Herein we have a journey across genres and eras with a sprawling, eclectic collection of tracks that move seamlessly from heavy psych-rock and pulsing indie rhythms to avant-garde soundscapes, shimmering dream pop, and hypnotic experimental noise. Designed to keep you guessing, this selection weaves provides a series of unexpected sonic detours in one continuous, immersive listening journey.
Dead Sea Apes - Damn Your Eyes - Psychic Tension
Janel Leppin - Walking Through A Party - The Realist
Gentles - My Fugue, My Greek, My Brahms - Nation
The Datsuns - Moonstruck Man - Moonstruck Man
The Golden Gaytimes - I’m Not Going Anywhere - I’m Not Going Anywhere
Pyroclast - Pyroclast - Fractured State
St Silva - Blue Heron - Forager
Arthur King - Intimacy - UMN (Fantastic Planet)
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians - Love, Light, Beauty, And, Truth - Love, Light, Beauty, And, Truth
The Secrecy - Pins And Needles - Pins And Needles
Huxton Creepers - Opposites Attract - Opposites Attract
DEATĦ B¥ LØVE -In Unity (WIELORYB Power Noise Remix) -In Unity (WIELORYB Remix and Tribute)
Mercedes Brown - No Tomorrow - Light The Fire
Jah Wobble and Tian Qiyi - Strawberry Fields Forever - Strawberry Fields Forever
Randy California - Day Tripper - Kapt. Kopter & The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
Peter Hammill - Red Shift - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
Cinder Well - August - A Blooming Body
Peter Eötvös, Bob Rutman, Ensemble Modern Orchestra - Spring - Heiner Goebbels : Walden
The Go-Betweens - Something For Myself - G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology - Volume 3
Moff Skellington - Red Monkey, Peter Woods, Phobia, Birthplace, Crikey, Owlitz - Dawn Ablutions
Fancy Weapon - I Bring Nothing - Fancy Weapon
The Dave Graney Show - Don’t Be True - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Smoked Salmon - There’s A Virus Going Round - Totally Sick!!
The Junta - Afterglow (Extended Mix) - Euphoria
Manchester (UK) based Dead Sea Apes are back with an impressive soundtrack for the nerve-shredding times we live in. It picks up where the previous album Rewilding left off, carrying forward the momentum of massive riffs, juggernaut rhythms and squalling sonic overload. Noise-rock, Japanese psych, minimal dub, Electric-era Miles, Can meets Crazy Horse vibes emerge from their wall of sound. This impressive opening track made me sit up and listen.
Janel continues to cross boundaries with her exciting new album featuring the Realist Trio of Leppin - cello, Prophet 5, Devra Hoff - bass and Chad Taylor - drums, mbira.
The latest by Melbourne band Gentles and the final release by the band in their current incarnation as very sadly their lead singer Brendan Parkes passed away January of 2026. Before his passing, he completed the final vocal tracks and mixes for the band’s subsequent EP releases, including This Far Nation. In addition to his role as a vocalist and lyricist, Brendan was also a visual artist and painter who designed artwork for the band.
Staying the southern hemisphere we have a new one from Aotearoa / New Zealand’s most celebrated rock bands, the first out of the Antipodes to make waves on the early 2000s rock explosion (they toured with the White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica and others) and the only band of the era who have undeniably kept getting better. Theyhave announced a forthcoming new album Moonstruck Man, out through Hellsquad Records. on November 13.
The first taste off the album, which was stitched together in Swedish recording joints & haunts, is out now. A gloriously rambling slice of classic 1970s-inspired rock. Wah pedals wail and guitars scorch, perhaps with nods to Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore and Mountain’s Leslie West. The high tenored vox & busy rhythms hark back to classic Rush. There’s also glam weird & whimsy in the spirit Sparks & Marc Bolan.
Back to Australia and in the same vein coming on like a buzzing blend of glam disco swagger and indie rock carnival attitude, the new Gaytimes single features singer Jane-O in full flight – the diva, the MC, and the high priestess of kaleidoscopic lyricism. Another track from the Bung It On album.
Fractured State is the forthcoming second full-length album from the Scottish heavy metal band. Ahead of its release on 4 September 2026 comes the eponymous opening track. Drawing inspiration from the melodic twin-guitar traditions of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal while embracing long-form progressive songwriting, the album explores themes of psychology, history, mythology and speculative fiction across eight interconnected compositions.
A warm collection of looping mediations that blur the line between electronic and the natural, merging formless exploration with found sounds in an unlikely collaboration of time and space. Crafted during a year-long process of documenting, sorting, and re-collaging sonic material - improvisations and field recordings captured on hikes - Forager is the composite of archival material tracked months prior to their recontextualization. “Time creates distance, sometimes a healthy distance, between the art and the artist,” shares St. Silva. “This is a document, a marker of where I was during a moment of time and the sounds that inspired me.”
The latest entry in Arthur King’s ongoing live quadraphonic scoring experiments. Featuring Kern Haug (percussion), Pauline Lay (violin), JP Maramba (bass), David Ralicke (woodwinds, electronics), and Peter Walker (guitar) - UMN (Fantastic Planet) came out digitally and on limited run cassette July 10th.
Reaching for and pulling from the stars, on Fantastic Planet the ensemble unfurls a transcendent piece punctuated by the ceremonial spirit of cosmic jazz and collective improvisation.
After years in the vault, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians share ‘Love, Light, Beauty & Truth’, a soaring anthem that feels more urgent than ever. Fusing shimmering ‘60s-inspired psychrock, folk and Americana into a hypnotic swirl of hope, the New York collective delivers a powerful message of resilience in troubled times. Recorded years ago, the song’s relevance has only intensified, transforming it into a timeless rallying cry wrapped in radiant melodies and good vibrations. This marks the beginning of a wave of previously unheard recordings, as they emerge with renewed momentum.
Emerging from Indianapolis’ fertile underground, this quartet – whose members also play with the likes of Flesher, Chrome Waves, Bringers Of Disease, Isolation Drills, En Dive, and more – has quickly established itself as a formidable new voice in American post-punk. Blending shadow-drenched atmosphere and driving, rhythmic urgency, the band bridges the stark emotionality of classic goth rock with a modern, cinematic edge. Following early singles the band now arrives at a defining moment with their debut full-length.
Beloved Melbourne band The Huxton Creepers, who followed Sunnyboys and the Hoodoo Gurus out of the pubs and into the hearts of many young rock’n’roll and guitar-pop loving Australians in the ‘80s, are back with their first new music since 1990. The single features two brand new songs written by original members Rob Craw, Matthew Eddy and Archie Law, with the addition of new guitarist and long time friend Julian Matthews of the Stems.
The Pittsburgh-Poland duo with a heartfelt tribute to the late Polish industrial pioneer Wieloryb (Paweł Kmiecik), whose final remix is featured on the release. This release honours Wieloryb’s enduring legacy while showcasing the collaborative spirit that defined his final work. All profits will go directly to support Kmiecik’s family. Following their debut album “444”, recently featured on on the podcat, members Inga and Peter, blend gothic-industrial, darkwave, and trip-hop influences with Middle Eastern musical elements, exploring themes of identity, trauma, and spiritual renewal. Peter who also edited the tribute remix under the Psychotribe moniker, praises Wieloryb as an extraordinary artist whose uncompromising industrial vision left a lasting mark on the genre.
The second track on Mercedes debut album. “No Tomorrow” came about after she regained passion in life. It has a deeper meaning to her now after some family members passed away in December 2025 and she dedicated the song to them. She continues, “It really means that tomorrow isn’t promised and shouldn’t be taken for granted. It is important to value what you have and the people around you.”
The iconic Mr Wardle/Wobble and his lads offer a smooth rendition of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, heralding their ‘Mystic Liverpool’ album, out August 14th via Cherry Red Records / 30 Hertz. Wobble shares, “This is the one that started everything for me – the song that opened my psyche as a small boy in the East End... I don’t think we’ve tried to compete with the original. What we’ve done, I hope, is honour the mystery of it.”
My erstwhile chum Mr Moss mentioned this 1972 post Spirit album on a recent Facebook post and given Randy does a wonderful version of a Beatles classic it seemed like a suitable rejoinder to the previous.
And to complete the linked trilogy Randy adds some searing guitar to PJAH’s sci-fi epic from the masterful third solo album from 1974. The rest of VDGG (then on hiatus) are present delivering a true prog rock masterpiece. They should have played this one at the Proms.
Since 2015, Cinder Well has extracted dark, rich and tender compositions which nod to, but also stray from traditional musical languages. By comparison to the more diaristic tones of previous releases (2015’s self-titled EP, 2018’s The Unconscious Echo, 2020’s No Summer, 2023’s Cadence), A Blooming Body feels like glimpsing scattered vignettes of a whole world rather than a sequential narrative from beginning to end.
“Walden consists of a series of musical sketches inspired by the 1854 novel of the same name by Henry David Thoreau”, thus reads the short description of this project by Heiner Goebbels. But those familiar with the oeuvre of the German trans-media conceptualist and composer know that with Goebbels it’s never quite that simple. In his 1998 creation Walden, composed for expanded orchestra with speaker, Goebbels incorporates a wide-flung stream of inspirations and approaches, spanning excerpts from Thoreau’s “Walden”, soundscape-design in the spirit of audio plays, arsenals of outlandish instruments and sonic layouts as much at home in the avantgarde as they borrow from popular music, all brought to life with Peter Eötvös conducting and Bob Rutman – a main figure in this project – in the role of the narrator.
Another acoustic rarity from the G Stand for Go-Betweens third box set
The six pieces that conclude Moff’s Dawn Ablutions provide a whimsical suite of word poems and associated sounds.
Another one from the debut album by this new Australian group.
Continuing my amble through this classic album from Graney and Moore this one features Clare on vocals. A magical piece of popular music this a highlight in an album full of highlights
And another one from the new Kim Salmon project.
Salford’s finest producer of electronic music from his new album.
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