“Some people only exist to prang me the fuck out,” decrees the softened Scouse accent of Unreal’s unreliable narrator Ned Green amidst the hurley-burly of early album highlight ‘Sleepers, Awake’. Amidst the catharsis of its geometric, interlocking guitar rhythms, and bee-in-yer-bonnet brass maelstroms, Green’s spoken-word narrations are cut-glass, surgical observations that glimmer with the same wry wit that scaffolds the best work by Richard Dawson, Neil Blackwell, Chris Morris, etc. He searches for deeper meaning in the commonplace; wants ecstasy in the everyday; and, should his ultimate goal be to be the first rock and roll singer to reference the ‘Shaver Only’ plug socket, he succeeds on all counts.
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While the cello might not seem the instrument most naturally suited to the progressive metal genre, its capacity for replicating vocal wail makes it an extremely effective conduit for its extreme emotional expression. On Lifeblood, the long-anticipated follow-up to his solo albums 
There’s something about the pipe organ that keeps experimental musicians going back for more. No other acoustic instrument pierces and shakes the air in quite the same way.
In the uncompromising world of Muslimgauze, few releases capture the raw urgency and political fire of Bryn Jones’s vision as powerfully as 
Vinyl-on-demand presents the definitive excavation of Bryn Jones’ formative years with 
Last year’s EP gave a beautifully brilliant glimpse into the world of Magic Fig. The Bay Area band boasts a handful of familiar names that have been swirling around the indie pop arena; members of Whitney’s Playland, The Umbrellas, Almond Joy, Healing Potpourri, and Blades of Joy. Such a stacked roster brought with it expectations of breezy strums and pop hooks, but the band slipped free of their indie pop past to embrace prog, Anglican folk, and Canterbury psych instead. On their debut album, 
Collecting performances from jazz pianist 
What is it about indie pop that makes for such a winning vessel for the introspection and self-deprecation of songwriters? Perhaps it’s just that hooky guitars and catchy choruses are the spoonful of sugar that allows the lyrics of, say, Courtney Barnett or Liz Stokes of The Beths to go down ultra-smooth. Maybe it’s just because it’s one of the more evergreen flavors of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” indie music, one that can still excel without reinventing the wheel. This question comes to mind a lot when listening to Part of the Problem, Baby, the addictive sophomore record by ex-
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Electronic ambient producer 
Many independent labels set out with high hopes only to end in dismal failure, whereas Crammed Discs began with modest aims and is still going strong 45 years later. Like Mute Records, the Belgian label was started first and foremost as an outlet to release the music of the artist who inaugurated it.
Avant-garde DIY project 
As we become more comfortable in the digital world, our tolerance for any discomfort in the physical world seems to decrease. We stand in the corner at the party looking at our phones to avoid making small talk; we let our eyes flit between screens to smother any thought that we might otherwise have to sit with alone. If this is what we do for fun, then what does work look like? As it turns out, it’s often indistinguishable. On Station on the Hill, the debut album from Vancouver noise-rock outfit 
Even on her debut EP, at just 22 years old, 
This work consists of sound and a collection of AI-generated images. The image collection is a compilation of AI-generated images used in a projection at the Merzbow Free Noise concert held on January 6, 2025, at WWW in Shibuya, Tokyo. The use of such visuals in Merzbow is rare in recent years, and of course, the use of AI-generated images in a live performance is a first.
A 20th anniversary edition of the album, pair the original album (featuring favorites “She’s Hearing Voices,” “Helicopter,” “So Here We Are” and “Banquet”) with 23 B-sides and rarities, including nine unreleased demos and live cuts.