New Releases

Owen, Maisy

Dark On A Sunny Day

Tompkins Square

***"Maisy Owen, a Nashville native, has been surrounded by music and the art of songcraft just about all her life. First came the viola at age nine, then guitar where she embraced fingerpicking, soaking in influences from Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Mazzy Star and David Olney. Raised in a musical family, her father Gwil Owen is an Academy Award-nominated songwriter.Maisy’s unique sound, musical truth and stirring vocals inhabit Dark On A Sunny Day, her debut album, produced by Robin Eaton (known for his work with Jill Sobule and co-writer of 'I Kissed a Girl')Drawn to melancholic melodies and dark poetic imagery, her first single 'My Youth Is All For You' was released as a 7” and gave Maisy a chance to explore her visual side / love for abandoned houses with an accompanying video. Her second single, 'On My Way Down' was recently featured as KCRW's 'Today's Top Tune.'Often spotted around Nashville playing bars or cruising around in her beloved pickup, Maisy is that special talent in a city awash with singer-songwriters. While folks thus far seems to have different takes on who she might sound like (for us, it's some of our favorites; Vashti Bunyan, Anne Briggs, Tia Blake...), pinning that down is a fool's errand. She is Maisy... a singular talent, and one worth watching.""Drawing on the moody intimacy of Nick Drake, the folk finesse of Bert Jansch, and the hazy dream-pop glow of Mazzy Star, she’s carving out a sound all her own."—KCRW"A finger style that is...

Roxanne, Ana

Poem 1

Kranky

“I wanted to travel / Home into somewhere,” Ana Roxanne breathes across an eerie suspended drone on “The Age of Innocence”. “I wanted to try / And go very far.” These are the first words we hear on Poem 1 and reintroduce an artist who’s in a conspicuously different phase of her life than she was when her debut album, Because of a Flower, sprouted nearly six years ago. Heartbroken and reflective, Roxanne surveys the transformations that followed and displays a new-found boldness. Her voice is naked, vulnerable and alive, no longer shrouded in tape noise or looped and echoed beyond recognition beneath layered electroacoustic textures. Throughout the course of Poem 1, Roxanne displays her skill as a singer and songwriter in the classic sense, using the limited instrumentation simply to accent her exposed tones. Muted piano phrases and plucked bass notes languidly trail her anguished siren song on “Berceuse in A-flat Minor, Op. 45”, making each word count.On “Keepsake” meanwhile, she sounds as if she’s alone in an abandoned bar, stroking the dust off the piano’s keys as she inventories her emotional scars. There’s a smell of old whisky in the air, but Poem 1 is a remarkably sober album; never wallowing in self pity, Roxanne finds catharsis in the logic of her expressions, twisting out the edges of her memories into surreal, cinematic asides. “Untitled II”, the album’s pronounced, uninhibited centerpiece, delivers on the Lynchian promise that’s been present since her first EP, 2019’s ~~~. “[I] always picked...

Kramer, Bonner / Thurston Moore

They Came Like Swallows

Silver Current

Two giants of alternative / experimental music join creative forces for the first time in their storied, nearly fifty-year careers. A startlingly cohesive union that burns through landscapes of primitive outsider rock, avant-garde composition, progressive ambient and further locales boldly and beautifully unnamable. Bonner Kramer (previously known as Kramer) decoded the sounds of Galaxie 500 as producer on all of their records as well as producing Low, Will Oldham and Urge Overkill’s hit single “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon” for the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, to name just a few of his over three hundred and seventy producer credits listed on Discogs. He is the proprietor of iconic indie label Shimmy-Disc (a one-time home to Daniel Johnston, Ween, Boredoms and John Zorn’s Naked City among countless others), and an esteemed recording studio mastermind. Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, and responsible for Chelsea Light Moving and a massive and varied solo career, and remains an era-and genre-defining composer, cultural critic, prime mover of all things cool, and one of the most iconic, singular guitarists in rock music’s long tail, the keystone of the explored tension between rock and noise.

Anenon

Dream Temperature

Tonal Union

Saxophonist, producer and composer Brian Allen Simon explores darker hues, transposing waking and altered states under his studio veil Anenon. On the deeply evocative new album ‘Dream Temperature’, he shifts electronic processing to the foreground, introducing digitized wind instruments and unworldly atmospherics, not heard since his innovating mid-late 2010s output.A longtime Los Angeles resident, born and raised, Brian Allen Simon has expressively operated under the moniker Anenon, releasing the highly revered ‘Petrol’ (2016), ‘Tongue’ (2018) and the viscerally beautiful ‘Moons Melt Milk Light’ (2023), in a line of unwavering musical dialogues. While the penultimate album was a deliberate, reductive, entirely acoustic detour that was born out of a want to unplug, ‘Dream Temperature’ sees Brian primed with a newly discovered wind synthesizer as his central compositional tool, alongside acoustic piano and tenor saxophone. The entirety of the album’s electronics are triggered by Brian’s lungs, generating otherworldly synths modulated by expressive breath control, channelled through the laptop as the core processing chamber for added textural components and field recordings.A free floating and heavy emotional resonance marks 'Dream Temperature' from beginning to end, invoking the feeling of waking up, still heavy from a night of half-remembered dreams, and continuing one’s day in this state. Simon maps out the album's spatial voice early on the statement title track, a deep, yet compact cut, generated from digital saxophone rasps that whistle by in close proximity, along with haze filled textures and sub bass. There is a sonic oscillation of urban grit and pastoral drift...

P.E.E.

I Win Me Over

Deathbomb Arc

***Hailing from the Bay Area in the 90s, P.E.E.'s brand of sloppy and complex pop punk was manic and completely loving. These recordings were originally made for an album that would later get completely re-recorded before release. Yet these raw, lo-fi versions remain some of the most vibrant material the band ever set to tape. Deathbomb Arc is very excited to release them for the first time! Recorded on 4-track reel-to-reel by Gar Box.

Sleeveens, The

National Anthem

Goner

A Dublin-born, stylistically-restless but fundamentally punk troubadour, Stefan Murphy emerged in the early 00s under the moniker The Mighty Stef, which became a full-band concern around 2007, wrapped up in 2016, and was followed by a short stint as Count Vaseline. Then, in 2019, Murphy met a gentleman by the name of James Mechan, who happened to be Stiff Little Fingers’ guitar tech. That last part is relevant, as any current convert to the band we’re discussing here can testify. And so is the first part, as Mechan wanted to record Murphy at his Nashville studio. Those plans were derailed by the pandemic but not forgotten when Murphy moved to Nashville in 2022. Work commenced, the pair were joined by Ryan Sweeney (of Cheap Time) on drums and Eli Steele (Sweet Knives) on lead guitar. The result was The Sleeveens, named after an Irish slang for “trixter”…not the earthly type responsible for a plastic Aztec death whistle on your exhaust pipe but rather the otherworldly one that temporarily vanishes the keys to the vehicle.  The Sleeveens’ debuted on 7-inch with 2023’s “Give My Regards To The Dancing Girls” on Sweeney’s Sweet Time label and “UFO’s” b/w The Four Tops’ “Bernadette” on Interstate 94 Recordings in 2024, followed by their fantastic self-titled LP on Dirtnap Records the same year, which gained traction on independent radio thanks to bangers like “Metallica Font” and “Aretha Franklin”. An official Gonerfest 22 inclusion, the band has also shared stages with G.G. King, Schizophonics, Total Hell,...

Geraldi, Phil

Rural Deceased Undiscovered

Not Not Fun

California composer Phil Geraldi’s vinyl debut both refines and refracts his signature muse of interstitial Americana across 11 melted glass mosaics of processed guitar, decayed radio glow, and Harmonia synth horizons: Rural Deceased Undiscovered. He describes his vision for the pieces as “multilinear,” rearranging classic radio songbook elements like hooks, choruses, and emotional cues into unfamiliar topographies of “alien country.”Shards of acoustic guitar and pedal steel flicker in long shadows of amplifier hum and airwave static, like the scrambled broadcast of some heartland station along a desert highway. It’s music both rustic and placeless, warped by weather and technology, shimmering like northern lights over the badlands.Mastered by Jared Carrigan.Sleeve design by Jo Minor and Matt GoldbergInsert design by Anthony Boruch-Comstock.

Frank Hurricane

Southern Shrymp in the Big City

Nudie Records

***Frank Hurricane is a spiritual blues and folk musician/storyteller/bard from the South and the North of the US. He has been traveling and performing in the underground and DIY scene for well over a decade, gathering tales and touring across the world. He has released a large catalog of records. PBS recently made an Emmy-Nominated documentary about his musical journey. He has performed alongside many legends across the spiritual board and has hiked thousands of miles of trails in the mountains.Southern Shrymp (In the Big City) is Frank Hurricane’s chronicle of kaleidoscopic folk-forward Americana spiritual blues, interpreting both the modern urban and backwoods experience and inviting you into the lives of the people on the outskirts - the wild ones, the rough angels sitting on the mystic margins. Shedding the prism-light on the characters he meets in his songs, Frank also sings about the spiritual glory of the mountains and rivers of the Appalachian landscape he loves, psychedelically wound together over Frank’s intricate fingerpicking, soulful vocals, tender melodies, and transcendent vision.

V/a

Brown Acid - The Twenty-Second Trip

Riding Easy

Just as you were getting your head straight coming off the 21st Trip … Brown Acid dose # 22 drops, continuing to fry your mind in a revolving trap-door Twilight Zone alternate world of early hard rock… populated by real life characters so far out they can look like a cheesy wedding band but sound like Blue Cheer! Uncanny! This music comes at you from many angles. Teens in a garage colliding with booze, drugs and girls for the first time, lounge lizard hustlers with snazzy stage clothes and fuzz boxes… gnarly backwoods troublemakers meet blow dried glam rock wannabes here, seamlessly clobbering your head with sound rather than each other! An electric post-psychedelic bar brawl for your mind awaits, unfasten your seat belt, crank it up and fly!Sounds Synonymous "Babylon" out of Flint, Michigan 1969 rip the devastating Blue Cheer classic a new one, immediately swarming you with organ swells and distortion before collapsing into a tuff funk groove, a psychedelic James Brown vibe shot through with dirty howling fuzz guitar, vocals nailing the messed up but confident relaxed sneering attitude of the original Cheer eruption.The Bumps "Shining" from Seattle 1969 resides right at the transition of ‘60s psych into early prog, well constructed, no diluting things artsy fartsy style, a compelling heavy riff, spacious vocal harmony hook floating above a turbulent take on getting your shit together and shining like a star. Fat chance, but you can dream, the band did and their dreams kick ass across time...

Drakulas

Midnight City

Dirtnap

Austin’s creepiest bad boys are back!After a few years of wandering in the wilderness, Drakulas return to their spiritual home at Dirtnap Records (and Wild Honey Records in Europe/UK!) to unleash Midnight City upon the world!Drakulas move in the shadows of a neoned, late‑’70s city—proto‑punk bite, garage grit, ’80s synth ghosts and new‑wave chill wrapped in world-building, nocturnal lyrics.Conceived as an art experiment by Savage Lord Mic, Sam Francisco  (Riverboat Gamblers) and Pink Rick (Rise Against), and filled out with a rotating cast of sketchy characters, Drakulas quickly shed their daylight skins—black turtlenecks, medallions, VHS flicker—and became emissaries of a cinematic underworld where drugs, arcade lights, pornography and occult whispers score the streets.Their 3rd LP, Midnight City turns up the musical quirk factor a bit, with fully-realized, inter-connected songs that are at the same time unsettling and yet weirdly danceable. Marvel as they emerge from the fog with a new full‑length on Dirtnap/Wild Honey—listen if you dare.

Matthews, Jae

Man On The Beat

Heartworm Press

***Jae Matthews reinterprets Buzz Kull’s cult classic “Man On The Beat” with a dark, hypnotic edge, driven by her unmistakable voice and a cold, cinematic synth pulse. Known as the vocalist of Boy Harsher, Matthews channels the nocturnal spirit of the original while making the song distinctly her own.Released as a limited-edition 12" on Heartworm Press, the single transforms the underground favorite into a late-night anthem, with the B-side featuring an extended remix by Los Angeles duo Spike Hellis, stretching the track into a driving, synth-charged club version.

Bergsonist

Depths

Dark Entries

Bergsonist emerges on Dark Entries with Depths, a genre-bending 12-track LP of atmospheric and rhythmic excursions. For more than a decade, Moroccan-born Selwa Abd has been using the Bergsonist moniker to examine postcolonial identity and speculative temporalities across disparate media, including sound, image, video, and installation. She is also a key figure in New York underground music, fostering mutual aid and community support through her platforms Pick up the Flow (PUTF) and BizaarBazaar. On the 2025 album ASL أصل ⴰⵙⵍ, Bergsonist explored her Amazigh heritage using field recordings captured in Morocco. With Depths, her sixth LP, she continues the project of ancestral reconnection through sound. Abd notes: “I really use making music as therapy, not as a precious act, more as an energy release that makes me feel alive.” Depths overflows with this excess of vitality. Tracks like “Trust the Current”, “Depths”, and “Underwater World Pursuit” showcase her singular take on diasporic techno-futurism, where James Stinson-esque atmospherics meet Moroccan rhythms. Elsewhere, “Again” and “Higher” push into coldwave territory, with icy arpeggios and electroid beats dancing beneath Abd’s ethereal vocals. But the dancefloor is not to be neglected: “Breakthrough” and “Ode to Life” spring forth with the kind of skewed peak-hour energy that only Bergsonist can bring. Artwork for Depths was designed by Eloise Leigh, and incorporates photographs by Abd and Greg Zifcak taken in Morocco. Also included is a protection poster that features an Amazigh symbol used for warding off the evil eye. Depths is an album that achieves a...

Noveller

I Am The Weather

Experimentia

Multi-instrumentalist Sarah Lipstate brings her innovative music to life under the name Noveller. Forming unexpected sonic routes, her songs are vivid and cinematic. Following several years spent collaborating with Iggy Pop, and touring the world as his guitarist, Lipstate returns with a new album of her own. I Am The Weather further expands her inventive explorations, creating what Pop once described to Jim Jarmusch as “symphonies for people that don’t have a lot of time.”Sarah’s work as a composer, notably for the HBO Docuseries Breath Of Fire, as well as the Anthony Bourdain documentary Roadrunner, has greatly influenced her new constructions, incorporating piano, percussion and a new studio filled with excitement into her signature guitar sculpting. It is the baby grand at the center of her studio that welcomes you to the record on “Sunday in Copenhagen” before ceding to a celestial six string swell. The percussive rhythms of “Divining Dance” awaken a new morning in “The Way of Our Flood” and walk towards the bowed grace of “Otherside of Mountainside.” Surging into the sky, “Portmerion” allows “Beyond the Fells” to glide back down to Earth, revealing the album’s biggest surprise—a vocal track!It seems fitting given their past, that the first vocals on a Noveller record would be delivered by the legendary Iggy Pop. Written specifically for The Godfather of Punk, a noir-ish tale of a man over-matched by a femme fatale, “The Girl Who Was Death” builds with tension and release. Following their collaboration on the title track to...

D.S.B.

Substitute

General Speech

***Never available on vinyl until now, Substitute is the second full length by this long running Tokyo hardcore band. D.S.B. put Japanese hardcore on the map for many overseas especially many Americans as their 2003 tour basically blew the minds of everyone in the collective D.I.Y. hardcore scene at the time. Their energy, stage presence, and ultra punk look was as inspirational as their music, functioning like a call to action for many. Hot on the heels of this tour, being locked in, tour tight, and at their peak, they decided to go into the studio and make an album of all the best early songs they felt were never properly recorded or done justice, along with some new ones. The result is a masterpiece and some of the most explosive hardcore punk from any time and anywhere.

Ignorantes

No Hemos Inventado Nada Ni Nos Interesa Hacerlo

General Speech

***“We have invented nothing, and are not interested in doing so.” No Hemos Inventado Nada Ni Nos Interesa Hacerlo is Ignorantes with the noise dialed down (just a little) but in exchange their most catchy, but also at their most hateful and nihilistic, and it exemplifies some of, if not their strongest efforts in terms of riffs and song writing. Lyrically there is nothing positive about this album, but musically it is a masterpiece, which would have been more of a standout in their catalog had it actually been released properly. Originally recorded in Chile in 2021, but never distributed, it is the final release in their classic tupa tupa style. Essential for any fan of this band.

Indikator B

s/t II

General Speech

***The second EP by Indikator B from Zagreb, Croatia. The band managing to grow even more confident in their unique style of hardcore punk that successfully blends the catchiness and great riffs of UK punk with the dark and cold feel of 80s bands from Yugoslavia and eastern Europe. In a world where regional styles and influence are disappearing, Indikator B has created a record that remains connected to the history of underground music from the Balkan region, but doesn't succumb to nostalgia.

No Peeling

EP2

Feel It

Formed in 2025 as a studio project by five friends in the fertile Nottingham DIY underground, No Peeling have rapidly expanded way beyond their initial brief. September 2025’s self-titled EP was the perfect introduction to the No Peeling universe. Bandcamp Daily picked it as an Essential Release, calling it “a clanging collection of get-in-get-out egg punk that doesn’t ask for more than 10 minutes of your time and overdelivers on every front”. It managed to cram a lifetime of idea-nuggets into seven songs that rarely exceeded the minute mark. A blast of enthusiasm and hyperactivity, the EP was the audio equivalent of a barrage firework: exhilarating and energising (although slightly confusing unless experienced from a distance).Whilst the first EP was completed before the band had played live; EP2 hits a little differently. Written in preparation for their first UK tour and recorded just after, No Peeling’s new-found live energy pushes the results to somewhere new again. EP2 has the garage punk clatter and sparkly efficiency of their debut but is somehow faster and weirder. The guitar and synth seem to be engaged in a constant (playful) fight, tumbling further and further away from the song structure being held together (and propelled) by one of the tightest rhythm sections around. The scrawl and skronk might occasionally recall No Wave but those grooves are locked down.This all provides the perfect foundation for the wry, dry observations of Sophie Diver. From pasta post and fluff-clad delinquents to clingfilm catastrophes and poor working conditions,...

Genre Is Death

Attractive People

In The Red

Genre Is Death is an uncompromising noise duo made up of Ty V (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create a wave of boldly hypnotic noise. The duo have been compared to the likes of Sonic Youth and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, yet have managed to create a sound that is distinctly their own, avoiding mimicking the zeitgeist of decades before. Beyond the integrity of their music, Tayler’s intimidating glare, or Ty’s staggering gait, the duo share something truly inimitable— the overwhelming feeling that their music is a byproduct of the high esteem they hold of each other.The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane suburban lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements…their move to NYC coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… however, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played New Colossus Festival, toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. Their upcoming record was recorded with legendary sound...

Memo PST

Eternal Actors

In The Red

"LA Punks Memo PST return with another modern punk classic Eternal Actors, their new album out this May on In The Red. These 12 tracks capture the fury of late '70s rough and raw punk rock, with Orville Neeley crafting hit after hit of god-tier punk bangers. Vocalist Chris Shaw is also at his most versatile to date, with his lyrical capabilities and patented punk sneers dripping across every song."Simply put, Eternal Actors finds two lords of the punk genre at their very best. There are classic punk bashers like “Dog Groomer Stylist,” and “Doomed to Repeat” but also primitive, bare-bones rock rippers like “Chrome Bubble” and Worship Me.” The band also delivers some of their most hardcore songs to date with “Concrete Club” and “Blown Away.”"With the San Clemente wrecking crew of Jackson Todd (drums) and Emmanuel Koulouris (bass) back again to round out the four piece band, this is truly a powerhouse presentation of punk music in 2026. If the band proved they were a punk force with their long sold out, self titled album, Eternal Actors may solidify their place at the top of the punk pile."Recorded in late 2025 by longtime collaborator Mike Kriebel at Tropico Beauty Supply in Los Angeles, Eternal Actors is Memo PST's second album for In The Red." – Johnny Dogface

Barreca, Marc

A Penchant for the Useless

Palace Of Lights

“While performing at an early Twentieth Century steam driven power plant and imagining what its industrial ambiance might have been, an outline of ‘A Penchant for the Useless’ emerged. Like many of my projects, the album started with a search for the kinds of unique, amusical sounds I wanted to work with. And credit is also due to a rereading of Nicolas Collins’ ‘Handmade Electronic Music.’” Using a collection of electric guitar pickups, contact microphones, and transducers that would vibrate random metallic and wooden objects, Barreca built a library of loop recordings. Also recorded were the electronic buzzes and bleeps of a computer and various home appliances.  Granular effect processing and layering with a sampler and a physical modeling synth transformed this largely atonal source material into deep, harmonious assemblages.These long chains of sonic transformations fused with the dark beauty of their industrial steam-era inspiration, and resonate throughout the music. Only rarely will these pieces hint at their now obsolete and decaying source materials. ‘A Penchant for the Useless’ is Marc Barreca’s 15th solo album, adding to a catalog of constantly evolving and refining experimentation and compositional innovation that now spans more than four decades.Barreca has also collaborated with Three Point Circle, Young Scientist, Savant, and K. Leimer. Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering.

Sonic Blossoms

s/t

Slouch

***Sonic Blossoms are a heavy psych and space rock supergroup drawn from some of LA's most respected underground acts. Channeling Spacemen 3, Red Crayola, The Stooges, and raw '60s psychedelic garage, the band deploys extreme fuzz and distortion, wah-soaked guitar, organ drones, trancelike rhythms, and echoing theremin into a sound that is both vast and claustrophobically intimate. Their self-titled debut on Slouch Records is a singular, cohesive statement—a feedback-drenched journey that rewards repeated listens.

Smarm

s/t

Smarm

"Having only been sloughing around the Queen City for about a year, SMARM have already ran into a studio to knock out a three-song EP that reclaims some of the sting oft-absent from the current underground trash rock scene.The maniacally majestic opening guitar lick on, uh, 'Lick the Fist' makes it point and gets out of the way of the monster riff. Then the lead in “Cut Out,” uh, cuts out like a 17-year old jumping the gun on the last tick of homeroom before summer vacation starts. Of course SMARM are no teens (at least not numerically), but that only means their seasoned playing can avoid any insecure putzing around.This feisty foursome are past the point of investigating a hoot about what anyone who’s watching or listening might think; but close enough to their initial R’n’R inspiration to remember the root cause: fun!Eric Stein—he of the aforementioned wild leads—slices’n’dices around with guitarist Sam Richardson, while bassist Liam Dolan drives the bass right up the gut.Throughout, nifty tricks like the unique doubled-up vocals (members switch up singing duties) dodge between the flailing riffs, and drummer Drew Decker’s micro-rolls feel like they’re shoved by the caveman pound of the snare, giving the songs a rattled feel that grooves into something like burly in the midtempo closer, 'Make Something Happen.'Cincinnati has a proud tradition of coughing up a solid barn-burning garage rock band every 7 years or so, and SMARM might be the latest match-striker. Hearing these tunes, the visual is of...

Badterms

Nest Of Vipers

Tko

***When last we heard from Boston bootboys Badterms, they were fresh off the release of their TKO Records debut LP Panic Age and poised to deliver the Rock n’ Oi! ruckus to fans near and far. In the ensuing eight months, Badterms has waged a sonic assault on audiences in a multiple front campaign: including Canadian festival appearances, a European tour, and plenty of gigs on East Coast of the USA. And now, on the eve of their next European tour, they have returned with a brand new album of previously unreleased material: Nest Of Vipers.Nest of Vipers picks up where Panic Age left off. For the new album, founding members Curt Florczak and Hans Molnar are joined on record for the first time by the rest of Badterms' live line up: Jason Hunt (guitar), Mike Reinhalter (drums) and Dominic DiNardo (bass). Much like their TKO labelmates No Time, Badterms is a band that treats every new release as an opportunity to push things to the next level, and Nest Of Vipers unquestionably delivers in this regard. These songs, pull no punches, give no quarter, and rest on no laurels.So get ready for your next dose of razor-sharp Skinhead Rock n’ Roll from Badterms. Nest Of Vipers ratchets up the band’s lethal combination of blazing riffs, inescapable hooks and poignant lyrics that’s sure to make this record a contender for 2026’s album of the year.Edition of 400 copies on colored vinyl.

Theya

Theya Vol. 1

theyaonfire

***San Francisco’s heavy sound mystics Theya are proud to present their debut full length opus Theya Vol. 1. A sweeping, genre bending collection of mythic, hard hitting tracks, the record blends the new wave of British heavy metal, thrash, doom, MC5-style rock and roll, and classic psych into a soulful sound entirely their own. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tim Green (The Melvins, Earthless, The Fucking Champs) at Louder Studios over the course of Venus re-emerging as the evening star, Theya Vol. 1 is a fully realized introduction to the band’s expansive world.Theya was first envisioned in 2018 by longtime friends Tuula Paivio-Ala and Michael Scanland. Together, they began developing a shared sound, with Scanland’s bass providing a steady foundation and Paivio-Ala’s baritone leads adding a heavy melodic edge. Drummer Mic Rawls soon joined, strengthening the rhythmic core. Followed by Samantha Grove on lead vocals, whose four octave range brought a powerful and dynamic presence. Tobias Wettstein completed the lineup on second guitar, complementing the band’s evolving sound. Together, the band has crafted a musical language entirely their own.Theya Vol. 1 moves with cinematic scope, weaving together mythology, cosmic consciousness, Philip K. Dick inspired characters, and fever dream symbolism. As the band assumes mythic forms, the Witch, the Warrior, the Horseman, and the Wizard, they guide the listener through a shifting terrain of shadow and revelation. Shaped by deep musical devotion and a belief in the redemptive power of rock and roll, Theya Vol. 1 is an immersive blend of...

Hatakeyama, Chihei

Unconsciousness Silence

Constellation Tatsu

***Unconsciousness Silence is the latest ambient exploration from Japanese sound artist Chihei Hatakeyama. Known for his ethereal guitar drones and textured soundscapes, Hatakeyama creates immersive sonic environments that unfold slowly, inviting deep listening and introspection. This release continues his signature approach, blending delicate melodies, subtle electronics, and spacious ambient textures into a meditative journey.

Tatlow, Anita

Everything in Watercolour

Constellation Tatsu

***Everything in Watercolour is a luminous and intimate ambient work from vocal artist and songwriter Anita Tatlow. Known for her instantly recognizable ethereal voice and immersive collaborations across the ambient and electronic spectrum, Tatlow crafts music that feels both weightless and deeply emotive.Blending soft vocal layers with gentle synthesis and spacious production, the album unfolds like a series of delicate washes, where tone and texture drift in slow motion. Rooted in her background in ambient music and her work across projects such as Salt of the Sound and Narrow Skies, Tatlow’s compositions evoke stillness, reflection, and a quiet sense of wonder. Subtle and immersive, Everything in Watercolour invites the listener into a meditative space shaped by light, memory, and atmosphere.

Above Me

Soften The Blows

Dandy Boy

***above me is the main songwriting vehicle for SF based artist Rick Altieri, formerly of Blue Ocean and drummer in Aluminum. A project defined by guitar driven pop songs reinforced with drum machines, sampled beats, dreamy synths and strange sound design treats.Equally rooted in the realms of shoegaze and sample based electronica, above me doesn’t set out to reinvent any particular sound but pays homage to a wide variety of influences from MBV and Chapterhouse to Autechre and OPN.

Autos

s/t

Dandy Boy

***Autos are veterans of the Santa Cruz punk/power pop scene having cut their teeth in countless unsung bands from their sleepy surf town. Inspired by everything on their turntables from glam and mod revival to left-of-the-dial indie rock and post-punk, Autos cross the subcultural arcade to an 80’s mall rock beat and never shy away from a melody, nor catchy chorus.Written over a transitional period while moving from San Francisco back to Santa Cruz, Auto’s debut EP is a retrospective love letter to time in the big city and returning home to the small town that formed them. A smart and soulful take on punk with lyrical themes of class consciousness, anxiety and the human spirit with heart on your sleeve vocals, moody chorus washed guitars, driving bass, and a steadfast beat perfect for marching in solidarity with the underdog.

Softjaw

s/t

Dandy Boy

***“SOFTJAW burst onto the international power pop scene in 2024 with a couple of killer digital singles that laid the groundwork for an impressive self-titled EP. The Long Beach, CA quartet combines Cheap Trick guitars and Teenage Fanclub harmonies with a dash of The Exploding Hearts’ energy to create a sound that’s timeless.”—S.W. Lauden

Heathen Axe

s/t

DEATHGOD CORP

“I wanted to make a totally fried recording, quick and dirty. Sort of a cathartic expulsion. Clean the cobwebs. “I recently bought a Vestax MR44 (the best sounding 4-track ever IMHO)—the same 4-track I recorded some Coachwhips, early OCS etc. on. Now we had the tools we needed so I spent a week writing riffs and brought them to Tom Dolas and John Hodge. We ran them one time and then recorded them on the second go. Loosely improvised and unhinged. Everything turned all the way up. “Hope you dig—play loud.” —John Dwyer

Total Control

Typical System

Iron Lung

***REPRESSED!!! Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. A cut above from Melbourne’s visceral post-punk band Total Control. Typical System, their second LP, was written, recorded, created from 2012-2014. This modern masterpiece, responsible for influencing so many of your favorite records, has been out of print since 2020 but now its back! Total Control emerged from Australia’s dynamic punk scene in ’08, releasing a succession of 7”s that developed from an aggressive post-punk band sound to studio forays into electronic forms from minimal wave to house. Their debut LP, Henge Beat, was commended as one of the few records released in 2011 that evaded the ease of classification and competent tribute act status of most modern bands.Typical System develops on the incongruent demands of their debut LP and ensuing releases, a further development on their continually evolving sound. 2026 pressing: 1,000 copies on black 150gr vinyl housed in a 24pt jacket with huge double sided newsprint poster included. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mikey Young. Lacquers cut by JJ Golden. Art by Bart De Baets.

Tiny Vipers

Illusionz Vol. 1 (1997-2004)

Tiny Vipers

***Jesy Fortino has been releasing experimental folk music under the name Tiny Vipers since the late 1990s. She established herself early on with two full-length records released by Sub Pop. She would follow these with a number of experimental releases, a collaboration with Grouper’s Liz Harris as Mirrorring, and her most recent full-length Laughter. While in the process of writing and recording her upcoming full-length record of new material, Fortino has decided to unearth and revisit her earliest material that would form the foundation of her artistic identity. It is this material that comprises Illusionz Vol. 1.Illusionz is a collection of demo material that shines a light into the past, illuminating Fortino’s musical roots. All of the songs on Illusionz were recorded between 1997 and 2004 on a variety of equipment: a boombox in a dilapidated house that was sinking into a swamp, an ADAT deck in an illegal punk squat, and multi-track cassette recorders in various run-down apartments of Seattle. Each selection documents a piece of growth, revealing all of the steps, stumbles, sketches and raw ideas that merged into her ultimate artistic vision and approach.The songs on Illusionz range from seething social critiques (see “Billboards and Dumpsters” and “Out For Lunch,” for example) to the dirgelike poiesis of “Tired Horses”. Fidelities and structures evolve as Fortino stakes her identity in fin-de-siecle Seattle. Album climax “Watch My Body Die” fully bridges the gap between the past and present of Tiny Vipers, with its haunting complexities promising furtherance on her...

Tiny Vipers

Tormentor

Tiny Vipers

***Jesy Fortino has created folk music under the moniker Tiny Vipers since the 2000s. Those familiar with her music are aware of its artistic weight, with now-classic records like Life On Earth and Laughter establishing Fortino as an artist outside of and beyond her age. Tiny Vipers’ music is known for its crushing emotional gravity as much as it is for its hushed stillness, with an awareness of an indefinable beyond that is only accessible through her work. 2025 will bring a new album to Fortino’s canon, entitled Tormentor.The years between releases have found Fortino’s life in a state of significant change. Tormentor, with its nine tracks, meditates on her experience: whether speaking directly from her soul in the title track, or observing the horrors of sensory awareness on “Breakfast,” Fortino establishes herself as a participant, observer and mediator of the paradoxes inherent in human experience. Her subtle, often near-silent guitar work hints at a vast and spectral presence. Her melodics and instrumentation place Fortino in conversation with the American folk tradition, while her singular song structures and enigmatic lyrics are effortlessly avant-garde. Album centerpiece “Rainfalls” encapsulates this dynamic perfectly, with its obviously beautiful lyrics and melody sitting within a piece as daring as it is astonishing. The result is nothing short of astounding.Jesy Fortino has recently acquired the rights to all of her recorded work and will be releasing Tormentor herself, without the assistance from any outside entity. Fortino’s work has been compared to John Fahey, Joni Mitchell and...

Parker, Ruth

Otherwise Occupied

Mississippi

***A stripped down beautiful folk record from Melbourne Australia. Limited US pressing of 300 copies.

White Fence

Orange

Drag City

***Orange is an unstill life, a bowlful of new White Fence concepts for guitar band, grown larger through thoughts, feelings/SONGS. Rock ‘n balladry play with genre in uncrowded space. Orange is KILLER POP thru clean lines of power, outlined with an emphatic/unalterable (minimalist) frame. Dark magik at its most bright! A trance-like chronology of consciousness/SONGS captained by producer Ty Segall in opalescent diamond tightness and ice fidelity.

Bach Artillerie

s/t

Ernest Jenning Record Co.

***Curt Sydnor (Animal, Surrender!) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) play the Goldberg canons of J.S. Bach. Bach Artillerie is an absurdist take on the nine canons from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations and his Brandenburg concerto no. 5. Inspired by 20th century Bach interpreters like Wendy Carlos and the Swingle Singers, the canons are arranged for live synthesizers and drums while the concerto movements are reimagined and rendered via MIDI technology, showing the potential for fully human and fully computer-based reimaginings of these peak musical compositions.Sydnor and Saunier tracked the album on March 31, 2025 immediately following the Big Ears Music Festival at the Knoxville studio of engineer Jake Smith. Saunier created his parts using only Bach’s keyboard notation and later created the MIDI arrangements of Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 to complete the album. Musical introductions and transitions were supplied by Sydnor who recorded his parts live on analog synthesizers. Some arrangements were crafted in the studio and some minor overdubs were added later.

Prism Shores

Softest Attack

Meritorio

*** Montreal janglers Prism Shores return with Softest Attack, a sharper, more immediate follow-up to their acclaimed 2025 breakthrough Out From Underneath. While the previous record leaned into atmosphere, this new album doubles down on hooks, maximalist guitars, and the pure strength of their melancholic songwriting.Produced by Scott “Monty” Munro (Preoccupations) and mixed by René Wilson, Softest Attack blends jangle pop, ‘90s power pop, and shoegaze with clear echoes of The Wedding Present, Teenage Fanclub, and My Bloody Valentine — all filtered through the band’s Dunedin-inspired indiepop sensibility. For the first time, all four members contribute lyrics and lead vocals, marking their most collaborative and ambitious effort yet. Softest Attack is Prism Shores’ boldest attempt to craft a top-tier indiepop record: bigger, brighter, and overflowing with guitars, but always anchored by undeniable melody.

Lupo Citta

Inverno

12xu

***The title track for Lupo Città’s second LP, Inverno (‘winter’ in Italian), was born in January 2023. Written in waking sleep at 4 am. Looking out the window at the winter world below when it's too quiet, no one is around, but anything and everything feels possible. Lupo Città wrote the songs for Inverno by instinct: each song, in viscera, a life and personality of its own. Chris, Jenn, and Sarah each brought in songs at different stages, in different forms and moods. Some came together fast, others took long. Some songs had to be stripped, slowed down or sped up, while others were completely gutted and rebuilt. A hard coming out of post-COVID lockdown, trying to relearn to live outside of isolation. Moving from the dark of winter into light, a jarring shift, the world was changing so fast in such stark contrast between the quiet isolation we settled into with close friends and family. We couldn’t look away anymore, in the light of day, escalating political and social chaos happening outside, now rapidly closing in.While Lupo Città’s debut was melodic, energetic, world-weary, sometimes chaotic, Inverno is out on a limb, taking a risk, and not caring at all how it turns out. Inverno is a snapshot of the bad and good, trying to stay awake and be present, fighting off the sleep of winter and the lure of time standing still, so we can create the world we want instead of trying to survive the world we're in....

Gentilesky

Dream

Slovenly

***It’s 2026 and the world is coming to the end it deserves. In a post-world world, the soundtrack should be post-what-fucking-ever, and it needs to careen at light speed with piles upon piles of noise and tension. What remains of Sardinia and Turkey? GENTILESKY is there, and there, and HERE, bonding over a common goal of survival. “Dream” is their second album, and its ferocity was carefully designed to stop you dead in your tracks, but it’s not like you have anywhere left to run anyway. The nightmare continues on Slovenly Recordings this Spring. Stick around for it... We need you more than you realize.

Twenty-One Children

After The Storm

Slovenly

***Malaria infected mosquitos everywhere need to watch their backs. The most ferocious TWENTY ONE CHILDREN of Soweto are geared to exterminate all filth but their own, as they again join forces with Slovenly Recordings for an exercise in max irritability, and a structured plan with which to execute it. Immediately following the shockwaves of their explosive debut 7inch, the ‘Children return with a mini album’s worth of heavy distortion and a shit ton of bad attitude.Twenty One Children are the riotous punk pulse of Johannesburg — a fearless trio tearing up South Africa’s alt-music rulebook. Formed by friends Thula and Abdula with drummer Biko, they fuse U.S. skate punk grit with Soweto’s heartbeat in a storm of noise, soul, and defiance. Combining the insolent attacks of Suicidal Tendencies & Reagan Youth with the crude, rural thud of Ngozi Family, the 'Children are much more than just another punk band. Fueled by wit and DIY spirit, they’re a movement — building skate parks, hosting benefit shows, and igniting stages from Joburg to Kenya to the UK. In 2025 they toured the UK, shared the stage with proto-punk legends DEATH at We're Loud Fest in Kenya, and played loads of packed DIY gigs in South Africa… and they’re just getting started. 2026 ain’t just another year — it’s the Year of Twenty One.