Cabane - Sangokaku

Sangokaku, along with La Gomera, is a new double a-side release from Cabane, the new project from Thomas Jean Henri. Featuring a host of collaborators, both tracks are quite beautifully rendered acoustic moments.

Nils Frahm announces 'Piano Day', shares new track

Pianist, composer, chill-maker Nils Frahm has announced March 29th as 'Piano Day', a celebration of all things piano-related.

Death Cab For Cutie - Little Wanderer

'As Little Wanderer started to play through the first time I started wondering if this was going to be the point where Kintsugi, the new album from Death Cab For Cutie, started to fade after...

Listen to Bernard + Edith's Ballet School remix / US Tour Dates

Ballet School's new Bella Union labelmates Bernard + Edith have remixed Gray from last year's The Dew Lasts An Hour: listen and download the remix here.

Depth & Current - Believe

Believe is the new album from Oklahoma noise rock / shoegaze outfit Depth & Current. Released at the end of February, it's an eight-track explosion of dark noise and heavyweight shoegazing cut through with occasional...

Turtle - Silent Weapons

Silent Weapons is taken from Colours, the second EP from Glasgwegian producer and songwriter Jon Cooper, aka Turtle. You have to hear it to believe how seductive this electronica is.

Wetwood Smokes - Organ Donor

Organ Donor is the title track from the second EP from Orange Country indie trio Wetwood Smokes, due out tomorrow (March 19th). It's an atmospheric slow-burner that'll make you want to wave whatever you're allowed...

Seagoat - Comfort Girl

If you like your electronica a little bit trippy, with synthesised strings popping in and out, gentle keyboard lilts and soft vocals occasionally heading heavenwards, then Comfort Girl is definitely one for you to add...

And So I Watch You From Afar - Wasps

For a track that threatens to veer off into fairly progressive waters, Wasps, the second track And So I Watch You From Afar have chosen to showcase their forthcoming album Heirs, is impressively powerful, and...

Titanics - Terrain

Terrain is a new single from Albany, NY duo Titanics. It's a sublime slice of something hovering gently at the intersection of electropop and indie-pop. Or, as the band themselves say, "tranquilpop".

Kaiser Chiefs - Falling Awake

Falling Awake is the first release from the as-yet untitled sixth album by Kaiser Chiefs, following last year's **Education, Education, Education & War**. It does pretty much exactly what you'd expect, in pretty much exactly...

UUMA - Let Nobody Know

Let Nobody Know is the beautiful debut single from Helsinki-based UUMA. It's a song that is part bright crystalline reflection, part soft vocals and soft hands delivering a consummate guitar solo.

Waterstrider - Nowhere Now

Funky bass, drums and guitar meet Nate Salman's sweet falsetto on Nowhere Now, the new single from Oakland, CA's Waterstrider. The title track from their forthcoming album of the same name, it has a vibe...

Mew - Water Slides

Water Slides sees Mew at their rich, melodic best, combining several interweaving melodic strands in a chorus that is quite beautifully layered, and rich with sounds and textures.

Ryan - Vice

Vice is a new track from Boston, MA song-writer and producer Ryan. It's a downtempo affair (post trip-hop?) complemented by the mis-match between the tracks cool, laid back aura and Martin Short's frantic Innerspace antics...

New music playlist 2015//11

'The new music playlist for week 11 - another week of free downloads, new releases and album previews, from debutants and old hands alike.'

Jacob Augustine - Salvation

Salvation, the latest release from Maine musician Jacob Augustine is one half of a new split 7" release from Pretty Purgatory Records. It's an exquisite and poignant track, the accompanying video for which only adds...

Bad Braids - Glory, Glory

One half of a split 7" release from Pretty Purgatory alongside Jacob Augustine's "Salvation", "Glory, Glory" is a new release from Megan Biscieglia, aka Bad Braids.

Henry Demos & Lewtrakimou split album on Fox Food Records

Fox Food Records has announced the release of a split album by Henry Demos & Lewtrakimou. The album, entitled I Was Trying To Get There But It Was Hard To See From The Balloon is...

Evil Astronaut - E26

As well as a part of the trans-European road network that connects Hamburg to Berlin, E26 is the title of a new track from Evil Astronaut. That the two share the same name is no...