Anyone who follows electronic music will know Mechatok – aka Emir Timur Tokdemir – as the defining architect of contemporary experimental pop and rap. From globe-spanning live shows to collaborations with some of the decade’s most forward-thinking artists – including Drain Gang (Bladee, Ecco2k, Whitearmor, Thaiboy Digital), Lorenzo Senni, and Charli XCX – Mechatok has subtly shaped the direction of club and pop music over the past ten years. The...
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The Barr Brothers have announced that their new album Let it Hiss will be released October 17. Their long simmering and long-awaited fourth studio album isn’t just a collection of 10 vital new songs, it’s a document of transformation. The result of a pivotal shift: a pause for reflection, a reckoning with vulnerability, and a reconnection between two brothers – Brad and Andrew Barr – who’ve spent their entire lives making music...
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An ode to island youth, club shapeshifters 15 15 release their latest single, ‘āfa’. Touching on the luminous rays of a Tahitian summer party, a yearly tradition that’s deeply rooted in Tsi-Min and Ennio’s culture (both were born there) ‘āfa’ radiates in breezy, communal energy that lingers like salt in the air. The past 12 months have marked many standout performances, notably Pitchfork Festival London at Camden’s Roundhouse, a European...
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More just in….. Pulp have released their first album in nearly 24 years – and they have a little surprise for fans attending. Recorded late in 2024 with producer James Ford, More is Pulp’s eighth studio album and features the singles ‘Spike Island’ and ‘Got to Have Love’. The album has been universally acclaimed by critics prior to release and is now available to buy and stream worldwide. “The day an album is released to the...
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Out now, Ripped and Torn is the eagerly awaited debut album by Chicago trio Lifeguard. Also released is the band’s churning third single ‘Like You’ll Lose’. The dub-inflected track takes inspiration from Lee Perry’s tight drum sound and expansive lo-fi atmospherics, with Asher Case’s bassline providing a center of gravity for skittering rhythms and tumbling echoes. The band has also been profiled by Rolling Stone, who write “Ripped and Torn...
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Big Thief will release their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, on 5 September 2025. Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia share album opener, ‘Incomprehensible’. Double Infinity is the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-nominated album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, recorded last winter at the Power Station, New York City. For three solid weeks, the trio would ride bicycles on frozen streets between Brooklyn and Manhattan, meeting in...
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It’s a Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness....
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Patrick Watson announces his new album Uh Oh, to be released on September 26, alongside sharing new single ‘Peter and the Wolf’, a menacing, dream-like song inspired by the ghosts of New Orleans and the pitch black-ness of being in the forest in the dark. The pulse-pounding new video, directed by Patrick Watson and SAM WOY was shot in the Quebec countryside. The new album finds Watson meditating on the...
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Verraco – aka JP López – releases his new EP, Basic Maneuvers, his debut on XL’s iconic house bag series, out now. Arriving one year on from his critically acclaimed breakthrough EP Breathe…Godspeed, Basic Maneuvers signals the next step in Verraco’s cross-cultural sonic evolution; a sound where South American dembow rhythms collide with the maximalist basslines of UK soundsystem culture, meticulous IDM sound design, and the intensity and precision of techno....
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Last week Pavement made their debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform ‘Harness Your Hopes’, the group’s b-side-cum-streaming-smash, now officially certified as an RIAA gold record. Director Alex Ross Perry’s film PAVEMENTS, currently screening in select theatres, has been met with confusion, confoundment, and ultimately high praise from critics. Today, Pavement release the PAVEMENTS soundtrack album digitally with a physical edition to follow at a later date....
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Unessential Oils releases The Purest of Oils, an instrumental edition of Warren Spicer’s acclaimed 2024 album, Unessential Oils – available digitally everywhere from May 30. Stripped of the vocals, this instrumental version of Unessential Oils brings the project’s influences to the forefront, blending jazz, folk, Tropicalía, and ambient textures to create a medative soundscape. Conceived entirely whilst bathing, the music flows with easy intimacy – fluid, spacious and deeply personal....
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of In Colour – Jamie xx’s landmark 2015 debut album – the London-based music, producer and DJ announces a limited-edition picture disc version of the LP. Featuring the album’s iconic artwork directly on the vinyl, the In Colour (10th Anniversary Edition) is available to pre-order now and will ship on 14th November. Originally released on 29th May 2015, In Colour quickly established itself as a...
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Planet Rami releases his latest single ‘Mother Eye’. The captivating alt-pop track is about those moments when you’re being thrown around by the universe – whether that be through failed loves, friendships, or jobs – and the only balm can be comfort from your mother. Written with ARIA nominated record producer, composer, mixer and songwriter Tony Buchen. “When I wrote this track, I was going through some major changes in...
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“‘Love’ is a word I was unable to say until I was approaching 40,” explains Jarvis Cocker. “I listened to love songs all the time but couldn’t use the word in real life. The words to this song are me having a word with myself about this state of affairs. I gave myself a real talking-to. I have now learnt how to say it whilst keeping a straight face. ‘You’ve...
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“The Sophs arrived out of the great blue yonder,” says Rough Trade co-founders Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee of the label’s newest signing, LA six-piece The Sophs. The band’s brutal honesty, flamingly intrusive thoughts, and broad genre-spreading caught their attention immediately. Rough Trade heard the sort of creativity and variety — and “don’t expect me to act pretty” sentiment — that could get The Sophs — including frontman Ethan Ramon, Sam Yuh (keyboards), Austin Parker Jones (electric guitar), Seth Smades (acoustic guitar), Devin Russ (drums), and Cole Bobbitt (bass) — a slot...
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Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy anticipates her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album, Scratch It (out 20 June) with a new single ‘Like James Said’, an ELO-styled nugget of AM gold and nod to James Brown about the healing power of dancing alone. Remy’s own lyrical response to Brown’s ‘Get Up Offa That Thing’, the track showcases her great — and characteristically tragicomic — phrasing, notably on...
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