Anna Calvi’s songwriting is powerful and passionate, while her stage presence is intense and quite inward looking. She doesn’t go for dramatics and audience-pleasing dramatics. She doesn’t need to – those astounding vocals — operatic, unwavering, and rich with emotion are enough. Beyond the impact of her live performances, she has been shifting her focus…
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Dagger, the fifth album for Ist Ist, was only released last Friday, but is already riding high at number 3 in the Official Charts. Say IST IST: “So we may or may not be in a chart battle here… we’re very much in the hunt for our first ever Top 20 album and we might…
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Jon Hopkins and Icelandic film composer Biggi Hilmars digitally released the soundtrack of Wilding, via Domino Soundtracks, on 16th January, and there’s a physical release due on April 3rd. The documentary Wilding was released in 2024. Wilding follows the story of farmers Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell, who embarked on an environmental project aimed at breathing…
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There’s a purity and simplicity to the delightful track Evergreen In Your Mind, just released as a taster from the upcoming album of the same name by Norwegian singer-songrwriter Juni Habel. The album will be released on April 10th on Basin Rock and Koke Plate. It’s a song that manages to lift you and project…
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Squeeze have just dropped the second track from upcoming album Trixies (6th March 2026). Rather than presenting us with a set of new songs, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have wound back the years, dusting off a cassette of their earliest material – a concept album they wrote and recorded when Glenn was just 16…
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When We Were Still, released on November 28 via AMS Records, was spearheaded by Irish drummer Dave Hingerty and his Side 4 Collective and he brings an eclectic array of Irish and international artists together, creating songs using his pre-written melodic and primal drum patterns. Each track on When We Were Still was recorded during Covid, and…
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Textural and atmospheric, Animal Collective’s Deakin and Geologist’s original soundtrack to the 2025 documentary Jetty has just been released by Domino Soundtracks. The soundtrack is available digitally, with a vinyl release set for April 17th. Jetty is a new nonfiction film by Sam Fleischner (Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Wah Do Dem and he also has created music videos…
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Australian alt folk-pop duo Charm of Finches – sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes – are back. Their beguiling new single is called Meteor, the first of a series of planned releases over the coming months that will form their highly anticipated fifth album. Inspired by the powerful forces of nature that reflect a tumultuous inner world,…
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Synthpop collective Magnetic Skies return with their second album, Fragments, coinciding with their first UK headline tour. Their 2023 debut, Empire Falling, established the band as confident purveyors of cinematic synthpop, moving fluidly between euphoria and melancholy. On Fragments, they build on that foundation with a sharper focus and a broader sound, pushing their 80s-inspired drama…
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The long-awaited album by darkwave synthpop supremos Magnetic Skies called Fragments will be out on 7th November. Till then we’ve been listening to singles from the upcoming release and the final drop, Everything’s Alright is out today. Front man Simon Kent has this to say about the track: “This is the most hopeful, positive track on the album,…
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