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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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Shannon Lay – The Calling

I have fond memories of being driven around Cornwall listening to Carpenters Gold on repeat, and this, from Shannon Lay’s new album Past The Veil, is currently making me feel extremely nostalgic for those bucolic golden hours.

https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/album/past-the-veil

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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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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

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Maria BC – May this rain

Written and recorded throughout the US West Coast, Maria BC’s new album Marathon is both expansive and intimate, ranging from aerial acoustic songs, to glitchy distorted tracks channeling chaos and disillusionment, all while maintaining a strong lyrical through line. “For this record I decided to spend less time on production and recording and more time on songwriting” she says. “The result, I think, is more thematically consistent, lyrically speaking, and more concise”. On first couple of listens, I agree.

https://mariabc.bandcamp.com/album/marathon

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Gia Margaret – Everyone Around Me Dancing

Yay! Gia Margaret is back with a new album, Singing, her first since 2023’s Romantic Piano. I’ve totally loved everything she’s put out for the last decade, the ludicrously beautiful 3 movements being a personal favourite – and based on this lead single from the upcoming LP I expect that trend to continue. “I wanted to make something that sounded hopeful” she says of the recording process, “which is a little ironic because I felt essentially hopeless during the entire process.” This is the energy I need I my life.

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

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Maria BC – Night & day

Maria BC’s third studio album Marathon lands at the end of the month, and Night & day is the second single: a haunting, reflective experimental folk song. The album itself is billed to deal with themes of “resistance, environmental ruin, personal disruptions and destruction”, which feels very 2026.

https://mariabc.bandcamp.com/album/marathon

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Pefkin – Green Bound In Ice and Snow

The opening track on Pefkin’s new album Unfurling is a stunning, 11-minute blend of haunting folk and icy ambient, inspired by the artist’s dreams of the coming spring. Nature has always been a central part in Pefkin’s music, and on Unfurling she captures all the elements as the record follows the transformations of the land from winter into spring – air, light, temperature, soil.

https://pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/unfurling

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h.pruz – Arrival

h.pruz’s new album Red sky at morning is a stripped mix of folk songwriting and small, tactile electronic details. Co-producer Felix Walworth adds Wurlitzer, soft synth lines and loose percussion that drift under the vocals rather than lead them. The tracks feel like short scenes, each clearly shaped by specific moments and memories. The sound is quiet and spacious but warm, built on acoustic guitar, piano, sax and concise synth phrases, and calls to mind similarly reflective LPs by artists like Adrianne Lenker and Tomberlin.

https://hpruz.bandcamp.com/album/red-sky-at-morning