Brighton seven-piece Soft Top drop "Your Aching Words" via Crafting Room Recordings. Conceptual chamber-indie with cello, clarinet and a fourth-wall-breaking ending. Andy Shauf, Matt Maltese, Steely Dan territory.
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Stereolab's tour-only 7" finally hits streaming. "Cloud Land": six minutes of wormy synths and percussive breaks. B-side "Flashes In The Afternoon" is an easy-listening instrumental. On Duophonic UHF Disks.
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Kloyd makes her Anjunadeep debut with "New Love". Built from a distorted, reversed vocal sample. Soft piano into a hypnotic industrial beat. Four Tet and Massive Attack territory.
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Arise is out today. "We Don't Belong" is the slow-burn psych highlight — that bassline needs headphones, full volume. Album spotlight coming soon.
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Fan Girl drop "Easy Now", first single from EP 8HRS (Apr 24). Written across Guadalajara, Paris & Melbourne. Self-produced. Breakbeats, trip-hop, atmospheric rock.
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Chalk drop "Tongue", last single before debut LP Crystalpunk (Mar 13, ALTER Music). Tense, abrasive post-punk with industrial beats.
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Anna Calvi enlists Iggy Pop for "God's Lonely Man", lead single from new EP Is This All There Is? (Domino, Mar 20). Furious guitars, raw defiance. #AnnaCalvi #IggyPop #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #DominoRecordingCo go.stereobar.net/uyh2n18
Flea covers Frank Ocean's "Thinkin Bout You" as a trumpet-led instrumental ballad. Third single from debut solo album Honora (Nonesuch, Mar 27). Strings by Nate Walcott, upright bass by Anna Butterss.
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Kim Gordon takes on AI and tech bros on "DIRTY TECH", second single from PLAY ME (Matador, Mar 13). Nervous trap beat, sarcastic delivery, zero chill.
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DC punks Ekko Astral announce sophomore LP the beltway is burning (April 22, Topshelf). Lead single: Lil Xan goes to DC to lobby for addiction legislation, gets eaten by K Street.
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Sofia Kourtesis delivers the first DJ-Kicks of 2026, out March 27 on !K7. Four new originals, exclusives from Jon Hopkins, Axel Boman, Myd and more. Lead single with Novalima is out now.
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Brighton folk-rock quartet ladylike share "Fresh Linen" from their debut EP, out March 13 via Heist or Hit. Quiet, personal, and built around space as much as sound.
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The Orielles share "Tears Are" — a half-finished title that mirrors a track starting anthemic and dissolving into something darker. From their 4th album Only You Left, out March 13.
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Sun Angels announce the OPUS EP with lead single "LDVRMO" — strings and spectral vocals sliding into a trance pulse. Warehouse breaks, big-room trance, out March 6 on Cascine.
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Mei Semones and Liana Flores wrote a song about a day in London: canal walk, tea, strawberries, a cat stealing a scone. Japanese, English, Portuguese, all in one. Bossa nova-leaning and genuinely lovely.
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Lip Critic announce second album Theft World (May 1st, Partisan). Lead single "Legs In A Snare" is out now. Born from frontman Bret Kaser's identity being stolen by a fan. North American tour starts May 25th. #LipCritic #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #PartisanRecords go.stereobar.net/wuvd4rr
Prostitute drop "Judge (Fast)" ahead of debut album Attempted Martyr, out March 13th on Mute. UK tour sold out. New London date at The Dome added for August 26th. #Prostitute #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #Mute go.stereobar.net/zorjlvp
Norwich psych band Floral Image get their debut remixed. "The Dream (Minami Deutsch Remix)" previews Meadowland Remixed, out April 23rd on Fuzz Club. Minami Deutsch, Los Bitchos, Black Market Karma also on board. #FloralImage #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #FuzzClubRecords go.stereobar.net/yl94gro
Manchester seven-piece MLEKO announce debut EP Feast of St Perpetua (May 1st, Heist or Hit) with 7-minute lead single "Tom's Tune". Gub Rock lives. #Mleko #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #HeistOrHit go.stereobar.net/p2v2t3s
SSAANN are back on Broken Palace with "Above It" — synth-pop between sleepy and alive. Melissa Simes on vocals, synths, guitar. Tommy Behan on drums and production. As poppy as it is arty. #Ssaann #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #BrokenPalace go.stereobar.net/ido22oh
Plato III reworks "Let's Get Old" with a verse from Open Mike Eagle and expanded Eli Winter guitar. Second remix from Grown, equal parts dystopia and tenderness. #PlatoIii #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #PolyvinylRecords go.stereobar.net/cr8vehj
Lamplight's "Year 2083" (feat. hemlock) — folk built on guitar, violin, and drums, written and recorded in two weeks. All proceeds go to MPLS mutual aid. #Lamplight #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #Lamplightsongs
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