Simon Smith
- World Music
Manu Delago & Max ZT – ‘Deuce’ Review
A union of handpan and hammered dulcimer made in paradise.
- Electro Pop
Baths – 3 Negative Pop(?) Songs – Review
3 quirky earworms to cry-dance to
- Electronica
Thief’s dark electronica returns with lead single ‘Moon and Kill’ from forthcoming 5th studio album
Doomsday sounds better with gothtronica anthems.
- Dark Folk
Sheherazaad announces debut album ‘Khudgarzi’ with symphonic single ‘Andhera’
A melting pot of traditions and ten tales of survival.
- Alt Pop
Bison Rouge – ‘Her Salt’ Review
The very best of cellotronica and alternative songwriting.
- Organic Electronic
Kishi Bashi – Kishi Bashi / ‘Tall Tall Trees & The Sound Sanctuary’ Review
An intricate exploration between plants and humans, and the organic and the symphonic.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Pegzilla
A foreboding warning for abusers, delivered using doom rock anger.
- Singer Songwriter
Steady Holiday sings about motherhood with her new single ‘New Generation’
The whiplash of parenthood in song and video.
- Jazz
Gentle Love – ‘Prescription for Sleep: Ghibli’ Review
Ghibli gets the sax and piano arrangement treatment, and this one is a cracker!
- Introducing...
Introducing… Lisa Michelle Anderson
Americana with extra twang.
- Singer Songwriter
Gregory Douglass returns with ‘Bespoke’, and announces first studio album in a decade
Music's best-kept secret is about to unleash a beast of an album.
- Neoclassical
Gus Ferguson – ‘Requiem for Gaza’ Review
A Neo-Brutalist triptych with something bold and important to say.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Aqualine
For fans of Pixies, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and Radiohead if they had a sense of humour...
- Dark Folk
i Häxa – ‘Oceans’ Review
A cataclysm of fantastic folk metal.
- Chamber Pop
Agnes Obel teases new album with a song snippet
30 seconds is all we need to get excited.
- VGM
Someone has put Nigel Farage inside a Parappa the Rapper song, and it is glorious
Now blame it on the poor! Now blame it on the poor!
- Folk
Introducing… Maiah Wynne
Haunted banjos and dulcimers lead the way for a new album.
- Introducing...
Introducing… devonwho
Beatless synth therapy like an ambient hi-potion.
- Indie Folk
Half of Piano Magic formed a new band, and I had no idea
Ghost rock is back.
- Electronic
Àbáse announces new album ‘Nefelejcs’
Hungarian folk meets trap beats and ethno jazz!
- Country
Live Vault – Mikaela Davis
Cowgirl with a harp.
- Gothic
Elizabeth Vogler – ‘Au Nom Deus Asos’ Review
A voice comparible to Lisa Gerrard.
- Organ
Susanne Sundfør announces new album, and it’s a pipe organ and vocal concept piece
Kit Downes' pipe organ is the lead instrument.
- Downtempo
RUMTUM – ‘In a Forest EP’ Review
Late 90s downtempo for 2am post-club vibes.
- Sound Bath
Didge Project showcases sound bath instruments and how to play them
My instrument wishlist is going to get a whole lot bigger!
- Site News
- Ska
Madness: Take It Or Leave It is getting a 4K Remaster release
The UK institutions cult 1981 movie is getting a glow up
- Instruments
Poranguí launches new video series explaining the lineage of medicine music instruments
Learn about the didgeridoo and other ancient instruments.
- Field Recordings
Datassette’s Audio Survey series plots field recordings onto UK Ordnance Survey maps
City walk ambience to work to.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Maripool
Shoegaze trails on DIY rock anthems from a rising talent.
- News
Linda Perhacs is reportedly missing and fans may be able to help
Californian-based singer-songwriter hasn't been heard from all year.
- IDM
Throw Down Bones – ‘4EP’ Review
Workout music for demons
- Saxophone
Colin Stetson and Brìghde Chaimbeul announce collaborative alternative sax and pipe album
This saxophone and smallpipes collaboration will cause a mighty wind.
- Dark Wave
ACTORS and ULTRA SUNN release new singles as label Artoffact provide our goth summer
Two darkwave anthems to dance-cry to.
- Trip Hop
Abigail Hubbard – ‘People Watching’ Review
Discovering a trip hop gem, 14 years after its release.
- VGM
So I’m releasing a VGM-inspired album in September, and here’s the second single
A tribute to forest and temple RPG themes from the last 40 years.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Radie Peat
A unique Irish voice, wrapped up in a mysterious shroud.
- Goth pop
A Thousand Mad Things – ‘Hate It’ Review
Theatrical dark wave and synth pop for all our sad goths needs
- Rock
Deep Sea Diver’s cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’ is fabulous
Turning an ethereal classic into a raging rock explosion.
