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Caleb Wheeler Curtis & Jason Moran - Incantation (Imani)

2 November 2026

Saxophone, stritch, and trumpeter blower Caleb Wheeler Curtis invited pianist Jason Moran into the studio for a duet session, and the results capture the pure joy in the collaboration.

Eternal Mourning - Drums Are Beating My Steps (self-released)

2 November 2026

Eternal Mourning aka Philippe Mourani is a singer-songwriter from Montreal

Arily Michele - Meditation For Wildflowers (self-released)

2 November 2026

Dreampop artist, poet, storyteller, and producer Arily Michele has released her third studio album, Meditation for Wildflowers.

Afternoon Sister - RESET E.P. (North Corona Records)

2 November 2026

Reset E.P. is the debut EP from Afternoon Sister, an indie rock band led by young singer-songwriter Alice Ventura.

Picastro - Double On Time (We Are Busy Bodies)

1 November 2026

Through five songs, Picastro turns documentation’s failure into musical material, and the EP that comes out of it is intimate, restless, and quietly devastating. It does not claim to restore a lost life. It simply refuses to let a missing record excuse forgetting that the life was there.

Object Hours - Solved By Walking (Three Lobed Recordings)

1 November 2026

This is communal music made by people who obviously listen to each other, recorded in the middle of winter in a room that held them close. It asks you to move at its speed.

The Capsules - Full Moon Factory (Graveface Records)

1 November 2026

The commitment to atmosphere is exactly what gives the single its identity. As a calling card, ‘Full Moon Factory’ is a confident one.

Soup Activists - Where The Rubbish Goes (Feel It Records)

1 November 2026

Meyer has spent years building scenes, releasing other people’s records and playing rooms where the stage was the floor, and he’s made an album that sounds happy to be here. It doesn’t strain for importance.

Sennen - New Quiet (Sonic Cathedral)

1 November 2026

Everyone writes under the band’s name, and that democracy shows in how the songs are built. Nobody hogs the frame. Sennen never come across as imitators. The warmth belongs to them alone.

Funus - Dreamless Water (Noon Records)

1 November 2026

The loneliness permeates the writing and therefore lives in the recording. Shoegaze, doom, and post-metal have always leaned toward the slow and immense, and here Vermeulen lets them flow into one another. No silos.

Head - Blackpool Cool (We Are Busy Bodies)

1 November 2026

Head lean further toward jazz than most of their Canterbury-adjacent contemporaries. That improvisational footing is the album’s backbone. These players solo as if they mean every note, and they listen to one another just as fiercely as they play.

Various Artists - Nash The Slash - Covered (Klang Galerie)

1 November 2026
It shows that Nash the Slash’s songs were strong enough to outlive the man who made them famous. The mask, the electric violin, the cinematic concerts, and the no-guitars rule made him unforgettable, but the songs are why he’s still worth remembering. The fifteen musicians gathered here do something more valuable than recreate his past. They allow it to mutate.

Motorcycle - Relive It (Dandy Boy Records)

1 November 2026

Motorcycle jabs at middle age, punk nostalgia, teenage recklessness, and likely themselves, never cruelly. The love for the music that shaped them is obvious. ‘Relive It’ isn’t a reenactment. It’s a salute to the strange fact that the kid inside you outlives the actual kid.

Spirit Unwell - Leaving the Flock (Mystery Circles)

1 November 2026

‘Leaving the Flock’ is consequently a remarkably assured act of reinvention. Its warmth never becomes sentimental, its abstraction never loses its human center, and its melancholy is tempered by an unmistakable affection for imperfect things.

Grandma Love - Grandma Love (Constellation Tatsu)

1 November 2026

Hitchcock has made music about memory without falling into nostalgia’s usual habits. He doesn’t try to recreate a decade, pile on retro signals, or ask you to share his past in order to follow along. What he explores instead is the odd sensation of remembering something you can’t get back in one piece.

Tyler Pursel - In The Pasture of Obsolete Suns (Mystery Circles)

1 November 2026

The record won’t pick a side between ruin and beauty, and that’s its staying power. Both fit in the same frame without canceling each other out. Pursel finds a way to talk about decay without sentimentality or despair. He lets the sounds he creates weather, smear, fracture, and wander off, then pays close attention to what’s still there.

H. Takahashi - Body Trip (Remixed & Remastered) (Constellation Tatsu)

1 November 2026

The remasters preserve Takahashi’s precision, the remixes show how far it travels, and together they make a graceful case for minimal electronic music as a living practice: quiet but not passive, repetitive but not static, spacious but never empty.

Alien Faktor - Hanging by a Threat (Self-Released)

1 November 2026

After 28 years, electro-industrial veterans Alien Faktor return with “Hanging by a Threat,” a furious, bass-heavy single that pairs punk aggression and distorted electronics with the irresistible pulse of industrial dance music.

Delerium & Magic Wands - Dream Palace (Metropolis Records)

1 November 2026

Delerium and Magic Wands bring the hazy warmth of psychedelic indie into a beautifully measured electronic arrangement on “Dream Palace,” a hypnotic collaboration whose unhurried movement and luminous, surreal video capture the sensation of drifting through a dream.

A Shoreline Dream - Waiting (Latenight Weeknight Records)

1 November 2026

Twenty years after their debut, Colorado’s A Shoreline Dream return with “Waiting,” a beautifully immersive album of hazy psychedelia, reverberating guitars, acoustic tenderness, and distortion that can be as exhilarating as it is entrancing.

Erik Rabasca - Oh Domination! (Highest Frequency Records)

31 October 2026

Erik Rabasca’s “Oh Domination!” addresses the frustration of trying to get by in a society divided by technology and disparities in wealth.

Roger Hodgson – In the Eye of the Storm, Hai Hai (A&M/Universal)

31 October 2026

Universal expands the story told by its recent Supertramp reissue series by including the first two solo releases by departed co-frontman Roger Hodgson. The new vinyl pressings benefit from half-speed mastering.

Beauty In Chaos - Quiet Place (33.3 Music Collective)

30 October 2026

Beauty In Chaos keep changing voices, textures and emotional temperatures across “Quiet Place,” with the album reaching its highest points when singer and arrangement become impossible to separate.

MatAre - matar la luz (self-released)

30 October 2026

MatAre is an Atlanta-based solo artist blending post-punk and new wave with the atmospheric textures of dream pop and shoegaze

The Muster Point Project - Dance All Night With You (feat. Cheyanne Summer) (Francomedia)

30 October 2026

The Muster Point Project is the creation of Kevin Franco, a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who splits his time between Calgary, Canada and Santiago, Chile.

Cable Street Riot - Follow (Collapse System Records)

30 October 2026

Cable Street Riot is an anonymous solo project from Los Angeles, written, produced, mixed and sung by one person.

Ghost Rhythms - Missing Times (Cuneiform)

30 October 2026

Missing Times is a powerful and varied ride, made by master musicians who insist on direct emotional communication as much as technical accomplishment.

Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires - The Pumphouse of Broken Dreams (Prank Monkey Records)

30 October 2026

The Pumphouse of Broken Dreams is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘Psychedelic Soul & Trash Vol.3’ from the Hertfordshire-based dream pop band ‘Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires’.

The Clean Crime Scene - Raw Cuts (Blank Verse Records)

30 October 2026

The Clean Crime Scene is an American recording project formed by John Simek (Sparks Fly from a Kiss, The Venus Explosion).

Then Comes Silence - Bye Bye Land (Metropolis Records)

29 October 2026

Then Comes Silence turn “Bye Bye Land” into a love song delivered as a reprimand, where gratitude for someone still being here carries the anger and fear of nearly losing them.

Jack's Maze - The Edge (RPM Entertainment)

29 October 2026

Jack’s Maze turn “The Edge” into an unfinished conversation with the people no longer there, confronting the limit between recovering lost music and recovering the lives that once surrounded it.

Raised On Candy - Red M&M (Magic Door Record Label)

29 October 2026

Raised On Candy make “Red M&M” difficult to settle into at first and strangely hard to leave, as a scraping guitar sound grows heavier without ever becoming easier on the ear.

Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher - Time Always Knows (Black Lagoon Records)

29 October 2026

Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher let the guitar carry the deepest feeling on “Time Always Knows,” turning lost love into something solemn, reverberant and strangely beautiful.

Album Premiere: Caulbearers - Come Back Home (Single Cell Recordings)

29 October 2026

Nineteen years after forming in Manchester, Caulbearers finally arrive at their debut album with twenty four musicians and ten songs that keep changing temperature, pace and emotional colour without losing the groove beneath them.

Martin Saint - Endless Bridge (Self-Released)

29 October 2026

Martin Saint revisits a song first recorded with Citylake in 2017, returning to “Endless Bridge” nearly a decade later with a different life behind him and a new understanding of what it means to let something go.

I Ya Toyah - White Walls (Femme Fatale Records)

29 October 2026

I Ya Toyah’s “White Walls” looks closely at the strange distance between being visible and actually being known, turning private distress into an unusually direct plea for recognition.

Nathaniel Paul - King's Grave (Both Records LLC)

29 October 2026

Nathaniel Paul is an American indie singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer whose music explores the delicate intersection of love, loss, and the human experience.

YUNA - CU XX (YardYard)

29 October 2026

Originally from the peaceful city of Suzhou in China and now based in London, YUNA is a musician, multimedia artist and event organiser whose practice is driven by curiosity, play and a desire to make things happen.

The Pixel Rain - A Sense of Danger (self-released)

29 October 2026

Founded by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Áron Siegler, The Pixel Rain emerged from Southeast London’s underground scene with a self-titled debut EP in 2023.

Sexsomnia - Subspace (self-released)

29 October 2026

Founded in Montreal in October 2021 by Philip Faith with Pat Gaudette, and joined soon afterwards by Michael K. Rien, Sexsomnia place two bass guitars at the melodic forefront of their sound, drawing on the traditions of early post-punk and proto-goth.

Mulholland/Armstrong/Doucerain - Down Silver Streets (Ports of Call Music)

28 October 2026

Down Silver Streets is a collection of songs by Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks and Dave Kusworth, recorded by three musicians who played extensively with Nikki and Dave in the 90s and 2000s:

The Goodbye Radio - Late To It  (Gossett! Records)

28 October 2026

New York-based indie rock band The Goodbye Radio return with “Late To It,” a raw, emotionally resonant new single from their forthcoming album Photographic Medley, currently in the works.

Marc Ribot Quartet - Hurry Red Telephone (Pi Recordings)

28 October 2026

Gathering some friends and anchoring the tunes with longtime compatriot Chad Taylor on drums, Ribot kicks out the jams while keeping his mouth shut.

Emma Rae - Beacon (Monk Records)

28 October 2026

Emma Rae is a rising artist from Stamford, CT, whose authentic songwriting and raw emotional delivery are quickly capturing attention across the music industry.

Owen Young - Always Was (self-released)

28 October 2026

Owen Young grew up in Southern Ontario. He studied fine arts at UCLA and law at the University of Toronto. When he’s not walking the land or driving back roads, he writes in his home studio.

Alex Catchings - Off-Ramp (self-released)

27 October 2026

In 2025 Catchings collaborated with two producers—Ruslan Sirota and Tomo Nakayama—to create his debut album Off-Ramp.

Awake & Dreaming - Inevitable (self-released)

27 October 2026

Awake & Dreaming have released their debut album, Inevitable.

Joan As Police Woman - We Don’t Own It (Reveal Records)

27 October 2026

Joan As Police Woman returns to “We Don’t Own It” twenty years later, giving the song more space, more ache, and a strange kind of comfort without asking its grief to resolve.

Ecce Shnak - Own’d Thyself (Records, Man Records)

26 October 2026

Ecce Shnak’s “Own’d Thyself” turns two and a half minutes into one of the band’s most complete releases yet, layering bright momentum, beautifully integrated vocals, and sharp humour into a deceptively simple shape.