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Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, jazz, electronic and beyond — new music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Aldous Harding, Action Bronson, Seu Jorge... Train On The Island by Aldous Harding on 4AD & Flying Nun Records indie folk / chamber folk / art pop oblique, chameleonic, quietly spellbinding Cost of Living Adjustment by Cola on Fire Talk post-punk / art punk / indie rock wired, worldweary, lushly angular Dear Children Of Our

Some artists refuse to exist on the market's own terms. ||||||||||||||||||||, pronounced barcode (/ˈbɑːkəʊd/), takes that refusal to its logical extreme: an unreadable name, a deliberately erased identity, an online presence stripped down to a Bandcamp page and a handful of social accounts. Barcode defines itself as "a post-identitarian prototype of a musician of the upcoming modern era, which lines up independently as a product in the internet's display" — a statement that r

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, jazz, electronic and beyond — new music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With KNEECAP, Jump Source, Lip Critic... FENIAN by KNEECAP via Heavenly Recordings rave-rap / trip-hop / acid house / punk-rap defiant, riotous, darkly political A Great Day In Newcastle by Knats via gearboxrecords; Produced by Geordie Greep jazz fusion / spoken word / modern jazz gritty, rooted, joyfully defiant Theft World by L

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, jazz, electronic and beyond — new music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Bel Cobain, Angelo De Augustine... Kizzy (EP) by Bel Cobain via ʙʀᴏᴡɴsᴡᴏᴏᴅ ʀᴇᴄᴏʀᴅɪɴɢs alt-R&B / neo-soul / jazz-adjacent bittersweet, introspective, beautifully fractured Angel In Plainclothes by Angelo De Augustine via Asthmatic Kitty Records indie folk / singer-songwriter fragile, healing, luminous Location Lost by Failure

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond — new music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With TOMORA, Lucy Liyou, Nine Inch Nails, Sean Solomon... COME CLOSER by TOMORA, AURORA, The Chemical Brothers Electronic / psychedelic / art pop Otherworldly, euphoric, genre-spanning MR COBRA by Lucy Liyou Via Orange Milk Records Free jazz / Musique concrète / experimental pop Visceral, fractured, darkly funny Nine

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond — new music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With My New Band Believe, Squarepusher, Lime Garden... My New Band Believe by My New Band Believe On Rough Trade Records Progressive / chamber folk / avant-folk Hallucinatory, poetic, masterful Wak'a (EP) by Los Thuthanaka Indigenous Andean music meets psychedelic electronica wistful, ceremonial, immersive I Like It,

Zurich-based duo Okvsho, the project of brothers Kiss, are kicking off 2026 in fine style with "Pluto", the first single from their forthcoming album, due out on September 18, 2026 via Current Moves. And if this opening track is anything to go by, the record is shaping up to be something special. The track features London-based singer Azekel, whose silky presence adds a distinctly soulful warmth to the production. "Pluto" is everything you'd want from a late-night listen, unh

The transmission has a title. And a date. A week after Tape 05 broke the silence, the picture is now complete. Boards of Canada have officially announced Inferno, their fifth album and first in 13 years, out May 29th via Warp Records. No single accompanies the announcement, and notably, Tape 05 doesn't appear anywhere on the tracklist. Whether it was a standalone transmission or simply the opening signal of something larger, the album itself arrives as its own separate world.

Two of music's most uncompromising voices. One track. And a world that gave them every reason to make it. On April 16th, 2026, the same day Boards of Canada broke their own silence, Massive Attack dropped Boots on the Ground , their first new music in six years. The feature? Tom Waits. The subject? The state of the world. The tone? Exactly as dark as you'd expect, and then some. A Collaboration Years in the Making As Tom Waits said: "One day many years ago I accepted an invit

Thirteen years. No interviews. No explanations. Just a three-minute track uploaded on Youtube, like a transmission from another dimension. On April 16th, 2026, Boards of Canada, the elusive Scottish duo of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, broke their silence with Tape 05, their first new music since Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). Released via Warp Records with no press release, no album announcement, no context of any kind, it arrived exactly the way you'd expect from the duo: o

Some of the best music happens in the most unlikely places. For guitarist Jeff Parker, it was the back corner of a tiny bar in Highland Park, Los Angeles, every Monday night. Born out of a weekly residency started in 2016 at Northeast LA venue ETA, the IVtet (featuring saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Jay Bellerose) began as a band playing mostly standards before evolving into something far more singular. Over seven years, they became known for tra

Every week, H-Music handpicks the best new releases across indie, jazz, electronic, ambient and beyond. Browse all weekly selections below. ## 2026 → Week 18 – MAY 1, 2026 : KNEECAP, Jump Source, Lip Critic... → Week 17 – April 24, 2026 : Bel Cobain, Squarepusher, Friko... → Week 16 – April 17, 2026 : Honey Dijon, Lucy Liyou, yaya bey... → Week 15 – April 10, 2026 : Lone, Gnod, Squarepusher... The artists are featured in this playlist

Got an exam coming up, a long work session ahead, or just struggling to focus? Lofi music might be exactly what you need. Over the past few years, lofi has become the go-to soundtrack for students, remote workers and anyone who needs to dive deep into a task without getting distracted. But why does lofi actually work? And which playlists should you choose to get the most out of your study sessions? Here's everything you need to know. What is Lofi music? The term lofi (short