11 September 2025
Stella Donnelly makes a masterful return with the announcement of her new album Love and Fortune. A deeply personal and anchored body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive. Love and Fortune is due for release on Friday 7 November. The…
11 September 2025
Last week, Big Thief released Double Infinity, their sixth studio album. To follow, they release the mind-altering, giddy, beautiful, and just deeply “Big Thief” video for one of the album’s standout tracks, ‘Words’. It’s the band’s first non-live performance music video since 2017’s ‘Mythological Beauty’ video. Watch here. The video was directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, who comments: “The finite meanings of our words encompass the boundaries of how…
11 September 2025
Joy Orbison continues his journey into the boldest areas of electronic music with his latest single ‘play it again’ out now. ‘play it again’ sees the London-based innovator taking inspiration from his love of 80s New Wave and 90s electronica, rebooting them for 2025, and landing in a liminal musical space between headphone introspection and dancefloor abandon. Featuring a manipulated, mantra-like vocal, the single sees Joy Orbison (aka Peter O’Grady)…
11 September 2025
Shad returns with a bold new double-single: ‘K.I.S.S.’ and ‘Islands’. These tracks offer a glimpse into his upcoming seventh studio album Start Anew, due October 31. Reflecting on this milestone Shad says: “With these songs and the new album, I wanted to embrace simplicity and also community — things that feel more important to me than ever after twenty years in this game. ‘K.I.S.S.’ is about having fun and moving…
11 September 2025
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, XL Recordings announce a special, expanded version of Leila’s acclaimed second album Courtesy Of Choice. Originally released on 11th September 2000, the album followed the success of her Rephlex Records debut Like Weather and felt like a broadcast from a futuristic radio station no one else could tune into. Twenty-five years on, alongside collaborations with the likes of Bjork, Aphex Twin and Terry Hall and…
11 September 2025
The Maple Trail is the expansive musical project of Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Aidan Roberts. Beginning in the early 2000s in the Blue Mountains, the project was born out of a need to explore a quieter, more introspective counterpoint to his rock beginnings. His debut solo album Sounds of Planes introduced a raw acoustic palette, but it was only the first step in what would become an evolving body of…
5 September 2025
Big Thief release their highly anticipated new album Double Infinity, alongside tour details of the UK and European leg of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour. Taking place in the Autumn of 2026, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia will play some of the biggest headline shows of their career thus far including a 3-night residency at London’s O2 Brixton Academy, 2 nights at Oslo’s Sentrum Scene and the Olympia,…
5 September 2025
David Byrne releases his highly anticipated new album Who Is The Sky?, out now alongside new single ‘What Is The Reason For It? (feat. Hayley Williams)’. Marked by the inviting vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore’s Williams, ‘What Is the Reason for It?’ aims to understand love in a way logic can rarely accomplish (“does it do something useful? / nobody understands it”). Born from a creative collaboration between David…
5 September 2025
John Maus returns to share ‘Pick It Up’, the latest single from his long-awaited seventh album Later Than You Think, out September 26. A meditation on endurance and transformation, ‘Pick It Up’ arrives alongside the announcement of a forthcoming music video, directed by Blake James Reid, set to premiere on Tuesday, September 9th at 10AM ET. ‘Pick It Up’ follows singles ‘Came & Got’, ‘Because We Built It’,and ‘I Hate…
5 September 2025
Blawan – aka Jamie Roberts – will release his long-awaited debut XL Recordings album, SickElixir, out Friday 10 October. Crafted between Berlin, Leeds, Paris, and Lisbon, the 14-track record is his most personal work to date; a manifesto for the way he sees music and himself. Channeling grief, family trauma, and seismic life shifts, SickElixir expands on the sounds of his recent EPs – BouQ, Dismantled Into Juice, and Woke…
28 August 2025
Overmono – aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell – are deep into their biggest summer yet. From headline festival appearances at Glastonbury (West Holts) – featuring special live guests Kwengface and For Those I Love – to All Points East, Boomtown, and Love Saves The Day, the duo have further cemented themselves as one of the UK’s most vital live electronic acts. Their reimagining of High Contrast’s legendary drum &…
28 August 2025
Following their signing to Rough Trade Records in May and release of debut single ‘SWEAT’, and latest single, ‘DEATH IN THE FAMILY’. LA six-piece The Sophs now return with a cover of Mac Demarco’s ‘For the First Time’. Ethan of The Sophs explains their thinking behind the cover, “When I first heard “For the First Time” by Mac DeMarco, it felt fragile in the best way. My band, The Sophs, loves that kind of emotional rawness, but we usually…
28 August 2025
Oliver Sim makes his long-awaited return with brand new single ‘Obsession‘, his first new music since 2022’s acclaimed debut solo album Hideous Bastard. Produced by Bullion and Taylor Skye and recorded between London and Los Angeles, the track ushers in a fresh era of experimentation, collaboration, and invention for the London-based musician who’s best known as one third of The xx.Where Hideous Bastard explored themes of shame, fear, and masculinity…
28 August 2025
Singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist Patrick Watson has released his new single ‘Ça va‘, a duet featuring Victoires de la Musique-winning French sensation Solann, a french-language song following the billion-streamed ‘Je te laisserai des mots’. This new song celebrates the unique charm of the Parisian lifestyle. Watson also releases, ‘House on Fire‘, a new collaboration with beloved singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright. The gorgeous track is another preview of Watson’s forthcoming LP Uh Oh,…
27 August 2025
Multi-award-winning songwriter Carla Geneve releases her new single ‘Here, Look’, the second track lifted from her forthcoming third studio album Don’t Be Afraid, out Friday 17 October via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. Following on from previous single, ‘Better Believe It’, the new single shows Geneve at her most reflective, with piano-led instrumentation framing her direct, intimate lyrics. Speaking on ‘Here, Look’, Carla shares, “This is a song about reflection and admitting that there are so many layers…
27 August 2025
Spoon spent the summer in the studio honing brand new songs. The band are so charged about the results that they’ve decided to let it rip with this brand new double A-side single. Hot off the press comes the jolt-of-raw-power rocker ‘Chateau Blues‘ and the simmering banger ‘Guess I’m Fallin In Love.’ Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent) and Spoon, this two-pronged attack marks the first recordings the band…
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