RETROSPECTIVE SAMPLE / RELEASE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2026
INSIDE / OUTSIDE.
Rooms for refuge. Wires for unrest. 50 releases move between shelter and disturbance: Julia Jacklin above a Melbourne pub, Bullion at close range, Protomartyr inside a haunted nation, and Jules Reidy turning strings into windows of light. Soul, jazz and ambient widen the view.
50records to explore
44 new releases · 6 returning / live
10 with critic ratings
10 with listener ratings
RESEARCHED MONDAY, OCTOBER 26Pop 1 · rock 4 · ambient 9 · 4 discovery leads
50 releases · separate critic & listener reception · descriptions plus sourced review excerpts where available
The artistTinashe is a singer and songwriter who broke through with 2 On and has continued across R&B, electronic music and pop. Popstar is her eighth album.
The recordSixteen tracks compress into thirty-nine minutes, setting club-oriented bass and glitch against ballads. In her Apple interview, Tinashe explains that her own melodies, concepts and vocal choices connect the record's varied inspirations.
The artistLeon Bridges is a singer, songwriter and producer whose work draws on soul and R&B. Here he collaborates with Jungle's J Lloyd and Lydia Kitto.
The recordHappiness Anytime gathers twelve songs in thirty-seven minutes. Bridges describes wanting music that gets people moving, incorporating Brazilian rhythms and Afrobeat influences; Kitto also sings on All Day, All Night.
The artistBenny Sings is a singer and songwriter whose work connects pop melodies, soul and beat-making. He describes this release as a turn toward his life at home.
The recordThe eleven-song 22 Durnham Dew reflects renovating a house and becoming immersed in family life. Its artist statement frames ordinary adult experience as the record's subject rather than touring and life on the road.
The artistJimetta Rose is a vocalist, producer and bandleader associated with the choir The Voices of Creation. Her work connects soul, gospel and jazz.
The recordMettaSun reinterprets Sun Ra through new lyrics and an Afrofuturist narrative of escape and collective hope. It honors Arkestra singer June Tyson and includes contributions from Rose's choir and Maia The Artiste.
The artistmegiapa is a producer, singer and composer whose work developed in Chicago's beat scene before a move to Los Angeles. She handles production and vocals throughout most of this debut.
The recordIntentions develops ideas dating to 2020–21 into fourteen tracks. Live musicians add bass, percussion, flute and trumpet around its electronic construction; the credits include Mocky, Will Miller and Mekala Session.
Juan Edgardo Rodríguez praises the band’s expanding arrangements and nightmare atmosphere, while finding some broader political declarations less precise than Casey’s strongest imagery.No Ripcord · Read review ↗
The artistProtomartyr pair Joe Casey's vocals with Greg Ahee's guitar, Scott Davidson's bass and Alex Leonard's drums. Their Detroit post-punk records repeatedly confront political and everyday dread.
The recordThe band's seventh studio album was made with Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road. Casey imagines America as an aging hotel, with each song occupied by a different anxiety, from artificial intelligence to deportation and fatherhood.
The artistGilla Band are Dara Kiely, Alan Duggan Borges, Daniel Fox and Adam Faulkner. The quartet's previous records include Holding Hands With Jamie, The Talkies and Most Normal.
The recordPugnello is their fourth album, arriving after members pursued painting, production and other collaborations. Ten tracks extend a catalogue built around unstable boundaries between noise-rock, post-punk and electronic abrasion.
The artistBlondshell is songwriter Sabrina Teitelbaum, following her self-titled debut and If You Asked For A Picture. Her work places frank writing within guitar-led alternative pop and rock.
The recordViolins turns from romantic relationships toward friendship, religion, bodies and recovery. The eleven-track third album names Gang of Four, Teenage Fanclub, the Go-Betweens and Sade among its touchstones.
The artistAdult DVD are a six-piece group from Leeds: Harry Hanson, Greg Lonsdale, Danny Blackburn, Jake Williams, Jonathan Newell and George Manson. They write and perform the songs together.
The recordThe self-titled album was recorded and produced at The Nave by Blackburn and Williams. The band's description connects indie hooks and humorous songwriting to dance grooves and 1990s acid-house influences.
John Murphy hears a confident step forward: the album combines Jacklin’s earlier acoustic intimacy with bigger pop arrangements and emotionally exposed performances.musicOMH · Read review ↗
The artistJulia Jacklin is an Australian songwriter whose work joins folk, country and indie rock. She writes the songs and co-produces this fourth album with Robert Muiños.
The recordThe Gem takes its name from a Melbourne pub that became a refuge after Jacklin moved to the city. She recorded above the bar and tried the songs downstairs: a hometown setting for a record about transition.
The artistJeff Narlock is a Saint Paul singer-songwriter previously associated with the folk trio North Ridge. His solo work continues in acoustic folk music.
The recordStories presents ten tracks, including Lovely Tonight, Second Fiddle and Solid Ground. Its listing also credits featured song titles to Straight and Curly, America Ortiz, Jon Henry and Paige Johnson.
The artistJon Collin makes guitar-centered experimental music. This release is presented by Grisaille, a label focused on experimental sound.
The recordThe self-titled two-part album was recorded in Stockholm during winter 2025–26. Jack Chuter mastered it, and Superkolor handled its layout and print; the label places it between folk, lo-fi and noise.
The artistJAVLIN writes, performs and produces across rap, pop and R&B. This album also draws on a broad team of guest vocalists and producers.
The recordOVERTIME took five years to make and follows work, ambition and burnout into the relationships and moments around them. The sixteen tracks include Dane Amar, Chow Mane, Sawhee and other collaborators.
The artistTOMÁ is an Austrian project whose artist page connects rap and hip-hop with electronic production, jazz and soul influences.
The recordSplit is a five-track digital album. Its supplied genre tags span future beats, trap and alternative hip-hop, placing it on the border between beat production and rap songwriting.
The artistMonk Jordan supplies lyrics and The Sound Conspirator supplies production. Their partnership brings rap writing together with beat-focused music.
The recordKintsugi Tapas is the duo's second full album, with fourteen tracks. Curly Castro and PremRock join Lung Rubble; Duncecap and Brown also contribute features elsewhere in the sequence.
Ben Hogwood welcomes the return to largely instrumental sound-building, finding emotional force in the contrasts between intimate passages and overwhelming electronic surges.musicOMH · Read review ↗
Patrick Lyons reaches a more skeptical conclusion: attractive sounds and engaging ideas repeatedly dissolve before developing the drama of M83’s strongest compositions.Pitchfork · Read review ↗
The artistM83 is Anthony Gonzalez's long-running electronic project, moving between synth-pop, dreamlike instrumentals and film music. Its tenth album emphasizes the instrumental side of that range.
The recordNine tracks span forty minutes, bringing synth expanses together with free-jazz and neoclassical elements. The Apple release notes highlight saxophone on Siren / Behold…Beasts and the shifting scale of Losing Ground.
The artistSpace Afrika are Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, working between Manchester and Berlin. Their production combines ambient, dub, trip-hop and modern-classical approaches.
The recordQuiet Storm follows Honest Labour with a thirteen-track collaborative album. Guests include Klein, RXKNephew, Tony Njoku, Kelly Moran and Axelle Fanyo, while Glenn Ligon's artwork accompanies the release.
The artistSeth Weaver writes, records and produces ambient music. This release is his first for slow echo, with mastering by Marshall Usinger.
The recordlight and shadow is an EP built from layered synthesizers, tape effects and melodic fragments. Its three pieces place texture and reflection at the center of the artist's stated approach.
The artistSwartz et is the project of Steve Swartz, who creates its music and visual artwork. The release is tagged ambient, drone and modular synthesizer.
The recordMemory Layers collects four works originally made for a horror podcast. Swartz also records, mixes and masters the material, placing the record's sound and imagery under one author's control.
The artistOne Far West produces and performs guitar-based ambient music, using loops and software synthesis. James Plotkin masters this release.
The recordMina When She Hides combines reverb-treated Telecaster loops with recordings made at the artist's grandmother's home in South Carolina. Those recordings preceded her death; the artist links the music to thoughts about an afterlife.
The artistSaktefall is the project of Norwegian producer Daniel Wold. His work uses ambient textures and environmental sounds.
The recordVårsang is a four-piece EP inspired by Norwegian landscapes. The label describes organic atmospheres and subtle melodies connected to forests, mountains and water.
The artistBe Still The Earth is ambient producer Marshall Usinger, who writes, records and produces the music. The project focuses on atmospheric instrumental work.
The recordcosm is a five-track EP inspired by the contrast between cosmic scale and the natural world's close details. It is released through Echoes Blue Music.
The artistAidan Baker and Marcin Lasek are experimental musicians joining bass, drums and drum machine with synths, electronics and field recordings.
The recordPassage is a three-part collaboration built around texture and minimalism. Its release statement describes a sense of transition; European and US CD editions are issued by Antenna Non Grata and Somnimage.
The artistSon Of Buzzi works with twelve-string guitar, folk and drone. The release is issued through experimental label Grisaille.
The recordTaupunkt is a two-part digital album. Its presentation connects acoustic guitar with sustained ambient forms, a point of contact between the week's folk and drone selections.
The artistBullion is producer and songwriter Nathan Jenkins, whose collaborators include Avalon Emerson, Nilüfer Yanya and Oliver Sim. He writes and produces this record himself.
The recordNearly follows Affection with ten songs and contributions from Shrink, Ethan P. Flynn, Micah Jasper and Jay Flew. L Devine appears on Francis Ford and The Arm of Cinderella; Nathan Boddy handles the mix and master.
The artistEvin Schneider writes music and makes artwork under his own name. His electronic work incorporates organic source sounds and transformed textures.
The recordGrand Mother began as a space for meditation before developing a stronger sense of rhythm. Its ten tracks draw on places and memories, including those of Schneider's grandmother, whose presence supplies the title.
The artistOudeis is an electronic project working with industrial, rhythmic-noise and techno forms. The release page locates the project in Tallinn.
The recordQuite The Surprise is a two-track digital album. Its brief artist statement announces a period of change; the release's tags connect dark ambient and drone with more rhythmic electronic noise.
The artistPianist and composer Kris Davis leads a trio with bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake. All three contribute compositions to this session.
The recordLost In Geneva was recorded at Oktaven Audio in September 2025. Alongside Davis originals, the eleven tracks include Hurst and Blake pieces, collective writing and an arrangement of Morton Feldman's Nature Piece.
The artistCamila Nebbia is a tenor saxophonist and composer. The Hanged One brings her together with cello, guitar, electronics, double bass and drums.
The recordLimbo presents nine compositions for a sextet including Julia Biłat, Arne Braun, Andres Marino, Vinicius Cajado and Lukas Akintaya. The label describes music moving between written structures and open ensemble space.
The artistHania Derej is a pianist, composer and arranger. Her trio pairs her with bassist Mateusz Szewczyk and drummer Gniewomir Tomczyk.
The recordDon't Look Behind, Always Forward combines the trio with guests Walter Smith III, Abel Sánchez Abarca and Krzysztof Kuśmierek. Its nine compositions bring electronics and cinematic influences into the jazz setting.
The artistGisela Horat is a pianist whose work moves between jazz, minimalism and improvisation. Her longstanding trio includes bassist Simon Iten and drummer Samuel Büttiker.
The recordTrio Solo alternates solo and trio performances across a double album. The sessions use a Bösendorfer piano and occasional preparations, and return to Leben in three versions, tracing how the same idea changes in different settings.
The artistEspen Eriksen is a pianist and composer, joined by bassist Lars Tormod Jenset and drummer Andreas Bye. The trio's catalogue includes collaborations with saxophonist Andy Sheppard.
The recordAlmost There presents eight Eriksen compositions. Recorded and mixed by Mike Hartung at Propeller Music Division in Oslo, it continues the trio's focus on melody; Kim Hiorthøy supplies the cover art.
The artistBeatriz is the ensemble led by Laura Beatriz. The band's work draws on Latin and jazz traditions, with Laura writing arrangements for its musicians.
The recordPerseverancia was recorded at Groenland Studio in Hilversum with the players performing together. New arrangements were created for the band, and the release was accompanied by a BIMHUIS concert.
The artistKevin Sun is a saxophonist and composer. This quartet joins his tenor with Max Light's guitar, Walter Stinson's bass and Jon Starks' drums.
The recordKevin Sun, I grows from music developed during a Brooklyn bar residency, then shaped through studio work and editing. The eight-track album includes Sun originals alongside music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yuji Takenouchi.
The artistJakob Görris is a drummer and bandleader trained in Cologne and Lisbon. His ensemble features Emilia Gołos, Lucie Graehl and Florian Herzog.
The recordAssemblage is his debut album under his own name. The project takes its concept from combining disparate materials into a whole, bringing piano and synth, saxophone, bass and drums into an open ensemble process.
The artistGodflesh pair Justin Broadrick's guitars, machines and voice with Ben Green's bass. The industrial-metal project dates to the late 1980s.
The recordDecay draws six tracks from the sessions that also produced Purge, subsequently revisited by Broadrick. The band presents it as its tenth and penultimate album, with the opener and closer making up roughly half the running time.
The artistBurner are a heavy quartet led by vocalist Harry Nott, with Nathan Harlow on guitar, Finn Gannon on bass and Jack Bryant on drums.
The recordNo One Is Coming to Save Us examines repeating cycles of human violence and the possibility of change. Its eleven tracks were produced by Lewis Johns and include guests Matthew K. Heafy, Josh Middleton and Anthony Lucero.
The artistCritical Defiance are a Chilean thrash band formed in 2010. Their previous albums include Misconception, No Life Forms and The Search Won't Fall.
The recordRivers of Blood is their fourth full-length: eight songs in thirty-two minutes. Sebastián Palominos produces a sequence that includes a piece named for the band's home city, Valparaíso, alongside shorter instrumental passages.
The artistStellar Rot are Scott Ferguson on drums and vocals and Mike Connors on guitar, bass and synths. They formed the duo after playing together in a traditional black-metal band.
The recordWhere The Formless Ones Dwell is a five-track debut based on Grimdark mythology. Each track is designed around a different god, with song structure and instrumentation intended to serve its specific narrative.
The artistSlumdweller is the project of Ryan Blackbourn, who writes, records and mixes the instruments. Its tags connect heavy electronic music with doom and stoner metal.
The recordPrequel III: Industrial Industries, Incorporated concludes a trilogy before the project's Chapter albums. The thirteen-track narrative follows a conflict over an industrial planet, mixing a science-fiction concept with the heavy musical setting.
The artistThanatos are a death-metal band from the Netherlands. Emerging from the Netherworlds was their first album, originally released in 1990.
The recordThis remastered vinyl reissue returns the debut in several colored editions. The label lists ten tracks, from Dawn of the Dead through the combined closing Omnicoitor / Dolor Satanae.
The artistMalevolent Creation are an American death-metal band. Their catalogue is revisited here by Agonia Records.
The recordRetribution receives a reissue remastered at Satanic Audio in 2025. The page dates this edition September 25 and lists CD and cassette as available, while separately assigning the LP to November 20.
The artistBrutal Truth were a New York grindcore band. Kill Trend Suicide marked their first release for Relapse in 1996.
The recordThe 2026 edition remasters the mini-album with Brad Boatright. The label identifies this as its first vinyl appearance in thirty years and its first on twelve-inch vinyl.
The artistAmarok are a doom and sludge band with Brandon Squyres, Kenny Ruggles-Alaniz, Nathan Collings and Colby Byrn. Their 2024 album Resilience supplies this project's source material.
The recordOvercome is a companion collection of ten remixes and reimaginings of Resilience. Contributors include Ethan Lee McCarthy, Leila Abdul-Rauf and Andrew Black, extending the original record through other experimental and heavy-music perspectives.
The artistAnthony D'Alessandro is a pianist and bandleader. This quartet performance joins him with Jonathan Chapman, Ernesto Cervini and guests.
The recordPlays George Gershwin documents a June 2025 show at Edmonton's Yardbird Suite, with one studio-recorded bonus performance. Its eight selections revisit Gershwin through D'Alessandro's arrangements, including guests Benny Benack III, Summer Camargo and Jacob Chung.
The artistCraig Alexander is a house-music producer whose Soul Revival EP originally appeared through Transparent Records. This edition returns the record to vinyl.
The recordThe repress gathers Soul Revival, Lovin Feelin and Journey into Sound. The September 25 release is presented through Deep Cuts with Phonogramme identified as the issuing label.
The artistJules Reidy is a composer and experimental guitarist whose work explores tuning and reflection. Clerestory follows their Thrill Jockey debut Ghost/Spirit.
The recordJACK Quartet performs Shadow Symmetric, commissioned through its studio program. The other side reworks that composition as Clerestory Windows, using guitars, voice and electronic strings: the same musical architecture seen through altered light.
The artistKeith Hanlon is a musician working with ambient, drone and generative processes. He performs and records all the instruments on this release.
The recordMusic for Airport Workers began during a layover in Orlando. Its eight pieces imagine the people behind air travel, with titles including TSA Dreamer and On the Air; CD and on-demand vinyl editions accompany the download.
The artistyell at god is a Philadelphia folk project with rj on banjo and orah on fiddle and shruti box. Its vocabulary connects old-time instrumentation with improvisation.
The recorddays of awe 5787 gathers ten daily improvisational meditations on randomly selected psalms during September's Days of Awe. Its devotional organizing idea gives familiar acoustic instruments a specific compositional constraint.
The artistBonus Disc is the project of Jane Steele, a multi-instrumentalist credited with voice, piano, keyboards, trumpet, accordion and more. Steele also records, produces and creates the artwork.
The recordBonus Disc Saves Music Forever was developed over roughly two and a half years and concerns identity and perception. Supporting players add bass, guitar, flute and synth to its ten-track sequence.
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