10 April 2026
Volume III is Flore Laurentienne’s luminous and immersive instrumental album that concludes a trilogy begun in 2019, where organs, analog synthesizers, and string ensembles come together in an approach that is both cinematic and deeply rooted in the Quebec landscape. The album reflects an organic process that enriches the project’s sonic signature. Volume III has won over a wide audience, bolstered by organic collaborations, notably with Moog Synthesisers, as well as visibility in…
10 April 2026
Coinciding with the 2026 World Cup, 4AD is pleased to present two alternative World Cup anthems from Air Miami and Colourbox, packaged as a special double A-side 7” single entitled Complicated Opposition, with artwork designed by Chris Bigg featuring photography by The Douglas Brothers. See details on each track below. Air Miami – ‘World Cup Fever’ (1995): Originally released on the band’s 1995 Me. Me. Me. Album. Came to be during the summer…
10 April 2026
Montreal trio Bye Parula share their sparkling, dancefloor-ready new single ‘I don’t know,’ the second from their new album Something Out Of Nothing, out June 5. The song is thematically linked to lead single ‘KISSBURN,’ another undeniable earworm. About the pair, singer/bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola shares: “These were written in the same period, at the beginning of the process, and they go together. ‘KISSBURN’ is told from the point of view of someone…
2 April 2026
Earlier this year, Dry Cleaning released their new album Secret Love. The beloved band of vocalist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard’s third album received glowing Album of the Week/Month accolades from the likes of The Sunday Times, The Observer, Record Collector, The Guardian, MOJO, and more, with the latter’s 5* critique calling the album, “a surrealist masterpiece.” Ahead of the band’s extensive tour…
2 April 2026
David Byrne appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week with his 12-member ensemble to perform ‘When We Are Singing’, a track from his new album Who Is The Sky?, out now. Watch the performance HERE. Following the performance, Byrne joined Colbert for an in-depth conversation. Watch HERE. Byrne’s Who Is The Sky? North American spring tour is set to begin on April 4 in Vancouver. Who Is…
2 April 2026
Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) return with their second single ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the exhilarating follow-up to their debut ‘Virgin Soil’. Continuing to build momentum through their electrifying live shows, the track captures the band’s instinctive and playful energy, leaning into a more explosive side of their sound. Watch the accompanying visual here. 1000 Rabbits is an off-kilter art-pop picnic who tell stories through human sounds, both intimate and extroverted. Comprising…
27 March 2026
Generational pop icon Robyn today releases her acclaimed new album Sexistential. Her first album in eight years and the most ecstatic record that she’s ever made: the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at…
27 March 2026
Ahead of the release of her hugely-anticipated third record Ricochet, out today, Snail Mail – the project of Lindsey Jordan – debuted the opening track ‘Tractor Beam’ on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Watch the performance HERE. On the new single, Jordan’s anthemic vocal is paired with buoyant, jangling guitar leads and soaring strings courtesy of NYC’s Metropolis Ensemble. It’s a song about dissociation – about feeling othered, feeling…
27 March 2026
Over the past twenty years Future Islands have travelled a rare arc, from promising newcomers to best-kept secret, from cult favourites to heroes of the genre. As they reach this remarkable milestone, they resist the obvious move. Instead of a ‘best-of’ compilation victory lap, Future Islands present From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth – an immediate and accessible collection – half of which has never appeared on streaming…
27 March 2026
Two Shell continue their +++ shift towards intentional escapism in 2026 with ‘Smile’, a groovy and sexy take on a UK classic *sound*. ‘The Nightmare’ established distance from the sonics of previous releases, ‘Smile’ doubles down on simplicity and fun. The song’s hook defies any real meaning, seeming to look forward and backward at the same time, leaving the listener feeling as though they recognise the song on a first play. Nothing…
27 March 2026
Out today, ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’ is the new maxi-single from Chicago trio Lifeguard. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the music continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. Lifeguard on ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’: Recorded in Lifeguard’s Stulogulo, newly equipped with actually terrifying faces and friendly heroine carpet, plugged straight into the 8-track machine…
27 March 2026
james K’s critically-acclaimed third album, Friend, has been reworked by electronic pioneers Objekt, Drew McDowall (Coil), Hesaitix (M.E.S.H), Roza Terenzi, and Arushi Jain, as well as collaborators and contemporaries Special Guest DJ, Priori (who both co-produced elements of Friend), JASSS, Yushh and Loidis. AD 93 will release the remixes via digital and CD on 24 April 2026. Friend is a portal with its own emotional cartography, one with a map…
25 March 2026
His Name is Alive, the long-standing ethereal darkwave project of Michigan musician Warren Defever, announces the repressing of the band’s first three records on 4AD – Livonia, Home Is In Your Head, and Mouth By Mouth – available from May 8. Recently reissued in 2024 as part of a quickly sold-out colored vinyl boxset entitled How Ghosts Affect Relationships: 1990-1993, with audio sourced from the original analogue tapes and remastered by Defever himself, each album will now…
20 March 2026
My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) are happy to share the first track, ‘Love Story’ from the forthcoming album My New Band Believe which arrives on April 10th. ‘Love Story’ is one of the album’s stand-out tracks. The song is, literally, a love story, a couple in their banal element: staying in, going out, cooking, cleaning, dreaming, scheming, until it…
20 March 2026
Meg Remy made her first foray into film last year, collaborating with filmmaker Grace Glowicki to compose the score for her directorial debut, a surreal horror-comedy entitled Dead Lover — which received its world premiere in the Midnight Section at Sundance, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Gothenburg Film Festival. With the theatrical release of Dead Lover from today (20 March), U.S. Girls shares the glamorous, romantic, and eerie centrepiece of her…
19 March 2026
Zoh Amba joins the Matador Records roster. Amba has become recognised world-wide for their work as a fiery saxophonist and composer, releasing music on Tzadik and Smalltown Supersound and collaborating with artists like William Parker, Luke Stewart, Steve Gunn, and Jim White. Amba’s work on Matador will follow a new path, that of an emerging guitarist and songwriter with music that draws deeply on their childhood in Kingsport, Tennessee. Amba will…
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Introducing: Odette
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Out now: Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (Deluxe Edition)
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