The album title Circadia reflects themes of renewal and change rooted in the cyclical patterns of life. For the English trio Mammal Hands, change is the keyword: this sixth release marks a significant step in their evolution. Their move to the ACT Music label represents a notable shift, one that may broaden their visibility while giving fresh impetus to their musical independence.
Equally significant is the arrival of new drummer, Rob Turner, formerly of GoGo Penguin, who joined the band following the departure of Jesse Barrett in 2024. Turner brings heavier beats to the band’s signature blend of hypnotic jazz, post-rock and folk, pioneered by the two constants in the lineup, brothers Nick Smart on piano and Jordan Smart on saxophone.
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Vadim Neselovskyi is a Brooklyn-based composer who teaches jazz piano at Boston’s Berklee, yet as Perseverantia shows, the ties to his native Ukraine remain strong (now 48, Neselovskyi left Ukraine at the age of 17). To that end, the recording, issued on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, coincides with the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of his home country on February 24, 2022. Clocking in at 71 minutes, the work is an 11-movement suite of stylistically expansive character scored for piano and string trio. Neselovskyi himself performs on piano alongside the Netherlands-based Ysaÿe String Trio (Rada Ovcharova, violin; Emlyn Stam, viola; Willem Stam, cello). In honouring the ongoing struggles of the Ukrainian people, Perseverantia is a fitting follow-up to 2022’s…
The genocide in Gaza continues despite the ceasefire. In January 2024, braving the heart of the horrifying conflict, 
There are artists who treat solo albums as side notes, and there are those who seize the chance to excavate new terrain. With Taproots, 
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This latest salvo from the PDX cosmic outfit is a continuous rush, its multi-guitar onslaught striving towards anthemic, psychedelic motion, its giant drum (a marching band’s bass drum turned onto its side) pounding in ritual, magic exultation. You can still experience the spreading, unbound serenity of past releases — “Walker’s Dead Birds” is, at its center, full of stillness and awe — but, in general, these cuts move. “New Imposition of Light,” is a stirring vortex of 1960s gnostic rock.
The complete 19-track collection combining both installments of Yungblud’s album ‘Idols’, which adds 6 brand new songs and a re-imagined version of the GRAMMY® nominated single “Zombie” with The Smashing Pumpkins to the tracks released June 2025.
On her sophomore album Speed Kills, 
Belgian pianist Bram De Looze’s Vice Versa project is one that gradually becomes visible, the way a constellation appears only after your eyes adjust to the night. The music feels as if it had always been orbiting somewhere just beyond earshot, waiting for the right trio of creatives to call it into being.
The star of 
In the beginning, there was This Heat. Charles Hayward and co traversed the disused pie factories and damp warehouses that suffused South London, and the resultant music was something seriously challenging: dread-laden, perversely fun, janky, dancey, genre-collapsing. Some believed it encompassed post-punk.
Long before Rosalía’s operatic theatrics broke the internet, 
These days the term singer songwriter has grown in its scope from just a solo artist with an acoustic instrument and introspective lyrics to a solo artist that basically has a mind of their own and goes anywhere where their fancy, inspiration, and inventiveness take them.
James Brown wants to know one thing before he and his band begin Sex Machine. “Can I get into the thing, really?,” he asks. His cohorts enthusiastically respond in the affirmative. And for the next hour and change, Mr. Dynamite gets into it and more, turning in a sweat-soaked, feet-moving, hip-swiveling, emotion-purging, in-the-red, drop-everything-you’re-doing-and-dance performance for the ages. Ranked by Rolling Stone among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the sweeping 1970 effort towers as a testament to Brown’s inimitable legacy as well as the peak powers of his voice, vibrancy, and bands.
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