Martinou – Paean
Keeping this short as it’s my first day back in the office and I am struggling, but here’s a deeply atmospheric house cut from the extremely reliable Martinou to warm your souls. Taken from his new EP Always There. Welcome to 2026! It’s going to be good? https://nousklaer.bandcamp.com/album/always-there
Lb Honne – Deeper
Lb Honne’s new EP Brücke comes on Smallville, a label with which I was mildly obsessed in the early 2010s thanks to sleepy, melancholy deep house from artists like Moomin and Christopher Rau: a musical theme which continues to this day. The pick of the bunch here is Deeper, which picks up the beautiful, reflective…
Ethel Cain – Punish
And so begins the inevitable march of posting all the music from 2025 that I missed, starting with this beautiful, devastating track from Ethel Cain’s album Perverts. It doesn’t really do justice to listen to it in isolation from the rest of the album, but it is an undoubted highlight – if a ‘highlight’ can…
Molly Nilsson – All the Way
Molly Nilsson managed to sneak out an album without me realising back in October, which is pretty astonishing given how much I like her music and how much time I spent looking for new albums from artists I like. Amateur is described as both a “jubilee for losers” and “maybe her greatest yet” and while the…
Feature: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
All ranking lists are inherently ludicrous, and taking them too seriously is a fool’s errand, but I was genuinely shocked at some of the omissions in fairly high profile lists this year. I’ll leave it to you to work out which ones I’m talking about. And on the other side of the argument, everyone losing…
Voices From The Lake – Voices From The Lake II
Voices From The Lake’s eponymous album came out way back in 2o12, and I’ve probably returned to it on a nearly weekly basis every since. Donato Dozzy and Neal’s collaborative project started as a one-off live performance in the Japanese Alps before birthing an album that, according to the press notes, “become a touchstone in…
The Predatory Wasp 