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Laura Misch – Breathing

Laura Misch’s lates LP Lithic follows Sample The Sky and Sample The Earth, completing a loose trilogy of records shaped by landscape, natural processes and the relationship between sound and place, with this latest album taking its cues from caves, stone, weather systems and the vast stretches of time that leave their mark on both. Recorded across quarries, cliffs and caves in Cornwall, as well as locations in Greece, Berlin and South London, Lithic feels denser and more subterranean than its predecessors, with saxophone, voice, field recordings and electronics combing to impressively atmospheric effect.

https://lauramisch.bandcamp.com/album/lithic

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Les Imprimés – Get Lost

Les Imprimés is the project of Norwegian songwriter and producer Morten Martens, whose second album Fading Forward is out now on Big Crown Records following the excellent Rêverie from a couple of years ago. Drawing on soul, doo-wop and alternative pop without sounding especially concerned about genre boundaries, Martens fills these songs with reflections on love, loss, memory and the passing of time, all delivered with a warmth that feels unforced and personal.

https://lesimprimes.bandcamp.com/album/fading-forward

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Forest Drive West – Tensor

Forest Drive West’s new album Mantis 1920 sits somewhere between Donato Dozzy and Andy Stott, so you know I’m loving it! Right lads? Lads!??

https://forestdrivewest.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-1920

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Kelsey Lu – Reaper

This is the opening track from Kelsey Lu’s new album So Help Me God and it’s astonishingly good: a sweeping, theatrical 8 minute epic that incorporates elements of drone, experimental pop, jazz and r&b to jaw-dropping effect.

https://kelseylu.bandcamp.com/album/so-help-me-god

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fields we found – landscape 05

landscape 05 is the latest entry from Alex Gold’s fields we found moniker, released via his own quiet details label. Created through a deeply meditative and intuitive process, the piece is built from modular drones and repeating patterns recorded to multiple tape machines before being captured in a single live take, with analogue oscillators, magnetic tape and freely tuned textures drift gradually through the recording, As with every release in the landscape series, landscape 05 is available as a name-your-price download over at the quiet details’ Bandcamp page.

https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-05

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Tara Clerkin Trio – Silently

Tara Clerkin Trio’s Somewhere Good is the Bristol group’s first full-length album, following EPs In Spring and On The Turning Ground. Across eight tracks, the trio continue to blur the lines between folk, jazz, ambient, dub, trip-hop and experimental pop. They draw from a broad palette of influences, but their hazy melodies, fragmented rhythms and subtle improvisation come together with remarkable ease, with Silently a clear album standout.

https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-good

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Olivia Rodrigo – begged

Never let it be said that I only post niche music from artists you’ve never heard of. Perhaps it’s because I recently shelled out a ludicrous amount of money for a couple of tickets to see her next year, but this is making me very emotional.

https://shopuk.oliviarodrigo.com

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Ginte Preisaite – Loop The Pause

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.

https://gintepreisaite.bandcamp.com/album/instruments-of-forgetting-and-the-singing-bone

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Poppy Ackroyd – In The Mist

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.

https://poppy.bandcamp.com/album/liminal

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Flabaire – Summer Sun

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.

https://projindigo.bandcamp.com/album/efflorescence-iii