16 July 2025
On International Non-Binary Day, Sydney-based queer rap artist Jamaica Moana shares empowering new single, ‘GIVE INTO MY FEARS’. A track centered around powerful lyrics, paired with raw, minimalist beats, delivers a message of perseverance for QPOC artists from the West. ‘I claim this song to be the lyrically best song I have ever created. I always wanted to do a track like this. If I was a QPOC artist from The West, I would…
16 July 2025
On the heels of a milestone Glastonbury performance, Two Shell dropped the recording of their IICON set with an accompanying 12 track surprise release. IIcons features a collection of previously unreleased tracks. The project offers a deep dive into glitchy, dark, and emotive club music – much of it familiar to fans who’ve caught Two Shell live over the past year. In a message to fans on Instagram, the duo indicate…
11 July 2025
Big Thief release ‘All Night All Day’. the second single from their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, out September 5. Following lead single ‘Incomprehensible’, boasting “crunchy psych-folk guitars, a smorgasbord of percussion, and the delicate power of Adrianne Lenker’s voice”, ‘All Night All Day’ is an expression of love and desire without shame. Lenker sings: “Swallow poison swallow sugar / Sometimes they taste the same / But I know your…
11 July 2025
Canadian hip hop veteran Shad is set to start a bold new chapter with the announcement of his seventh studio album, Start Anew, and the release of its first single ‘Bars & BBQs’ out now. The album will be available across all platforms and in vinyl format on October 31. The lead single ‘Bars & BBQs’ showcases Shad’s signature wit and lyrical dexterity serving up food for thought with clever pop…
10 July 2025
London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle heralds the start of a new musical era with the release of ‘Starlight’. A collaboration with alt-pop icon PinkPantheress, the single sees Harle searching for euphoric melancholy via his love of Elizabethan Madrigals, 90s Eurodance and 2000s trance to stunning effect. Despite a prolific period for the GRAMMY-nominated artist as a producer, writer and remixer for some of the most luminous names in contemporary culture – including Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, oklou and Shygirl –…
4 July 2025
John Glacier’s debut album Like A Ribbon compounded the Hackney-born rapper and poet’s reputation as one of the UK’s gripping new voices, with her debut album appearing on ‘Best of Albums of 2025 so far’ lists. Utilising a variety of sounds across the spectrums of rap, electronic, post-punk, ambient and more to provide the backdrop to Glacier’s singular, stream-of-consciousness delivery, Like A Ribbon synthesises a unique, developed atmosphere across its…
27 June 2025
Following a successful US headline tour in April 2025, Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Sunbeam Sound Machine returns with the bright new single ‘Waterfall (Strange Gravity)’. The track arrives with the announcement of Sunbeam Sound Machine’s fourth album Double Magic due for release on August 15th. The sparkling soundscape of ‘Waterfall (Strange Gravity)’ was built from a forgotten guitar loop takes inspiration from burbling Australian nature sounds into a lush layered opener. Sunbeam…
27 June 2025
On September 26th, two decades and seven albums into his career, American musician, composer, and academic John Maus will release his most transcendent work yet: Later Than You Think. Arriving via his new label YOUNG, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare – coalescing into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful,…
27 June 2025
Richard Russell’s collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded announce and release Solstice Equinox – a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell’s West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary. Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the…
27 June 2025
Joy Orbison and Overmono come together once again. This time, they’re stepping into fresh territory with ‘Lippy’, a collaborative new single featuring original vocals from rising Montreal rapper Skiifall. The single premiered as the Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 with Jack Saunders. ‘Lippy’ started during a session at the XL Recordings studio, where Joy Orbison and Overmono began exploring more melodic ideas beyond their previous club-focused collaborations ‘Blind Date’…
27 June 2025
Giggs and XL Recordings are proud to announce the 15th anniversary reissue of Let Em Ave It, the British rap icon’s seminal second album, which will be available on vinyl for the very first time. Originally released on 21st June 2010, Let Em Ave It marked Giggs’ bold introduction to a wider audience and laid the foundation for one of UK rap’s most uncompromising and influential careers. Emerging from South…
27 June 2025
Holly Herndon, the acclaimed Berlin-based artist, performer and composer, has released ‘Eternal Re-Imagined’, a new version of the original track from her groundbreaking 2019 album PROTO. Released as the album’s first single, ‘Eternal’ was a bold introduction to the concept of PROTO, which used A.I. program ‘Spawn’ as a member of the ensemble alongside a Berlin-based choir. Remixed and re-orchestrated by renowned composers Vince Pope and Alex Davies, ‘Eternal Re-Imagined’ offers a fresh take….
20 June 2025
XL Recordings releases a new single by Four Tet ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ which features a sample of Mazzy Star’s ‘Into Dust’. One of his most sought-after gems from the last few years, ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ is released globally alongside a limited edition 12” vinyl – available exclusively via the XL webstore – and an exclusive screen printed t-shirt. Four Tet was also announced to play Mode Festival on…
20 June 2025
Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy’s intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album Scratch It is out now. It arrives with the focus track ‘No Fruit’ — a slinky funk diss track, with co-writer/guitarist Dillon Watson’s wah-wah punctuating Remy’s biting and poetic prophecy, which could be aimed at a lover or the greater modern world: “If you don’t plant with the moon in mind / You will surely suffer…
20 June 2025
bar italia return with essential summer banger ‘Cowbella’. The first new music from the band since 2024’s The Tw*ts EP sees a transcendent vocal blunt rotation between members Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton unfolding over a wiry, shapeshifting rocker that culminates in an explosive and chilling skywards coda. It’s a multi-pronged anthem that only bar italia could conjure. The last two years have seen the London trio release two critically acclaimed albums on Matador only several months apart…
20 June 2025
Nourished By Time returns to share ‘9 2 5,’ the next single from his forthcoming album The Passionate Ones, out August 22nd. ‘9 2 5’ chronicles the emotional toll of a working-class artist stuck between the grind of a meaningless day job and the relentless pursuit of his artistic dreams after dark, driven by a beat echoing the syncopated spirit of Baltimore club music. This latest single from Nourished By Time’s highly-anticipated new album…
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