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“We all know what’s coming,” sings Jocke Åhlund on “Big Flood”, the epic centrepiece to the fifth album from his band Les Big Byrd. The track reckons with Ragnarök, the Norse mythological prophecy of the apocalypse, which is fitting; Ruin Everything is informed by the world around it, and accordingly, it swirls with dystopian portent. … Read more

With a wink towards the body horror auteur, David Cronenberg’s Wife (or DCW) are the house band in the biology theatre at the end of the world. They loop riffs in relentless cycles til they stop being riffs and become psychological conditions; the bass maintains the pulse; the guitars sharpen the knives; the drums suggest … Read more

 Hiding Places started as an almost tradition-like practice; meeting in rural Georgia for a week or two at a time to record and write; to open themselves up to songs that would visit and hone their technical ability to capture them. It makes sense that the band formed while three of its members were DJs … Read more

Darkest clouds have sealed the sky, Powerplant is back and has brewed its strongest release yet. Bridge of Sacrifice emerges from the cauldron – a fun, black metal infused journey through all that is heavy and gothic. Powerplant,the solitary project of Ukraine-born, London-based Theo Zhykharyev, is distinguished by itsgiddy bass, sizzling synth lines and melancholic … Read more

New Zealand’s Hemi Hemingway is back with his second album entitled, Wings of Desire due out 20th February 2026 on PNKSLM Recordings. “I wanna live on the wings of desire,” are the first words Hemi Hemingway sings on his new album. There’s a reference here, of course, to the 1987 Wim Wenders classic about an … Read more

Cambridge’s psych-folk quintet Fuzzy Lights return with their fifth album Fen Creatures, set for release on 7th November 2025 via Meadows. Following 2021’s critically lauded album, Burials, the band have created their most conceptually ambitious work to date – a meditation on environmental crisis that uses the folklore and history of East Anglia as a … Read more

The Mountain Goats – John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster – are releasing their 23rd full-length album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan on 7th November via Cadmean Dawn Records. Produced by the Mountain Goats’ multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is a full-on musical that stands as the … Read more

OOOOH! is hard on the outside and soft on the inside. Made in the spirit of unity, humanity, and poetry — disobediently renouncing the glory of  personal triumph for the generosity of an honest experiment. On the last track of the album you’ll hear “Or do you only ever never want to make a single … Read more

Even after twenty years as a professional musician, Peter Morén is still searching for identity. It was a realisation that he came to in 2020, when his band, beloved indie rock trio Peter Bjorn and John, released their ninth album almost exactly as the pandemic was beginning. With all touring and promotion cancelled, Morén found … Read more