25.07.2026-TEEN DAZE Bioluminescence (Flora,2019)

 

CHILLWAVE

   Teen Daze’s sixth ambient, alternative-indie album Bioluminescence stays true to his roots in synthesizing frequencies from both the natural and modern worlds. Ever since Teen Daze, one of Jamison Isaak’s aliases, debuted in 2010, the solo electronic British Columbia musician continues to challenge the antithetical natures of organic and electronic notes in Bioluminescence, released in April 2019.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/scilx3jy

22.07.2027-AIR WAVES Warrior (Western Vinyl,2018)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Spirited yet cautious, Air Waves have produced a stellar and ardent album filled with just the right amount of justice to suit the name Warrior. Each track is as bold as it comes, falling onto the shoulders of a leader with enough strength to combat the unkempt delusions of nostalgia and comfort. Warrior is thoroughly simplistic, the vocal performances coming through as the centerpiece of an 11 track series of diary pages and ruminating self-discovery.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/01xu4e6y

19.07.2026-JESSIE WARE That! Feels Good! (EMI,2023)

 

POP / R&B / FUNK

   The album embraces a present (and future) where we can at least indulge in the fantasy of feeling good.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/dzxi4eta

16.07.2026-HOLLY HUMBERSTONE Paint My Bedroom Black (Polydor,2023)

 

ALTERNATIVE POP

   Alongside her piercing lyrics, Humberstone’s debut LP is all the richer because she steps out of her sonic comfort zone. Surprises arise on the layered, Bon Iver-esque ‘Baby Blues’, and brilliant ‘Flatlining’, which temporarily turns into a shifty electronic banger. Ultimately, ‘Paint My Bedroom Black’ finds the artist trying to do right by her loved ones and make sense of her own turbulent world, but it’s also a cue to listeners that things could go anywhere from here. In pursuit of an authentic sound, Humberstone proves that she’s not only inhabiting her own space – and beckoning listeners in – but also building out the walls.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/57wy245q

13.07.2026-PEAKING LIGHTS Cosmic Logic (Weird World/Domino,2014)

 

SYNTHPOP

   For a band who are so undeniably poppy, Peaking Lights draw influence from an impressively eclectic variety of places. Layered over their swampy, effortless brand of synth-pop are traces of dub, disco, house, psych and indie, and perhaps one of the reasons for their success may be their ability to incorporate these influences into a single cohesive, identifiable sound. On Cosmic Logic, they continue to exercise this ability, but occasionally forget to stretch it quite far enough.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/hgqy4urb

10.07.2026-GARY WAR Gaz Forth (Feeding Tube,2018)

 

HYPNAGOGIC POP

   For the last while, Greg Dalton (aka Gary War) has been back in Massachusetts, after spending years working on his music down in twin Isles of Kiwi. Since returning he has popped up in the amazing psych duo, Dalthom (along with Sunburned’s Ron Thomas), and even played with the legendary Bobb Trimble on a live Burger cassette, but Gaz Forth is the first new Gary War LP in over five years.

   Recorded with long-time collaborator, Daniel Rineer, as well as Robert Cathart III (Pigeons), Jeremy Pisani (Red Favorite), Kris Thompson (Abunai, Trimble), Cynthia Nixon (Purple Pilgrims) and John Moloney (Sunburned), Gaz Forth hearkens back to some of the left-field pop amalgamations Mr. War had a hand in when he worked with Ariel Pink back in the early Oughts.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/r0dr9tvm

08.07.2026-TOMORA Come Closer (Fontana,2026)

 

ELECTRONICA

   Dance don Tom Rowlands and Norwegian phenomenon Aurora take us on an otherworldly rave as an "exceptional" supergroup.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/b427zw99