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Carmen Villain – Blue

Carmen Villain’s new album Memoria is built around the idea of sound as memory, with old recordings pulled apart, processed and folded back into new ones. The result sits somewhere between dub, ambient music, free jazz and there’s loads to get lost in across the record, but Blue is the one I keep coming back to. Flutes and clarinet drift in and out, weird little electronic details flicker around the edges, and everything seems to exist in this strange, suspended space. It’s hazy, immersive, tense and really quite unsettling.

https://carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/memoria

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L’Rain – elmyra

L’Rain’s fourth album fata morgana is described in the press notes as “a fearless reckoning with self-doubt and the mirages of belonging and alienation that shape Taja Cheek’s lived experience”, and by me as “something I haven’t had the chance to listen to in full yet”, but based on the strength of the phenomenal lead single elmyra I’m going to enjoy my time with it.

https://lrain.bandcamp.com/album/fata-morgana

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Patricia Wolf – Adapted For Extreme Conditions

I’m on on holiday tomorrow and blog posts are not going to be a major part of my itenirary, so I’m leaving you with this bucolic delight from Patricia Wolf. Yarrow is part of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By’s collection, marking the label’s ninth release and the third of Season Two, with each of the tracks acting as reflections on the life cycle of plants and their dynamic ecological relationships.

https://patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-watch-seeds-grow-by-009-patricia-wolf-yarrow

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Hana Stretton – Right Whale

I wonder if anyone will write about Hana Stretton’s new album tiarn without mentioning Grouper? Not me, that’s for sure! Comparisons are apt, along with a leaning towards the creaky, plaintive instrumentation of Corina Repp, but while Liz Harris’s musical world can often feel claustrophobic and paranoid, Streton sounds open, almost joyful, even when her compositions are hinting towards the skeletal conjured on standout track Right Whale.

https://brierfieldfloodpress.bandcamp.com/album/tiarn

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Avi Engel – Garden of Earthly Delights

Avi Engel has shared ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’, the first single from forthcoming album Seedhead. Taking its name from Hieronymus Bosch’s feverish vision of paradise, earthly pleasure and damnation, the seven-minute track opens with lyrics that immediately sets out its stall: “Slithering star, coruscant worm / burrowing deep in the guts of the earth / I’m cold / and I want to go home”. So far, so harrowing.

From there it unfolds slowly and sparsely, drawing together experimental art song, folk, chamber music and ethereal wave into something stunning, pastoral and bleak. Strings hover around Engel’s voice as themes of climate change, ecological grief and eco-horror emerge through strange, mystical poetry. Beautiful, unsettling music for a world that feels increasingly so.

https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/seedhead

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2K88, Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller, Bianca Scout – Salto

A frankly ludicrous amount of talent combines for Everything Always Changes, For We’re Truly Here, a collaborative LP from four of the most boundary-pushing electronic and experimental artists working today. Cult Polish producer Przemysław Jankowiak, aka 2K88, brings together Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus and Bianca Scout, creating a dreamlike album blending R&B, ambient electronics and fragmented vocals, inspired by the slow, dreamlike dance at the heart of the Polish film Salto.

https://fixedabode.bandcamp.com/album/everything-always-changes-for-we-re-truly-here

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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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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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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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Mabe Fratti, Bill Ocutt – El inicio es cuestión de suerte

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.

https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-waking