…features twelve new songs widely available for the first time: stripped-back versions of songs written before the recording of ‘I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!’ had finished, live favourites heard on McRae’s recent headline tours and festivals appearances, a new version of “Mother Wound” featuring Maisie Peters as well as new tracks elsewhere featuring contributions from Brandi Carlile and Brittney Spencer.
Ever since the release of her stand-out ‘Who Hurt You?’ EP back in 2021, Jensen McRae has been marked out as a special songwriter. Even in that early foray, the Californian managed to effortlessly distil an array of powerful emotions into its six tracks in a way that felt, in moments, truly heartbreaking. So it feels more than…
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Corey King brings a spellbinding, cross-genre fluidity to his third album, 2026’s Change the Wind. A trained jazz trombonist, King is also a singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with a diverse array of artists including José James, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and Iggy Pop. He also took home a Grammy for his co-writing and production work on singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding’s Songwrights Apothecary Lab. He brings all of this experience to bear on his solo work, crafting a holistic blend of alt-R&B, indie rock, and electronica. The follow-up to 2019’s A Loveless Sunken Sun, Change the Wind is a deeply personal production that finds King once again revealing his many-textured sound. The album was also written and…
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The solo project of Kelly Truong, a producer/songwriter from Southern California, 
Sometimes a solo project and sometimes a band, Jilian Medford’s 
…The expanded tracklist appends rare live versions of tracks like “Fat Lip,” “All She’s Got,” “Crazy Amanda Bunkface,” “Machine Gun,” and “What We’re All About”.
The newest offering from pianist/composer 
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Sydney’s 
The Strokes’ stock is pretty high in 2026, definitely higher than it was in 2016, and maybe even 2006. This year marks the 25th anniversary of their classic debut, Is This It? Their recent tour, the band’s first in 20 years, saw them light up a multigenerational audience of young olds and old youngs. Their standing isn’t only based on nostalgia either: Though the last Strokes album, 2020’s The New Abnormal, got a little lost in the Covid malaise, its standout hit, “The Adults Are Talking,” has as many Spotify streams as “Last Nite.” Meanwhile, the biggest indie band around, Geese, is undeniably post-post-Strokes, even if the band members were still in their strollers back when Julian, Albert, Fab, Nick, and Nikolai owned the night. Not a bad legacy to keep rolling into…
If not for Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark — Alvin Schwartz’s infamous anthology series of folk stories that have haunted grade school book fairs for decades — 
If there were a collective appreciation of dramatic album intros of the year, then Babylon, the latest offering from 
DeForrest Brown Jr. was born on a military base in Tampa and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where his grandmother worked at the jail where Martin Luther King was held. He played trumpet and tuba in school marching ensembles, moved to New York in 2013 to write music criticism for Mixmag, Resident Advisor, and Artforum, and eventually co-founded the Make Techno Black Again campaign, which started as a meme, became a clothing line, and hardened into a serious political position. His 2022 book Assembling a Black Counter Culture spent 432 pages arguing that the music industry built a global economy around a Black art form and systematically cut Black people out of it. His four Planet Mu albums, from 
Attention should definitely be given to the remarkable sound design achieved by ambient-electronic artist