Simon Smith
- Piano pop
Tori Amos returns with uplifting mother/daughter bonding single ‘Stronger Together’
An uplifting call to comfort feels like a follow-up to "Promise"
- Folk
Yaelokre – ‘Composing Colentine’ Review
A fantasy folk tour of escapism and creating bonds.
- Synthwave
Minute Taker’s upcoming album looks set to be a retro-future synthwave powerhouse
The soundtracks to your favourite 80's films are reborn.
- Indie Pop
Pattie Gonia & Imogen Heap collaborate for social and environmental justice
A daredevil music video features aerial performers BANDALOOP.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Shelby Natasha
A melting pot of Chinese guzheng and lo-fi RnB.
- Documentary
Benn Jordan’s deep dive into data centres highlights a terrifying infrasound issue
Data centres are making you sick.
- Synth Pop
ionnalee, iamamiwhoami – BLUE in Concert (Live Versions) Review
Celebrating 10 years of an anthemic synth-pop classic.
- Metal
Myrkur’s latest single takes part in Denmark’s Eurovision selection process
Ethereal dark folk meets emotive black metal.
- Higher Plain Music Radio
Best Alternative Music of 2025 (Mixtape Side B) Released on Higher Plain Music Radio
A wild cantor through the best hidden gems of alternative electronica, folk, and rock from 2025.
- Rock
debdepan – ‘LOVERS & OTHERS’ review
A fantastic mix of indie pop sensibilities and big rock riffs and hooks to take rock back to the dancefloor.
- Indie
The Go! Team – ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Live at the Roundhouse)’ – Review
A bombastic, energetic performance 20 years in the making.
- Folktronica
El Búho – ‘Kerala Rain’ Review
When Cumbia folktronica meets Indian fusion, great things happen.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Loma Reqs
Welcome to Kurdish Acid
- Indie
Jesca Hoop announces new album, with clever lead single ‘Designer Citizen’ out now
Politically charged and in search for sanctuary.
- Folk
Bruno Bavota+Chantal Acda – ‘Safer Places’ Review
Where sad piano folk meets uplifting stories of everyday inspiration.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Miarlequin
A witchy, vintage synth watercolour soundscape about kindness in your own neurodivergence.
- Classical
Øystein Skar – ‘Stories for A’ review
Thoughtful piano pieces to be passed on from father to daughter.
- House
Jinjé & A. Montane – ‘Neon Garden EP’ review
Giving shape and definition to electronic house experimentation and improvisation.
- Music Technology
Native Instruments Enters Insolvency Highlights Industry Wide Issues
A rant from an angry consumer.
- Introducing...
Introducing… How to See Know and Fall
Using the world around us to create texture-as-rhythm sounds.
- Soundtrack
Akira Yamaoka – ‘Return to Silent Hill’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack review
A worth addition to the industrial hellscape of Silent Hill.
- Chamber Pop
Hanakiv returns with new album ‘Interlude’… and the pianist is bringing her voice this time
An ethereal, haunting way to process grief through the prepared piano.
- Experimental
Sō Percussion – ‘Amid The Noise Live’ review
A fascinating album that explores the quiet moments percussion can provide.
- Chiptune
Boy Without Batteries – ‘Glass Cannon’ review
An emotional journey from despair to healing... through hardcore chiptune?!
- Higher Plain Music Radio
Higher Plain Music Radio returns: Best Alternative Music from 2025 Mixtape (Side A) show released
Human curated playlists for human-created music.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Flesh Produce
Nu-metal meets... 8-bit electronics?!
- Dark Wave
Introducing… Lone Assembly
This Swiss quartet command the stage with their blend of darkwave and gothic rock.
- Singer Songwriter
Kate de Rosset – ‘It Will Burn’ Review
Your ambient pop, air sprite energetic boost is here.
- Rock
Mitski returns with ‘Where’s My Phone?’ and new album in February
Reclusive rock that lets it all pour out in private.
- Classical
Hani Rani’s new album is the soundtrack ‘Sentimental Value’ that extends beyond the film
The soundtrack integrates field recordings from set and tracks not in the movie.
- Indie
Violin-looping indie pop star Kishi Bashi to celebrate 10th Anniversary of ‘Sonderlust’ with special edition
A personal 10/10 album is getting the expanded demos and b-sides treatment!
- Introducing...
Introducing… A Thousand Mad Things
80s synthpop meets modern darkwave so we can all cry on the dancefloor
- African Music
Tidiane Thiam – ‘Siftorde’ Review
The innate rhythm of desert blues and Sahelian folk will charm your soul.
- Introducing...
Introducing… Asher Gamedze
A melting pot of African soul, jazz, and percussive heritage brews a heady concoction of political grooves.
- Folk
Fields of Mildew – ‘IV’ Review
A beautifully melancholic marriage of century-old folk and modern-day post rock production.
- Jazz
Blue Giant – Review
The visceral emotion of a live performance in anime form.
- Ambient
Matthew Wilcock turns motorway traffic and movement in the real world into sound art
Turning Planet Earth into a music box.
- Hammered Dulcimer
Manu Delago and Max ZT create the ultimate tuned-percussion tag-team with newly announced album ‘Deuce’
Hammered dulcimer and handpans unite for a symphony of pitter-patter tones
- Tuned Percussion
Hevash5’s latest domino rally plays Auld Lang Syne
Hundreds of dominoes and a set of handbells create an amazing contraption!
