Category: indie


Discontinuity was conceived as a response to the deteriorating conditions in the U.S. I examined on my previous album Continuity. Media capture, heightened surveillance, and the consolidation of control over our information have reshaped our world, and I wanted to see what resistance might look like by gathering a polity of remixers.
Where Continuity traced how systems designed for transparency instead function as tools for manipulation, Discontinuity responds by presenting the remix as an analog for personal resistance: the individual act of reclaiming control through deliberate obfuscation.
In a landscape like this, resistance can take many forms: privacy tools that create gaps in data collection, platform exodus…

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“Creative inspiration is often like vapor, appearing and dissipating quickly” says Vicky Mettler, aka Kee Avil, an artist who has already made waves with her first two albums (Crease from 2022 and Spine from 2024), and whose two-year release tempo seems to continue with this year’s Vapor.
The idea of inspiration as vapour might be the reason Mettler decided to originally release her new album song by song, as a form of a sonic diary – essentially, capture the moment the idea appears and recorded; it disappears. Yet, instead of making this album a collection of disparate ideas that came at the spur of the moment, there is a backbone here, a basic concept/idea that becomes audible when Vapor got its release as a collection of songs/compositions.

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…includes three new acoustic versions of previously released songs as well as two entirely new tracks including previously released single ‘Pity,’ and fun, rocking indie folk anthem, ‘Fell in Love (Couldn’t Get Out)’ featuring Cat Clyde.
Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in front of them is your regular cow poking country singer whose life dream is to end up in some Nashville studio leading her/him to Billboard country charts.
Yet in these modern times, classic country (and western) is just one stream, and country pop, roots, Americana, and Canadiana are not only the terms in vogue, but very real genres or…

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Released in 1974, Zuckerzeit marks a clear turning point in Cluster’s work, introducing shorter formats and a more defined rhythmic framework. The increased use of drum machines and structured sequencing sets it apart from the duo’s earlier, more diffuse recordings, while maintaining a focus on texture and tone. Developed in close proximity to Michael Rother and under increasingly independent production conditions, the album establishes a more direct and accessible approach without simplifying its underlying ideas. This standard edition makes the album available again on CD and vinyl following the previous limited anniversary release. A key recording in Cluster’s catalogue, capturing a pivotal moment of transition and refinement.

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The 2LP set pairs the original album with a specially curated collection of B-sides, showcasing the depth and creativity surrounding the 1977 era. Highlights include “Day Of The Triffids,” “Luther Ingo’s Star Cruiser,” “Astra Conversations with Toulouse Lautrec,” “Cantina Band,” “5am Eternal,” “Gimme Some Truth,” “Sneaker,” “T Rex,” and more – essential tracks that cemented Ash’s reputation as one of the most exciting bands of their time. Pressed on green & black InkPlosion vinyl in gatefold jacket.
CD1 features the original album – 12 tracks of high-voltage power-pop that still sound as urgent and melodic as ever (from the adrenaline rush of “Lose Control,” to the widescreen closer, “Darkside Lightside”), plus 4 new tracks…

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…features nine previously unreleased tracks and demos.
Throughout history, most religions and cultures have a rough idea about how the world might end. Abrahamic ones, like Christianity, Judaism and Islam prophesy their own individual doomsdays, fronted by damning omnipotence, while Dharmic religions, like Hinduism and Buddhism believe a new world will replace ours when it kicks the bucket. For Sleaford Mods, though, the world has already been diagnosed as terminal.
This decline is precisely what drives Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn’s latest studio album, The Demise of Planet X. In Britain’s slow pitch drop towards the £9 meal deal, don’t expect any large-scale Armageddon, nor a spiritual…

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The guitars gather like a thundercloud, buzzing with electricity, threaded through with the sweet smirk of melody. On their fifth full-length, the loud but tuneful San Francisco outfit known as Pardoner attempts the same balance of hard and soft/heartfelt and sarcastic as Hüsker Dü, Pavement, Teenage Fanclub, and Ovlov.
Bandcamp Daily called Came Down Different, “their sharpest, most enjoyable record yet, and one that feels refreshingly smart-ass, even for a group as seemingly dedicated to mocking their own existence as Pardoner.” It’s hard to decipher lyrics since both vocalists, Max Freeland and Trey Flanigan, are singing against a deafening assault of guitars/bass and drums, however, Target Practice feels a bit more earnest, a bit less…

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Arborist is the alias used by Belfast-based singer songwriter Mark McCambridge for his musical projects, something he has pursued for the best part of the last decade.
His songs broadly exist in an alt-folk/alt-country space although carry enough individuality to make categorisation difficult. His music may have existed on the periphery of any scene or genre but he’s attracted the attention of some big names in music over the years.
His 2015 debut single featured the vocals of Kim Deal and An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeroes, his 2023 Northern Irish Music Prize winning third album, was recorded at SpaceBomb Studios in Virginia with musician and producer Matthew E White. The KLF co-founder…

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Exclusively reissued on CD for the first time in over twenty years, presented in Deluxe 7” sized packaging with 2CDs featuring the album newly mastered, plus a comprehensive selection of the best of the original era remixes. Also features brand new sleeve notes written by author Kevin Sampson, The Farm’s former manager.
To celebrate National Album Day and the 2026 theme of ‘Icons’, Demon Records are proud to present the reissue of the Number One debut album from The Farm featuring the Top 10 singles ‘All Together Now’ and ‘Groovy Train’ on it’s 35th anniversary. The Farm had long been flying the flag for terrace chic, anthemic street poetry, training shoes and street fashion for many years since the mid 1980s, before the music press…

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Brighton folk-rockers Levellers have been one of Britain’s most enduring and best-loved bands for nearly 40 years. And part of that incredible success has been built on the timeless anthems that comprised their platinum-selling, second album Levelling the Land, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2026.
Recorded at Ridge Farm studios in Surrey over the summer of 1991, it was produced by Al Scott, who was charged with translating the band’s incendiary live performances into something more refined within the recording environment. Featuring the huge hit singles ‘One Way’, ‘15 Years’ and ‘Far From Home’, Levelling The Land redefined the UK’s musical landscape providing the soundtrack for a society fed up with the twin…

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Can Caspian really be 21 years old? You Are the Conductor was released in 2005, instantly launching the Beverly, MA post-rock band into the upper ranks. These past two decades have been kind to the quintet, although six years have passed since the release of On Circles, whose title ironically fits this release; the band has gone back to its roots. The cover art, depicting the Great Boston Fire of 1872, is a depiction of “the way something recognizable could be transformed without losing its underlying identity;” the same principle can be applied to Caspian.
We’re especially enamored with the increased use of strings, hearkening all the way back to the early days of GY!BE. When the full ensemble plays, the quintet becomes a dectet. This is…

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A lot of the music covered under the “post-punk revival” centers around the poppier set of bands from the early ’80s, the ones you can still hear on the radio today – your Cure, Joy Division and Gang of Four.
Toronto duo WHIMM, comprised of Mounir al Shami and Andrew Matthews, delve into a much less commercial space within the vast warehouse of post-punk. They explore the work of Coil overtly, but also acts like Pere Ubu and Swell Maps. As such, their newest album No Promotion is not an album you’ll see gushed about on social media or subject to countless think pieces on Reddit’s Indieheads community, but if your taste in post-punk runs to the noisy, chaotic and slightly scattershot, then it’s an album you’ll need to add to your listening pile.

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As a club DJ, radio broadcaster, podcaster, and label founder, Jamz Supernova has become one of the U.K.’s foremost tastemakers, exposing audiences to music from around the world, particularly from regional dance music scenes. Her first official release is Dance Around the World, an unmixed selection related to her radio show and event series. The set is programmed to resemble a day-into-night sequence, with the more acoustic, earthy tracks up front, and the heavy dance grooves in the second half. She gives a particular spotlight to Maloya music from the Réunion Island, first with the lush harmonies of Simangavole and Soa Ravelo, then later with a jagged electro remix of a song by singer and storyteller Lo Rwa Kaf. Brazilian group Oruã’s “Capoeira Demo”…

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…Now teaming up with the pastoral synthesist Dorian Concept, Bibio has produced a collection that is flexible enough for at least three seasons; we’ve yet to hear how it might sound in winter, but suspect that its tones may be too warm for the whiter months.
Friends since 2009, Stephen Wilkinson and Oliver Johnson share a love for “aging technologies” and imperfect analogue equipment, which results in a sound that is occasionally brittle, held together by tape and twine. The album is suffused with a soft tenderness that borders on nostalgia, reflecting the cover, in which a child already seems to be looking back on a younger, smaller self. When does nostalgia first surface, and when does it set in for good? Without providing…

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…features seven previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same period, as well as a comprehensive selection of remixes from artists like Max Cooper, Robot Koch, and Aparde.
Christian Löffler’s second album is a lovingly sculpted and likeable collection of electro moodworks. Recorded in a log cabin on the Darss peninsula in the north-east of his home country, the isolation of the writing and recording process is party reflected in the bare-bone arrangements. For the most part, it works and less is more.
Mare models deep house grooves with minimal ornamentation and much of the album’s musicality manifests itself in warping loops, barely-there synth washes and deftly employed vocals. For the latter, Danish singer Mohna ghosts…

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June McDoom grew up in a Jamaican household in Florida, and her family was a musical one. Her father was a DJ and carpenter who built his own speakers and multi-room sound systems — she grew up hearing amplified basslines from his DJ sets through the floor — and her grandfather was a mento musician who built his own rumba boxes and gave June her first access to a guitar. While her own music takes further influence from everything from 1960s and ’70s folk-pop and pop-soul to Cocteau Twins, the significance of mentioning her upbringing becomes evident upon hearing her unusual spin on eerie indie folk. She landed on Jagjaguwar’s roster on the strength of early short-form releases, and she constructed Follow the Light, her full-length debut,…

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There’s a hollow space surrounding the guitar solo on “Shiver,” an absorbent deep cut on the second studio album from British indie-pop darling Rachel Chinouriri. The production is both distant and overwhelming as it mirror the 27-year-old’s inner turmoil. She’s feeling alone again, haunted by memories, and it’s like her words are vanishing into thin air before reaching anyone who will listen. Still, she sings, “Life goes on, and on, and on.” But what does she want that life to look like?
Chinouriri realizes she needs to make some changes on I Think I Spoke Too Soon. It’s reflected in the BPM spike across the record, a bold shift from her debut, 2024’s What a Devastating Turn of Events. She spends most of the album physically on the dance floor — sometimes…

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In 1988, The House of Love’s debut album arrived as a fully-formed piece of pop perfection, following two years of intensive writing, rehearsing and live performances. The Gift explores those two years, as the band leapt from the Camberwell squat scene into the centre of the UK’s indie world as it went overground.
Taken from the archive of bassist Chris Groothuizen and compiled by him with chief songwriter Guy Chadwick’s full approval, this 3CD set offers unprecedented insight into the development of one of the standout bands of the late ’80s British music scene. Featuring previously unheard rehearsal recordings and live shows captured in London and Paris, all of which has been carefully restored and remastered using…

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