DegHerl - Mon Rayon - Maddie Lenhart - Niki Kennedy - The Wandering Divide

DegHerl - DegHerl (Album). 

Released this weekend Degherl's first album, follows two previous EPs (one live and the other in the studio), and includes songs recorded between 2022 and 2026, as well as a new version - for the vocal part - of the single Nightmare, already published in 2021 as part of a compilation. The band further deepens its sonic research within the post-punk and new wave universe, building a work that, without losing coherence and identity, also crosses shoegaze, jangle-pop and dark-folk, with a brief excursus between no-wave and psychedelia.

More than a collection of songs, the album appears as a circular path in which each song explores a different declination of the tension between shadow and light, restlessness and desire, memory and vision. To quote some influences, you will recognise the dark romanticism of The Cure, the urban shadows of Tuxedomoon and The Sound, the angularity of Xmal Deutschland, the ethereal atmospheres of Slowdive and Cocteau Twins, up to the art-punk eclecticism of DEVO and B-52's.
 
The presence of different generations in the Degherl lineup testifies their timeless vitality. The group's name is also the album's title. Degherl (whose pronunciation sounds like The Girl) can then become an invitation to read between the lines, make free associations between sound assonances and phonetic decompositions, to reconstruct from scratch the possibility of regenerating meanings.

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Mon Rayon - Image Repertoire (Album).

Self-produced by Josef Ask and Christoffer Zetterlund, the album moves between 1960s French and baroque pop, British indie, soul, psychedelia and spaghetti-western cinema. 

Much of it was recorded live in a converted chapel in the Swedish countryside, with a close group of musicians playing together in the room - keeping the performances warm, organic and alive.

The band once described their musical world as somewhere between “a full English breakfast and the Sanremo Festival in the 1960s,” which probably captures it better than a single genre tag. Mon Rayon will also celebrate the release with a special album launch show at Kollektivet Livet in Stockholm on the 8th October. 

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Maddie Lenhart - Why in the World (EP).

Nashville country artist and singer-songwriter Maddie Lenhart releases her debut EP, Why in the World, this weekend. From track one through track six, Why in the World explores the highs and lows of love and loss — running from heartbreak, living through it, learning to trust yourself enough to fall in love again, and finding light through the difficult corners along the way. At its core, the debut EP is rooted in intentional storytelling, with every lyric carefully considered and no line left without purpose. Sonically, Maddie Lenhart draws from her Appalachian roots, blending organic country and folk-inspired instrumentation with dreamy, ethereal production to create a sound that feels both grounded and distinctly her own.

Why in the World offers a true introduction to Maddie as an artist, showcasing the perspective, songwriting, and musical identity that will continue to shape her career in country music. Virginia-born and raised, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Maddie Lenhart has spent years developing her voice as both an artist and a songwriter. Since moving to Music City, she has written hundreds of songs and earned more than 45 independent cuts, building a reputation for sharp, deeply personal country songwriting rooted in honest storytelling.

2026 marked the beginning of a significant new chapter for Lenhart, with the successful rollout of her the singles from her debut EP, Why in the World, produced by Brad Hill (Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne). The project generated major attention pre-release, with “Empty Room” earning features from both Billboard and American Songwriter and “Newton’s First Law” landing on the cover of Spotify’s Fresh Finds Country. The EP’s title track, “Why in the World,” was co-written with Jay Knowles (Alan Jackson, Lainey Wilson) and Jen Stegall (Carter Faith), further highlighting Lenhart’s ability to pair distinctive songwriting with polished contemporary country production.

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Ezra Tsai Photography

Niki Kennedy - The Space In Between (Album).

Two years ago, Toronto singer-songwriter Niki Kennedy was searching for new inspiration and a new direction. Like many emerging young artists, she realized she had fallen into the trap of chasing expectations set by others rather than following her own instincts. It was an epiphany for Kennedy, who had already earned a Masters degree in music, been accepted into several industry-sponsored creative programs, and released a handful of independent singles.

She decided to try something different—ignore what she “should” be doing, and simply start writing songs that drew from her life experiences, often in a vulnerable manner she had never attempted before that unmasked and confronted her insecurities, frustrations and fears. Kennedy has channelled all of it into her debut album The Space In Between, which showcases her entrancing voice in inventive arrangements rooted in modern adult pop with hints of country, R&B and reggae.

Niki says, “I didn’t go into this process trying to ‘write an album,’ but to capture the messy human journey of figuring it all out. At the end of it, I had a collection of songs that felt true to this chapter of my life and artistry. I chose 12 of them for this album, and it was at that point that I went into the studio with long-time friend and collaborator Shane Stephenson, who mixed the record and helped me bring it to the finish line.”

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The Wandering Divide - Norte Del Sur.
 
We are pleased to feature The Wandering Divide's EP 'Norte Del Sur' which is described as "a sonic journey into our interior and exterior worlds." It's heartfelt, gentle and allows the musical arrangements to take the listener along on the creators personal journey. We will let Brandon give us the background...

Fronted by multi-instrumentalist and producer Brandon Cooke, the cinematic, indie-folk project is a moving exploration of displacement, longing, and what Cooke calls "melancholic joy." For years, Cooke engineered for acts such as Glass Animals, Jelly Roll, Kamasi Washington, Earlimart, and members of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nine Inch Nails. As a touring and studio musician, he shared stages with the likes of Weezer, The Black Keys, Phantogram, and TV on the Radio.

In 2022, Cooke grew disillusioned with the hyper-commercialization of art in the modern music industry and walked away. Spending extensive time in Kolkata, Ireland, the American Southwest, and the Appalachian Mountains, Cooke found inspiration in the music of his roots, the scenery of his travels, and the stories of those he met along the way.

Upon returning, Cooke built a studio north of San Francisco and set out to write, engineer, produce, and perform a record that captured this inspiration. The result is the four-song EP, Norte Del Sur. Musically, Norte Del Sur bridges the rugged topography of the American Southwest and the inspiring sereness of the California coasts with the misty landscapes of Ireland. While Norte Del Sur is primarily orchestrated by Cooke, the EP is rounded out by a collective of talent, featuring cellist Peter Jacobsen, upright bassist Paul Livingstone, fiddler McGilvry Allen, and bassist Nate Levin.

It is music born from the physical and emotional impact of travel, a poignant reminder that when the industry strips art of its soul, the only cure is to let the heart be the vessel and hit the open road.

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Heidy H King - The Pinkerton Raid - Oliver Symons - John Doe Band - zeronic - Marie Franc

Heidy H King - Summertime Is Over.

One last burst of summer. A few warm days before summer slowly gives way to autumn. It is precisely this bittersweet feeling that Zurich-based singer-songwriter and vocalist Heidy H King captures in her new song, “Summertime Is Over.” The slightly wistful, Latin-tinged singer-songwriter earworm tells a story of memories, love, and the hope that beautiful feelings can last beyond the summer.

“Summertime Is Over” was written during an inspiring stay in Tuscany. For the musical production, Heidy H King — who, incidentally, speaks English, Dutch, and German fluently — received prominent support. Renowned Swiss guitarist Jean-Pierre von Dach and producer Jeannot Steck (soundcheck.ch) contributed their musical and production expertise, giving the song its final polish. Together, they perform as a trio under the name Sound Affair.

“Summertime Is Over” is the latest in a series of releases through which Heidy H King continues her long-standing musical career. Her previous single, “The Washing Machine,” already attracted attention earlier this year. During the first half of the year, the song received airplay on numerous cultural and independent radio stations in Switzerland as well as on radio stations around the world.

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The Pinkerton Raid - If You Love Somebody, Tell Them (Album).

Songwriter Jesse James DeConto’s seventh full-length album as The Pinkerton Raid begins with the birth of his first child on Earth Day, 2001. Jesse became a father at 24, at the start of two-and-a-half decades of terror, genocide, climate disaster, economic collapse, crumbling democracy and an American culture war on the verge of a civil war, all piped into our fragile human psyches through the worldwide web and these supercomputers in our pockets. What kind of place is this to raise children?

If You Love Somebody, Tell Them is an unlikely title for a protest album. “Protest songs are love songs because the only politics worth a lick are those based in loving our neighbors,” Jesse says. “You tell somebody you love them by listening to them, by acting on what they say if you’re able, and, as fellow citizens, by voting in people and policies that serve them.”   

If You Love Somebody, Tell Them – it’s a recipe for romance, for family, for friendship, for neighborliness, for work and money, for patriotism, for humanity. Jesse’s great friends David Wimbish and James Phillips showed up for these songs with their prodigious skills in production, engineering and musicality. This is a solo album, with Jesse’s pensive voice and melodic guitars as the framework and with flourishes of collaboration all over it.

The opening track “They Were the Children” features David on accordion and James on clarinet. David’s rubber-bridge picking, James’ synthesizer tones and the pair’s lush background vocals help to define the sound of “Plow the Fields / Smell the Roses.” David’s string arrangement or e-bowed guitar and James’ epic drums respectively built the big finales of “All the Protest Songs Are About You” and “How Does the Story End?” The droning E note of a felted piano string tapped directly with a drumstick is the foundation for the big pop sound of “Wishing Wells.” Perhaps ironically, knowing to let Jesse’s voice and guitar carry “We Tremble with the Noise” was one of the gifts that grew from the trust and teamwork.

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Photo - Willem Volker

Oliver Symons - Wake Up.

Belgian artist  Oliver Symons returns with "Wake up" via Los Angeles label Maison Arts. It is his most open-hearted release yet: an anthem about love, youth and freedom, and about the moment you stop waiting for life to begin. Where "What Is Happening?" turned inward, "Wake up" throws the windows open. Symons keeps the melancholy that has become his signature, but lets it rise into something euphoric. His intimate, close-mic'd vocal sits inside layered, cinematic production built for both late-night headphones and festival fields.

The single arrives as a global rollout gets underway, and marks the point where 2026 and going into 2027 become the time Oliver Symons steps fully into the spotlight. Now signed to Maison Arts, Symons is bridging his two homes of Belgium and Los Angeles with a prolific 2026–2027 release schedule.

In his words, “Wake up” is a song about love, youth and freedom. Inspired by films like “The Dreamers” and “One battle after another” the song represents a period of a free-spirited and almost revolutionary way of living while being young adults. Driven by naive but very heartfelt ideals and deep love during a summer that probably will never come back.”

Oliver Symons first made his name as the main producer and a member of Bazart, the Benelux band that commands arenas and major festivals across Belgium and the Netherlands. Alongside the band, he launched a solo project under his own name: more electronic, producer-led, and centred on his songwriting and distinctive vocal delivery.

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John Doe Band - Nevergreens (Album).

“Nevergreens” is the new album by the John Doe Band. It features twelve straight-ahead, catchy rock songs and will be officially launched on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at the event venue of the Schützenhaus Schwyz. After that, the time has come to make a name for themselves beyond their home canton as well.

“Folk’n’Roll with passion and joie de vivre — played with honesty and shared directly with the audience!” This is how the John Doe Band describes its new work and the album launch event that goes with it.

In their home region of Central Switzerland, the John Doe Band has long built up a loyal and genuine fan base. The band had become a veritable “way of life,” Schwyz Kultur wrote as early as 2015: “The band even has its own club. And what does a rock band do once it has built such a loyal community? Play live! Concerts at Gaswerk Seewen and appearances at festivals such as the Irish Openair Toggenburg are among the band’s milestones. Along with this came fans’ desire for new material.

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zeronic - Modernism (Album).

Austrian three-piece zeronic recently returned with their comeback single "The Hope and the Enemy," marking the band's first new material in years. Building on that momentum, this weekend they have released their new album Modernism.

Modernism is a record about life in an age of constant progress: the freedoms it promises, the uncertainties it creates, and the ways people continue searching for connection within it. Across ten songs, the album explores the tensions that define contemporary life — between closeness and distance, belonging and escape, optimism and disillusionment. Rather than rejecting modernity, it reflects on its contradictions, finding both possibility and unease in the world we've built around ourselves.

"Modernism is about trying to remain human in a world that's constantly being optimised” the band add “The songs explore the tensions of modern life—connection and isolation, progress and disillusionment, belonging and escape. But beneath those ideas, it's really a record about people trying to hold on to what matters and find one another."

Written over the course of a year, Modernism consists entirely of new material. Around twenty-five songs and demos emerged during the process, with ten ultimately forming the final record. The songs arrived naturally, and the album's musical identity revealed itself early on. There was a sense of openness and momentum throughout the writing and recording process that felt closer to the spirit of the band's earliest work than it had in a long time.

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Marie Franc - Wildfires.

Manchester alt-pop five-piece Marie Franc have now shared their expansive and darkly euphoric new single ‘Wildfires’. With a cinematic and melancholic sound that straddles both rawness and romanticism, coupled with haunting vocals and visceral lyrics shrouded in an ethereal haze, Marie Franc have been building fans through their recent releases ‘Vauxhall Casanova’, ‘Pendile Hill’ and ‘Fabric’. Fronted by Rachel Maria Francesca, the band have received support so far from Chris Hawkins at BBC 6Music, John Kennedy at Radio X and BBC Introducing Manchester. 
 
New single ‘Wildfires’ is a grand dream-pop track with a warm yet moody melody and tender vocals, which thematically examine the cycle of life and love and how nothing ever lasts forever – “you win some, you lose some and then it’s done.” Rachel says,
 
“’Wildfires’ arrived at a time when the world felt like it was on fire this summer, and that feeling somehow found its way into the song. It is about desire, but also the beauty of impermanence, and the fact that love, like life, is transient. There’s something strangely beautiful about knowing that the people and moments we love won’t last forever. To feel tenderness is to make yourself vulnerable to its loss, but perhaps we’re all lucky to know that pain at all.”

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Earthquake Lights - Carasueño - Aaron MacDonald - Kyla Marlena - Schaefer Llana - Phoebe Green

Earthquake Lights - Mr. Always-What-He-Had-To-Be.

Ahead of their upcoming fourth studio album’s 2027 arrival, New York’s Earthquake Lights share “Mr. Always-What-He-Had-To-Be,” a confident, brooding new single that turns psychedelic alt-rock swagger into a character study of arrogance, narcissism and questionable wisdom. Inspired in part by the unruly spirit of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the track inhabits the mind of a self-described artist whose certainty in his own worldview is as compelling as it is misguided.

The song began with a handful of chords the band initially considered disposable. Once they played them together, however, the feeling proved too good to abandon. The confidence of the emerging arrangement soon suggested a personality of its own, providing the foundation for vocalist/pianist Myles Rodenhouse and collaborator Will Cavanaugh to develop the character at the centre of the song.

The result is a narrator who is arrogant, self-important, and convinced he has life figured out. Yet rather than reducing him to a caricature, “Mr. Always-What-He-Had-To-Be” leaves a small but uncomfortable possibility hanging in the air: somewhere beneath all that narcissistic bluster, he might actually have a point. The question is whether he’s someone whose advice you would ever want to take.

The song’s unusual title emerged from one of its defining lyrics, a line that seemed to capture the character so completely that it ultimately sparked the broader lyrical concept. That sense of self-assurance permeates the arrangement as well, allowing the personality of the narrator and the music surrounding him to become increasingly difficult to separate.

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Photo - Álex Ortega

Carasueño - Microdreams.

Where does the latent content of a dream begin, and where does its manifest content end? Are the adventures we experience in our dreams part of a collective unconscious, or merely electrical impulses giving voice to our individual fears and shortcomings? ‘Microdreams’ raises more questions than it answers. Through its lyrics, Javier Vicente emerges as restless and apprehensive, yet simultaneously enthralled by the yearning images that linger in his memory the morning after.

Javier Vicente is Carasueño, a musician and producer based in Zaragoza, Spain, and the founder of Lar de Maravillas recording studios. Following his debut full-length, I’ll Be Neon Too (2024, Cielos Estrellados) — an inward-looking musical world in which Brian Wilson, Bradford Cox, The Notwist and Brian Eno coexisted in a glorious sonic implosion — Carasueño now joins the Great Canyon Records family.

To mark the occasion, he unveils ‘Microdreams’, the first single from his forthcoming EP, Tiny Islands, due for release on 13 November. Produced, recorded and mixed by Carasueño himself, ‘Microdreams’ bridges unorthodox Americana and bedroom pop, weaving intricate syncopated string arrangements around the warm, unmistakable tones of a Wurlitzer.

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Photo - Meghan Tansey Whitton

Aaron MacDonald - Big Red Sky (EP).

On his new EP Big Red Sky, Aaron MacDonald continues to prove why he’s one of the east coast of Canada’s most popular singer-songwriters. Based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Aaron’s most recent accolades area 2026 ECMA win for Fans’ Choice Video of the Year (“Beaches &Bands”), and multiple Music Nova Scotia Awards nominations, including Country Recording of the Year, for his 2025 EP It’s In My Blood.

Aaron is carrying that momentum forward on Big Red Sky, with its six songs drawn from long drives, hard lessons and the bright chaos of family life. Produced by Jamie Foulds at Sound park Studios in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the EP features Aaron backed bya four-piece band that includes Foulds on keyboards along with guests, creating a sound that is equal parts folk grit and country soul. In total, Big Red Sky reaffirms Aaron’s place among a generation of songwriters from the Maritimes who understand that honest stories still cut the deepest.“

I am on a mission to record and document this life of mine through song,” Aaron says. "A few years ago, as our oldest kids started leaving home, I had a bit of a realization—I’ve written hundreds of songs over the years, but songs don't really exist until they’re recorded. It hit me that life moves fast, and if I wanted these stories to outlive me, I had to start documenting them properly. I want my kids, grandkids, family and friends to always be able to hear the stories that made up my life. That’s really what drives me now.”

Aaron makes that point clear on Big Red Sky’s first single “Makin’ Time,” a classic road song that also serves as a metaphor for getting the most out of what we’ve been given. Other highlights from the EP include “Be,” inspired by Aaron’s return to Cape Breton after living in other parts of Canada, “Kind Phenomenon,” written for his wedding in 2003 but not recorded “properly” until now, and “Horizon Line,” a song that brings the story of he and his wife up to date as they embrace life as empty nesters.

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Photo - Tess Disturnal

Kyla Marlena - Bit the Bullet.

Hold Time, the debut album by Toronto-based cellist and songwriter Kyla Marlena, finds her embracing unpredictability, collaboration and the full weight of the human condition.

The record, out November 6th via Idee Fixe, marks a significant departure for Marlena, who spent her early years writing instrumental compositions before teaching herself guitar and moving into songwriting. The result is a devastating, graceful and remarkably assured collection of songs about love, loss, memory and the relentless passage of time.

New single 'Bit the Bullet' injects an almost euphoric energy into a story of heartbreak. Of the track, she says: "Bit the Bullet felt like infusing some levity into a heartbreak story. I gave myself permission to be less self-analytical and to give voice to more immature notions of love. A lyric like " guess that I'm the winner, I had the final say" is not a real belief I hold. There are no winners and losers. But it felt liberating to express "forbidden" thoughts.

The energy in the studio was especially high for this one and it felt important to keep in idiosyncratic moments captured in the recording. Playful moments caught by room mics, for example, felt integral to the song by the end."

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Photograph - Kaylee Vaughan

Schaefer Llana - Skateland Baby.

Schaefer Llana will release her label debut, Full Circle, on November 13, 2026 via Strolling Bones Records. The 10-song set was produced by Llana and Starlin Browning and recorded at Matt Patton of the Drive-By Truckers’ Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi. The captivating debut is lush and literate, meditative and dreamy, and radiates a languorous Southern heat as it drifts between past and present, connection and isolation, love and loss. Llana delivers her songs with a tender, almost casual ease, and the result is a cinematic slice of alt-Americana. 
 
Born in Missouri, Llana moved to Mississippi as a child where she spent her formative years first singing in church. After high school, she headed deeper into the cradle of American music to study at Delta State University. It’s there where she fell in with a likeminded crew of artists and writers and landed a job working at the recording studio Dial Back Sound. She says, “Matt Patton gave me real opportunities early on. I worked at the studio for several years as an engineer and would record background vocals for anyone who came to record there.” 

That’s how she met Jimbo Mathus, best known as a founding member of Squirrel Nut Zippers (and more recently for his work with the Black Keys). Mathus was a fellow Mississippi native who took an immediate shine to her voice, first asking her to sing on records he was producing and then later inviting her to join his band on the road for several years. Full Circle features two songs written by Mathus and he also appears on its lead off track. 
 
One of those songs, is the album highlight “Skateland Baby.” Llana says, "'Skateland Baby' is a song written by Jimbo Mathus about a first love. He says it’s about holding her hand and 'skating around the rink one way…and then the other.' I used to play this song a lot when I was in his band on the road, and I was drawn to it because it felt timeless. Everyone knows the bliss of falling. Skateland tells you where he lands." 

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Photo - Isobel Clark

Phoebe Green - PREMATURE NOSTALGIA (Album).

Manchester's Phoebe Green today releases new album PREMATURE NOSTALGIA, via The Green Dream Machine / Absolute. The album releases follows the previously shared singles 'Clothes Still On', 'There's Always Someone Kicking The Seat' and 'Polluting You With Me'. Phoebe Green plays an album release show at Rough Trade East in London on 6th October.

Previously unheard album focus single 'I Don’t Play It Cool, I Play It Steaming', is a brilliantly over-the-top alt-pop duet with Picture Parlour’s Katherine Parlour, born from a long-running joke between the pair that they should one day write a "big gay" duet together. Trading vocals across the track, Green and Parlour lean fully into its sense of yearning and theatricality.

Written and produced alongside her sister Lucy Green (aka Elucyve) - a producer of contemporary classical and electronic music in her own right - PREMATURE NOSTALGIA was created between the flat the pair share in Manchester and their parents' home in Lytham St Annes. Across the album, Phoebe and Lucy draw inspiration from artists such as Imogen Heap, Oklou, Jockstrap, James Blake, FKA twigs and Sega Bodega - embracing warped electronics, fragmented structures and experimental forms of pop songwriting.

Speaking about the album, Phoebe said: "‘PREMATURE NOSTALGIA’ explores the feeling of missing a moment before it’s over, grieving the present in real time and trying to retain every detail of an encounter so that the memory is always intact and in full colour. My sister Lucy and I composed, produced and recorded this album in our flat in Manchester, it holds such sentimental value and is a real amalgamation of both of our influences, perspectives and individual style; dreamy, heavy, dramatic synths and confessional lyrics that document the beautiful and messy experience of living."

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Aderyn - Sirintip - Addi John - Steve & Ginie Jackson - Sandhouse - Nouvelle Vague Feat. Beth Hirsch

Aderyn - Hot Pink! (EP).

Welsh alternative pop artist 'Aderyn' today (September 30) releases her much anticipated and gorgeous 'Hot Pink!' EP and also shares the new 'Victorians' single & video. Beehive Candy have pretty much loved every song Aderyn has released, the new EP really is a breath of fresh air.

Aderyn tells us: Hot Pink! is my colourful, chaotic confessional diary of a life-altering breakup, told through four indie pop songs. It’s an emotional rollercoaster, with each song exploring a different stage of post-relationship grief - from wanting reassurance, to bitterness, anger, rumination and, eventually, acceptance. I wanted to make a record that a girl going through a breakup could put on and feel all the feelings along with me. Following my EP 'Foreverever', it pushes my diaristic songwriting into new and more experimental territory, with swagger, anger, humour and plenty of glitter along the way.

I recorded the EP in West Wales with Gethin Pearson, and we really let the songs dictate where we went sonically. The first thing we did in the studio was create a lo-fi electronic drum beat and Casio synth for Victorians, which completely took us by surprise because my music has always been so rooted in a live-band sound. I loved having the opportunity to push myself into new territory and explore different genres without losing the personality of the songs.


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Sirintip - Lotus.

Swedish-Thai artist and composer Sirintip releases "Lotus" ahead of  the new album "White Lilies" (due out October 30). Built around a recording Sirintip made of a Mor Lam ensemble in northeastern Thailand in 2015 for her debut EP, “Lotus” reaches into memory, ancestry, and the spiritual world she grew up with. 

For the accompanying music video, she returned to her father’s childhood neighborhood in old Bangkok, along the Chao Phraya River—a place deeply connected to her family for generations. As she puts it, “It felt like the right place to tell a story about where we come from and what we choose to grow into.”

You may recognize Sirintip from her 2018 GroundUP debut, Tribus, produced by Michael League (Snarky Puppy) and featuring Mark Guiliana, or her self-produced Carbon (2022, Ropeadope), which transformed climate data and environmental research into music. That outward curiosity continued into multidisciplinary work exploring the natural world, including Mycelium, her ongoing interdisciplinary project developed through firsthand research alongside plankton and fungi scientists, exploring the connections between microorganisms, ecosystems, and our own lives.

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Addi John - Love & Misfortunes (EP).

Canadian artist Addi John unveils his new EP, Love & Misfortunes, a deeply personal collection about loss, family, change, and learning to move forward. Entirely produced, performed, and mixed by Addi himself, the seven-track project emerged from a period of upheaval and ultimately centres around a simple but hard-earned realization: everything changes, and that’s okay.

The larger record began taking shape after Addi lost his father three years ago. Within six months, his mother and brother had moved out of the country and his former band, Lost in Japan, had broken up. Faced with several major changes at once, he turned to music as a way of processing them, writing songs that explore where different members of his family found themselves following his father’s passing.

“I want people to feel as if they’re not alone and to have a sense of hope for the future,” Addi shares. “The hope I want them to see is that change can be scary but, in order for us to grow, we need to accept that everything changes.”

That sense of hope takes a more energetic form on the title track, “Love & Misfortunes,” an indie-pop outlier inspired by an unlikely combination of a wedding and Two Door Cinema Club’s “What You Know.” After hearing the song at the wedding of two close friends, Addi was reminded how much he loved its energy and challenged himself to capture a similar feeling. The resulting song, somewhat ironically, follows a couple in the aftermath of a fight, uncertain whether their relationship will survive. 

Addi John · Love & Misfortunes

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Steve & Ginie Jackson - Make You Sing.

Montreal folk trio Steve & Ginie Jackson have released their new single, “Make You Sing,” an uplifting folk anthem inspired by the true story of how Steve Viau and Virginie St-Louis Grégoire met, fell in love, started a band and built a life together on the road.

Driven by warm vocal harmonies, spirited acoustic instrumentation and an irresistible sing-along chorus, “Make You Sing” traces the pair’s journey from meeting at a show and sharing their first drink to forming a band, climbing into a van and traveling mile after mile to bring their songs to audiences around the world.

The song’s affectionate refrain—“I want the whole world to hear your voice / I’d do anything just to make you sing”—captures the encouragement and shared sense of purpose at the heart of both the band and the couple’s relationship.

“Make You Sing” offers another glimpse into Steve & Ginie Jackson’s upcoming album, Nothing Is Real, arriving in January 2027. Produced in collaboration with Pete Bernhard of The Devil Makes Three, the album follows the recently released single “Bloodshot Eyes,” which transformed the humor and regret of an unforgettable drunken walk home into a lively folk sing-along.

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Photo - Hannah Jane Murrell

Sandhouse - Gasoline.

South London duo Sandhouse today announce their second EP Pollyanna, out 30th October via Broke Records, and share new single 'Gasoline' ahead of tour dates with MOULD next month. Fresh from touring with US indie-rockers she's green, Sandhouse’s Anna Sutherland and Caspar Holloway make the familiar feel sinister on 'Gasoline', pairing warped indie rock with strange, visceral imagery to evoke a relationship where affection and cruelty have become difficult to untangle.

The music follows an equally uneasy logic, its opening warmth unsettled by eerie textures and unexpected production flourishes. "I need to fight / but you look so good," Sutherland sings as the track spirals into a prolonged, claustrophobic outro. Produced by Sandhouse's Caspar Holloway and mixed by Nathan Boddy (Nilüfer Yanya, James Blake, PinkPantheress), 'Gasoline' features bass and drums recorded by Ben Hillier (Blur, Depeche Mode, Nadine Shah).

Of the new single, the band said: "Gasoline is about being trapped in a relationship that feeds on the softest, most fragile parts of yourself, and how realising this after leaving tarnishes memories you once treasured.

"Whilst writing this song we spoke a lot about this image of people having a fantastic day at the beach, looking closer and realising that all their food is mouldy, the ice cream is covered in ants, and the seagulls all have the plague. We wanted the start of the song to reflect the feeling of a perfect day underlined with the ominous feeling that something is not quite right. The chorus is meant to be a moment of clarity before the long outro which musically is representing this idea that you’re trapped. Something about it feels good but you also want it to end."

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Nouvelle Vague Feat. Beth Hirsch - A Question of Lust.

"A Question of Lust" is perhaps the most fragile and intimate song in Depeche Mode’s catalogue — a 1986 track that balances entirely on the edge between desire and vulnerability. 

To interpret it, one choice felt inevitable: Beth Hirsch, whose voice had illuminated Air’s Moon Safari and etched itself into the memory of an entire generation. 

In a stripped-back bossa nova arrangement, free of artifice, her voice magnifies the song to its purest core. One of the most beautiful moments on Nouvelle Vague's forthcoming record A Date with Depeche Mode (out October 30 on Kwaidan Records / [PIAS] Recordings). 

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Rachel Bochner - Tanjeryne - Full Flower Moon Band - Stevie Wonder

Photo - Smiles Meyer

Rachel Bochner - I Guess A Sure Thing Couldn’t Go Down Gently (Album).

Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Bochner has built a reputation for sharp, emotionally charged indie-pop that cuts straight to the core. Since her debut, she’s carved out a space defined by candid lyricism and an unflinching willingness to explore the messier edges of love, identity and self-discovery. Now, she brings those ideas together on her new album, I Guess A Sure Thing Couldn’t Go Down Gently, a deeply personal dissection of a relationship ending and everything that surfaced in its aftermath.

“In short, ‘I Guess A Sure Thing Couldn’t Go Down Gently’ is a break up album and my dissection of how it happened. As break ups tend to be, the record is complicated and far from concise (very in line with its mouthful of a title),” Bochner explains. “Written after the implosion of my long term relationship with a man, the album orbits my queer identity’s entanglement with insurmountable guilt, revelatory grief, and the start of complex acceptance.”

That period brought two seemingly opposing experiences into Bochner’s life at once. The devastation of losing a relationship existed alongside the excitement of beginning to recognize herself more fully. She shares, “In the midst of this devastating dissolution, I was experiencing a paradoxical truth: immense grief and immense joy. For the first time in my life, I had a glimpse of my authentic self: a euphoric revelation, entirely magnetic and addictive. But how long can one dance around the dissonance until it becomes deafening?”

Those contradictions run throughout I Guess A Sure Thing Couldn’t Go Down Gently, with Bochner examining not only what happened, but the stories we tell ourselves when trying to make sense of the damage left behind. 

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Tanjeryne - City Girls.

After teasing her forthcoming album Leather & Denim in 2025 with the wistful single “Storyteller,” followed this past summer with the cheeky “God’s Problem,” featuring acoustic duo The Western Thistles, Tanjeryne once again displays her distinctive musical vision on "City Girls," out today as a single on Bandcamp and streaming services.

The smokey atmosphere on "City Girls" is accentuated by Dave Babcock’s sultry saxophone and underscores the timeless sound of Leather & Denim, which blends classic country with hints of jazz, soul and folk-pop. The album will be out on Oct. 23. As a singer-songwriter who has emerged from Edmonton, Alberta’s vibrant music scene, Tanjeryne teamed up with producer Mallory Chipman and some of the city’s most accomplished musicians to create the nostalgic feel of Leather & Denim, although a deeper listen reveals messages of women’s empowerment that directly reflect our current times.

Tanjeryne says, “I wrote ‘City Girls’ 10 years ago when I was going to university, living alone for the first time. I had some really inspiring, dedicated women around me. We were all living downtown, going to school and working part-time jobs. We were passionate about making the world a better place and seeing real change, and we felt like we could be a part of that change.

"‘City Girls’ is a celebration of the fact that, as women, we have so many opportunities in this modern world to make an impact and live beyond the norms that our grandmothers did. I’ve been humbled and jaded since writing it, but the sentiment remains. I hope that when girls hear it, they’re inspired to dare to dream.”

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Full Flower Moon Band - Endless Summer.

Full Flower Moon Band, the project of Australian songwriter, guitarist and frontwoman Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon, returned with a new single “Endless Summer” a few days ago, ahead of two major stadium appearances supporting Foo Fighters in Australia this November. Beginning life as Dillon’s bedroom project before expanding into a formidable live band around her, Full Flower Moon Band has become one of the most distinctive names in contemporary Australian rock. Built around Dillon’s songwriting and singular stage presence, the project draws together heavy guitars, psych-rock swagger and sharp, often darkly comic lyricism.

That momentum now sees Full Flower Moon Band join Foo Fighters at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on November 5 and Queensland Country Bank Stadium in Townsville on November 7. Their first new music of 2026, “Endless Summer” is a much darker proposition than its title initially suggests. Driven by an insistent riff and a sense of increasingly frantic optimism, the track captures the unstable conviction of a manic episode, turning the promise of permanent sunshine into something altogether more unnerving.

“A much darker anthem than the title suggests — ‘Endless Summer’ is the voice of a manic episode. This hopeless, frantic optimism is summarised in the chorus lyric, ‘you can have an endless summer, anytime the sun comes out’. What began as a simple instrumental track is now an unnerving battle cry.” — Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon

The single follows a breakthrough period for Dillon and Full Flower Moon Band. Third album Megaflower debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Album Chart and #6 on the ARIA Vinyl Chart, selling out its initial vinyl pressing in just one week.

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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 50th (EP).

This week, legendary singer, songwriter, musician, producer and activist Stevie Wonder celebrates the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life with a four-song EP featuring previously unreleased recordings from the album’s sessions: “It’s Easier,” “My Life Story of Love,” “I Can See the Sun In Late December,” and “I’m Into Livin’.” The release opens a new chapter in the story of a landmark album that reshaped modern music, offering listeners a deeper look into the imagination and musical exploration behind one of Wonder’s defining creative periods.

Personally curated by Stevie Wonder, the recordings were recently mixed for this EP by the album’s original recording and mixing engineers, John Fischbach and Gary O Adante. Adante was credited on the original LP as Gary Olazabal.

At 4:54 a.m., as the final studio session for Songs in the Key of Life came to a close, Nathan Watts, Stevie’s longtime bassist, exclaimed, “Fo’FiftyFo’!” From then on, the phrase signaled the end of a session and became an inside joke for anyone in Stevie’s circle. Now, that hour marks a new beginning as four previously unreleased recordings reach the world, connecting the album’s creation with its next chapter.

“We’ve lived with Songs in the Key of Life for fifty years, but there’s still more to hear,” says Wonder. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it. They bring me back to that time in my life, and now they get to become part of yours.”