Patrick Watson releases Uh Oh, a deeply personal 11-track collection that investigates the idea of life as being a series of “uh ohs”: a little phrase uttered in response to everything from childhood accidents to our most overwhelming anxieties. The songs on this album were written during a period where Watson was experiencing his own career-threatening “uh oh” – he’d lost his voice. Unsure if he would ever sing again,...
Blawan – aka Jamie Roberts – returns with ‘Rabbit Hole,’ the next single from his highly anticipated forthcoming album SickElixir, out 10 October. Where the first single ‘NOS’ surged forward with a pulsing, vocal-led intensity, ‘Rabbit Hole’ takes a different path. Featuring vocals by Monstera Black alongside his own, it tunnels listeners inward, revealing a more vulnerable and restless side of Roberts’ writing and production. Crafted between Berlin, Leeds, Paris,...
Carla Geneve releases her new single ‘Ashamed’, the third single taken from her forthcoming album Don’t Be Afraid due Friday 17 October. The new single shows Geneve at her most reflective, with piano-led instrumentation framing her direct, intimate lyrics. Carla shares “This is another one of the tracks that we redid. This one was originally theatrical, grandiose. We never quite knew how to finish it off, it felt as though...
After a whirlwind summer of global festivals and her Asia headline tour, NYC-via-Seoul artist, producer, vocalist and DJ Yaeji is back with ‘booboo2’ – the playful sequel to her 2024 banger ‘booboo.’ This time around, she teamed up with hyper-pop-punk artist underscores and rising rapper influencer Aliyah’s Interlude to supercharge the track into a high-octane reinvention of the original. 2025 has been a transformative year for Yaeji. From her stand-alone...
Mouseatouille return with their third album DJ Set, out now on vinyl and all music platforms. This October, the band will take the new record on the road, bringing their intricate live show to headline stages in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney – Tickets on sale now. Mouseatouille, the Melbourne nine-piece collective, has always sought comfort in numbers. There is a reassurance in the orchestra, the knowledge that a friend...
keiyaA announces her highly anticipated, sophomore album hooke’s law, out October 31st, and also shares the project’s second single ‘take it’, accompanied by a second self-co-directed music video with Caity Arthur, which follows last month’s ‘stupid prizes’. Written and produced over five years, hooke’s law is keiyaA’s document of survival through self-interrogation. The album deconstrusts and rebuilds her ego on her own terms, offering a safe space to process conflicting...
On the eve of kicking off a 24-date regional Australian tour, Melbourne punk rock icons The Smith Street Band have dropped a brand-new single and announced their seventh album Once I Was Wild, out Friday November 21. The album’s title track, ‘Once I Was Wild’, serves as its third single, following on from earlier releases ‘This Is It’ and ‘Star Child’. The new track captures a bittersweet nostalgia, as the...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
Isaiah Hull – the self-proclaimed “stand-up tragedian” from Old Trafford, Manchester – unveils his extraordinary new body of work: POCOMANIA. The ten-track project marks his first album for Young Recordings, and is both a spiritual reckoning and sonic eruption. Co-created with acclaimed producer Kwes Darko, POCOMANIA sees the pair exploring what mania sounds like in today’s Black Briton. The title POCOMANIA references a Jamaican spiritual practice that creolises African ritualism...
