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Best New Music – Week 23, June 5
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
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Jul 292 min read


Best New Music – Week 21, May 22 2026
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,
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Jun 103 min read


Best New Music – Week 18, MAY 1 2026
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
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May 182 min read


Massive Attack × Tom Waits: Boots on the Ground and the Sound of Righteous Fury
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 invita
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Apr 192 min read
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