Canadian rock project Criminal Hero returns with “Walk Through The Fire,” the fourth single from an upcoming debut album.
Like his 2021 seventh LP Following the Moon, this eighth by London singer/guitarist Simon Berridge proves that his ‘60s/70s-inspired, Teenage Fanclub folk-pop meets lighter Bevis Frond psych-rock remains intact.
Sung brings all of this devotion to her formative influences to life with a flair for big band arrangements that speaks of a deep love of that method of delivery.
Julia Greenberg’s “Born Sentimental” EP captures folk music at its most human: raw, close, funny, mournful, and carried by musicians who trust the room they are playing in.
As a final chapter in Lee “Scratch” Perry’s recorded legacy, ‘Spatial, No Problem’ encapsulates the qualities that made him one of modern music’s most singular figures. It celebrates experimentation over certainty, imagination over convention, and possibility over limitation. More than a closing statement, it stands as a reminder that artistic innovation is not a destination but a perpetual state of becoming.
The album recognizes that meaning is rarely discovered through grand revelations; more often, it emerges through accumulated details, half-remembered stories, and fleeting encounters.
Few artists possess the confidence to approach beloved songs with such freedom, and even fewer have the imagination to make those transformations feel inevitable. ‘Playing…6 Garage & Sixties Hits!’ succeeds because it understands a simple but profound truth: great music is never fixed.
What makes ‘Inferno’ such a remarkable achievement is its refusal to separate the intellectual from the emotional. The album engages with cosmology, theology, memory, biology, and metaphysics, yet never loses sight of human vulnerability. Its questions are grand, but their implications remain deeply personal. Boards of Canada understand that uncertainty is not a failure of understanding but an essential aspect of existence itself.
‘Black Paladins’ stands among the finest recordings produced outside the core Art Ensemble of Chicago discography, not merely because of its technical excellence or historical importance, but because it achieves something rarer. It transforms remembrance into action, poetry into sound, and collective memory into a living artistic presence.
What distinguishes ‘Fate Is Criminal’ is its willingness to inhabit uncertainty. Many albums about love and loss seek conclusions, lessons, or resolutions. RALEIGH recognizes that life rarely provides such neat outcomes.
‘Gravesite’ may be concise, but its artistic reach extends far beyond its duration. It is a sharp, uncompromising debut statement that transforms dissatisfaction into creative energy and uncertainty into purpose.
The 50th anniversary edition highlights just how sophisticated these recordings were despite their apparent simplicity. The remastered sound reveals subtle details in the harmonic layering and spatial placement, allowing listeners to appreciate the duo’s extraordinary sensitivity to texture and pacing. Yet the album’s true achievement remains conceptual rather than technical.
Joan As Police Woman revisits Real Life with new collaborators, deeper instrumental space, and a sense of motion that reveals how much room these songs had inside them from the beginning.
Dick Valentine is perhaps best known as the frontman for Detroit’s premier all-purpose musical extravaganza Electric Six,
Trading his amplifiers for a classical guitar, Connors made a trio of LPs focusing on acoustic music, of which 1978’s Of Mist and Melting, now reissued as part of ECM’s vinyl-only Luminessence series, is the second and best known.
The Buddyrevelles are on the precipice of concluding their Trilogy of the EPs series. A 3 year journey spanning 3 EPs, culminating with the release of The Conviction slated to arrive June of 2026.
What’s The New Mary Jane are a songwriting and recording project from the West Country, formed by cousins Robert and Dave Wildman.
Debut album by London indie rockers French Dogs.
The sprawling, 23-song double-LP V: Heroic Dose diverges from this Kansas City, MO quintet’s typical weighty rock albums; on the other hand, X: Live sticks to their harder-hitting trademark psych, post-rock, and prog oeuvre.
Written in Italy but recorded in Berlin, Lumière fits right in with the work of O’Halloran’s European peers – folks like Max Richter, Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, the last three of whom appear here.
Heddy Edwards is a singer-songwriter, producer, and poet hailing from the south suburbs of Chicago, now residing in northern Virginia.
Dame Haff (Dan Mehaffey) is a solo project driven by nostalgia, humour, and a refusal to take things entirely at face value.
After Polygram’s release of their 1995 second LP That’s What Love Songs Often Do, poor sales for this Chicago foursome’s 1997 third album led to the band being dropped and their 1998 breakup. But it deserved better, as this first-time-on-vinyl reissue proves.
A fractured, hallucinatory convergence of freak folk textures, dark ambient, and no wave dissonance.
Barron has rarely released live albums, so it’s always nice to find one on the racks.
Reduction In Force is back with new single and video, “Reconcile”
Thorn Haven is a Denver-based alternative band that blends grunge undertones, shoegaze atmosphere, the heaviness of nu-metal, and emotionally raw songwriting
The second single from their sophomore EP From Where We’re From, Gimme is a fiery charge from the trenches swinging menacingly between tension and release.
Here Come the Tears may not top separate projects including Suede’s Coming Up or Bernard Butler’s People Move On, but it’s a worthy addition to the collection. It is simply not to be ignored by any fan of either Brett Anderson or Butler.
Scivic Rivers is the moniker of Durham, NC folkie Randy Bickford, and this four-songer follows a self-titled 2023 debut LP, as well as six albums from 2001-16 as The Strugglers and Brice Randall Bickford.
Melbourne-based songwriter Gary Hubber returns with A Dangling Thread, a new album that explores uncertainty, identity, connection, and the unfinished nature of life itself.
Memphis-born, New York-based saxophonist and composer Bernell Jones II returns with his latest single, “1979,”
London’s rising indie rock outfit St. Jove makes a fearless entrance with their debut single “GOLD”
The mastering, sound, and overall presentation are just incredible, as is the usual standard for Chad Kassem’s Acoustic Sounds reissues.
London-based shoegaze outfit sadplanet return with their powerful new single “please,” the second track to be lifted from their forthcoming debut EP “slowing down.”
Chicago-based dark synth / industrial artist TATV GRAL (ˈtätü ˈgräl) announces the release of the Treachery EP, a new remix EP featuring the original version of the ‘Treachery’ single, produced by William Faith.
Far more faithful to Stańko’s roots in free jazz than to the chamber jazz that made him a star in the States, Balladnya is a stunning calling card longtime fans of both the artist and the label need to hear.
Paul Louis Villani is a Melbourne-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who builds songs from instinct, not formulas.
“Kickback” is an official remake of The Fods’ track, rebuilt from the ground up by producer Night Wolf.
Bleach Dreamer is a Hamilton-based dream-pop project blending 80s post-punk textures with modern shoegaze atmosphere
Few debut albums introduce an artist so completely. ‘Yellow House’ does not merely present Satya as a promising songwriter; it establishes her as a thoughtful storyteller capable of turning private history into music of profound emotional and artistic substance.
What makes ‘And Then I Go Up’ particularly striking is its refusal to dramatize introspection. Many contemporary records treat vulnerability as spectacle, transforming private emotions into public performance. Ev. G. takes a different approach. These songs are thoughtful without becoming detached, emotional without becoming sentimental, and intellectually engaging without sacrificing accessibility.
Portland-based KALLAI announced Forever Could Never Be, the follow-up to the band’s debut LP, We Are Forever
Barry J Walsh’s latest single, “Star Ride”, is a supersonic slice of celestial pop, scoring the heavens with soaring harmonies and glammed-up jangly guitar riffage.
Boston songwriter Leah Callahan’s 5th solo album in 6 years, “Our Lady of the Sad Adventure”, out June 1, 2026, is a reverie which dials up dreamy synths, spacey beats, and captivating melodies.
Bay area-based composer Dren McDonald has been releasing music since the 1990s, setting standards with his work scoring video games, and winning gaming industry awards along the way for his efforts.
‘Spike And The Gandy Dancers’ is an American group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded by singer-songwriter Peter VanDusartz
Widowspeak sound neither nostalgic nor concerned with reinvention for its own sake. Instead, ‘Roses’ captures a band deepening its existing strengths and discovering new emotional shades within a familiar palette.
The album’s greatest accomplishment is its emotional intelligence: it recognizes contradiction as a permanent feature of human experience and finds beauty within that uncertainty. With this debut, Maisy Owen establishes herself as a songwriter of uncommon depth and sensitivity.
Far from existing as an auxiliary release, ‘Horrorble’ stands as a substantial artistic statement in its own right. It examines the same troubled world as its predecessor but from a different vantage point, replacing direct confrontation with reflection, atmosphere, and sonic archaeology. What emerges is not a diluted version of ‘Horror’ but its mirror image: darker in some respects, more contemplative in others, and every bit as compelling.
