176: Blue Lake - Cut Paper

I've been so caught up in the most recent release from Blue Lake - the glistening Weft - that I hadn't even clocked that it wasn't a 'proper' album release. Though it's formed of only five songs, it contains more

175: Poor Creature - The Whole Town Knows

The music of Poor Creature ticks so many of my musical boxes it's hard to understand how they've passed me by until now. A timely find then, just a week or so ahead of the release of their new album All Smiles Tonight which is coming

174: Runnner - Get Real Sleep

Seemingly making a big leap forward from what's come before, Noah Weinman has announced a brand new Runnner album with the sharing of new track 'Get Real Sleep'. Where much of his previous work has felt tender and stripped-back, the new single opens up a whole

173: Little Mazarn - Crystal Cave

The space found within Little Mazarn's new LP feels illuminating and remarkable. Within its ten songs there gaps remain, gentle places of rest that seem to hold just as much quiet power as the words and sounds that are conjured around them. The band's third album,

172: Mal Devisa - Skyline Arms-Reach Out

Earlier this week we were tagged in a couple of social posts from the excellent Topshelf Records, who were sharing a little reminder of Mal Devisa's astonishing Kiid LP, a collection of songs first released in 2016, and then pressed to vinyl by the label in 2019 – and

171: OK Cool - Safety Car

It's been a long time coming, but having been kicking around the scruffy edges of the Chicago DIY scene, and releasing three EPs, over the past five years, OK Cool are finally set to release their debut full-length. Called Chit Chat, and released on August 1, the album

Album Round-up: 20/06/2025

Welcome to another album round-up! There's a few really lovely releases out today, from earthy peacefulness to polished exuberance. As always, dig in below and I hope you find something new to discover here... * Scratch It by U.S. Girls In just ten days, Meg Remy and her

170: múm - Mild At Heart

I have a memory seared into my brain. I was on a trip to Iceland Airwaves, and had travelled from Reykjavik to Akureyri for a couple of days away from the capital city. I'd spent the day on a coach trip, bathing in thermal springs, eating food roasted

In Conversation: S.G. Goodman

“The strangeness of time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can’t see, whose beginning you’ve forgotten, but in the sudden realisation that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.” - Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire * Time never feels more erratic than

169: Annahstasia - Be Kind

It takes a few listens to really get to grips with these new Annahstasia songs, for no other reason than her voice is so special it pulls the focus away from every other aspect of her work. Spend a little time here though and the songs that make up her

168: Iona Zajac - Bang

The majority of Iona Zajac's music has thus far leant into folkier, traditional side of things, most notably on her excellent debut EP Find Her In The Grass and again on 'Summer', a beautiful song released earlier this year. Now, fresh from touring as a member

167: Mike Polizze - Around Sound

It's little surprise that the announcement of the new album from Mike Polizze is led by a Kurt Vile quote, such is the earthy, meandering nature of the album's glorious new single 'Around Sound'. Arriving on the excellent Paradise of Bachelors label, Polizze'

166: Rachel Kitchlew - Mammone

Titled, aptly, Flirty Ghost, the new album from harpist Rachel Kitchlew drifts between playfulness and something altogether fascinating, a space where shadowy ambient explorations eventually crack to reveal the bright and colours below. Released in August, three of its eight songs have been revealed thus far, all of which lean

165: Hand Habits - Wheel Of Change

Though it's been four years since the release of Hand Habits Fun House LP - their last full-length studio effort - Meg Duffy has remained something of a constant, releasing outtakes, B-sides, live recordings, a new EP, all while appearing on work from the likes of Perfume Genius

164: Eve Adams - Nowhere Now

In the time since her wonderful 2021 album Metal Bird, Eve Adams has made a home for herself out in the open plains of the American Southwest, and quietly set about writing what she calls her "eulogy for the American Dream", and what we find as one of

Album round-up: 30/05/2025

Hello friends and followers! Welcome to a shiny new feature, and something I've been meaning to pull together for a while now. It is, as it says right there, a round-up of some albums released today. I don't expect it to be a weekly feature but

163: Alex G - Afterlife

It almost felt like a fever dream watching Alex G spiral into something huge. Like many of us who ran music blogs in the early 2010s he was I knew him as a ridiculously prolific character destined for a life in the shadows with his slightly weird, always skewed songwriter

162: ganavya - Song For Sad Times

One of those moments that leaks into your day like unexpected sunlight, discovering the new album from ganavya is both a meditative and restorative discovery. Recorded at Nils Frahm's at LEITER Studio in Berlin’s Funkhaus complex, and co-produced by the maestro himself, Nilam finds the NYC-born, Tamil

161: Greet Death - Country Girl

I'm not sure if 'line in the sand' is quite the right term to use when talking about the new album from Greet Death - but it's certainly a new chapter. Their first full-length in six years, the album comes after a host of

160: Ken Pomeroy - Coyote (ft. John Moreland)

I stumbled upon John Moreland last year - highlighting his incredible Visitor LP in our end-of-year Curious Listening zine - with the caveat that I had no idea if he was a dusty cult voice hidden away in some Oklahoma bar room or a long-established veteran of the scene. I

Some words from me to you.

I'm sitting at a new window as the sun is starting to set. Warm spring air is rolling in like summer. My laptop is perched on the windowsill and I'm still learning how the light lands in this house. In the couple of months since I

159: Ada Lea - blue baby frigidaire mini fridge

We were closing in on four years since the release of Ada Lea's previous album, the quietly enigmatic one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden LP. In the time since, Alexandra Levy went back to school to study painting and poetry and also started

158: The Bird's Companion - A Place Outside of Time

I spent last week on holiday (hence the absence you may or may not have noticed), a few days away exploring somewhere new, all winding alleys, green mountains and sticky heat. A place outside of time. In that oddly-shaped gap between going and coming back - airports at night, woozy

a new spring mix for you

soft sounds for a soft spring. available now via mixcloud. tracks: 22 run time: 1hr 28mins tracklist: common holly - aegean blue strawberry guy - birch tree florist - shadow bloom the marias - only in my dreams bonny doon - part of me men I trust - heavenly flow