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German pop group Fool’s Garden formed in 1991, comprising singer Peter Freudenthaler, guitarist Volker Hinkel, bassist Thomas Mangold, keyboardist Roland Röhl and drummer Ralf Wochele. Debuting in 1993 with the album Once in a Blue Moon, two years later Fool’s Garden issued their sophomore effort Dish of the Day, scoring an Asian chart hit with “Lemon Tree.”
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Fools Garden’s sophomore album, Dish of the Day, this 2025 edition contains the original remastered album along with exclusive bonus tracks, live recordings and demos from 1995.
Originally released at the height of the ’90s alternative pop movement, Dish of the Day established Fools Garden…

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…Ludwig Göransson is Ryan Coogler‘s go-to composer (Black Panther, Creed), and has also scored for Christopher Nolan, most notably Oppenheimer. In television, his most famous score is The Mandalorian. But Sinners is a different beast, as the film is about music, with some vampires thrown in; the vampires are attracted to the music, which “pierces the veil between life and death.” If Sammie (newcomer Miles Caton) were not so good at playing guitar, it’s possible no one would have died.
The film’s main genre is the blues, but Göransson uses this as a starting point, expanding outward like spikes on a wheel. The key scene, represented by “I Lied to You” on the soundtrack and “Magic What We Do (Surreal Montage)”…

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The Tao Te Ching tells us that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” It starts from a central point, and can go anywhere. And that’s the feeling when you press play on yaz lancaster’s new album, AFTER.
The thing about journeys is that there’s no requirement they follow a straight line; they aren’t sequential, nor do they even hold to the same destination throughout. Music works that way too, and lancaster puts so many steps into AFTER — some small, some sublime leaps, many unexpected. All of this is held together by their musical personality, their sense of sound and the logic of memories made along the way.
So this is an experimental electronic album that springs off lancaster’s violin strings with…

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…featuring the previously unreleased bonus track “SEC FOUR (Demo)”. Remastered by Sebastian Komor.
Imagine an electronic industrial act putting together a release that was a collection of songs, each and every one carefully constructed to be destined for a dancefloor. Full electro sounds, driving beats, and most tracks with the beats-per-minute turned up. That release is Serenity Is the Devil. Icon of Coil has distilled the dance industrial experience with this release, in ways that peers such as Apoptygma Bezerk and Convenant have not before. Each track drives its way forward, through tracks destined for club longevity, such as “Shallow Nation,” “Former Self,” and “Floorkiller,” with just enough variety to stop the whole album…

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Tangerine Dream are unquestionably one of the most influential electronic groups of all time. Their music has made an immeasurable impact on ambient, new age, techno, trance, and progressive rock, as well as modern film score composition.
On August 1, 1987, Tangerine Dream performed a landmark open-air concert in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, celebrating the city’s 750th anniversary. Held at the Platz der Republik and drawing over 100,000 attendees, the event unfolded near the Berlin Wall – a powerful symbol of Germany’s division at the time. The band’s signature electronic sound, paired with stunning visuals and fireworks, made for an unforgettable experience. It’s even said that the music could be heard across the border in East Berlin.

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New York-born Julianna Raye had a brief flirtation with fame in the early ’90s when producers Jeff Lynne (ELO) and Lenny Waronker (Maria Muldaur, Ry Cooder and many more) were minded to sign her for a major label (Reprise) after hearing her backing vocals; she released the very poppy Something Peculiar in 1993. Sadly, it was not a commercial success despite critical acclaim, and when Waronker left the label, Raye was left without a contract; thus, it was 9 years before she released her second album, Restless Night, produced by the equally legendary Ethan Johns — a more rock-pop recording. She has played with and supported artists like Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, and Rufus Wainwright, and has played on many artists’ albums. Her songwriting has…

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Couples who choose to record together will obviously bring a genuinely personal touch to songs they create, and Jonathan and Abigail Peyton have chosen for Jonathan’s third release to perform as a duo, and the results are magnificent. Their ability to write superb melodies and deliver captivating harmonies is highly impressive. The quality doesn’t diminish with this collection of songs, which are drawn from highly individualistic trauma and subsequent personal growth. Jason Hoard twiddled the knobs majestically, and the songs are all written by Peyton, with one written by Brian Elmquist (The Lone Bellow). The duo are backed up by Jason Hoard (guitars, banjo, bass, mandolin), Jonathan Ray (guitars), Kevin Carl (drums), Isaac George…

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Normal Town is the third album from acclaimed Oxfordshire five-piece, The Dreaming Spires, and their first new music in nearly a decade. However, a decade-long hiatus from recording hasn’t dimmed the band’s love of rock ‘n’ roll romance with a record that has both nostalgia-fuelled anthems and reflective ballads on themes such as escape, alienation and atomisation – but where the redemptive power of music ultimately wins out.
The Dreaming Spires’ new album title has its origins in the neighbouring town of Didcot, where the band’s founding members and brothers, Joe and Robin Bennett, reside. A 2017 study found that Didcot closely matched the national median average for a range of different statistics, earning it the sobriquet “the most normal town…

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The latest shapeshifting move by Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (aka Adam Andrzejewski, née McIlwee) sees this singular artist trade emo rap for country-folk, while losing little — if any — of the gothic atmosphere of his previous incarnation’s trap-heavy oeuvre.
Andrzejewski has experience when it comes to challenging preconceptions. Until 2013, he was co-founder and a pivotal member of emo mainstays Tigers Jaw. Reborn as Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, he’s since elevated Soundcloud rap from bedroom dalliance to sell out shows, guesting on tracks by — and forming close bonds with — artists as diverse as Lil Peep and Ethel Cain. Although previous Wicca Phase releases have certainly featured acoustic guitar numbers, fans who…

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The composer Arlene Sierra has devoted several works to the musical representation of birds, and in this she is hardly alone; such pieces date back to the medieval era, not to mention similar concepts in other musical cultures.
Insects may be a bit less common, but here, too, she has predecessors. With this release, the fourth in a series by the Bridge label devoted to this rising American-British composer, listeners can hear an entire series of bird and insect works, and can focus closely on what Sierra does.
The animals depicted in each piece would be pretty identifiable even for a listener without the guidance of composer or track list, and indeed, it would be interesting to play the album for bird and insect enthusiasts.

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Swiss Wandelweiser master reimagined by virtuoso flutist Manuel Zurria in stunning solo interpretations. Jürg Frey’s String Quartet No. 3 and four Extended Circular Music pieces (originally for various chamber ensembles) are transformed into ethereal soundscapes through Zurria’s conceptual approach inspired by Japanese Kintsugi art. Interweaving minimalism with radical experimentalism, these recordings draw startling scope from minimal material means – breath-length utterances dance among complex harmonic clusters, provoking suspensions of time.
…The completed work represents a “conjunction of these two artists” that has “activated a transformative form of experimentalism.” These renderings “dance with an airy…

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Over the course of the year, Manja Ristić has been releasing a triptych of intertwined albums, starting with Purpurna vresišta on wabi-sabi tapes, followed by Sargassum aeterna on Rakem Records and ending with Into Your Eyes on LINE.
The first addresses “the trauma imprinted on landscapes,” while the second imagines a dystopian future in which every social and environmental catastrophe has come to pass. The third is divided into three pieces: the warning, the potential horror, and – although the dream seems unattainable – an alternate, peaceful future in which (depending on one’s interpretation) either humanity has come to its senses or has destroyed itself, leaving infinite space in which the rest of the world might recover and regrow.

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Keiji Haino detests the frivolous. As a teenager in the late ’60s, the songs he heard about love and peace seemed facile, like they didn’t contain a genuine message. “What I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it was totally different from The Beatles and their ilk,” he said in 1997.
Central to his self-described outsider status was something beyond adolescent edginess: a craving for something new. Years later, he explained that his artistic endeavors and lifestyle are one and the same: “I want to live each and every moment at its best and to the fullest. And I think that to regret is to repeat.” It can be odd to hear about such mutability, as the Japanese avant-rock and free-improv maestro has a vast back catalogue that can be consistently described as…

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Established by John Gale in London in 1966, Studio G produced a wide range of genres and styles, geared toward local TV, sports programming and adverts. As Ryan Jebavy, producer of Dream a Dream, explains in his liner notes, it unleashed “pastoral folk, maniacal horror, funk-spat jazz, quixotic pop, alluring electro and the usual novelty side spells of national anthems, children’s music and whatever other utilitarian cues society demanded of the moment” upon the commercial space. Even as more sizable outfits such as KPM, Bruton, De Wolfe and Chappell consumed the majority of the marketplace, Studio G offered a truly fetching alternative-sleek, hip art not previously seen on mostly unremarkable album covers released by neighboring companies…

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North London Line continues Jah Wobble’s fascination with London’s hidden currents and forgotten spaces, inviting listeners to experience familiar territory through fresh ears. It’s a meditative ride through neighborhoods constantly in flux, powered by a bass that resonates with the rumble of passing trains and centuries of stories beneath the tracks.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
The album North London Line (Mildmay) is an interesting concept to me, with the spoken word poetry it has a John Cooper Clarke feel to it, it’s almost a love letter to that area of North to West London. Where did this idea come from what drew you to writing about that and how did you come up with it? John: Well, I’m used to North London over the years, I call it the old North London Line…

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…collection of 13 demos, sessions tracks, radio sessions and remixes curated by the band on CD2.
Maxïmo Park are marking a major milestone as their landmark debut album, A Certain Trigger, hits its 20th anniversary. To celebrate, the band is unveiling a deluxe reissue packed with rarities, B-sides, and fan-favorite deep cuts across multiple vinyl formats. The festivities continue into 2026 with a UK tour that revisits the energy and legacy of their breakout era.
According to a press release from Maxïmo Park’s management, the special deluxe edition of A Certain Trigger is now available on a variety of different formats including a single LP, double gatefold LP, and triple LP collection. Also included on the double and triple vinyl…

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Widely acclaimed British band The Levellers are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their chart hit album Zeitgeist. The Zeitgeist 30th Anniversary Collection will be released in November 2025 via Warner Music and is available as a 2LP and 3CD.
The aptly titled album ‘Zeitgeist’ cemented the Levellers’ position at the top of the UK music scene in 1995. Following their headline appearance at Glastonbury Festival that summer, ‘Zeitgeist’ stormed to the top of the charts upon its release in August, beating off competition from Blur and The Charlatans to become the sound of the summer alongside Supergrass, Oasis and Pulp.
Now, in 2025, Zeitgeist’s 30th year, the album has been gloriously remixed and remastered by Al Scott, the original producer who first sat down…

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After touring solo for Devils & Dust in 2005 and stomping across stages with the Seeger Sessions Band in 2006, Bruce Springsteen’s 2007 tour with the E Street Band was a welcome return to regularly scheduled programming.
The trek was appealingly normal, in that it was simply a run of shows in support of Bruce and the band’s excellent new album Magic, released in late September. The result was more akin to outings behind Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980) because that’s what artists did/do when they drop a new album. No bigger occasion or overarching circumstances. No multi-night residencies. Just straight up doing the job. One might think the same for 2012 with the release of Wrecking Ball, but that marked…

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