The Dwarfs Of East Agouza announce new album, Sasquatch Landslide, join Constellation Records

20 June 2025

llustration by Maha Kourdy

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza have been blowing our minds since their debut Bes dropped in 2016. So it’s incredibly exciting to see the Cairo-based trio of Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect), Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.) join the always excellent Constellation Records for their upcoming new album Sasquatch Landslide, landing this October. The album was recorded by Emanuele Baratto and mixed by Jace Lasek, and it features seven fervent tracks, brimming with the trio’s “signature trance-inducing explorative energies”. As the press release describes, the new album sees them “expand on their telekinetic fusion of North African rhythm, heat-haze improvisation, shaabi rawness, free jazz, and psychedelic groove”.

October is a while away but The Dwarfs Of East Agouza have shared the lead single, ‘Neptune Anteater’, giving us a thrilling taste of what’s to come, with all three players pushing and pulling at the edges of rhythm and melody. Take a listen below.

corto.alto signs to Ninja Tune and shares new single, ‘DON’T LISTEN’

20 June 2025

We’ve been shouting about corto.alto for a while now, and with good reason. From his Mercury Prize-shortlisted Bad With Names, which was one of our Albums Picks of 2023, to the blistering 30/108 project that saw him release 30 tracks in 30 days, Liam Shortall keeps moving forward without ever looking back. The Glaswegian trombone wizard and genre-defying powerhouse has joined the Ninja Tune family and he’s marking the occasion with a scorching new single, ‘DON’T LISTEN’.  Clocking in as one of his most explosive and uncompromising works to date, the track hits hard with thick bass, warped vocals and sharp turns. “‘DON’T LISTEN’ is a left turn for me into instinct over instruction,” Shortall comments. “I wrote this track as a call to blocking out the noise, ignoring creative conformity and embracing the freedom to do whatever the fuck you want.”

The single also arrives with a visually wild video by Katie Sills, matching the music’s untamed energy. Watch the video below.

In other good news, corto.alto has a run of shows coming up, and we’re hyped to catch him at Matosinhos em Jazz in Porto on July 12th.

Glass Museum announce new album, 4N4LOG CITY, and share new single ‘Call Me Names’

14 June 2025

Back in April, Glass Museum released a brand new track, ‘GATE 1’, their first new music since their album Reflet came out in 2022. The Brussels outfit have now followed up with a second track, ‘Call Me Names’, featuring vocals for the very first time. Weaving themes of breakup, regret, and reconciliation, the new track “explores the void left by another, the difficulty of confronting one’s own mistakes, and the desire to turn back time”, as the press release describes.

Alongside the single, the band have announced their much-anticipated new album. Entitled 4N4LOG CITY, the new record sees the duo of keyboardist Antoine Flipo and drummer Martin Grégoire evolve into a trio with the addition of bassist Issam Labbene. 4N4LOG CITY also brings together a host of guest appearances from vocalist JDS, Swiss drummer Arthur Hnatek and rapper JAZZ BRAK of STIKSTOF.

Like the singles that precede it, the album exudes an atmosphere that mirrors the rhythm of urban life, “captur[ing] the mechanical ebb and flow beneath concrete towers—the anonymous rhythms of daily life moving over the asphalt, and the fleeting, meaningful connections made along the way.”

4N4LOG CITY is set for release on September 19th through Sdban Ultra. Mark your calendars and check out ‘Call Me Names’, offered with an accompanying video directed by Super Tchip, documenting the creation of a graffiti mural in Anderlecht (Brussels), painted by visual artists Manon Brûlé and Nora Juncker. Now part of the streetscape in Anderlecht, the mural echoes ‘Call Me Names’ in form and feeling, a meeting point between music and street art that lingers in the city’s memory. Check out the video below.

Blue Earth Sound shares second single, ‘Lover’s Rock’, from upcoming LP Cicero Nights

14 June 2025

Ahead of the release of Cicero Nights, James Weir’s Blue Earth Sound has unleashed a new track, ‘Lover’s Rock’,  following lead single ‘Mariposa‘ released last month. Cicero Nights was recorded at the International Anthem studio space in Chicago with in-house engineer Dave Vettraino, and as we had mentioned, the multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer assembled a stellar cast of collaborators including drummer Patch Romanowski, Resavoir’s Will Miller on trumpet, flautist Eamonn Pritzy, and longtime collaborator Michael Wells. Also featuring percussion from guest contributors Cabeza De Chivo’s Alex Aguero and Destroyer’s Joshua Wells, ‘Lover’s Rock’ captures the collaborative energy of the project. With inspiration drawn from the cinematic soul of Isaac Hayes and the vibrant rhythms of Latin America, ‘Lover’s Rock’ is a feel-good, celestial track. Listen to it below and grab the album when it drops on September 12th through Root Records.

Jørgen Træen & Stein Urheim share first single from upcoming album Galant Galakse

13 June 2025

Four years on from their Edvard Prize-winning debut Krympende Klode, producer/composer Jørgen Træen and guitarist/composer Stein Urheim return with a new album titled Galant Galakse. Træen, known for his adventurous studio work as Sir Dupermann and collaborations across countless genres, meets Urheim’s rich palette of folk, blues, and global traditions with a playful, exploratory spirit. The two have crossed paths in various configurations over the years, producing, mixing and guesting, but their work as a duo lands somewhere else entirely. Grounded in a shared fascination for the outer edges of acoustic and electronic music, their long-running collaboration continues to draw on global string instruments, modular synths, and a mutual love of pioneers like Harry Partch, Raymond Scott and Delia Derbyshire. On the upcoming Galant Galakse, the Norwegian pair explore the fertile ground where experimental electronics and acoustic sound worlds collide, filtered through a singular Scandinavian lens.

Galant Galakse arrives on August 22nd through Action Jazz and they are enticing us with the first single, the warm and cosmic ‘Entrance/Exit’. Take a listen now.

Herbert & Momoko tease upcoming album, Clay, with third single ‘Someone Like You’

13 June 2025

Released last week, ‘Someone Like You’ is the third stunning single lifted from Herbert & Momoko‘s upcoming first full-length album together, Clay, following ‘Babystar‘ and ‘Need To Run’. Speaking about the track, Momoko shares:

“As children we can enter a state of flow or contentment quite easily; Climbing a tree, playing a game, reading in the sun… there’s a self-contained wholeness to those times. We can’t find the love that’s beyond the pendulum swings of adolescent love without learning to let someone in, to become vulnerable, to let someone change you. It’s a choice to seek wholeness with another, and understanding interdependency, not just with people but with everything, is one of the most rewarding quests in life. In this song there is a yearning both to learn this interdependency as well as to remember the simpler contentment of being a child.”

Listen to ‘Someone Like You’ below.