Twilark’s Canon Pence sees the beauty in everything falling apart. In a wavery tenor balanced precariously between country confessionals and indie rock self-examination, he mourns the changes in life, in relationships, in bucolic plots of land swallowed by development. And yet, he also finds solace, even revelation in the cycle. The best song on the disc, “Prettiest Way to Die” tracks the slow, visually striking death of a tree strangled by wisteria. It’s a disaster for the tree, clearly, but also an indelible image of weathered bark wreathed in murderous purple flowers.
This is Pence’s second album as Twilark, following 2025’s The Taming Ties Create, a sparer, more inward-looking collection of songs, which nonetheless foreshadowed…
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Crescent City jump blues pianist 
The configuration of bass, drums, and piano is an all-too common one in the world of jazz music, but when those instruments are somewhat turned on their heads, the results can be unique and often stunning. That’s certainly the case with 
Hearing 
…The digital deluxe version features 3 exclusive bonus demo tracks that are not available on the physical standard vinyl or CD pressings.
…expanded digital edition featuring 11 additional b-sides and live recordings.
Within 
“We shall ask you to forget our former pranks and playfulness. We ask you, in the name of dignity and art, to put yourselves in a receptive frame of mind.” That sampled dialogue appears at the midpoint of Zeds Dead’s recently released third album, Return to the Return (of the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness), but it stands out as its core message. For 15 years, the Toronto-bred electronic music duo has been branded a bass act, known for lush production and explosive headbanger drops, but it’s never been truly fair to categorize Zeds Dead by any one genre.
Within the somewhat unusual confluence of synthesizers and a small orchestral ensemble, Canadian artist 
Thirty-plus years later, the last two albums by the original Pixies lineup, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde, occupy a strange place in the band’s canon, more highly regarded than their later releases but rarely seen as the equal of their earlier work. These new remasters are available on CD and in a limited-edition vinyl with a bonus 7” of previously unreleased songs and offer an ideal opportunity to reevaluate the albums on their own merits; short version, they stand up pretty well.
…Sourced from the original analog tapes and mastered by engineer Rob LoVerde.
The boldly colored cover of Fantastic Thoughts features a sinewy band of horses heroically galloping out of the clouds above and into the foreground. Believe it or not, even that image might still be a little understated for the mood of the music.
Strut presents 
01. Joy Division – Transmission (Live The Factory Manchester 13th July 1979)
A record inspired by the desolate brutalism of their native Manchester, art pop/new wave trio, 
Heptaméron is an unusually assured debut, one that embraces the vocabulary of progressive rock while refusing to remain within its boundaries. Built around a fantasy narrative structured by the symbolic recurrence of the number seven, the album unfolds like a journey across an imagined landscape of dungeons, mansions, abysses and forgotten kingdoms, each track functioning as a distinct location within a larger world. Rather than simply borrowing fantasy imagery, 