Following the official reveal of the tracklist last week, Blawan – aka Jamie Roberts – releases SickElixir, his debut XL Recordings album. The release lands ahead of his headline show at Village Underground in London on Friday 10 October, where he’ll debuted a brand-new live show, the first of two major headline live shows, with the second in Amsterdam on 22 October – tickets and info here. Crafted between Berlin, Leeds,...
Ruthven returns with ‘Kiss Goodnight’, a disco-infused single that marks a vibrant new chapter following his debut album Rough & Ready. The self-penned track arrives as Ruthven gears up for an extensive UK and European tour. Recorded in Ruthven’s South London studio following the release of his debut album, ‘Kiss Goodnight’ marks a shift in Nelson’s creative process. Moving away from the programmed production of Rough & Ready, he enlisted...
Makaya McCraven releases four new singles today, one from each of his four upcoming EPs – Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop – released on all music platforms October 31st. Today’s four singles – ‘What a Life,’ ‘Prime,’ ‘News Feed,’ and ‘Sweet Stuff’ – and subsequent EPs are all compiled on a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release titled Off the Record, which is available for preorder...
London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle today releases his latest single ‘Azimuth’, featuring vocals from long-time collaborator Caroline Polachek. The song marks the latest evolution in one of contemporary pop’s most compelling creative partnerships – a journey that started in earnest with Polachek’s 2019 solo album Pang, deepened on 2023’s equally acclaimed Desire, I Want To Turn Into You and now crystallises with Harle’s own solo work as...
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,...
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...
Makaya McCraven releases four new singles, one from each of his four upcoming EPs – Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop – which will be released on October 31st. The new singles – ‘Boom Bapped (feat. Theon Cross & Ben LaMar Gay)’, ‘The Beat Up’, ‘Dark Parks (feat. Jeff Parker)’, ‘Los Gatos’ – and subsequent EPs are all compiled on a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release...
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)...
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, XL Recordings announce a special, expanded version of Leila’s acclaimed second album Courtesy Of Choice. Originally released on 11th September 2000, the album followed the success of her Rephlex Records debut Like Weather and felt like a broadcast from a futuristic radio station no one else could tune into. Twenty-five years on, alongside collaborations with the likes of Bjork, Aphex Twin and Terry Hall and...
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...
Overmono – aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell – are deep into their biggest summer yet. From headline festival appearances at Glastonbury (West Holts) – featuring special live guests Kwengface and For Those I Love – to All Points East, Boomtown, and Love Saves The Day, the duo have further cemented themselves as one of the UK’s most vital live electronic acts. Their reimagining of High Contrast’s legendary drum &...
Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer Nourished By Time releases his highly anticipated new album The Passionate Ones via XL Recordings. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. Initially created in Los Angeles’ in late 2019, Nourished By Time emerged as Marcus Brown’s escape from the monotony of his day jobs and a continuously crushed...
Internationally acclaimed drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven returns to announce four distinct yet interconnected EPs – Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop – to be released on all music platforms 31st October. The four EPs are also compiled on a 2xLP and 2xCD physical release titled Off the Record, available for preorder now and in stores 10th October via XL Recordings. In line with the project announcement, Makaya McCraven releases the first single from each EP, ‘Imafan’ (PopUp...
Dutch experimental producer Torus and London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle release Starlight Divergence, a nine-track project made by Torus using stems of Harle’s acclaimed recent single ‘Starlight’ – a collaboration between Danny L Harle and alt-pop icon PinkPantheress as the source material for each track. Torus (Joeri Woudstra) is a multidisciplinary artist who operates at the intersection of visual art and experimental music. Taking the hyper out of hyper...
Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer Nourished By Time shares ‘BABY BABY,’ the third single from his upcoming album The Passionate Ones, out August 22nd via XL Recordings. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. A deadpan dispatch from the frontlines of desire and dysfunction, ‘BABY BABY’ unpacks hyperreality and arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Marcus Brown,...
Everything Is Recorded return with a bold new twist on ‘Porcupine Tattoo,’ a standout track and the first single from this year’s acclaimed album Temporary — now reimagined by none other than genre-defying sonic alchemist DJ Koze. “Richard asked me to approach this remix not with reverence – but with disrespect. It was liberating. Now it sounds a bit like a midlife crisis meets The Prodigy. You’ve been warned.” — DJ...
