Named for a Ride song, England’s Sennen debuted their mix of dissonant shoegaze, slow-burning guitar rock, and warm harmonic pop with the mini-album Widows in 2005. While often adjusting the balance of these components between records, they regularly returned to the studio through the mid-2010s, when they delivered their fourth full-length, 2016’s First Light.
Ten years later, the band return with their fifth proper studio album, New Quiet. (An expanded version of Widows with additional recordings from the 2000s appeared in the interim.) With the band saying that they more confidently leaned into influences this time around, it begins with the Mercury Rev-inspired seven-minute epic “I Can See the Future.” The song’s opening…
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…Like many of the pioneers who would go on to inspire the genre, 
Brixton’s The Windmill is easily the most discussed music venue of the decade. Its 150-capacity room nurtured an eccentric art rock community, birthing now-renowned acts Black Country, New Road, Black Midi and the Last Dinner Party. It sparked a wave of jazzy, multi-instrumentalist musicians worldwide, from English Teacher (Leeds) to Geese (New York) to Hesse Kassel (Santiago, Chile).
Timeless, and yet always fresh: utterly oblivious of any wiles of the pop business, Planet Yello has been turning on its orbit for nearly fifty years, plunging us into a world where past and future are one and James Bond joins forces with the Man in the Moon, Dionysos and Philip K. Dick. “To the future, through the past,” declares Dieter Meier. With their fifteenth studio album 
Halloween and 
…Remastered from the original master tapes by longtime Sparks engineer Bill Inglot, expanded edition includes the 9 original tracks alongside 17 bonus tracks featuring rare remixes, alternate versions, and previously unreleased demos.
Few musicians can name a chiptuned guitar sketch “Artrock” and be taken seriously. One of them is Leo Fincham, a precocious Londoner whose songs evoke irony-tinged earnestness and referential irreverence, the sorts of tensions terms like “art rock” were invented to resolve. Along with Rowan Please of the Femcels, he helms the madcap duo Worldpeace DMT, whose debut, The Velvet Underground & Rowan (2025), stuffed a thrift store’s worth of sounds — Glockenspiels! 8-bit consoles! Broadcast footage! — into mechanically precise music, as if childhood memories could be exported as sample packs. The resulting RAM space is evident on Stick Around for Tea, a slighter record with the ragtag splendor of a low-budget musical. More remarkably, its metaphorical…
After four consecutive English language albums Ed Motta returns to singing in Brazilian Portuguese on Toc-Toc. A significant shift to be sure, but it’s not the only one. Motta always surrounds himself with the best studio musicians in Brazil. In sharp contrast, Toc-Toc was recorded in his apartment. He programmed and/or played all instruments and provided all voices. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Michel Limma, Motta received lyric assistance from comic book artist and spouse Edna Lopes. His goal was to bring two different genres of contemporary music together: Electronica and traditionally structured songwriting. He regards this as a pop-R&B album threaded with jazz influences. One can hear trace elements of artists who fascinated him while growing up,…
…10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition expands the original tracklist to 22 songs total, featuring 8 bonus tracks.
Dating back to 1994’s Live…My Truck Is My Home and The 9 Volt Years: Battery Powered Home Demos from four years later, Marshall Crenshaw has created an alternate universe for himself with a discerning series of recordings from his personal archives (not to mention expanded editions of previously released studio efforts).
In celebration of his 80th birthday, Sun Records and Jimmy Webb deliver a collection of previously unrecorded songs and demos that were hiding in his piano bench for decades, Yours for the Taking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb. Some of these songs were intended for specific artists who passed on them; others remained in the songwriter’s personal archive. Fred Mollin, his longtime producer, safeguarded many of these compositions and worked with Webb to revisit the original material and develop new recordings. There are 11 newly produced performances and a pair of original demos of songs that appear here. The tracks were cut in Nashville, New York, and Los Angeles. Webb’s piano-based compositions provided the foundation for new performances…
“How did all these people get in my room?” Frank Sinatra quipped when he strode onstage at The Sands’ Copa Room in January 1966 for his sold-out concerts, but, in truth, there was no doubt that it was Sinatra’s room. Las Vegas was his kind of town. Supported by Count Basie and His Orchestra under the baton of arranger-conductor Quincy Jones, the Chairman of the Board – who had recently turned 50 years old and entered the September of his years, was in his element. His electrifying shows were preserved on his very first live album, 
Between 2023’s 
…features four never-before-heard demos alongside rare B-sides, alternate studio takes, and a previously unreleased live set recorded on the Back to Black tour in Amsterdam in 2007.
Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, Lucy enters Narnia through the back of a wardrobe, and Dorothy gets whisked away in a tornado to the Land of Oz. Literary theorist Joseph Campbell would define each of those moments as a “call to adventure,” the first step of the hero’s journey that underlies all storytelling.
It has now become a sort of tradition for artists from Sweden to come up with some high-quality to excellent power pop and pop rock.