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Troye Sivan strips himself bare on the yearning She’s the Best (Oct 2026). With such a strong will to create in unexpected ways, Troye Sivan remains the prince of modern pop. source

On Live at Carnegie Hall, we benefit from an extra-concentrated dose of Cameron Winter (Oct 2026). Geese's Cameron Winter really stretches out his wings on this triumphant live homecoming. source

Peaking Lights: Support Indra Dunis' Cancer Treatment & Recovery (Oct 2026). The Gofundme for Peaking Lights' Indra Dunis is nearing its goal. Support today! A few weeks ago, Peaking Lights' Aaron Coyes shared the heartbreaking news that his musical source

Yasuaki Shimizu – Kiren (Oct 2026). in 2022 we finally got this unreleased funky gem from 1984.. but I didn't bump into it until today, somehow. feels like fourth world city pop, a total blast. source

Move Any Mountain: Ako Akas by 10LEC6 (Oct 2026). Eight years after Bone Bame, the Paris collective return with a record named after a Cameroonian mountain that traps walkers in a dance they cannot quit. The reason they chose that story is more pointed than the sleeve l source

Ultraääni’s Latest: Jazz, Drift and Strange Frequencies From Finland’s Ultraääni (Oct 2026). Four new small-run releases from the Tampere label move through spiritual jazz, live improvisation, soundtrack music and ambient drift. We’ve got copies in the ISC shop while they source

Lusine – Melting Days (Oct 2026). Four albums for Wednesday 🪻 source

Teenage Fanclub – Do Not Dare To Dream (Oct 2026). Few bands have aged like Teenage Fanclub. On their thirteenth record, the everlasting Scottish outfit embraces more of a soft focus on acoustics while maintaining their patented lilting and jangly elixir. Full of their u source

Lost Record Stores: A Map of LA's Independent Record Stores That Closed Between 1956 and 2020 (Oct 2026). Lost Record Stores Version 2.0 is now available in select independent shops in the Greater Los Angeles area. When was the last time you visited your local record source

Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians (Oct 2026). Insides - Clear Skin listening to these minimalist dream stunners back to back this morning, feels amazing. source

Jim O'Rourke – Steamroom 69 (Oct 2026). Jim O'Rourke's latest Steamroom transmission-unleashed on Bandcamp without fanfare or warning, as usual-is presented with his typical reticence: "recorded sometime in 1990-1991" is all we're told. I couldn't help but fee source

Oren Ambarchi – Cooked (Oct 2026). Cooked is a slow-motion dream state concocted over the span of three years. It evolves so gradually you're barely aware of the changes. In "Hidden Tableau," Eiko Ishibashi paints dripping icicles on a blank canvas; Konra source

Shane Parish – Dental Work (Oct 2026). If your principal exposure to Shane Parish has been via his acoustic work-much of it revisiting other artists' music, whether the folk classics of Undertaker Please Drive Slow , the reimagined jazz, avant-garde, and elec source

RAP – Navigator (Oct 2026). In more than two decades at Pitchfork, one of my proudest moments there is securing a Best New Music tag for RAP's 2019 album EXPORT , as niche and unforthcoming a record as I can think of. A lot of that was thanks to Ma source

BNNT & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – A Faithful Daughter (Oct 2026). Of all the performances I'm sad not to be seeing at Unsound this week, few are higher on my list than the collaboration between Polish duo BNNT and Lebanese-Canadian artist Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. Somehow I'd missed the fa source

Ghost Dubs – Oblique (Oct 2026). There are two possibilities for makers of latter-day dub techno: either deviate from the norm-and the risk here is, how far do you deviate without losing the essential form of dub techno-or double down on the genre's cha source

Marta Salogni & Stefano Pilia – Phren (Oct 2026). I was fortunate to see Marta Salogni play at Warsaw's Ephemera this past spring ( FR174 ). It was dawn, and a couple hundred people sprawled on blankets in a city park; she stood behind two reel-to-reel machines, patient source

Allison DeGroot & Rich Ruth – Allison DeGroot & Rich Ruth (Oct 2026). This is one of the most surprising albums I've heard this fall. It begins in Manuel Göttsching territory, a gentle rain of pinging synths, plucked strings, and ample delay, but then it dawns on you: That's not guitar-it' source

Ka Baird & Chris Ryan Williams – Enthalpy (Oct 2026). I can't recall the last time I heard a record quite as haunted as Enthalpy sounds. Ka Baird, as per their wont, is a kind of technologically aided ventriloquist, throwing hisses and groans in unpredictable arcs, or using source

Axel Boman & Superpitcher – Tell It to the Mountain (Oct 2026). Neither Axel Boman nor Aksel Schaufler are strangers to the gonzo gesture, so I was surprised to discover that their first collaborative album is relatively restrained-all the more surprising given designer Laurenz Brunn source

Various – Rooms (Oct 2026). Dublin's fledgling Lota label presents Rooms as a compilation of "psychogeographic sound"; each artist's work is apparently meant to explore their relationships with their physical surroundings, "analysing the influence source

Antonio Adolfo – S/T 1972 (Oct 2026). Antonio Adolfo hated his 1972 solo debut. Intensely. He banned it from his official discography and denounced it whenever it resurfaced online. Yet the slightly off singing may be exactly what gives the self-titled LP it source

Jess Williamson – A Mile South of Heaven (Oct 2026). Jess Williamson's Shooter Jennings-produced sixth solo album, A Mile South of Heaven , is a desert curiosity shop’s worth of inspirations: Williamson pulls storytelling techniques from Lucinda Williams’ gravel-road reali source

Mad Professor’s Strange Routes Through Dub (Oct 2026). From Istanbul psychedelia to the dark corners of Mezzanine, Mad Professor has spent decades pulling songs apart and rebuilding them in dub. On Oct. 8, he brings that method source

The Beach Boys – Radiant Radish (Oct 2026). True story: in the late ’60s, Brian Wilson opened a short-lived health-food store called Radiant Radish in West Hollywood. Untrue story: there was a Beach Boys album named after it. There wasn’t—but now, thanks to the en source

Ghost Dubs – Overthinking (Oct 2026). Into some new-ish @ghostdubs.bsky.social Ghost Dubs - Overthinking 📡📻🔒Sheffield Live! 93.2FM ghostdubs.bandcamp.com/track/overth... #NightTrainNowPlaying source

Oneohtrix Point Never – Magic (Oct 2026). Saturday morning tunes 🌴 source

Emily A. Sprague – Cyano (Oct 2026). Bandcamp Friday thread. Just an insane amount of ace new lp's. I'll spare the commentary and just fill this thread with a few of my strongest recommendations... mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/cyano source

Typhoon To$h and the Influence of Plastics, Japan's Archetypal New Wave Band (Oct 2026). Join us on Friday, October 2nd for a listening session in the garden dedicated to Japanese Synth-Pop, New Wave, and Art Rock. While Yellow Magic Orchestra undeniably claims source

Andy Boay – Doomed (Oct 2026). Andy Boay returns with an opus crafted with ecstatic care: a journey of reverbed vocals and guitar noodles, a lo-fi love letter, a bedroom SMiLE , and its own thing completely: Doomed . Doomed shares the same creative DN source

Album of the Week: Vanishing Twin's Archives (Oct 2026). Absence makes the art grow bolder says Will Ainsley about Archives, which sounds like Chiastic Slide-era Autechre reimagining the Wicker Man soundtrack Archives by Vanishing Twin The idea that an album could be made piec source

Jeremy Cunningham – Passing Fires (Oct 2026). Jeremy Cunningham makes music that seems to be perpetually slipping out of its own frame. On Passing Fires , the Chicago drummer moves from free-jazz and skronk to electronics, funk, post-rock and pop, assembling a cast source

John Coltrane at 100: Brick Your Phone for 33 minutes and get lost in 'A Love Supreme' (Sept 2026). McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and Rudy Van Gelder remember the trust, freedom and communication that made A Love Supreme. John Coltrane would have turned 100 this month. source

Dur-Dur Band – Volume 3 (1988) & Volume 4 (1989) (Sept 2026). The latest archival installment from the Somalian hotel band shows an unwieldy group streamlining their sound in the studio, dialing up the hooks, battening down the rhythms and keeping the grooves on point. Taking inspi source

Hipwell – Culte Voyeuriste (Sept 2026). feels like I'm climbing kosmische mountain with this massive synth-centric drifter, built with guitar, sax, farfisa, flute, and more. been into Adam's music a few years now but totally missed this release in July. don't source

otto taimela – dispersion (Sept 2026). mix of deep house & breakbeats & heaps of atmosphere, kinda perfect morning jams specialspeciesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ssr032... source

Bullion – Nearly (Sept 2026). In a fascinating new interview with Andrew Ryce's Futureproofing, Bullion's Nathan Jenkins describes himself as "a reluctant frontperson for my own project." The assessment confirms my suspicions about the way he moves t source

Protomartyr – Hotel Usona (Sept 2026). Protomartyr’s seventh album Hotel Usona (short for United States of North America) creates a fitting soundtrack as the country is pummeled by bad reviews. The Detroit veteran band envisions their homeland as a decrepit h source

LA Synthesis – Matrix Surfer (Sept 2026). (1996) heady techno/idm/ambient jams from the prime era, atmospheric, lush production and a really emotive flow despite going warp speed out into bleepy-bloopy space. fits in somewhere between FSOL and Drexciya, Model 50 source

CMJ New Music Monthly and the Analog Machinery of Discovery (Sept 2026). A ’90s music magazine, a nationwide college-radio network and a CD tucked into every issue made CMJ a physical map of the underground. It sent readers from Sleater-Kinney source

Lee Ranaldo – Guitar-Centric Film Soundtracks (Sept 2026). As a member of Sonic Youth, Drift, and his many other musical detours, Lee Ranaldo has treated the guitar as a pure sound source, creating dynamic new expressions in rock & roll and the avant-garde alike. But Ranaldo's n source

Shinichi Atobe – Ongaku 1 (Sept 2026). my collection is now complete. part of a very good mail day including the new Bullion and more - will be posting the rest soon source

Joe Gibbs – Majestic Dub (Sept 2026). Friday afternoon jams 🌬️ source

Harmony Index: Nico's 5 Songs for Night Drives (Sept 2026). Harmony Index's dreamy debut album Lights On arrives tomorrow on Peak Oil sub-label FO. A key player in Los Angeles' DIY underground, Nico Leibman aka Harmony Index is source

Dungen – Vidrig Vår (Sept 2026). On the veteran Swedish outfit's most pared down and elegant affair, Vidrig Vår showcases Dungen still operating on a psychedelic wavelength not found elsewhere. Built around bandleader Gustav Ejste's panoramic piano prog source

Asher White – Love Aggregates (Sept 2026). Asher White goes maximalist on Love Aggregates , building heavy doses of orchestral power pop from her bedroom. A fragmentary heartbreak album touching on dysphoria, precarious labor, Jerry Garcia, Citi Bikes, and Flatbu source

Shared Frequency: Quiet Storm by Space Afrika (Sept 2026). Manchester duo go big, vastly expanding their palette with strings, harps and a plethora of special guests Photograph credit: Timon Benson. Art Direction: Alexander Luc and Timon Benson. Clothing: Omar Afridi X VUJA DÉ T source

Quiet Storm by Space Afrika (Sept 2026). Manchester duo go big, vastly expanding their palette with strings, harps and a plethora of special guests Photograph credit: Timon Benson. Art Direction: Alexander Luc and Timon Benson. Clothing: Omar Afridi X VUJA DÉ T source

Those Were the Days of Miracle and Wonder – Paul Simon's Graceland at 40 (Sept 2026). Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland exists in this weird state, an album that eternally evokes 1986, but always sounds so different from other albums of its era. It’s an collection that’s self absorbed, but also so relatab source

Warren Burt’s Wild World of Computer Music (Sept 2026). A look at the experimental composer’s five-decade journey through electronics, microtonality and machine systems, anchored by EM Records’ new archival release Three Movements from 'Some Kind of Seasoning.' For source

Love – Four Sail (Sept 2026). For many, Forever Changes is where the Love story ends. Whether viewed as a retooled evolution of the band or simply that of Arthur Lee, Four Sail is an essential part of the Love discography. With a driving edge partly source

Raven – Gnosis (Sept 2026). revisiting one of my favorites of 2025. really hoping to hear more from this guy soon because dang this holds up! source

Metal Hurlant: Surrealist Science Fiction meets Rock 'n' Roll and Hi-Fi (Sept 2026). In Sheep's Clothing teams up with legendary publisher Humanoids on a series of archival and contemporary projects merging comic books and music. What do Iggy Pop, H.P. Lovecraft, source

Metal Hurlant: Surrealist Science-Fiction meets Rock 'n' Roll and Hi-Fi (Sept 2026). In Sheep's Clothing teams up with legendary publisher Humanoids on a series of archival and contemporary projects merging comic books and music. What do Iggy Pop, H.P. Lovecraft, source

Miyaxx – Hold Your Ego Out Like a Sun (Sept 2026). This spring, John Thayer teamed up with his friend Ben Seretan on Sunbeam of No Illusion ( FR162 ), a quiet stunner of an ambient record recorded in a creekside studio in the Upper Hudson Valley. Now, Thayer and Lea Thom source

Actress – Radical Frame (Sept 2026). Darren Cunningham's latest is an odd record, beginning with its proportions. Out of eight tracks, its first two are spoken-word snippets that are over in 16 seconds. The first is just a voice (Delia Derbyshire's?) intoni source

TRAPEC – espejismo en enfoque óptico (Sept 2026). TRAPEC, a new alias from Chile's Jimmy Pizarro, casts a fond glance back at Y2K on his new album espejismo en enfoque óptico ("mirage in optical focus"), weaving a warm blanket of glitch, sub-bass, and drum machines. SND source

Le Motel – Pozo de Agua (Sept 2026). We released Le Motel's Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ on Balmat in early 2025; Pozo de Agua feels like a continuation of some of those ideas, though less rooted in field recordings and a sense of place (Vietnam, in the case of his source

Ezmeralda – Untitled (Sept 2026). Following 2022's En Átomos Volando , for Éter Editions, 2024's Ruido y Flor , for Ambie-Tón ( FR62 ), and last year's self-released Forever Para Siempre ( FR119 ), Colombia's Nicolás Vallejo is back with a four-track EP source

Finn Loxbo – Lummernikt (Sept 2026). Finn Loxbo is a new name to me, but listening to his music feels like unlocking some deeply familiar chamber in my subconscious. His approach to the acoustic guitar fleetingly reminds me of players like Raphael Rogiński source