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Maribou State – All I Need

Maribou State’s upcoming album Hallucinating Love – out this Friday – represents a journey through adversity and renewal. Since their rise with Portraits and Kingdom in Colour, Chris Davids and Liam Ivory faced personal and creative struggles while navigating the fallout of relentless touring and the global lockdown. Health challenges—including Chris’s ADHD diagnosis, chronic headaches, and surgery for a rare brain condition, as well as Liam’s severe anxiety—forced the duo to scrap their first attempt at the album and rethink their approach. From what I’ve heard of it so far, it’s going to be worth the wait.

For reasons too long to go into I have a massive emotional connection to Maribou State’s music, and Holly Walker’s voice especially makes me cry pretty much every time I hear it. So yes, I’m very much looking forward to this one.

https://mariboustate.bandcamp.com/album/hallucinating-love

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Anna B Savage – Talk To Me

Anna B Savage’s third album, You and i are Earth, is deeply tied to her relationship with Ireland—both as a place and as a new home. It’s an album about healing and curiosity, framed as “a love letter to a man and to Ireland.” Her extraordinary voice is the centrepiece, moving effortlessly between raw power and delicate vulnerability, making every moment feel intimate and unguarded. Following A Common Turn and in|FLUX, this record feels both personal and open-ended, blending tenderness with a grounded, tactile quality.

https://annabsavage.bandcamp.com/album/you-i-are-earth

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Shura – Recognise

Shura is back, and it feels like a long time coming. Her new album, the amazingly titled I Got Too Sad For My Friends, lands May 30 and she’s just dropped the first single, Recognise, which kicks off with dreamy, otherworldly synths and hushed, almost ghostly vocals before bursting into this messy, beautiful chaos of drums. Shura says it’s about coming out of a dark period and learning to find peace in the little things and quotes Arthur Russell as saying “being sad is not a crime”, which feels apt.

https://shura.bandcamp.com/album/i-got-too-sad-for-my-friends

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Judie Tzuke – Stay With Me Till Dawn

Ok yes, this record is 46 years old. But I only fairly recently discovered it was the main sample for my favourite Mylo track, Need You Tonite, and I’ve become increasingly obsessed. So that’s a song from the 70s and a Scottish producer who has barely made anything for two decades featured on this new music blog. But it’s great, so I don’t feel bad about it.

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Bilal, Robert Glasper – The Story

Here’s another one I missed from last year, taken from American singer, songwriter and producer Bilal’s sixth studio album Adjust Brightness: a heady blend of soul, jazz and funk through an electronic lens. Full of life and warmth, there’s also a menacing undercurrent to The Story that adds to its allure.

https://officialbilal.com/album-adjustbrightness

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Voice Actor, Squu – dYn

Stroom favorites Voice Actor team up with Squu for their second album, Lust (1), blending ambient dance, electro-dub, and trip-hop into 14 hypnotic tracks. Following previous LPs Fake Sleep and the mammoth Sent From My Telephone which spanned a frankly ridiculous 3+ hours, this release feels somehow sharper yet simultaneously dreamy, with soft textures, shimmering vocals, and hazy lyrics that float effortlessly, with the ambient dancehall vibe of dYn an early highlight.

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/lust-1

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Camille Schmidt – Photon Electron Proton

Brooklyn-based Camille Schmidt’s debut album Nude #9 came out last week, and it’s a real mix of genres that I still haven’t quite formed a concrete opinion about. For lots of its runtime it’s fairly traditional singer-songwriter, indie-folk, but then on tracks like Proton Electron Photon it swerves fairly hard into weirdly disquieting electronica. So a mixed bag, but definitely an interesting one.

https://camilleschmidt.com/

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William Basinski, Richard Chartier – Aurora Terminalis

Longtime friends and collaborators William Basinski and Richard Chartier return to LINE with Aurora Terminali, a 60-minute odyssey through drone and ambient that marks their first new work together since 2015’s Divertissement. Starting with a burst of bright, jagged synths it soon dissolves into something significantly calmer before leaning into darker, more paranoid tones in in second half.

https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/aurora-terminalis

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SAULT – I Look For You

SAULT’s Acts of Faith was originally released as a free download back in July 2024 before a surprise official release on Christmas day last month. I missed both of these releases, so I’m sharing the beautiful opening track now for everyone else whose fingers is a firmly on the pulse as mine.

https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album/acts-of-faith

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Clara Mann – Driving Home The Long Way

Reflective country-esque indie-folk from Clara Mann whose debut album Rift is out March 7 via state51. Ideal for sub-zero mornings in January when the year head looks both invigoratingly full of potential and impossibly exhausting.

https://claramann.bandcamp.com/album/rift