Lithuanian artist and graduate of Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory Gintė Preisaitė recently released her first solo LP under her own name, following a collaborative effort with Toshimaru Nakamura in 2025 and a number of cassettes as “Baraboro”. Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone explores fantasy, absurdity and relationships as a cast of players contribute string, brass, accordion, and guitar parts to her sparse, decayed, genre-hopping sound.
Poppy Ackroyd’s new album Liminal was written during a period of major upheaval in her life, it marks a return to the piano and violin-focused approach heard on some of her earlier records, with every sound on the album created using those two instruments alone.
Built from a mix of composition and improvisation, the music often feels as though it is discovering itself as it goes, while still carrying the melodic detail and emotional weight that have become hallmarks of her writing. “I had such a chaotic few years” she says of the album’s genesis, “but the only way to cope was to allow things to be messy”. From a listeners point of view, however, her clarity shines through.
This is taken from efflorescence iii, a VA compilation from Dutch label Project Indigo who have been flying the flag for dreamy, emotional house and techno for the last decade or so. Home to TPW favourites like Lb Honne and Hame, Flabaire was a new name to me, but it someone I’ll be keeping a close eye on in the future, as Summer Sun is totally lush.
Almost Waking is a collaborative album from Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt, bringing together Fratti’s cello, voice and experimental songwriting with Orcutt’s distinctive, often unpredictable guitar playing. Across eight tracks, the pair create something that feels loose and exploratory as cello and guitar weave around each other, occasionally becoming difficult to distinguish, while Fratti’s vocals appear sparingly, adding another layer that drift between inherited folklore and instinctive improvisation.
The Lebanese artist on the haunting quality of a Fennesz classic
The premise of One Track Mind is pretty simple: I ask artists to pick one track that means a lot to them – either something they’ve discovered recently, something that’s been with them for years, or one that reminds them of a specific time in their life or career – and tell me what makes it so special to them. I get to talk to the artists I love, and they get to talk about the artists they love. Love all round!
Lebanese musician, performer, visual artist and composer Charbel Haber has spent more than two decades at the forefront of Beirut’s experimental music community. Whether composing for multidisciplinary projects or developing his own solo material, Haber has built a reputation for creating immersive, emotionally resonant works.
His latest album, May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable, was written following his move from Beirut to Paris and reflects on themes of distance, exile, mortality and the search for tenderness amid uncertainty. Recorded in Paris and completed through collaborations spanning Beirut and Montreal, the album unfolds through slowly evolving compositions built from layered guitars, loops and electronic textures.
For his One Track Mind, Haber has chosen a haunting track from Fennesz’s 2004 album Venice.
Charbel Haber on Fennesz – Transit feat. David Sylvian
The track I pick would be Transit from Christian Fennesz’ record Venice, with David Sylvian singing. That track haunts me since I discovered it more than 20 years ago. It’s a traveller’s song.
The loneliness of Europe’s airports when I’m on tour, the acceptance of the idea that we die alone and the cigarette that is kept for last. The melancholy reflected by sylvian’s voice and fennesz’s glitches, the last human talking to the last machine, in conversation about the end of mankind caused by alienation and digital isolation. The fall of empires but not in a blaze, just out of boredom and detachment from each other. It reminds me a lot of Paul Auster’s novel In The Country of Last Things.
This track is best when walking in the quiet Venetian streets, away from the tourists, feeling like the last of your kind, on your last stroll through the ruins of civilization.
Chabel Haber – May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable is out now
Venus Flux is a new four-track EP by Scottish producer Lord Of The Isles, which opens with a beatless ambient piece built from slow-moving analog tones ahead of two live-improvised dub techno tracks which form the core of the EP. But it’s the closing track, Venus Flux, that’s got me; a reflective, broken-beat number right out of the Conforce tradition of plaintive, meandering electro.
Lowly’s new single Liminal Space is described as a “twinkling mid-tempo ballad buoyed by soothing-yet-haunting guitar melodies and Soffie and Nanna’s crystal-clear, blissful harmonies”, and that’s true, but you could say the same about 80% of their tracks. If you Lowly in general, you’ll likely be a fan of this. And if this is your entry point into them, you’re in a for a treat.
There’s something about the way that Olof Dreijer bends his synth patterns that makes his music entirely original. Across his various aliases – mostly famously, The Knife, and closest to my own heart, Oni Ayhun – the squirmy, alien sounds he wrings from various bits of hard and software could only have been created by him. Taken from his debut solo album Loud Bloom (ambitious, varied, long-awaited, arguably overly-long), Cassia is Dreijer in peak form; perhaps one of the greatest tracks he’s ever produced. And yes, I know it came out two years ago, but I’d not heard it until last week, so maybe you haven’t either.
The entire Be The Mountain EP from STS is absolutely brilliant, especially the title track which strongly evokes the beatless techno excursions of Barker, and this closing track, which is one of the most beautiful electronic pieces I’ve heard this year. The Detroit-based producer wrote the EP “during a period of sustained physical and mental strain” and while that sounds deeply unpleasant, the results are extraordinary.
The Predatory Wasp 