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Shane Parish takes on the music of English electronic duo Autechre, re-imagining ten of the band’s 1990s songs solo on his Taylor acoustic — ultra-minimalist and organic. The intricacy of the numerous patterns becomes clearer with each listen, time signatures and tempos working together to create a tapestry of beautifully accomplished acoustic playing. Super clean, incredibly precise, and simply a pleasure to listen to — Autechre Guitar is a stunner.
Natalie Wildgoose has shared Nobody on the Path, the lead single from her forthcoming EP Rural Hours (15th April, state51). Wrapping her trembling vocals in guitar, piano, banjo and violin, the track draws on the physical rhythms of solitary moorland walking — music that moves the way the title suggests.
On ‘The Call,’ Montreal-based quartet Bellbird turn jazz presumptions upside down, with the rhythm section dictating form while horns take care of tempo and sonic character. Even as they run with carefree abandon, they never lose the listener. Every track features juicy melodies and audio patterns that are pleasing to the ears, launching themselves on a flight that sounds rather timeless.
The latest KLOF Mixtape is an eclectic offering, featuring Cinder Well, whom many are discovering for the first time thanks to “The Wise Man’s Song”, the theme to the BBC Drama Small Prophets. Plus we’ve also music from Jenny Lysander, Cynefin, Northern Flyway (ft. Jenny Sturgeon, Inge Thomson, Sarah Hayes, Jason Singh), Frankie Archer, Malmin, Sourdure, Elle Osborne, Matt Kivel, M G Boulter, Sam Moss, Damien Jurado and The Lords.
Joshua Burnside’s “The Last Armchair” opens with a brutal intimacy: “Oh, The last armchair you ever sat on / Before you overdosed / Is the one I sit in every morning / To eat my egg and toast;” the Belfast songwriter revealing how grief strips away every carefully constructed illusion of adulthood, that beneath mortgages and responsibilities we’re all still waiting for reassurance.
Hen Ogledd’s third album, DISCOMBOBULATED, is fresh, weird, pranksterish, passionate and downright uncategorisable as we have come to expect. Their blend of freaky electronic folk-rock, politically charged psych-pop and modernist compositional techniques is elusive, bewildering and brilliant—music that seems to invent new colours. Admirably anti-bigotry, anti-corporate, anti-corruption. Their most consistent, relevant and boundary-pushing record yet.
Lemoncello reveal their new single “Meet Me Halfway”, their first new music since last year’s self-titled debut. Written in a clifftop cabin overlooking the Skellig Islands and later recorded with co-producer Ruth O’Mahony-Brady, the six-minute track explores modern disconnection through sparse guitar, voice, and distant strings—a quietly persuasive meditation on vulnerability and connection.
The Notwist have shared “Projectors,” a new single from one of 2026’s most anticipated albums, News from Planet Zombie (March 13th via Morr Music). The track offsets burbling electronics against country-tinged songwriting, featuring guests Enid Valu, Haruka Yoshizawa, Chris Xiao, and Mathias Götz. The band describes the lyrics as “written as if Rutger Hauer could sing them in Blade Runner.”
Gabriel Kahane and Roomful of Teeth have announced Elevator Songs, due April 3. The collaborative album centres on an interdimensional hotel where time and space dissolve. Lead single Speaking In Tongues—with a video by Robert Edridge-Waks—showcases the ensemble’s signature vocal work, building to a bone-shattering climax. Scored for eight voices, the album offers fizzy hooks and bold production.
Pedal steel player Barry Walker Jr. teams with drummer Rob Smith and bassist Jason Willmon for Paleo Sol, a luminous Thrill Jockey release built on space and texture. Walker’s steel guides rather than dominates, creating conversational interplay across tracks like the buoyant Leaving Lower Big Basin and the hypnotic twelve-minute Sentient Lithosphere. Confident, inviting, and impeccably produced, this is collaborative instrumental music at its finest.
Cat Clyde shares “Man’s World,” the second single from her March 13th album Mud Blood Bone via Concord Records. The track confronts patriarchal frustrations with unflinching honesty, and includes the lyric, “I can’t express my woman self/Without a shield across my chest”. Watch the new music video now.