution of their trademark sound. Mainly composed and performed by the core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, with bass on two tracks from Shigeru […]

Seefeel

Pom Poko

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Champion

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Pom Poko are growing up. On Champion, a monumental slice of reflective and life-affirming post-punk, vocalist/lyricist Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit, bassist Jonas Krøvel, guitarist Martin Miguel Almagro Tonne, and drummer Ola Djupvik are the closest they’ve ever been, both personally and in terms of their hermetically tight four-piece rock instrumentation. When most bands call each other […]

Pom Poko

Personal Trainer

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Still Willing

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If you like pop music to keep you on your toes, Amsterdam’s Personal Trainer provide that service fulsomely on their second album. Essentially the project of Willem Smit (working with co-producer/collaborator Casper van der Lans) on record and a band live, Personal Trainer showed a facility for DIY indie-pop exuberance and experiment in sync with […]

Personal Trainer

Humanist

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On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World

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On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World, the second album from Rob Marshall’s Humanist project, showcases the vocal talents of Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode), Isobel Campbel (Belle & Sebastian), Carl Hancock Rux (David Holmes) and James Allan (Glasvegas), among others. This choice cast navigate a masterful expansion of the Humanist sound-world, broadening and […]

Humanist

Dirty Three

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Love Changes Everything

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Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are (a) back, (b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and (c) not wasting another minute – as nothing is guaranteed. For […]

Dirty Three

The Mysterines

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Afraid of Tomorrows

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Starting again is never easy. It takes guts, determination and force of will to move out of the shadows of yesterday. But this is precisely what British rock band The Mysterines have done. Their ferocious new album, Afraid of Tomorrows, burns the past to the ground and builds something brand new out of the rubble. […]

The Mysterines

Le Prince Harry

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A Long Way Down

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After a relative rest for the two Liège energetics, it’s time to get back to business. And this business is played with four hands, very quickly and listened to with two ears, very loudly. We’re caught up in a furious chase on a steep Belgian motorway with no brakes and no windscreen. It’s imperative to […]

Le Prince Harry

James Vincent McMorrow

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Wide Open, Horses

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Can you remember the last time you actually unplugged?   With your phone off, you have no choice but to turn your senses on. You can hear, see, and feel more clearly. You communicate with the people around you and commune with your environment. The world stops passing you by, because you’re an active participant […]

James Vincent McMorrow

Angélica Garcia

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Gemelo

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In 2020, the singer, songwriter, and pop auteur Angélica Garcia was sitting before an altar that she constructed in her bedroom, as part of the process of her vibrant, prismatic third album, Gemelo. The altar was the culmination of Garcia’s new inquiry into ancestral veneration: looking into the past to inform the present with familial […]

Angélica Garcia

Swim Deep

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There's A Big Star Outside...

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If one thing is clear from the offset of revelatory fourth album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’, it’s that Swim Deep is no longer the same band you’ve always known.   After a rollercoaster of personal reckonings and extreme professional highs and lows, the quintet – vocalist Austin ‘Ozzy’ Williams, bassist Cavan McCarthy, keyboardist James […]

Swim Deep

Actress

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Statik

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Actress (aka Darren J Cunningham) is a giant of electronic composition, a far-seeing philosopher-complicator whose explorations have prefigured and pioneered many of the great themes in the club since his acclaimed label debut Splazsh in 2010. Now 2024 marks the beginning of a new kosmische mood for his tenth album, and his first for Norwegian […]

Actress

Beak>

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>>>>

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Beak> surprise release their first album in six years, aptly titled >>>> out on all formats via Invada and Temporary Residence Ltd.   “At its core we always wanted it to be head music (music for the ‘heads’, not headphone music), listened to as an album, not as individual songs. This is why we are […]

Beak>

Brian ENO, Holger CZUKAY & J.Peter SCHWALM

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Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen

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By the late 1990s, Brian Eno was, to all intents and purposes, a studio-bound musician. Performance, it seemed, was not for him. He’d famously left Roxy Music in 1973 after he’d found himself “thinking about the laundry on stage”, and since then he’d made only sporadic forays into the live arena, even then merely as […]

Brian ENO, Holger CZUKAY & J.Peter SCHWALM

Wu-Lu

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Learning To Swim On Empty EP

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Following LOGGERHEAD in 2022, Wu-Lu returns with Learning To Swim On Empty, a new diary-like EP inspired by growing up in Brixton, death and loss, and the feeling of being thrown into the deep end. On this new EP, Wu-Lu invites poet and artist Rohan Ayinde as well as award-winning author and former London Youth […]

Wu-Lu

Liraz

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Enerjy EP

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Singer, actress and cultural conduit for peace, Liraz releases a new collection of four songs,primed with an intensity and a raw musical revolt, energising the Middle Eastern musicallandscape, sung in Farsi and driven by her deep desire for positive energy and much neededglobal harmony and light.   Born in Israel with Iranian roots, Liraz’s world […]

Liraz

Arab Strap

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I'm totally fine with it 👍 don't give a fuck anymore 👍

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“As soon as we started this it felt like album two. It definitely feels like a fresh start from where we used to be.” Aidan Moffat   2021’s critically acclaimed top 15 charting album, As Days Get Dark, was Arab Strap’s first album since 2005 and it started them on a new chapter that is […]

Arab Strap

Bibi Club

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Feu de garde

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Summer 2022. A woman sits on a bench on the corner of a nameless street. London, Brighton, Paris, Montreal, a spruce forest — behind her, settings and faces overlap and merge with each other. Some words become distinct among the ambient noise. Where does that voice come from? From what part of the belly or […]

Bibi Club

Rasco

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Dmaot

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Sun, sea, and surf rock converge with dreamy hypnagogic pop on ‘Dmaot,’ the enchanting sophomore album by the guitar-wielding, vocal-harmonising trio, Rasco.   Named after Charlie Megira’s acclaimed track “At the Rasco” and influenced by iconic artists like The Cramps, Beach Boys, Elvis, April March, and others, Rasco carefully extracts the essence and distinctive sound […]

Rasco

Scarlett O’Hanna

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Precious Nothings

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For Brussels-based Franco-Greek artist Scarlett O’Hanna, the decade between her two albums was necessary, “Sometimes it takes time to be alive” she confides. Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Anna Muchin behind the artist name, released her latest album ‘Romance Floats’ in 2014 (Pop-up records/Moorworks), an opus in the contrasting indie folk rock vein, with tracks […]

Scarlett O’Hanna

Catherine Graindorge

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Songs For The Dead

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Stories and myths. They ripple like rivers through our lives, our cultures. Some are ancient, others more recent, but they all help to shape us, to guide and console us along the ways of life and love and death. They have a quiet power, and that’s what Belgian musician and composer Catherine Graindorge explores on […]

Catherine Graindorge

Françoiz Breut

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Vif!

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Straight out of the Flux-Flou de la Foule, urban landscapes with curved souls, Françoiz plunges her hands back into the teeming soil of the infinitely small, infinitely concrete. Vif ! scheduled for release on April 19, 2024 (62 records / [pias] ) is a volte-face by an artist who, after exploring the city, feels the […]

Françoiz Breut

Chaton Laveur

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Etat Sauvage

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“I’ve always wanted to make music, but now it’s too late,” says Julie to Pierre, sitting at their flatmate’s dining room table. “Why would it be too late?” replied Pierre, tapping his fingers on the wooden table in a jerky rhythm.   That’s how Pierre got back behind his drum kit, the faithful accomplice of […]

Chaton Laveur

Clarissa Connelly

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World Of Work

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WORLD OF WORK: Toward A Greater Beauty by Matt Marble   ​Upon first hearing the music of Clarissa Connelly, I was immediately drawn into its otherworldly beauty. A genre-devouring producer and multi-instrumentalist, Clarissa is also a studied composer and skilled arranger. Her music is a dream-like synthesis of Nordic folk song, mediaeval chant, and modern […]

Clarissa Connelly

Mount Kimbie

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The Sunset Violent

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Sometimes you have to go where the sky is bigger. Where a big blue blanket of nothingness yawns above you for miles in every direction, and you can stare for hours into a horizon unpunctuated. No buildings. No billboards, clawing into the cloud formations. Just blank, endless, enveloping emptiness, to both lose and find yourself […]

Mount Kimbie

Palace

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Ultrasound

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Palace are a band familiar with being tossed on the tides of life. Originally school friends in Dorset, singer Leo Wyndham, guitarist Rupert Turner and drummer Matt Hodges began playing together in 2012 (alongside early bassist Will Dorey) after fate had brought them all separately to London. Holing up in an artistic multi-band hub called […]

Palace

Dana Gavanski

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Late Slap

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There’s a party in Dana Gavanski’s head and everyone’s invited – well, kind of.  Late Slap, Gavanski’s third album, gives voice to the highs and lows of the mindscape in all its joys and terrors, injecting some much needed playfulness into the process of writing about emotionally hard things. “The album holds together the seemingly […]

Dana Gavanski

Matt Holubowski

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Somewhere, Someone EP

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” Somewhere, Someone is to Like Flowers on a Molten Lawn what sprouts are to spring. ”   After his critically acclaimed last album, Matt Holubowski returns with three new tracks and a new EP on 05 April.   “These three songs were among the first I wrote for our last record. I remember pacing madly in my 600 sq. foot […]

Matt Holubowski

USA Nails

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Feel Worse

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London noise-rock quartet USA Nails release album ‘Feel Worse’ on March 22nd 2024. The band have forged a considerable reputation since their formation in 2013 from their South London base, comprising of members of Kong, Future Of The Left, Blacklisters, Death Pedals and Silent Front.   ‘Feel Worse’ explores schadenfreude; the pleasure derived from another person’s […]

USA Nails

Francis Of Delirium

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Lighthouse

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Francis of Delirium, AKA 22-year old, Luxembourg based Jana Bahrich is the loudest voice in a very quiet country.   From recording and self producing 3 EPs brimming with alt-rock angst and lockdown nihilism in “a basement next to the washing machine”, Francis of Delirium is on the precipice of releasing her highly anticipated debut […]

Francis Of Delirium

Donna Blue

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In The Realm of Love

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Donna Blue are musical collaborators and couple Danique van Kesteren and Bart van Dalen from the Netherlands who create chic and bilingual (English/French) 60’s pop with a psychedelic haze, and a dreamy chamber pop noir-romanticism. To be filed under Nancy & Lee, Serge Gainsbourg and Julee Cruise with inspiration also drawn from film composers such […]

Donna Blue

Bleachers

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Bleachers

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Few 21st century artists have had the cultural impact of Jack Antonoff. Through his work as a producer for artists like Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, The 1975 and Lorde, he’s won eight Grammys to date and filled album of the year lists with records like Norman Fucking Rockwell! and Folklore. For years critics have […]

Bleachers

Flore Laurentienne

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8 tableaux

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Flore Laurentienne, the incomparable project of Mathieu David Gagnon, announces the release of the album 8 tableaux on March 1st on Secret City Records. After a stand-out performance at the recent Rencontres Trans Musicales in Rennes, the composer, orchestrator and musician turned to the works of Jean Paul Riopelle at the Montreal Museum of Fine […]

Flore Laurentienne

Yard Act

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Where's My Utopia ?

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What do you do when everything you’ve ever wanted suddenly lands in your lap, but the questions still keep on coming?   Having steered their golden Rover into swift public acclaim back in 2020, Leeds quartet Yard Act have become one of the great indie success stories of the decade so far. Debut album ‘The […]

Yard Act

cabane

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Brulée

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cabane is the project of Belgian musician and photographer thomas jean henri. Your may already know him from his former work of the composer and performer on Soy Un Caballo records or, in another life, the first albums of the group Venus where he played behind the drums. After a first album by cabane (Grande […]

cabane

Any Other

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stillness, stop : you have a right to remember

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Any Other is the project of Italian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Adele Altro (they / them). On January 26th, Any Other is set to release their third studio album, stillness, stop: you have a right to remember via 42 Records.   For fans of artists like Dirty Projectors, Mitski, and Sufjan Stevens, stillness, stop: you […]

Any Other

Nits

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Tree House Fire

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NITS are 50 years old!   2024 will be a special year for the Nits with the NIT50 anniversary tour, which will take the band to the European cities that have played a major role in their career: Paris, Zurich, Antwerp, Brussels and, of course, Amsterdam. The concert will be a stroll through their history, […]

Nits

Adam Green Tribute

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Moping in Style: A Tribute to Adam Green.

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Capitane Records is excited to announce the release of Moping in Style: A Tribute to Adam Green.   This sweeping double album features Regina Spektor, Father John Misty, Devendra Banhart, The Libertines, Jenny Lewis, Sean Ono Lennon, Frankie Cosmos, The Lemonheads and many other familiar names whose contributions are a testament to Adam Green’s position […]

Adam Green Tribute

Ghost Woman

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Hindsight is 50/50

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Despite ‘Hindsight Is 50/50’ being the third album from Ghost Woman in 18 months, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko believes that this is the first album that “finally captures the true nature of the band”.   The album was recorded mostly live in three days at the analogue Kerwax studios in Brittany, France by Christophe […]

Ghost Woman

Danny Brown

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Quaranta

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Detroit spitter Danny Brown is a fan favorite for a reason. Few MCs have taken true-blue lyrical ferocity and draped it in a persona as arresting as Danny’s. Recognized in his early days as much for his streak of permed hair, toothy grin, and boggling fashion sense as he was for his rhymes and beats, […]

Danny Brown

Extraa

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Out Of Phase

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Friendships often make for great pop adventures: look at Simon & Garfunkel, Hall & Oates or David and Jonathan. It’s the same for Alix and Antoine.   You may have heard of Alix since 2013 under the name Melody says, back then accompanied by her folk guitar, sailing between Paris and London. It was under […]

Extraa

Beirut

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Hadsel

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Zach Condon returns to announce his first new Beirut album in more than four fateful and reinvigorating years. Out November 10th on his own Pompeii Records, Hadsel is a collection of 12 songs that find warmth and solace in the most extreme darkness, from the severe self-doubt that led to the LP’s creation, to the […]

Beirut

Egyptian Blue

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A Living Commodity

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The rise of any breaking band is a tumultuous experience, and that’s something that Egyptian Blue know better than most. They started out as an escape from small town suburbia, instead losing themselves in hours of ear-splitting, alcohol-induced jam sessions above a jeweller’s shop in Colchester. After relocating to Brighton and signing to new music […]

Egyptian Blue

V V Brown

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Am I British Yet ?

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“Where there is a will, there is a way.” It’s a mantra that is familiar to us all, but one which polymathic artist VV Brown has often clung to in the last two decades of her creative life. After a six-year break from music, she returns with Am I British Yet ?, an album that […]

V V Brown

The Drums

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Jonny

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Somewhere inside of all of us, there’s a place where our deepest hurts forever cry out to be soothed. The way people failed us as children, the jagged cliffs we stumbled down when we went looking for fertile fields — they stay with us, singing through the body long after the initial shock. It can […]

The Drums

Squirrel Flower

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Tomorrow’s Fire

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An hour south of Chicago, along the shores of Lake Michigan, sits the Indiana Dunes, a protected expanse of shoreline recently designated a National Park. When Ella Williams first visited the Dunes, she was awed by the juxtaposition of its natural splendor within the surrounding industrial corridor of Northwest Indiana. “Every time I go there, […]

Squirrel Flower

Jonathan Fitoussi & Suzanne Ciani

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Golden Apples of the Sun

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Obliques & Atmospheric are delighted to present the album Golden Apples of the Sun, the fruit of the collaboration between Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi.   The American pioneer of electronic music joins forces with the French composer to produce a 4-handed album based on the legendary Buchla, Moog and Ems synthesizers…   Recorded mainly […]

Jonathan Fitoussi & Suzanne Ciani

Oneohtrix Point Never

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Again

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The music of Oneohtrix Point Never has always been speculative. Speculative in the sense that each of his albums operates like a space-and-time-bending fiction. This is music as fable, quest, or utopia.   Daniel Lopatin is often known as Oneohtrix Point Never, but has gone by a few other names in the past. His is […]

Oneohtrix Point Never

Teenage Fanclub

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Nothing Lasts Forever

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The first sound you hear is a sustained feedback note that hangs in the air with the grace of a dragonfly before an acoustic riff spirals out of it, soaring upwards. It’s blissful and sun-soaked, like a late summer haze blurring out all the details on the horizon. When voices join the music, they arrive […]

Teenage Fanclub

Bombino

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Sahel

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Guitar luminary + Tuareg folk hero Omara “Bombino” Moctar knows the nomadic life well. Being constantly on the road for his music while also perpetually on the move throughout the Sahel region of Africa is the norm. So when the pandemic brought the world to a screeching halt, Bombino found himself in an unfamiliar space: […]

Bombino

Sparklehorse

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Bird Machine

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Music had always been a shared language between Mark Linkous and his younger brother Matt, and as Mark began work on what he planned to be the fifth Sparklehorse album in 2009, the two of them would talk through his plans for the record. Matt can clearly recall their conversations; Mark’s excitement about the influences […]

Sparklehorse

Jonathan Wilson

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Eat the Worm

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A couple years ago, while he was working non-stop producing albums for the likes of Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Billy Strings and Margo Price, there was a moment of epiphany for Jonathan Wilson that arrived, not surprisingly, while he was listening to music.   Specifically, he had stumbled onto a deeply obscure track called […]

Jonathan Wilson

Pale Blue Eyes

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This House

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Delirious chatter… clinks of warm cans of beer… Cocteau Twins played at full blast. Lively memories of parties and people live on through This House, the new album from Pale Blue Eyes. The house in question is there on the front cover, the childhood home of the trio’s vocalist and guitarist, Matt Board. Defined by closure […]

Pale Blue Eyes

Miles Kane

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One Man Band

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Miles returns to his guitar hero best on One Man Band as he focuses on big hooks and even bigger anthems. Sharp, infectious, urgent and packed to the brim with singalong moments, it’s Miles on the top of his game. A deeply personal record, Miles returned to Liverpool to work on the album, finding himself […]

Miles Kane

Aphex Twin

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Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760

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Aphex Twin shares the Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760 EP, his first new music in 5 years.

Aphex Twin

Daniel Rossen

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Live At Pioneertown & Santa Fe

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Singer-songwriter Daniel Rossen embarked on a unique and intimate tour in support of his critically acclaimed 2022 debut LP You Belong There. He took to the road solo, with no crew or fancy equipment. Armed with just a few acoustic guitars and a small amp packed into his car, he embraced the simplicity and rawness […]

Daniel Rossen

Oscar Lang

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Look Now

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As Oscar Lang’s second album hovered into view, the singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist from West London imagined a sound that would blend upbeat 80s grooves, breezy indie-pop and a disco swing. Except Oscar Lang’s second album does not blend upbeat 80s grooves and breezy indie-pop. It definitely does not have a disco swing. A split […]

Oscar Lang

Yard Act

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The Trench Coat Museum (single)

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Yard Act share their brand new single & video ‘The Trench Coat Museum’. Co-produced by the band and Gorillaz member Remi Kabaka Jr., the standalone single is the first original music that Yard Act have shared since the release of their critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize shortlisted debut album The Overload in January 2022.   A […]

Yard Act

Penguin Cafe

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Rain Before Seven...

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A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably.   The title comes […]

Penguin Cafe

M. Ward

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Supernatural Thing

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Several times, as I listened to M. Ward’s Supernatural Thing, I asked myself what year it was. Was it 1952, and was I listening to a track from the Harry Smith Anthology? Was it 1972, and was I eavesdropping on the recording session for After the Gold Rush? No, it’s 2023, and M. Ward is […]

M. Ward

J.E. Sunde

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Alice, Gloria and Jon

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The first album in three years from Minneapolis songwriter J.E. Sunde—Alice, Gloria and Jon, a sobering but affirming set of 10 twinkling gems—begins with an unapologetic shrug. The drums roll in as if they’re still waking up, followed by bass and synths that showed just because a friend asked them over. The hangdog tone of […]

J.E. Sunde

Squid

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O Monolith

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Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. “I think we’ve […]

Squid

TEKE::TEKE

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Hagata

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Looking up at the sky one afternoon, Maya Kuroki spotted a cloud that looked like it had a bite taken out of it. One word immediately sprung to mind for the vocalist of TEKE::TEKE. “Hagata is a very deep word, something present but also something leftover from someone or something no longer there,” she explains. […]

TEKE::TEKE

The Saxophones

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To Be A Cloud

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Resonating between sky and sea, you will hear The Saxophones; the husband and wife duo of Alexi Erenkov and Alison Alderdice whose minimalist after-hours tones will prop you up amidst the darkest corner of a smoky lounge bar. Documenting the next chapter of their lives having returned to Alexi’s childhood home 20 years later – […]

The Saxophones

Nicolas Michaux

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Chaleur Humaine (single)

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Nicolas Michaux is back with his new single ‘Chaleur Humaine’, a bright and winning comeback for this deceptively naive song that in three verses and an unstoppable chorus sums up the troubled times we live in. His writing and his voice, recognizable among thousands, seem more relevant than ever. While the future of the climate […]

Nicolas Michaux

James Ellis Ford

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The Hum

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James Ford has been hidden in plain sight for his entire two-decade-long career. The composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter has worked with some of the biggest names in music, from Arctic Monkeys to Depeche Mode via Foals, Gorillaz and Kylie Minogue, but has always dedicated himself to the success of these projects almost to the […]

James Ellis Ford

Andrea Poggio

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Il Futuro

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Andrea Poggio’s writing is persuasive, soberly charming and its methodically carved appearance ends up creating something both peculiar and unexpected.   Listening to ‘Il futuro’ one has the impression of being in front of a record that is at once classic and modern, ancient and avant-garde, in which the author amuses himself, almost pleases himself, […]

Andrea Poggio

Bongeziwe Mabandla

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amaXesha

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With his fourth album, amaXesha, South Africa’s Bongeziwe Mabandla takes up his position as a leader of an Afro Indie sound that’s finding an audience right across the world and staking its claim as one of the most singular music forms around.   Already a multiple award-winner in his home country, with two South African […]

Bongeziwe Mabandla

Skinny Pelembe

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Hardly The Same Snake

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“I never considered myself a singer before now,” says Skinny Pelembe. Viewing his 2019 debut Dreaming Is Dead Now from a comfortable distance, the Iggy Pop and Grace Jones-approved one-man band recognises its enigmatically murky production as a sort of auditory “squid ink”, aiming to disguise a lack of vocal confidence and to obscure the […]

Skinny Pelembe

Baba Ali

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Laugh Like A Bomb

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The Anglo-American duo Baba Ali is back with a second album, Laugh Like A Bomb, due for release on April 28th via Memphis Industries.   “I think a lot of the process of writing this album came from pushing ourselves to our limits to get to the essential idea, and discarding anything that felt superfluous […]

Baba Ali

Rubin Steiner & The Dictaphone

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Banananas

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Vibraphones, marimbas, piano, congas, bongos, theremin and space echo are just some of the instruments Rubin Steiner and The Dictaphone have used to make this album of pure exotica, a tribute to their huge collection of records by the masters of the genre – Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Esquiver, Eden Ahbez and many others. Far […]

Rubin Steiner & The Dictaphone

Pitou

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Big Tears

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Dutch artist Pitou’s musical awakening came from an unlikely source. From a very young age, she developed an unexplainable interest in classical music – her father would often find her crouched down by the radio, scrolling through stations in search of the sound of orchestras and choirs. From the age of 9, Pitou started singing […]

Pitou

Ailbhe Reddy

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Endless Affair

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A much needed aural tonic for an extended emotional hangover, Irish alt-folk artist Ailbhe Reddy is preparing to release her highly anticipated second album, Endless Affair. Inspired by her romantic relationships and her fractured memories of many a fun night spent partying in her early 20s, the record is a tender exploration of emotional resilience […]

Ailbhe Reddy

Yves Tumor

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Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume ; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

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Yves Tumor shifts, alters, and plays with the boundaries of contemporary art and culture in a boundlessly visceral and authentic sonic signature. With an arc that effortlessly graces rock, psychedelia, and electronica in a constant re-invention of pop music, comparisons only serve as limitations intended to define that which cannot be. Yves Tumor melds restraint […]

Yves Tumor

Bingo Club

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Better Lucky Than Beautiful

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Admission to the Bingo Club is free. Every loss is a gain. Martin opened the club at the dawn of the 1920s. Surrounded by Neysa, Vassili, Marie-Paule, Emile, Annelinde or Thomas, Bingo Club imposes its own style and juggles between styles. In duo, solo, in English and in French. It’s a mix of warm voices […]

Bingo Club

Andy Shauf

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Norm

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Norm, the eighth album from singer-songwriter Andy Shauf, is a shimmering arc with unsettling silences that complete its story, the pop and hiss of a needle on a turntable after the song ends, emptiness like a trap door into something tender and terrifying. The Saskatchewan-born performer has already made a name for himself with television […]

Andy Shauf

Hey Hey My My

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High-Life

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In a time where algorithms and carefully crafted playlists make for every part of the day, Hey Hey My My have chosen to display a trusty old transistor on their newest album’s cover.   Why a transistor you ask? Specifically to bring back curiosity, discovery and surprise right back into the listener’s experience. Music in […]

Hey Hey My My

The Go! Team

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Get Up Sequences Part Two

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“Get Up Sequences Part Two is an international patchwork.  A global fruit salad.  A United Nations of Sound” – Ian Parton, The Go! Team   Over their six albums The Go! Team have taken sonic day trips to other lands – musically dipping into other cultures.   But now on this, their seventh   – they’ve bought […]

The Go! Team

Ghost Woman

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Anne, If

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One could be forgiven for getting that familiar feeling when listening to the music of Ghost Woman. And that’s not just because songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Evan Uschenko is deeply steeped in classic guitar-led rock & pop songwriting (more on that later), it’s that the music was, by design, intended to be evocative. But not evocative, […]

Ghost Woman

Rozi Plain

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Prize

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Over the course of four albums, Rozi Plain’s hypnotic, gently askew songs have steadily sauntered their way from her birthplace of Winchester, reverberated through the bustling Bristol DIY scene, to where they now emanate from London’s creative epicentre. Acquiring a worldliness that’s reflected in her travels as a touring musician, each consecutive release has broached […]

Rozi Plain

Nina Hagen

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Unity

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Nina Hagen

Plaid

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Feorm Falorx

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Plaid

Mount Kimbie

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MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning

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Mount Kimbie just keep evolving; they can’t do anything else. First they were young stars of the London electronic underground, turning the breakout success of a pair of EPs into a lasting album statement, 2010’s Crooks & Lovers. Later they were Warp-signed shapeshifters, changing coordinates across a pair of albums, between electronic duo and band, […]

Mount Kimbie

Aoife Nessa Frances

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Protector

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In spring of 2020, Aoife Nessa Frances moved out of the city for the first time in her life. After packing up her things in Dublin, she moved to rural County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, and there, amidst the stillness, she worked on the songs that would become her second album, Protector. […]

Aoife Nessa Frances

Bibio

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BIB10

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“I like contrast between my albums,” says Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio. “When I finish an album, I crave doing something different for the next one.”   No more so is this made apparent with Wilkinson hitting a major milestone, releasing his 10th studio album. Over those ten albums he has gracefully glided between electronica, ambient, […]

Bibio

Liraz

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Roya

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Liraz

NEU!

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50th Anniversary Box

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NEU!

Beth Orton

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Weather Alive

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“Through the writing of these songs and the making of this music, I found my way back to the world around me – a way to reach nature and the people I love and care about. This record is a sensory exploration that allowed for a connection to a consciousness that I was searching for. […]

Beth Orton

Julien Gasc

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Re Eff

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Originally Re Eff (pronounced Ri Èf) was a bunch of texts. One hundred and fifty pages that Julien Gasc wrote by trying his hand at the art of cut-up: a literary and political act of counter-fiction based on William Burroughs’s method. It was also Julien Gasc’s response to the isolation of 2020, while he was […]

Julien Gasc

Pale Blue Eyes

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Souvenirs

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Pale Blue Eyes’ excelsior modernist pop music comes from Devon and Sheffield – via stop-overs in Iceland, KLF-land and the Steel City home of British electronic music.   Pale Blue Eyes’ own Penquit Mill studio has been crucial here. The PBE studio sits in the Devon greenery, with buzzards wheeling overhead, just south of Dartmoor. […]

Pale Blue Eyes

Bibi Club

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Le Solei et la Mer

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Bibi Club

Cass McCombs

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Heartmind

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Maybe a minute passed before I knew I’d be singing “Karaoke” for the rest of my life. The second song on Heartmind, the tenth album by Cass McCombs, “Karaoke” is a god-level burst of power-pop perfection, as fetching as anything Cass has ever cut. The springy staccato guitar, the vaporized electric keys, the melody seemingly […]

Cass McCombs

Hudson Mohawke

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Cry Sugar

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In 2022, Hudson Mohawke cries sugar. Stifled by the traditional chin-stroking, po-faced genre studies of UK club culture, the producer has fully embraced the deranged technicolor of American decadence—the high jolt of a drive thru Sprite, the asphalt-and-trash highway smell, the low-brow graffiti sold at auction, the ecstatic, dark hedonism that relishes in the sweetness […]

Hudson Mohawke

Wu-Lu

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Loggerhead

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Wu-Lu

Ghost Woman

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Ghost Woman

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Ghost Woman’s blissfully hypnotic world is the creation of melodic maniac, Evan John Uschenko. Beating the odds of life as a busy touring musician, salvaging and replacing his instruments from burned down rehearsal spaces, van break-ins and far too many relocations to list, Uschenko has transformed his lifelong habit of homespun sonic exploration into a […]

Ghost Woman

Sinead O’Brien

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Time Bend and Break The Bower

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“You have seen nothing yet”, asserts Sinead O’Brien in single Girlkind – and you are inclined to believe her. Building on her arresting releases since 2018, the multifaceted Irish poet, songwriter and performer is ascending into new territory with her debut LP, Time Bend and Break the Bower, released via Chess Club Records this summer. […]

Sinead O’Brien

Dehd

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Blue Skies

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Upon arrival during the fraught summer of 2020, Flower of Devotion felt like Dehd’s necessary prescription for us all. That was, of course, a moment of unprecedented anxiety and uncertainty, when just contemplating the future could seem overly optimistic. But Dehd captured and shared the precarious balance between real life and real hope, a feat […]

Dehd

Donna Blue

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Dark Roses

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Donna Blue makes you want to surrender to their noir-romantic sound. Twangy guitars and sensual vocals transport you to a hazy Côte d’Azur, or an old spy movie of the ‘60s.   Moving from a dream state to lush sensory excitement, the duo behind Donna Blue invites you into a grainy, cinematic realm. For those […]

Donna Blue

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Let It Be Blue

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Gus Englehorn

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Dungeon Master

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Gus Englehorn

Daniel Rossen

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You Belong There

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Daniel Rossen

Christian Lee Hutson

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Quitters

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Christian Lee Hutson starts his new album Quitters with a laugh. In this follow up to his ANTI records debut, Beginners, Hutson moves away from the focus on growing up to the dread and complications of growing older. The laugh that announces Quitters is the kind you’ll find at the end of John Huston films, […]

Christian Lee Hutson

Broadcast

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Rééditions de MICROTRONICS - Volumes 1 & 2, MOTHER IS THE MILKY WAY & BBC MAIDA VALE SESSIONS

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Broadcast

Mélissa Laveaux

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Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle

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Mélissa Laveaux

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