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Loraine James, Miho Hatori – Flatline

Created during a period of internal struggle and shifting self-perception, Loraine James’ new album Detached From The Rest Of You explores a more direct and vocal-led approach. The experience of producing 2025’s Clandestine EP with singer Anysia Kym opened up a more pop-focused framework, helping her shape her ideas into tighter song structures without losing the fragility and experimentation that defines her work, while also opening her up to collaboration more than ever before, with guests on the LP including Sydney Spann, Low’s Alan Sparrowhawk and Miho Hatori on the standout Flatline.

https://lorainejames.bandcamp.com/album/detached-from-the-rest-of-you

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Teatre – Returning

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It’s a sunny Friday, and after possibly the most intensely stressful ticket buying experience of my life yesterday (for which I hold more contempt for Ticketmaster than is healthy), I needed something soothing to guide me into the weekend. Described as “A poetic, dream-like story born from a period of creative stillness”, Lithuanian ambientist Teatre’s new album All Constellations Weaving Into One fits the bill perfectly.

https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/all-constellations-weaving-into-one

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Nalan – Everything was Easy in 2009

Berlin-based artist Nalan returns with 2009, her first album since 2022’s I’m Good. Out last month on Mansions and Millions, 2009 was written and recorded between Berlin and Istanbul and leans heavily into the reflective power of nostalgia, reshaping the late-2000s into something both sentimental and slightly distorted though a compelling indie-pop lens.

https://nalan.bandcamp.com/album/2009

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Ana Roxanne – Untitled II

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https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/

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White Flowers – Spinning

White Flowers, the long-running collaboration between Joey Cobb and Katie Drew, exists within what they call “the realm”, described as “a shared creative space, wherein time, rather than being a restrictive force, is fluid and boundless, and music exists as an endless conversation with their past and present selves”. Now, that’s all a little too pretentious for me, but: breathy vocals, Cure-esque, shoegazey guitars and gently winding synth lines? Sign me up.

https://whiteflowersssss.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-for-somebody-else

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Gia Margaret – Phone Screen

Gia Margaret is back, but perhaps most importantly, so is her voice. Her new album Singing marks her return to vocals after a long break caused by a vocal injury. During that time, she shifted toward instrumental and ambient music, developing a more detailed and restrained approach to composition. Now recovered, this is her first vocal record since There’s Always Glimmer in 2019, and features contributions from David Bazan, Amy Millan, Kurt Vile and others.

https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/singing

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Donato Dozzy – Hypno Trance 0

Dozzy! Dozzles! The Big Doz! Whatever you like to call the world’s greatest techno maker, he’s back, with three mindbendingly hypnotic DJ tools on Spazio Disponible’s Nero division. What a guy.

https://donatodozzy.bandcamp.com/album/hypno-trance

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Jura, ML Buch, Clarissa Connelly, Ydegirl, Helene Norup Due – You Make A Fire, You Make A Camp

Intriguing, somewhat lugubrious chamber-pop piece from quite the gathering of breathy, alternative Scandi talent which landed today with zero fanfare. I wonder what they’re cooking up?

https://boomkat.com/products/you-make-a-fire-you-make-a-camp

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Paperclip Minimiser – II A2

Meticulously assembled from a good 15 years’ worth of source material, Cong Burn boss John Howes’ second Paperclip Minimiser album takes as its source material an unreleased album that Howes engineered in various locations across the north of England, starting way back in 2011. The result is a sparse but satisfying mix of bass, techno and drone, with A2 a glitchy highlight.

https://paperclipminimiser.bandcamp.com/album/ii

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Yaya Bey – Forty Days

Yaya Bey’s new album Fidelity is a companion piece to last year’s do it afraid. Where the previous record was framed by grief, Fidelity pushes further, examining how that grief is processed and centres on what Bey describes as the “Three Deaths”: personal loss following her father’s passing, the erosion of community through displacement and fragmentation, and a wider loss of innocence tied to cultural and societal shifts. Built around a light, disco-funk rhythm “Forty Days” is a stand-out moment: a meditation on transition and mourning and drawing on the belief of a 40-day passage into the ancestral realm.

https://yayabey.bandcamp.com/album/fidelity