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Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic, hip-hop and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Tricky, Nia Archives, Rome Streetz, Eartheater, _BY.ALEXANDER... Different When It's Silent by Tricky On False Idols Trip-hop / electronic / modern blues / grime Brooding, desolate, venomous, haunted Memories for Sale — At —> 66 Greene St Soho NY (Deluxe Edition) by _BY.ALEXANDER On _BY.ALEXANDER Records

On October 16, Fontaines D.C. released their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, via XL Recordings. The follow-up to Romance (2024), again produced by James Ford, it is the band’s most ambitious project to date: eleven tracks blending synths, trip-hop rhythms, strings and post-punk, set in a world designed to keep us hooked. We have already covered the album announcement and its first single, “Marianne,” as well as the collaboration with Rosalía. Now let’s look at what the rest of

Photo: Elizaveta Porodina On Monday, Fontaines D.C. shared "Where Is Gone?", the song people have been wondering about since the Dopamine Chamber tracklist dropped in September: a duet with Rosalía, and the first time the Dublin band has given a featured-guest credit on one of its albums. It's the third preview of the record after "Marianne" and "Tongue" (we covered the album announcement here), and it sits at number eight on the tracklist, ahead of the album's release this F

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic, hip-hop and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Jack White, Baby Rose, Kelela, The Durutti Column, The Garden, Chuck Strangers, Nate Smith... i'm DADA by HOLY WAVE on Suicide Squeeze Records psychedelic rock / neo-psychedelia / shoegaze woozy, hypnotic, propulsive, fuzzy Frozen Charlotte by Jack White on Third Man Records alternative rock / garage roc

On July 10th, Austin psych-rock veterans Holy Wave released their eighth studio album, i'm DADA, via Suicide Squeeze Records. Ten tracks, forty-five minutes, and a record that trades some of the band's trademark haze for something more grounded, without losing the atmosphere that's defined them since the early 2010s. Formed by Ryan Fuson, Kyle Hager, Joseph Cook and Julian Ruiz, who grew up together in El Paso's DIY scene before relocating to Austin, Holy Wave stepped outside

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic, hip-hop and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Four Tet, mary in the junkyard, Mairo, neophron, Nirosta Steel, acloudyskye... ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌ ҉ ͡ ͞ ͞ ͞ ҉● ࿀ ● ࿀ ● ҉⃝ ⃝͢ ͞ ͘ ͞⃝̕ ͢ ̛ ⃝ ̸ ̡ ͢⃝̧ ͡ ͡ ̀ ̧ ̢⃝͜ ҉ ͞ ͞ ⃝͞ ͞ ͡⃝ ⃝҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉ :̶̢͙͙͕̠̩͆(̷̮͍͚̫͚͂̍)̵̳̗̊( ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥ by ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ• ̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺ

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Ibeyi, Chanel Beads, Alewya, SML, Beth Orton, Gold Panda... Spontaneous Music Live by SML on International Anthem free improvisation / post-jazz / electronica / avant-rock trance-inducing, collective, live-to-tape, expansive Monkey Mind by Pearl & The Oysters on Stones Throw Records indie pop / dream pop / sunshi

Yesterday, September 4th, Glasgow's corto.alto releases his third album, SOME SMALL FORTUNE, his debut for Ninja Tune, and the follow-up to the Mercury Prize-shortlisted Bad With Names (2023). Fifteen tracks, twenty-two minutes, and by far the widest cast of collaborators Liam Shortall has worked with under the corto.alto name. Shortall trained on trombone, studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and cut his teeth playing in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra before

On August 28th, Erykah Badu & The Alchemist released Before the World Blows, Badu's first full album in more than a decade, following 2015's But You Caint Use My Phone. Sixteen tracks, recorded over eighteen months between Dallas and Los Angeles, built from a pairing that sounds unlikely on paper and inevitable once you press play. Badu and Alchemist met at her annual Birthday Bash in Dallas, and the chemistry shows: Badu's atmospheric, melodic songwriting wrapped around Alch

On February 27th, Brooklyn trio FORAGER released their sophomore album, Even a Child Can Cover the Sun with a Finger. Eleven tracks that push the band's signature kaleidoscopic pop into rawer, stranger territory, whispered verses colliding with blaring sirens and distorted drums, choruses that start out singable and dissolve into something closer to chaos.

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Boldy James, Nicholas Craven, Miles Davis, Tierra Whack, Daniel Lanois, Janus Rasmussen... Janus by Le Grand Sbam on Dur et Doux zeuhl / avant-prog / contemporary classical / art rock ecofeminist, operatic, experimental, zoopunk Where Rivers Meet by Your Brother's Keeper & Gary Bartz on Brownswood Recordings spir

On July 28th, guitarist Cory Wong and saxophonist Joshua Redman released On A Random Tuesday: Live At The Blue Note, an eight-track document pulled from Wong's week-long residency at the legendary New York club. Nearly an hour of music, captured live, with none of the studio polish, just two serious players working a groove in real time. The pairing might look unlikely on paper: Wong made his name in the funk world through Vulfpeck and his own instrumental records, all "Wong-

Le 19 juin dernier, le collectif lyonnais Le Grand Sbam a sorti Janus sur le label Dur et Doux. Dix-huit pistes, 23 musiciennes et musiciens-actrices, presque cinquante minutes de musique : ce nouvel album n'est pas un disque qu'on écoute distraitement, c'est une traversée. Composé par Antoine Arnera et écrit avec son frère, le sociologue Thomas Arnera, Janus se présente comme un « opéra Cthulhu » à la fois philo-zoophique, zoopunk et écoféministe. Le projet rend hommage à tr

On June 19th, the Lyon-based collective Le Grand Sbam released Janus on the Dur et Doux label. Eighteen tracks, 23 musician-performers, nearly fifty minutes of music: this isn't a record you put on in the background. It's a journey. Composed by Antoine Arnera and co-written with his brother, sociologist Thomas Arnera, Janus is billed as a "Cthulhu opera" that's philo-zoophic, zoopunk, and ecofeminist all at once. The project pays tribute to three very different figures: scien

The Dublin band is shedding its skin. After the weary romanticism of Romance (2024), Fontaines D.C. have announced their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, due October 16 via XL Recordings. Eleven tracks, a new single, and a sonic shift that looks as radical as the title suggests.

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With KatzPascale, Kelsey Lu, Wiki, YHWH Nailgun... Ancient History by Wiki on Wikset Enterprise underground hip-hop / abstract rap / NYC rap personal, nostalgic, urban, lyrical Bingo! by La Sécurité on Bella Union dance-punk / art punk / no wave / post-punk kinetic, bilingual, jittery, sardonic ELEGY by KatzPascale on

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Death Cab for Cutie, Vince Staples, Navy Blue, Laura Misch, Widowspeak... Cry Baby by Vince Staples on Loma Vista Recordings hip-hop / post-punk / noise rock / funk-rap political, fearless, raw, scathing Somewhere Good by Tara Clerkin Trio on World of Echo trip-hop / downtempo / electronica / avant-pop woozy, int

©Delphine Fabro Le 22 mai dernier, le quatuor Bancal chéri a sorti son troisième album, La Belle, sur le label PRINTIVAL. Un disque qui confirme tout ce qu'on aime chez eux : une chanson française qui refuse la ligne droite, préfère le pas de travers, et trouve dans ce déséquilibre assumé une vraie forme d'élégance. Le groupe reste inchangé depuis ses débuts : Mathias Imbert (Imbert Imbert) à la contrebasse, Dominique Terrieu (Dimoné) aux guitares et petits claviers, Nicolas

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Boards of Canada, feeble little horse, Iceage, Moses Yoofee Trio, Greg Mendez... Inferno by Boards of Canada On Warp Records electronic, ambient, IDM, hauntology haunted, decayed, occult, immersive bitknot by feeble little horse On Saddle Creek noise pop, indietronica, shoegaze, slacker rock mutated, synthetic, d

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Ecca Vandal, aja monet, Ed O'Brien, Lowertown, Little Barrie... the color of rain by aja monet On drink sum wtr jazz poetry / spoken word / spiritual jazz / neo-soul incantatory, political, luminously liquid Blue Morpho by Ed O'Brien On Transgressive psychedelic folk / trip-hop / electronica / jazz transfigured,