Living Hour return with their latest single ‘Best I Did It’, a cathartic blend of raw lyricism and distorted, shoegaze-infused alt-rock. It’s the third preview of their upcoming fourth album Internal Drone Infinity out October 17. Lead singer and lyricist Sam Sarty describes the song as an unflinching confrontation with depression, dissociation, and anxiety. “This song is about confronting intensely grey feelings,” Sarty shares. “In Winnipeg, during the winter and...
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Montreal’s The Barr Brothers have released ‘Naturally,’ a heartfelt ode to personal growth and self-acceptance. Rooted in the tradition of classic American songwriting, the track evokes the melodic charm and lyrical depth of artists like Harry Nilsson and Paul Simon. ‘Naturally’ is the fourth glimpse into Let It Hiss, their long-awaited fourth studio album, arriving October 17. Unfolding gradually over a laid back groove, ‘Naturally’ features ethereal high harmonies from...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dance music titan Solomun today releases two highly-anticipated remixes of Jamie xx’s ‘Waited All Night’ – a standout track from his acclaimed 2024 album In Waves. The song marked the first time Jamie had reunited with his The xx bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim on record since the group’s 2017 album I See You, and has since become a live highlight at Glastonbury, Jamie’s own LIDO festival and...
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Earlier this year, Hackney-born rapper and poet John Glacier released her debut album Like A Ribbon, cementing her place as one of the UK’s most compelling new voices. The record quickly earned widespread acclaim, appearing on “Best Albums of 2025 So Far” lists from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum, Time Out, and more. Today, Glacier returns with a surprise deluxe edition of Like A Ribbon—featuring five brand new tracks with production...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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