03.02.2026-ANITTA Funk Generation (Floresta/Republic,2024)

 

BRAZILLIAN FUNK

   Funk Generation presents Brazilian funk to those unfamiliar with the genre. It does not promise anything other than that (or to “make you lose your breath”). Depending on who you ask, that may be a humble or a bold promise. Does Brazilian funk need a sommelier like Anitta? It may not have needed her to go viral countless times worldwide, but the music deserves someone who takes its global projection as seriously as Anitta does.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ecgk52

01.02.2026-GABBY YOUNG & OTHER ANIMALS One Foot In Front Of The Other (Gift Of The Gab,2014)

 

POP / FOLK

   Gabby Young is an intriguing curiosity. Flamboyantly dressed, classically trained, and once the youngest member of the National Youth Choir, she has a distinctive, at times operatic voice, and a style that's increasingly hard to pin down. She has played at Womad, where she did well with her Balkan-influenced, brass-backed circus swing, but is still expanding her range, as shown by this thoughtful set, in which she constantly changes direction. The global influences now include French chanson – with the unworldly-sounding Sur la Lune – and Caribbean styles, with steel drums joining the brass on the exuberant Back Where We Started, and echoes of European gypsy brass on the stomping and witty I've Improved and the cheerful and then angry The Devil Has Moved On. Mixed in with all this are slower ballads; best is the exquisite and personal Fear of Flying.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/h4zsof

30.01.2026-OLOF ARNOLDS Palme (OneLittle Indian, 2014)

 

FOLK

   Palme is short, compact, stunning. It’s a record a little like a music box, with ballerina popping up and spinning intoxicatingly, especially to those who let themselves become one with it. It’s like a fragile and wonderful little universe.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/8ungx9

26.01.2026-BEATRICE DEER Shifting (Musique Nomade,2022)

 

INDIE ROCK

   Montreal-based singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer understands how to merge opposite worlds to birth a fresh, inventive new one. A blend of modern folk tales with traditional Inuit ones serves as a landscape for her music, where the sounds of classic indie pop and rock are interwoven with Inuit throat singing. On top of this, the half-Inuk, half-Mohawk artist also sings in three languages: English, French and Inuktitut, at times switching between multiple within one song. Her approach to bringing these elements together is skillful and graceful on her sixth studio album SHIFTING, where she explores the emotions surrounding getting older and moving on to another phase of life.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/awh1y0

24.01.2026-PEACE Utopia (Not On Label,2025)

 

INDIE ROCK

   

Five years since their last album and over three since they uttered a peep to the world, Peace are back. Now stripped down to a duo - but with some truly mind-boggling plans up their sleeves - the Birmingham boys are stepping into a wild new dawn.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/41ju8u

22.01.2026-MYNABIRDS It's Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward (Our Secret Handshake,2025)

 

INDIE POP

   ‘It’s Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward’ is a rare act of artistic excavation. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, it situates itself at the intersection of vulnerability and intention, where imperfection becomes a sacred aesthetic. Burhenn strips her sound to its elemental form: voice, piano, air, and silence. What emerges is a cycle of songs that feel exhaled, a quiet dialogue between memory and presence.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/520ufm

19.01.2026-WARPAINT Radiate Like This (Heirlooms/Virgin,2022)

 

INDIE ROCK

    Radiate Like This is an extremely enjoyable album and it’s guaranteed to please Warpaint fans. Furthermore, I can see the band picking up many more admirers thanks to the overall strength of this collection. Who wouldn’t enjoy the way that this music sucks you into its vortex and gently turns you inside out before laying you gently back down again? 

https://www.sendspace.com/file/in0ucb