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Best New Music – Week 18, MAY 1 2026

  • h-music8
  • 3 days ago
  • 2 min read

Updated: 1 day ago

Best new music week 18 2026 – KNEECAP, Jump Source, Lip Critic – H-Music new releases

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



via gearboxrecords; Produced by Geordie Greep

jazz fusion / spoken word / modern jazz

gritty, rooted, joyfully defiant



Theft World by Lip Critic

via Partisan Records

synth-punk / digital hardcore / breakbeat

unhinged, feverish, darkly prescient



American Football (LP4) by American Football

via Polyvinyl Record Co.

emo / math rock / post-rock / progressive rock

spacious, heavy, strangely celebratory



Foundry by Yu Su

via Short Span

electronic / ambient dub / minimal techno

layered, dusky, immersive



ECHOLOCATION by Dolphin Hyperspace

via P-Vine Records 🇯🇵 & popop

electro-jazz / beat culture / avant-jazz

unhinged, danceable, virtuosic, free



Bliss by Lucid Lucia

via Rotkat Records

jazz-funk / instrumental hip-hop / jazz

swinging, cosmic, joyfully eclectic



OUTTANATIONAL by Pigeon

via Memphis industries

Afro-rock / punk-funk / post-punk

gloriously alive, borderlessly groovy



SUUNS & Kelman Duran by SUUNS & Kelman Duran

experimental rock / dub / industrial electronica / krautrock / post-punk

tense, spectral, winningly minimal



Johnny's Dreamworld by Modern Woman

via One Little Independent Records

art rock / post-punk / avant-folk

literary, incantatory, tenderly confrontational



Sol.Hz by Seefeel

via Warp Records

ambient dub / electronica / idm

vaporous, subterranean, timelessly disorienting



Poem 1 by Ana Roxanne

via kranky

ambient / singer-songwriter

naked, luminous, prayerlike, heartbroken



TRAFO by OPEK

via Schallplattenfirma Records

spiritual jazz / rare groove / krautjazz

hazy, cinematic, hauntingly groovy



Fold by Jump Source

via NAFF

house / breakbeat / ambient / trip-hop

sweaty, sophisticated, gloriously eclectic



youbet by youbet

via Hardly Art

indie rock / lo-fi / post-punk

spooky, taut, delightfully off-kilter


Sigils For Survival by Octo Octa

via T4T LUV NRG

deep house / acid house / breakbeat / rave

ritualistic, defiant, ecstatically healing



Hoopla by Weird Nightmare

via Sub Pop

power pop / garage rock / indie rock

sunny, fuzzy, irresistibly hooky


Shards by Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore

via Red Hook Records

contemporary jazz / electroacoustic / free improvisation

fractured, rhapsodic, hauntingly immersive



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