14.11.2025-FLORRIE The Lost Ones (Xenomania/BMG,2024)

 

POP

   The Lost Ones is a stunning showcase of Florrie’s dedication to her craft and was predominantly written and produced by Florrie and Xenomania founder, Brian Higgins and also features a collaboration with hit-maker Takura Tendayi (Rihanna, Chase and Status). The album is the definition of a labor of love, with Florrie working closely with Brian and co-producer Ben Taylor.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/6clodg

11.10.2025-JULIE DOIRON I Thought Of You (You've Changed,2021)

 

FOLK ROCK

   While Julie Doiron’s discography is full of discovery, her latest work can stand alone without any context. I Thought of You is Julie Doiron’s first full-length solo album in almost ten years, yet the record bleeds familiarity. Doiron’s masterful balance of songwriting takes tips from the casual fun of 90s rock, the dynamics of early 2000s indie, and the epic storytelling of old-school folk. Her vague yet heart-stinging lyrics can float inside anyone’s current or past memories, instantly understandable. With this expert restraint, Doiron’s sincere music is able to say a lot and feel a lot within accessible arrangements. Each song on I Thought of You leads to the next in a nostalgic stream. The main quality is undeniably the power and calm of Doiron’s voice, explaining a narrative of homecoming, of home-finding. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/dy0r50

08.10.2025-LIAM BAILEY Ekundayo (Big Crown, 2020)

 

SOUL / REGGAE

   On the surface, Ekundayo is a weighty Reggae record, full of new and old textured riddims. But listen more in-depth, and you’ll find subject matter that’s more recognizable from a modern-day R&B record. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/h4p6r6

05.10.2025-LUISA MAITA Fio Da Memoria (Cumbancha,2016)

 

ELECTRONIC

   Second album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Luísa Maita. Maita explained that, in her new album, she "wanted to revisit Brazilian rhythms and other sounds she heard growing up from a contemporary, electronic and urban perspective."

https://www.sendspace.com/file/a87ub8

04.10.2025-KATE RYAN Free (ARS,2008)

 

EUROPOP / DANCE

   "Free" by Kate Ryan is a fantastic Eurodance compilation that contains many upbeat musical tracks that you can play at a party and/or when you are craving something high-energy and uplifting.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/6p7sr8

03.10.2025-NIGHT BEATS Rajan (Suicide Squeeze,2023)

 

INDIE ROCK

   In Rajan Night Beats have created a transportive listening experience that sends the listener to far off exotic climes in their imaginations. From deserts to crowded markets and cool rivers this album has it all. It’s a woozy wander through the mind of an incredibly creative musician. A musician who has taken his music and created worlds within worlds in the grooves of a record. For the run time of this album, you are happy to surrender yourself to his guiding hand and just lose yourself.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/68g0t7

02.10.2025-MAITA Best Wishes (Kill Rock Stars,2020)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Portland-based Maita’s debut album is a strong collection of bittersweet songs that has more than a whiff of Portlandia about it.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/mn9m0x

29.09.2025-LET'S EAT GRANDMA I, Gemini (Transgressive,2016)

 

POP

   Best friends Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton have crafted a freaky and surreal debut album.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/3ficjt

28.09.2025-MAGIC KIDS Memphis (True Panther Sounds,2010)

 

INDIE POP

   Tennessee pop sprites prove more than just Beach Boys copyists.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/01ynv6

   Tennessee pop sprites prove more than just Beach Boys copyists.

27.09.2025-DAUGHN GIBSON Carnation (Sub Pop,2015)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Carnation finds Gibson settling his delivery into a groove suggesting all manner of indie-minded crooners. You’ll now hear a lot in common with Matt Berninger of The National (“Heaven You Better Come In”), Mark Sandman of Morphine (“I Let Him Deal”), Chris Isaak (“Shatter You Through”), even hints of New Romantic balladeers from The Smiths and Spandau Ballet. This is both the album’s blessing and curse: Gibson weaves his breathy drawl and gravelly melodies in and out of this processed backwoods haze to the point where meaning becomes mumble. For an LP with instrumentation that so regularly sounds beautiful, it’s a little disappointing that Daughn Gibson’s identity is one constructed from obscurity. The devil on Carnation isn’t in the details, but in the lack thereof.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/4f52ed

26.09.2025-DEATH IN ROME V2 (Hau Ruck! SPQR, 2018)

 

NEO FOLK

   Is this the end of the Neofolk - era or just another page?

   Absolutely brilliant Neofolk cover versions of tracks you would never have expected to hear in such versions!

https://www.sendspace.com/file/d8vq2s

23.09.2025-PALMA VIOLETS 180 (Rough Trade,2013)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Palma Violets are a young band who've already received ecstatic acclaim from the most excitable parts of the English music press. They sound like rock music probably entered their lives with the Arctic Monkeys, and they’re still thrilled by it.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/v95as0

21.09.2025-DEAD TEXAN The Dead Texan (Kranky,2004)

 

AMBIENT / POST-ROCK

     Stars of the Lid's Adam Wiltzie presents a collection of drone compositions that he considered too aggressive for his parent band-- which means they range somewhere between a whisper and a shout.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/4zn83p

20.09.2025-DAVID'S LYRE Picture Of Our Youth (Benvolio Music,2012)

 

INDIE / ELECTRONIC

   A fine mixture of the early ’80s synth pop and bittersweet indie.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/m4o9cy

18.09.2025-CUUSHE Butterfly Case (flau,2013)

 

ELECTRONIC / POP

   The titles of the album suit each other really well and seem to be telling a story about the feelings one has as they fall in love. The dreampop gives off spring and summer vibes to perfection. I can totally imagine myself sitting in the sun, with a cool drink, listening to this at full volume. That would be the perfect experience to listen to Cuushe in my opinion.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/nqcn67

17.09.2025-MADI DIAZ History Of A Feeling (Anti-,2021)

 

INDIE ROCK

   The beauty of History of a Feeling lies in how completely it lets you into Diaz’s life. She conceals no caustic thought or angry outburst, laying it all bare in complete pointed honesty. While the record undoubtedly could be a comfort and companion for fans, most of all it was made for Diaz herself. Fortunately, Diaz’s chronicle of healing also makes for her most powerful record, a potent work of cherished folk beauty and open-hearted songwriting. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/orujse

15.09.2025-ROISIN MURPHY Roisin Machine (Skint,2020)

 

NU DISCO

   This is her most defiantly disco record to date. Where ‘Overpowered’ or ‘Take Her Up To Monto’ might veer off on prog or avant garde jaunts, ‘Róisín Machine’ is lit exclusively by the glitterball. Ever since ‘Sing It Back’, it’s where she’s felt most at home. But this is Róisín’s idea of disco. Disco, for the most part, is fairly surface level. Good times, bright lights, sweaty bodies. If it makes you move, it’s a winner. If it makes you think too, to Róisín, that’s even better.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/nkdi1y

14.09.2025-MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER Bon Voyage (Domino,2018)

 

PSYCHEDELIC POP

   Six years since Melody Prochet’s debut, the second album by Melody’s Echo Chamber has surfaced. In a brief seven tracks, Melody’s Echo Chamber manages to create her own candy-coated daydream.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/6ovcw1

13.09.2025-CAITLIN ROSE The Stand-In (ATO,2013)

 

ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY

   The Nashville singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose started out playing warehouse punk shows alongside bands like JEFF the Brotherhood. On her third album, featuring swooning pedal steel, twanging electric guitar, and ringing tube amps, she has some quibbles with the modern age.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/dbe66h

11.09.2025-TENNIS Pollen (Mutually Detrimental,2023)

 

POP

   The duo takes one step closer to the present by interspersing their 20th-century callbacks with nods to turn-of-the-millennium pop-rock.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/99zo5g

10.09.2025-LITTLE GREEN CARS Absolute Zero (Glassnote,2013)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Absolute Zero is as accomplished as one could hope for a first big release. It establishes the band’s music as a concoction of the classic sounds of rock, folk, roots and Americana. Anyone who’s seen LGC live in the last few years will have experienced the depth of their powerful harmonies; which can really stun when they perform them in cascading fashion. There’s plenty of all-in harmonies on Absolute Zero, it’s the band’s most recognisable collective asset right now.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/7ok2pe

09.09.2025-ORIANTHI Rock Candy (Frontier,2022)

 

ROCK

   Despite the brief length of the album (31 minutes!), the project delves deep into hard-hitting issues like heartbreak, spirituality, and grabbing life by the horns and living it to the very fullest. Rock Candy is incredibly energetic and Orianthi deserves to be congratulated. And even if you don’t resonate with hard rock- there may still be something for you on this unique but resonating album. Well done Orianthi !

https://www.sendspace.com/file/n4rway

07.09.2025-ZEUS Credo (Arts&Crafts,2023)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Even if you don’t remember the seventies, one associates a certain vibe with that decade, and a certain sound. It’s not the pop-rock of the sixties, or the synth-rock of the eighties, but a largely upbeat and relaxed country-rock that runs the gamut from too simple to too complex, as well as that sweet spot in between. Canada’s Zeus reach for that sweet seventies on Credo.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/e05my8

06.09.2025-AMBER ARCADES European Heartbreak (Heavenly,2018)

 

INDIE POP

   Political music, in its nature, is often specific to the artist making it; there is no one form it should take, or rules as to how it should sound. Amber Arcades’ second album ‘European Heartbreak’ is a testament to this, a heartfelt confession birthed from the uncertain and unstable times we’re living in.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/yw9p6u

05.09.2025-DOLDRUMS Acupuncture (Kranky,1997)

 

POST ROCK

   Doldrums have carved out their own section of the neo-futurist pavilion, combining instrumental improvisation (created entirely by a bare bones lineup of two guitarists and one drummer), spatial exploration, folkish strands and textural condensation. The debut EP drew comparisons to Main, Cul de Sac, Labradford, the Dead C., Cluster and Jessamine. With the new album, listeners ought to draw more appreciation for the considerable rhythmic maneuverability Doldrums bring to the table as well as the mathematical skills they can use when the mood fits them.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/jyvnzv

04.09.2025-FIELD MUSIC Flat White Moon (Memphis Industries,2021)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Their 2020 release, ‘Making a New World’, was a concept record, cleaning up the rubbish of the aftermath of a war – it was surprising to hear back from Field Music so soon, but ‘Flat White Moon’ is here, featuring standardised grooves that rarely experiment with rhythm, and no clear concept, but if you were to make one up, let’s say ‘Steely Dan’s trip to Canterbury turns out marginally baroque’.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/gnh9ys

01.09.2025-JAGWAR MA Every Now & Then (Mom+Pop,2016)

 

INDIE ROCK

   On their debut record, 2013’s Howlin’, Jagwar Ma dedicated themselves to a hyper-pop sound built from nostalgic ‘90s Manchester club beats and melodic psychedelic pop songs. It was a decent enough record, but hasn’t really left an impression. So is their sophomore effort, Every Now & Then, an improvement on Howlin’? Not entirely. Jagwar Ma prove they can pull off the same tricks as their debut, which is why it also shares many of the same flaws.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/210xhi

30.08.2025-COURTNEY BENETT Things Take Time, Take Time (Mom+Pop,2021)

 

INDIE ROCK

   The Australian singer-songwriter’s fourth album has the directness of a collection of demos. Barnett sounds characteristically laconic; she’s at her best when she lets her guitar take the lead.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/6agdr1

28.08.2025-LAUREN MAYBERRY Vicious Circle (EMI,2024)

 

POP

   The Chvrches singer’s debut album skips from punk to pop, wilfully unbothered about current notions of cool.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/83mace

26.08.2025-BASIA BULAT Are You In Love? (Secret City,2020)

 

FOLK POP

   Five albums into a career that stretches a dozen years, Basia Bulat has reaped well-deserved accolades and accomplishments, recognition that has brought her somewhere between the lower fringes of mainstream awareness and underground acceptance. The Canadian songstress has managed to balance her elusive airs with a mystique that brings ready comparisons to Kate Bush and Tori Amos. Her music possesses an atmosphere and allure that seems to shimmer just below the surface, making each of her offerings as beguiling as they are beautiful. 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/cmock7

25.08.2025-MS MR Secondhand Rapture (Columbia,2013)

 

INDIE POP

   A surprisingly varied collection of songs manages to maintain consistency without ever sounding samey or derivative.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/r5vb6e

24.08.2025-YUNA Y5 (Yuna Room,2022)

 

R&B / NEO SOUL

   The Malaysian R&B luminary and newly independent artist forges ahead with ‘Y5’, an album on the joys and pains of womanhood.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/uosj8f

23.08.2025-CHVRCHES The Bones Of What You Believe (Virgin,2013)

 

SYNTHPOP

   The Bones of What You Believe is a record that finds resonance in exploring complexities and dichotomies. It’s big, thunderous music that doesn’t multi-track and reverb their singer’s powerful voice into a weapon, music that traffics in universal minutae– the little, intimate things that everyone remembers feeling. In making the enormous quantifiable and the minute important, CHVRCHES created a record that seems alive. It sits with you, sharing headphones, and helping you craft your own bones.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/bzdwyw

20.08.2025-PROVINCIALS The Dark Ages (Itchen,2019)

 

DARK FOLK

   Provincials are the pairing of singer Polly Perry, formerly of Polly & the Billets Doux and guitarist Seb Hunter.

   Drawing from jazz, rock and folk Provincials cast a spell, conjuring a resonant, hypnotic soundworld recalling Pentangle, These New Puritans, Talk Talk and David Lynch‘s film soundtracks.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/5q5qen

19.08.2025-DEAP VALLY Femejism (Nevado Music,2016)

 

GARAGE ROCK

   Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards second album is so smash-full of gritty, dirty blues riffs it’s as if they’ve ransacked all the dive bars in their native LA.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/w6e2e1

18.08.2025-GLOBELAMP Romantic Cancer (Nefarious,2018)

 

LO FI / PSYCHEDELIC

   The title of this album reveals all you need to know about Globelamp’s latest release: it is a collection of love songs laced with a heartbreak that consumes all of the record’s other elements. California singer-songwriter Elizabeth La Fey, also known as Globelamp, missed the mark on her third full-length album, “Romantic Cancer.” The record is completely stripped, comprised of basic acoustic riffs, sporadic vocals and guitar plucking.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/fx350w

17.08.2025-HYPE WILLIAMS Rainbow Edition (Big Dada,2017)

 

HYPNAGOGIC POP

   Although lighter in its detached emotional touch, whoever’s making this, the mystery of the music dovetails with the puzzle of Hype Williams as perfectly as it ever has – 20 weird ideas of hypnagogic pop at different stages of gestation.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/fty076

14.08.2025-PABLO NOUVELLE All I Need (Armada,2016)

 

DOWNTEMPO

   Pablo Nouvelle is a moniker for Fabio Friedli from Bern, Switzerland. A former architecture student turned film-maker and musician, Fabio makes songs from a combination of new sounds and old samples. He works under the name Pablo Nouvelle, out of a love of the French cinematic nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

   The début album "All I Need" was released in 2016 via Armada Music and it features vocals by Sam Wills, James Gruntz, Josef Salvat, Liv and Lulu James amongst others.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/d86g4r