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.

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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

17.01.2026-MARGARET GLASPY Devotion (ATO,2020)

 

INDIE POP

   ‘Devotion’ explores themes of romance, but it’s less to do with a tangible, solid figure and more about her ideas, emotions, questions and feelings about love itself. On opener ‘Killing What Keeps Us Alive,’ the haunting, soft synths complement her voice, and across the record, they work as mood-shifts and emotional changes - enabling her longing in ‘Without Him’ and trying to recapture the sentiments of first romance in ‘Young Love’. Margaret still sounds the most at home with her string instruments, but her foray into experimenting with electronic music has paid off.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/j7mm3x

15.01.2026-DARCYS Fear & Loneliness (Darcys Inc.,2020)

 

ART ROCK

   If you want to see a clear shift in style and mood from a band, then The Darcys are a perfect example. Just compare the monochromatic album covers of their first trio of albums against the pastel pink background of their fourth. The music shifted too, from ash-dark indie art rock inspired by Cormac McCarthy, to bright 80s pop full of synthesizers, rubbery basslines, and relentlessly catchy hooks. As the band went from a four piece to a duo, their focus shifted and they found new terrain to conquer, making a strong and infectious case with 2016’s Centerfold.

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