Pullman return with first new record in two decades, III

24 October 2025

Photo courtesy of Western Vinyl

With 2025 soon coming to an end, we are already looking ahead to next year’s releases. One of the albums slated for an early 2026 release that we are highly anticipating will come from the hands of Pullman, a studio-born acoustic supergroup that took root in the fertile soil of Chicago’s post-rock scene in the late ’90s, bringing together Ken “Bundy K.” Brown (Tortoise/Directions in Music), Curtis Harvey (Rex), Chris Brokaw (Come), and Doug McCombs (Tortoise/Eleventh Dream Day), with drummer Tim Barnes rounding out the lineup.

Pullman first surfaced on Thrill Jockey in 1998 with Turnstyles & Junkpiles, and three years later, Viewfinder arrived. With these two releases, and as the press release explains, Pullman “became a touchstone for acoustic, song-adjacent instrumental music: folk in spirit, post-rock in method, and timeless in tone.”

More than twenty years on, the band returns with III, a record shaped by friendship, endurance, and time. Out on January 9th through Western Vinyl, III is introduced with the dazzling and dreamy lead single ‘Weightless’. The single is offered with an accompanying video and you can watch it below.

Mischa Blanos shares second single, ‘Basilica’, off upcoming album Take Control

23 October 2025

Photo: Andrei C Radu

Bucharest-based pianist and composer Mischa Blanos has a knack for merging disparate musical worlds, like classical music, jazz, and electronic beats. He has been seamlessly moving between concert halls and underground clubs, drawing on his classical training while incorporating the freedom and energy of electronic and jazz music. Blanos is gearing up to release a new album, Take Control, that sees him blend acoustic piano, live jazz drums, and cutting-edge electronic textures in a fresh and exhilarating way. More than a collection of tracks, Take Control is a manifesto exploring the power of unity and self-determination through music.

Ahead of the album’s release on November 21st through Longcut Records, Blanos has shared new single ‘Basilica’, a sublime and exhilarating track that was written during his residency in Malmaison, a former Bucharest jail where Mischa had his studio. ‘Basilica’ reflects on the concept of the sacred and where it can be found in modern life. As Blanos puts it:

“They built temples to hold the divine. Marble, gold, ceilings so high you lose your voice. But what if the sacred lives elsewhere? I found something holier in a forest clearing. In the breath before a piano note. In the way a stranger smiled at me across the tracks in a godforsaken train station for no reason at all. This is my new basilica.”

Along with the single, Blanos has unveiled an accompanying live video directed by Stefan Schultz, and you can watch it below.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore detail debut collaborative album, Tragic Magic

21 October 2025

Photo: Rachael Pony Cassells

We love Julianna Barwick and we love Mary Lattimore, two unique voices in the world of experimental and ambient music. Barwick is known for her celestial soundscapes, built from loops and layered vocals, and Lattimore’s harp work has become synonymous with a delicate and expressive storytelling style. Both have been involved in numerous projects and collaborations over the years, including with each other, most recently with the Adult Swim single ‘Canyon Lights’. Now they have joined forces for Tragic Magic, the first full album they’ve created together. Sprouted after the devastating wildfires in California, Barwick and Lattimore recorded it in just nine days in Paris, where they had access to the instrument collection of the Philharmonie de Paris’ Musée de la Musique. Lattimore chose three harps dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, and Barwick worked with analog synthesizers like the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5. Lattimore shares, “We were so lucky to have access to this experience. There was a lot of reverence, working with people with such warmth and enthusiasm, bringing these instruments into a modern context, literally taken off the shelves of the museum.”

Featuring seven tracks, on the upcoming Tragic Magic the pair “render a meditation on tragedy, wonder, and the restorative power of shared experience”, as the press release explains. The album captures the special bond the two musicians have developed over years of touring and collaborating. Barwick reflects on the process, saying, “We wanted to honor the past while making music that we feel is a true expression of ourselves. People ask, how was Paris? I’m like, it was perfect. It was like everything just aligned.”

To preview the album ahead of its release on January 16th through InFiné, they’ve released ‘Melted Moon’, a devastatingly beautiful, plangent, shimmering and emotive track. Along with the single, they are offering a live video of the two performing the track at Lou Lou’s Jungle Room in San Diego, directed by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild. Watch it below.

In other related good news, and in support of the forthcoming Tragic Magic, Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have announced a series of live performances in North America, UK and Europe in 2026.

Mauricio Fleury shares lead single ‘Briluz’ off upcoming debut album, Revoada

18 October 2025

A prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mauricio Fleury has been a fixture of Brazilian music for a long time. A founding member of Brazilian Afrobeat collective Bixiga 70, Fleury has a host of projects under his belt, including recording, collaborating and playing with Gal Costa, Emicida, Lucas Santtana, João Donato, Los Pirañas and Quantic, to name but a few. An avid crate digger, he has also made his name as a vinyl DJ for over 25 years. Revoada is his solo debut album, the seeds of which were planted with a meeting with Tony Allen at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2007. Allen insisted that the two musicians get together to jam alongside Ron Trent, Theo Parrish and Steve Spacek. “From that moment on, I was never afraid to collaborate musically with anyone, no matter who’s playing”, Fleury says. “It also brought me to researching the connection between Brazilian music and Afrobeat which is something that still means the world to me”.

Across Revoada, Fleury draws from an amalgam of influences, and as the press release describes, “there are signature traces of Thelonious Monk, Ramsey Lewis’ swinging soul sound, Deodato’s drama, and styles from further afield, spreading into Turkish psych and Ethiopian jazz, when the time is right.”

Ahead of the album’s release on December 5th through Altercat Records, Fleury has shared the playful and groove-heavy lead single ‘Briluz’. Speaking about the track, he comments:

“Briluz is a made-up word, taken from the Brazilian translation of Alice in Wonderland. I was asked by a label in São Paulo to send them a track for a compilation in 2020 and this tune came to my mind as I was dreaming about dancefloors during the lockdown, so I made a fully electronic version. Then I felt we had to record another version for the album, making it a little bit more jazzy, with a certain Azymuth flavor and a beautiful electric vibraphone solo by Beto Montag, a long-time friend and collaborator.”

Listen to ‘Briluz’ now.

Momoko Gill announces debut solo album, Momoko; shares two singles, ‘No Others’ and When Palestine Is Free’

16 October 2025

Photo: Lex Blondin

Based in London and brought up in Japan and the US, Momoko Gill has firmly established herself as one of the most exciting talents in contemporary jazz and electronic music today. Earlier this year she released an album with Matthew Herbert and last year she teamed up with visual artist, filmmaker and poet Nadeem Din-Gabisi for a collaborative album as An Alien Called Harmony. A highly sought-after drummer and forward-thinking and brilliant composer, producer, songwriter, and vocalist, she has been collaborating and performing with a wide variety of incredible artists, including Alabaster DePlume, Coby Sey, Tirzah, Ruth Goller and Rozi Plain. Gill is finally stepping out from behind the curtain and releasing music under her own name for the first time. February 13th will see her release her debut solo album, simply titled Momoko, through Strut. A “deeply personal and poetic” album with an expansive stylistic range, it showcases her incredible songwriting skills and inimitable vision to full effect. As the press release describes, “throughout, you can hear the stylistic flavours of jazz musicians as much as singer-songwriters, experimental artists and electronic producers”. Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre, Momoko was self-produced and mixed by Matthew Herbert.

February feels like a long way but Gill is already enticing us with two sublime singles from Momoko,  the jazzier and radiant ‘No Others’ and When Palestine Is Free’, an utterly beautiful, moving and powerful track featuring a 50-person choir from London’s music scene that includes Shabaka Hutchings, Rozi Plain, Alabaster DePlume, Coby Sey, Forest Law, Ruth Goller, Danalogue, Seb Rochford, tyroneisaacstuart, Matthew Herbert and many, many more. “Why is it that we know, with more certainty than ever, that we are just one corner of a vast living, breathing mycelium network in a state of total emergency, battling powerful forces that seem to be driven by antagonism towards life itself?” Momoko comments. “Colonial violence, racism and oppression are everywhere, but it has never felt more urgent to renew our vows to fight it everywhere we see it.”

Gill will cast a spell on you so go and listen to both tracks below.


Makaya McCraven drops four new singles from upcoming EPs and shares fresh live video for ‘Choo Choo’

14 October 2025

Photo: Shannon Marks

Makaya McCraven is turning up the heat with four brand new singles today, one from each of his upcoming EPs: Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop. These new tracks – ‘Prime’, ‘What a Life’, ‘News Feed’, and ‘Sweet Stuff’ – are a taste of what’s to come when the full EPs drop on October 31st through International Anthem, Nonesuch, and XL Recordings. And for the full experience, the tracks will be compiled into a double LP/CD release titled Off the Record, hitting stores on October 17th.

If that wasn’t enough, McCraven has also shared a live video of ‘Choo Choo’ from The People’s Mixtape, filmed at his performance at Thalia Hall in Chicago earlier this month. We can’t wait to hear it all and if you haven’t yet, now’s the time to dive in.