It’s been over 80 years since Robert Oppenheimer stood in the New Mexico desert and quoted the Bhagavad Gita, and we haven’t stopped imagining a world in which someone actually pressed the damn button. Thanks to the movies, we know what the ruins and the barren spaces might look like — but what would they sound like? A series of fractured transmissions, Phew and Danielle de Picciotto’s Paper Masks is a soundtrack for the post-apocalypse. Across eight tracks, Paper Masks plays out like a conversation between desolate souls who can’t tell if anyone is on the other end, but still they keep sending the signal.
Phew has been a constant in Japan’s underground scene since her time fronting post-punk pioneers Aunt Sally before collaborating…
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Sugar On My Blackbeans is the third release from Venezuelan-born, UK-based guitarist Aleph Aguiar. It follows on from Pataruco (2015) and Maku (2017). He has spent the intervening years working with Tony Kofi, Elton John and Georgia Cecile and served as the guitar and singing coach for Simon Bird for the 2014 The Inbetweeners 2 movie. Additionally, he has collaborated with numerous dance artists, composing music to accompany their choreography.
Portland folk singer 
Born in Argentina and raised in London, 
Guitar anthems: they were all the rage during the 1970s and 1990s, but have become less prominent in the mainstream in recent years. The Arctic Monkeys, clattering hooks and epithet-coated choruses in 2006, moved away from the genre in 2018 for croonier melodies. Legacy bands Manic Street Preachers, Guns N’ Roses and My Bloody Valentine proudly carry their instruments, blasting power chords into the prying audience, every plectrum bearing an attitude and confidence. It’s becoming harder to think of a younger equivalent, so it’s a relief to find 
My World Is the Sun, from Québécois vocalist and songwriter 
Ten thousand years ago, a man died in what would become Somerset. His bones waited in a cave until 1903, when they were discovered and given a name: Cheddar Man. Now he’s the subject of a song by 
A quick trip down the streaming rabbit hole to discover that 
Athens, Georgia, guitarist 
…New Year’s Eve 1993, Live at Worcester Centrum captures what was then the biggest headlining concert of the band’s career, and the first in a long line of elaborate NYE shows to come.
On his third Pyroclastic album, banjo and guitar terror 
Mojo Presents 
Electro-noise duo the 
A record that swaps love language for religious language every few bars should, in theory, settle on one or the other. 
Black Sea Dahu crafts music that feels like standing in a storm – raw, exposed, and profoundly alive. Led by Janine Cathrein, whose voice carries sorrow and resilience in the same breath, the Swiss band blurs the lines between folk, pop, and rock, creating a sound that is both vulnerable and ferocious.
The Enemy went straight to number one with their debut LP, We’ll Live and Die in These Towns, in 2007, and their follow-up, Music for the People, reached #2 in 2009. They also enjoyed a run of Top 40 hits during the same period. Supporting acts such as The Rolling Stones, Oasis, and Manic Street Preachers, they left a clear mark on the UK music scene. The trio from Coventry disbanded in 2016, briefly reuniting in 2022 for a run of shows. They now return with their fifth studio album – and first since 2015 –