Ptastvo ~ The Grit
"The Grit" is a debut album recorded by Ukrainian veteran Volodymyr Ponikarovskyi under the moniker Ptastvo. The project fuses ambient techno, field recordings, and live war sounds—rocket explosions, air‑raid sirens, and choir vocals—to convey the daily reality of combat. Each track, from the militaristic "The Witch" to the hauntological "Marauders," mirrors the emotional grit of soldiers and volunteers on the front lines. Released by the label "I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free," the album serves as both artistic expression and a documentary of Ukraine’s ongoing conflict.
Anastasia Kristensen ~ Bestarium Sombre
Anastasia Kristensen’s debut album *Bestarium Sombre* reimagines the classic bestiary format by pairing each track with a real or fictional creature. The record opens with a magpie‑inspired piece, then moves through endangered species like the black‑footed ferret and secretary bird,...
HWXXNG ~ K-Core
DJ HWXXNG (Jaeho Hwang) has coined “K‑Core,” a genre that deconstructs traditional Korean music and rebuilds it with electronic production and striking visual narratives. The debut tracks “Shift Key” and “2045 Apocalypse” pair ceremonial drum patterns and chanting with anime‑style...
Kreng ~ Wormhole
Belgian composer Kreng releases his first album in 11 years, "Wormhole," shifting from his signature haunted‑house ambience toward a sci‑fi narrative. The record unfolds like a film score, layering glowing drones, dissonant strings, and unconventional sounds such as crustacean skitterings...
Johnny Bell ~ Mountain States
Johnny Bell’s new album *Mountain States* reimagines the banjo as a lead, vocal‑free instrument, pairing it with drones, fiddle, shruti box and synths. Co‑released by Centripetal Force and Australia’s Ramble Records, the record departs from the bright Appalachian clichés popularized...
Buildings and Food ~ Yutori
Japanese‑Canadian artist Jen K. Wilson releases "Buildings and Food," an album built around the Yutori principle of spacious, mindful listening. Each track serves as a sonic prompt—geese calls, bus‑stop ambience, bridge reflections—to encourage calm and meditation. The music blends pentatonic...
Kyïvite ~ Broadcast
Kyïvite’s experimental podcast series "broadcast" has been compiled into a three‑episode album and issued on CD by the Dutch Staalplaat label. The recordings fuse archival Ukrainian folk field recordings from Filaret Kolessa’s early 20th‑century expeditions with modern electronic textures and...
Kinact ~ Kinshasa in Action
Kinact ~ Kinshasa in Action is a 68‑page zine and accompanying LP that captures a Congolese street performance where trash‑crafted costumes become instruments. The collective fuses industrial sounds—power drills, saws, metal sheets—with ritual chanting to comment on pollution, gendered violence, and post‑colonial...
Francesco Pellegrino ~ Wartime Monk
Francesco Pellegrino’s new album *Wartime Monk* translates the pressures of contemporary conflict into a physically embodied sound world. The work is performed live using self‑built gesture controllers that let the body sculpt pitch, density and form in real time, with...
Saamleng ~ Spring Bundle
Polish label Saamleng marks its tenth anniversary with the Spring Bundle, a curated collection of field‑recording releases that adds to its catalog of 71 pure ambient albums. The bundle features a mangrove soundscape by longtime collaborators Tomek Mirt and Magda...
Deaf Center ~ Through Time / A Second
Deaf Center released the ambient concept album *Through Time* and its companion piece *A Second*, exploring the perception of time through spacious piano, strings, and electronic textures. The record features Otto A Totland’s minimalist piano, Erik K Skodvin’s haunted strings, and Simon...
Nicolas Remondino ~ Hìeratico
Nicolas Remondino’s new album Hìeratico treats percussion as a sculptural element, merging drum timbres with wood, stone, and air textures. The record weaves acoustic instruments, subtle electronics, and homemade sound sources, featuring guests on harmonium, saxophone, piano and more. Multilingual...
Christina Vantzou ~ The Reintegration of the Ear
Christina Vantzou has released the ambient album “The Reintegration of the Ear,” accompanied by limited‑edition stainless‑steel votive ears crafted in Greece. The work features an ensemble of voice, flutes, synthesizers, double bass and cello, emphasizing slow, embodied listening to micro‑sound...
FH HF – Rewind / Hey, Can I Pick Your Ears?
Georgian experimental artist FH HF releases *Rewind*, a "blindly intuitive collage" that shuns traditional album structure in favor of fragmented, momentum‑driven soundscapes. The record explores memory as a fluid process, pairing glitch‑laden textures with playful humor and personal narratives, such...
Charbel Haber ~ May a Soft Sun Bless Your Sky While You Wait for the Inevitable
Charbel Haber’s new ambient album *May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable* was recorded in Paris, mixed in Beirut with Fadi Tabbal, and mastered in Montreal by Harris Newman. The record unfolds as a...
Taroug ~ Chott
Taroug’s new album *Chott* draws on his Tunisian heritage, translating the salt‑lake landscape into immersive soundscapes. The record blends organic field recordings, family voice memos, and analog synths to explore memory, loss and identity. Tracks such as “Wehmut,” “Saraab,” and...
City of the Sun ~ Under the Moon
City of the Sun, a Brooklyn‑based quartet, released their sophomore album *Under the Moon*, a largely instrumental record that fuses desert‑southwest ambience with California‑coast rock. The album’s cinematic tracks—ranging from spaghetti‑western tones in “Un Disparo al Corazón” to the hook‑laden...
Natalia Tsupryk ~ Vil’na
Ukrainian composer Natalia Tsupryk releases her first full-length album, *Vil’na*, a deeply personal collection reflecting the war’s impact on her homeland. The record revisits earlier EP material, adds a reimagined traditional wedding song, and introduces two new pieces, “Anti‑Drone Nets”...
Old Amica ~ Bländverk
Old Amica’s new ambient album Bländverk delivers a quiet, intimate soundscape built around piano, harmonium, tape loops and field recordings. The Swedish title, meaning “bland work,” cleverly contrasts with its English translation “illusion,” underscoring the album’s subtle trickery. Tracks like...
Monoconda ~ Shadow Shades
Monoconda’s new EP Shadow Shades strips back his recent synth‑heavy layers, returning to a raw, overdriven guitar sound that balances acoustic intimacy with electronic abstraction. The six‑track record is framed as a dialogue with the music, letting “magical accidents” shape...
Canes Of Karabakh ~ S/T
Polish trio Stanisław Matys, Olgierd Dokalski and Paweł Bartnik released *Canes of Karabakh*, centering the Armenian duduk amid the fallout from the Nagorno‑Karabakh conflict. The album weaves the doubling of cane‑reed prices into its sonic fabric, turning material scarcity into...
The Doomed Bird of Providence ~ Meteoric Heralds of Danger
The Doomed Bird of Providence releases “Meteoric Heralds of Danger,” their first album in nine years, expanding from vocal‑driven post‑rock to a fully orchestral sound. Inspired by Marcus Clarke’s 1874 novel “For the Term of His Natural Life,” the record...
Cole Pulice ~ Land’s End Eternal
Cole Pulice’s new album *Land’s End Eternal* expands the artist’s signature saxophone‑centric, pedal‑driven soundscape by incorporating electric guitar for the first time. Recorded in the Bay Area after relocating from Minneapolis and released on LEAVING Records, the record blends live...
Yoichi Kamimura ~ Waterforest
Yoichi Kamimura releases *Waterforest*, a double‑LP that expands his 2025 field‑recording album *ryūhyō*. The record weaves together water sounds from Swiss springs, the Amazon rainforest, Icelandic glaciers, and Kyoto’s canals, offering both raw recordings and layered sonic collages. Liner notes...
~Nois ~ What Is ~Nois
American experimental saxophone quartet ~Nois releases its second album, *What Is ~Nois*, expanding on the genre‑bending concepts of *Kinds of ~Nois*. The record features four composers who weave saxophones, keyboards, bass, drums and vocals into tracks that shift from chamber‑like...
Hollie Kenniff ~ For Those Who Stay
Hollie Kenniff’s new album *For Those Who Stay* arrived in early spring after a meticulously timed rollout of eleven singles spanning December through March. The tracks have been reordered to tell a continuous story of emergence from winter, blending personal...
Mikael Lind ~ Norðaustur
Icelandic artist Sigga Björg and composer Mikael Lind transformed a fish‑oil‑tank installation in Raufarhöfn into the album Norðaustur. The original visual‑sound piece projected moving chalk‑style animation onto tank walls, while synthesizers reacted to the imagery. Lind later expanded the material in...
Ancient Methods ~ Society of the Spectacle
Ancient Methods' new industrial album "Society of the Spectacle" draws directly from Guy Debord’s 1967 treatise. The record weaves snippets of Debord’s text into aggressive beats, echoing the “spectacle” as both commodity and control. Released on April Fools’ Day, the cover...
Fields Ohio ~ A Ghostly Band of Doubts
Fields Ohio returns with a genre‑spanning album that fuses 1990s trance, trip‑hop, sit‑ar riffs, and a resurging ukulele sound. The record weaves modern nostalgia with visual references to Norman Rockwell, creating a melancholic yet upbeat listening experience. Tracks shift from classic...
Nene H ~ Second Skin
Nene H’s sophomore album “Second Skin” turns a breakup narrative into a triumphant electronic statement, pairing industrial beats with a newly muscular visual identity. The record opens with the club‑ready single “Cradle,” echoing Nitzer Ebb’s pounding rhythm, and weaves through...
Dobrawa Czocher ~ State of Matter
Polish cellist Dobrawa Czocher releases her second album, State of Matter, a blue‑themed collection inspired by a recent move to the Baltic Sea. The record blends classical cello with ambient oceanic textures across tracks like “Blue,” “Phoenix,” and “Sirens,” each exploring transformation and emotional...
Steffen Cordts ~ Blue Element
Steffen Cordts’ new album Blue Element delivers an uninterrupted, hour‑long field‑recorded soundscape that captures water from the North Sea, Lake Constance, the Pomeranian Lagoon, the Main River and the Baltic Sea. The mix unfolds like a narrative, beginning with gentle...
Hey Elbow ~ FLOCK
Hey Elbow ~ FLOCK is a 40‑minute, blue‑themed suite released by the Swedish trio on a striking blue vinyl. The album unfolds as a continuous piece, shifting through drone, tribal rock, and synth‑driven sections while inviting improvisers to add unpredictable textures. Its...
Zora Lucent ~ Vestige
Zora Lucent’s third album *Vestige* pushes her hyper‑intelligent sound design into fractured industrial territory, abandoning alt‑pop conventions for jagged beats and fragmented vocals. The 27‑minute record delivers eleven tightly‑crafted tracks, each punctuated by brief interludes that heighten tension and release....
Rutger Zuydervelt ~ Bodies of Water (Music for a Performance by Iván Pérez / Dance Theatre Heidelberg) / Fog /...
Rutger Zuydervelt has composed two immersive albums, *Bodies of Water* and its companion *Fog / Drops*, for Iván Pérez’s Dance Theatre Heidelberg performance. The music follows a three‑stage concept—liquid, ice and gas—moving from ambient soundscapes to a pulsating electronic climax....
Colleen ~ Libres Antes Del Final
Colleen, the ambient project of Cécile Schott, has issued a new ocean‑blue vinyl titled “Libres antes del final.” The album chronicles her personal journey from a thirty‑year water phobia to reclaiming the sea, using synth‑driven soundscapes that mirror swimming strokes...
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart ~ BODY SOUND
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart release *BODY SOUND*, a grapefruit‑colored vinyl that fuses improvisational strings and voice with analog tape processing. The album’s track titles are borrowed from Yoko Ono’s book of text scores, reinforcing its synesthetic concept...
Drum & Lace ~ Terra
Drum & Lace has released the EP "Terra" on the Mesh imprint, marking a strategic shift to a label known for multidisciplinary projects. The five-track record draws on folklore and nature, with each piece inspired by a different element and...
Red Largo ~ Hotel Neuf
Berlin‑based Red Largo debuted the winter‑themed single Snow in December, using it as a bridge to their upcoming spring album Hotel Neuf. The release pairs Snow with a radio edit of The Diplomat, showcasing unconventional instruments such as lap steel,...
Catherine Lamb X Ghost Ensemble ~ Interius/Exterius
Catherine Lamb and Ghost Ensemble have released *interius/exterius* on Greyfade, a 33‑minute recording that distills a previously hour‑long work. The piece is built on a radical just‑intonation system derived from an inaudible 10 Hz fundamental, creating a relational harmonic field. Ghost...
Група Б ~ Тестування Життя (Fundraiser, Limited Edition)
Timur Dzhafarov, formerly known as John Object, has re‑emerged under the moniker Група Б to release Тестування життя, a fund‑raising record marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion. The album, assembled from live bedroom sessions during blackouts, channels glitch‑laden noise,...
Kayla Painter ~ Tectonic Particles
Kayla Painter’s ambient‑electronic album *Tectonic Particles* arrives on the Quiet Details label, pairing meticulously crafted field recordings with minimalist piano and synth textures. The record unfolds like a sonic ecosystem, moving from forest‑floor whispers in “Forest Floor” to water‑drip electronica...