Experimental
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Introducing… How to See Know and Fall
Using the world around us to create texture-as-rhythm sounds.
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Akira Yamaoka – ‘Return to Silent Hill’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack review
A worth addition to the industrial hellscape of Silent Hill.
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Sō Percussion – ‘Amid The Noise Live’ review
A fascinating album that explores the quiet moments percussion can provide.
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Higher Plain Music Radio returns: Best Alternative Music from 2025 Mixtape (Side A) show released
Human curated playlists for human-created music.
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Introducing… Flesh Produce
Nu-metal meets... 8-bit electronics?!
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Fields of Mildew – ‘IV’ Review
A beautifully melancholic marriage of century-old folk and modern-day post rock production.
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Matthew Wilcock turns motorway traffic and movement in the real world into sound art
Turning Planet Earth into a music box.
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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
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Hevash5’s latest domino rally plays Auld Lang Syne
Hundreds of dominoes and a set of handbells create an amazing contraption!
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Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill – ‘Dreaming in Gamelan’ Review
The gamelan at its beautifully ethereal best.
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Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) lays bare colonialism and trauma in forthcoming “birth name” debut
Generational trauma and colonialism told through dark poetry and guitar noise
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Eve Matin – ‘TRANSMUTANCIA’ Review
The Harp: Unleashed and Untamed.
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Björk – ‘Cornucopia’ Review
A feast for the eyes, the ears, and the soul.
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Introducing… Liesa Van Der Aa
Belgian experimental electric pop-rock artist explores copy and paste to extreme measures.
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Juana Molina announces new album ‘DOGA’ born out of six years of improvisational refinement
The maestro of experimental folktronica is back with her first original album in six years.
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King Vatra – Bells From The Deep Review
Welcome to dungeon chants and vapor cave music. The ghosts of centuries ago will thank you.
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Camilla Sparksss – ICU RUN Review
The most visceral noise pop album of 2025 is here to give you emotional damage in the best way possible.
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Maryam Rahmani – Kamand Review
The mystical roots of Persia meet the flamenco beats of today.
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Iglooghost returns making Crane Musik for new construction-themed EP
Merging the industrial with the experimental electronic, all themed around electric currents and construction machines.
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Qur’an Shaheed – Pulse Review
Embracing full abandon and experimental freedom through chaotic synths, pianos, vocals, and samples.
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Hannah Frances returns with new avant rock single and album coming October
The polyrhythmic fingerpicker is back with possibly my favourite single of 2025 to date.
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Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantics Review
A superb as-live career retrospective for the freaks on the dancefloor.
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Introducing… Filip Leyman
Merging micromelodies and sweeping rhythms to create organic electronic soundscapes.
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Korfian – Digital Brutalism Review
A heavy darkwave reflection on a digital world and the loss of a father.
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Sister Species – Lena In The Bog Review
A folk rock band that brings its own three-piece trumpet section.
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ELE YPSIS – Quintet No 1 – Tik Tak Review
A wildly experimental electronic chamber music comment on wasting time... that isn't a waste of time!
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Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko – Гільдеґарда (Hildergard) Review
Merging traditional Ukrainian folk singing and modern modular synths for a captivating and compelling performance.
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Introducing… Blue Loop
An electronic. experimental song cycle chronicling a battle against cancer, one chemo cycle at a time.
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Introducing… Justin Karas
Cosy yet experimental harpist and composer announces his debut album.
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Introducing… Maryam Rahmani
Merging Iranian traditions and Australian modernity through the excellent use of a santur.
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Bird’s Robe Celebrate 15 Years of Australian Prog Rock and Post Rock with Documentary Series
Featuring contributions from over 50 artists and bands, charting 15 years of creating a community.
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Molly Joyce – State Change Review
An intensely personal sonic journal of surgeries, disability, mourning what's lost, and reclaiming what remains.
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Lido Pimienta – La Belleza Review
A rich, oppressive, and foreboding orchestral Latin album of love, heartbreak, and healing.
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Introducing… Molly Joyce
A sonic journey of healing by using assistive technology to overcome injury.
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Introducing… Heathe
Experimental post-metal explosion... with a kalimba solo?! Welcome to Heathe
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Introducing… Tian Qiyi
Border-crossing folk fusion from China to Mongolia to Ireland to the UK, in a truly genre-defying sound.
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Pure Altruism – Heart Circuitry Review
Experimental electronic audio diary entries from a computer looking for love and purpose.
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Live Vault – SPELLLING
When a girl and her loop pedal gains a huge full band to showcase her grungier prog rock side.
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Introducing… Mifarma
Switching from Hebrew to English, Mifarma explores the haunting inner narratives of the mind that arise when no one else is watching.
