New Music

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

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

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,

Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond. New music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Dua Saleh, Kevin Morby, Genesis Ousu... Happy Today by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet On International Anthem post-minimalism / ambient jazz / improvisational music ecstatic, communal, hypnotically alive Give U Space by K Wata On Short Span ambient dub / dub techno / abstract electronica nocturnal,

Out now on International Anthem / Nonesuch Records Happy Today is the third album from guitarist Jeff Parker's long-running ETA IVtet, recorded live at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on August 20, 2025, and for the first time, outside the walls of the now-shuttered bar that gave the band its name. The context matters. Parker describes 2025 as a very difficult year: displacement from the Eaton fires, family strain, political despair. The Lodge Room show became something else, a mom

Photo Peter Iain Campbell It's here. Thirteen years after Tomorrow's Harvest, the Hexagon Sun is burning. Inferno, the fifth Boards of Canada album, dropped today on Warp Records, and it arrives not as a nostalgia trip, but as a genuine statement. Darker, denser, and more direct than anything they've released before, it sounds like a band who spent thirteen years with a specific vision and refused to release it until it was exactly right. One Album, One Listen The promo itsel

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