Best New Music – Week 21, May 22 2026
- h-music8
- Jun 10
- 3 min read
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, hopeful, gorgeously adventurous
Funny How? By Chassol
On Créature
jazz / neo-soul / rap / ultrascore / spoken word
joyfully political, harmonically riotous
Sings Again by Will Samson
On Human Chorus
folktronica / ambient / electroacoustic
reborn, organic, quietly visionary
Constant Farewells by Trainfantome
On Howlin' Banana/ Flippin' Freaks
shoegaze / indie rock / post-hardcore
grief-forged, cathartic, beautifully overflowing
From Here On Out by Sonedo
On Rebecca’s Records
jazz rap / nu jazz / grime / broken beat
elastic, collaborative, lightning-in-a-bottle
Visions of Dilla (EP) by Valtteri Laurell, Ricky-Tick Big Band
On BBE Music
jazz big band / jazz-rap / orchestral hip-hop
daring, jubilant, lovingly reimagined
Enth by Arovane & Taylor Deupree
On LAAPS
ambient / sound collage / loops
bubbling, expansive, organically processed
Paradessence by Visible Cloaks
On RVNG Intl.
electronica / ambient
shimmering, paradoxical, hyperrealistically beautiful
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW by Ecca Vandal
On Loma Vista Recordings
alt-pop / post-punk / grunge
defiant, loud, urgently subtractive
Gravity Freeze by Little Barrie
On Easy Eye Sound
blues rock / psychedelic rock / garage
hypnotic, incandescent, elegantly haunted
ACTION REACTION by Horatio Luna
On La Sape
jazz / house / funk / electronica
warm, luminous, danceably abstract
Di Hotel Malibu by Thee Marloes
On Big Crown Records
psychedelic soul / neo-soul / funk
polished, sun-soaked, deeply Indonesian
Sustained by Jungstötter
On Unguarded
art pop / experimental pop / chamber
austere, devotional, teutonically spellbinding
Look On The Bright Side by Malcolm Strachan
On Haggis Records
soul-jazz / Latin jazz / Afrobeat
groovy, cinematic, forward-looking
Pink Guitars, Spaceships N Voodoo Dolls by JuJu Rogers
On Counterkultur
afropunk / hip-hop / psychedelic funk
political, genre-dissolving, defiantly manifesto
Sender by Jogging House
Self released
ambient / downtempo / drone
calm, kalimba-driven, meditative
The Sun Turned Black by Aho Ssan
On Subtext / Ici d'ailleurs
experimental electronic / electroacoustic / ambient
apocalyptic, cinematic, viscerally ancestral
like the season! by Max Winter
On Secret Friend
electronic / experimental / post-club
collaborative, textural, darkly London
rain music by Duval Timothy & Carlos Niño
On Carrying Colour
ambient jazz / electroacoustic / contemporary classical
delicate, rainy, communally improvised
Engraving of Armor by Beck Zegans
On Exploding In Sound Records
alt-rock / noise rock / dream folk
moody, confrontational, beautifully fuzzed
Ugly Duckling Union by Lowertown
On Summer Shade
indie rock / lo-fi / neo-psychedelia
eccentric, conceptual, communally defiant
The Well by Mug
Self released
no-wave / shoegaze / ambient
raw, intimate, wound-licking
life by Traumprinz
On all possible worlds
deep house / deep techno / psychedelic
hypnotic, sprawling, dancefloor-devoted
Heavy Water by Magic Tuber Stringband
On Thrill Jockey
avant-folk / Appalachian folk / experimental
ecological, dissonant, hauntingly beautiful
The Way The Light Looks by Eligh x FAZE.ONE
Self released
underground hip-hop / boom bap / conscious rap
grateful, warm, sharply crafted
Baby It Cold Outside by Lavurn
On Motion Ward
trip-hop / dream pop / electronica
slinky, nocturnal, emotionally adrift
All picks are featured in this playlist: Best New Music - Best of 2026
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