Needlework caught our attention a few months ago when they supported Aural Aggravation faves Soma Crew.
They’ve just dropped the track ‘Saddle Rash’, and we dig. Check it here:
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Listen: ‘Saddle Rash’ by Needlework
Posted: 27 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: alternative, Indie, Jazz, Needlework, Noise Rock, Post-Punk, Saddle rash, Single, Stream, York
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Listen: ‘Dharma’ by Tian Qiyi, featuring Jah Wobble
Posted: 26 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: Chinese heritage, Dharma, Dub, Jah Wobble, John Tian Qi Wardle, Mystical, Pagoda Records, pan-cultural, Post-Punk, Psychedelic, Single, Songs For Workers, Stream, Tian Qiyi
Genre-defying UK-based music outfit Tian Qiyi presents their impressive new single ‘Dharma’ featuring the legendary Jah Wobble on bass. This is the final single to be released ahead of their sophomore album Songs For Workers, out June 27 via Pagoda Records.
Tian Qiyi is more than just a band, bringing together brothers John Tian Qi Wardle and Charlie Tian Yi Wardle with their father, Jah Wobble (John Wardle). Their unique sound reflects their rich family heritage, blending their father’s pioneering work in post-punk and dub with the Chinese cultural influences of their mother, Zilan Liao.
’Dharma’ flows with a captivating blend of Eastern psychedelic melodies and Charlie’s ethereal vocals, all underpinned by a hypnotic fusion rhythm and beautifully primordial percussion. As groovy as it is addictive, the trio serve up a truly grounding experience here.
This new offering follows their stunning lead track ‘Watch The Sunrise’ and Bandcamp exclusive ‘Mongolian Dub’, a fascinating ethno-psychedelic initiation into this 10-track musical journey. Like much of the goodness found on this album, Tian Qiyi’s music bridges generations and cultures, blending deep dub grooves with Eastern traditions.
“‘Dharma’ is a track that brings together our Irish, Chinese, and Mongolian roots. It features flowing, psychedelic melodies, with Charlie’s otherworldly vocals adding to the vibe. The rhythm section, anchored by a laid-back, hypnotic pulse from me on percussion and my dad on bass, creates a psychedelic dub fusion”, says John Tian Qi Wardle.
”And Songs For Workers is an album where we have moved away from influences and inspiration, instead embracing instinct and familiarity. Our background played a crucial role, from the traditional Chinese music we learned with our grandad and mum, to the improvisational, instinctive playing we developed from performing and recording with our dad.”
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Watch: ‘Major Arcana’ by Novembers Doom
Posted: 25 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: dark metal, epic, Expansive, Heavy, Major Arcana, New Album, Novembers Doom, Progressive, Prophecy Productions, Single, Stream, The Pale Haunt Departure, Video
American Dark Metal veterans NOVEMBERS DOOM have released a new video single for the song ‘Major Arcana’, the title track of their forthcoming new album.
The twelfth full-length from these purveyors of dark and brooding metal is scheduled to be released on September 19, 2025.
NOVEMBERS DOOM comment: “The title track ‘Major Arcana’ represents significant growth for us, exploring new ideas and taking ourselves out of our comfort zone – both musically and thematically”, vocalist Paul Kuhr states on behalf of the band. “Yet we are still staying true to who we are and the artistic legacy that we have created for so many years now. Each of us pushed hard to challenge ourselves as performers as well as songwriters, and we could hardly be any prouder of what we have accomplished with ‘Major Arcana’, both in terms of the song itself as well as the new album as a whole.”
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In further news, NOVEMBERS DOOM will also reissue a 20th Anniversary Edition of their cult album The Pale Haunt Departure (2005) on October 3, 2025. This collectors’ edition full-length will be released on vinyl for the first time and as a lavish artbook including 7 exclusive bonus track, rare images, and liner notes. Mailorder customers, who order both albums, will receive The Pale Haunt Departure early and together with Major Arcana on September 19.
Watch: ‘The Vault’ by New World Depression
Posted: 24 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: Abysmal Void, Death Metal, New Wolrd Depression, Single, Stream, Testinomy Records, The Vault, Video
NEW WORLD DEPRESSION conjure the wrath of the spirits from the deep seas in their new video clip ‘The Vault’. The song is also the opening track and the first single taken from their new full-length Abysmal Void. The seventh album of the German death metal veterans has been scheduled for release on September 19, 2025
NEW WORLD DEPRESSION comment: “The opening track ‘The Vault’ of our new album Abysmal Void, is a dark hymn of guilt, vengeance, and nature’s wrath", guitarist Julian Schulz explains on behalf of the band. "Once the spirits of the sea awake and rise, there is no escape. The song tells a metaphorical story of a doomed ship’s crew, which symbolises humanity’s self-inflicted demise as we relentlessly drain the planet’s resources.”
Listen: ‘White Noise’ by 16VOLT
Posted: 23 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: 16VOLT, Industrial, Metropolis Records, More Of Less, Single, Stream, track, White Noise
With roots dating back to the early days of the industrial rock scene, the US band 16Volt also crossed over into related genres as soon as group founder Eric Powell signed his first record deal in 1991 while still in his teens.
Brand new single ‘White Noise’ is taken from a long-awaited album by the band entitled ‘More Of Less’. Scheduled for release on 25th July, it is their first full-length record since 2017, when Powell put 16Volt on a hiatus that lasted seven years.
“‘White Noise’ is a song about feeling unheard, when your voice gets drowned out and it seems like you can’t get a word in or no-one is listening to you,” he explains. “To others, you become just white noise, that static sound of nothingness.”
The single follows just two weeks after a first ever (and already sold out) vinyl pressing of Wisdom, the group’s 1993 debut album. Powell’s reactivation of 16Volt in 2024 had been marked with the release of Negative On Arrivals, which combined songs from the group’s previous two records in 2016 and 2017.
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Watch: ‘Harlot’ official lyric video by Metamorph
Posted: 22 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: Electropop, EP, Gothy, Harlot, Lyric Video, Margot Day, Metamorph, Single, Stream, witchy
METAMORPH’s Harlot EP arrives to set the Summer Solstice ablaze—six banger tracks of goth pop-rock indulgence, dripping with fire, rhythm, and rebellion. Margot Day’s voice stuns. Her melodies seduce. She conjures pure fire. pure craving. pure power: “Dance, Harlot, rebel, whore… It’s my body, my fire, my flame.”
Produced by METAMORPH’s sonic alchemist Erik Gustafson, the Harlot EP includes the original title track, a high-voltage METAMORPH Dance Mix, and wickedly reimagined remixes from Spankthenun, IIOIOIOII, and Allie Frost—plus an instrumental for DJs to conjure their own dark glamour.
Witchy, seductive, and made for long nights and black-lacedays, Harlot doesn’t just celebrate the Solstice—it turns the Wheel of the Year in true witchcraft style. Each METAMORPH drop is a ritual, a spell, a seasonal shift in sound and power.This is your summer soundtrack—sweat, stilettos, and seduction.
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Listen: ‘Down’ by LOMMI
Posted: 21 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: 667788, Down, Heavy, LOMMI, Majestic Mountain Records, Riff, Rock, Single, Stream
Emerging once again from the shadows of Gothenburg’s heavy metal underground, LOMMI returns with a vengeance. The Swedish riff-worshipping power trio announces their long-overdue new album 667788, set to be released on August 1st via Majestic Mountain Records.
Following a decade-long hiatus, 667788 is a bold and thunderous statement that marks a fierce new chapter in LOMMI’s evolution. A decade in the making, the record sees the band lean harder than ever into their signature fusion of traditional heavy metal, groove-driven Swedish grit, and no-frills sonic power. The result is their most focused, aggressive, and riff-drenched release to date.
Just recently, LOMMI has unveiled their blistering new single ‘Down’, a heavy-hitting anthem that perfectly captures the band’s trademark intensity and razor-sharp songwriting.
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Listen: ‘Neptune Anteater’ by The Dwarfs Of East Agouza
Posted: 20 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: Constellation, Crossover, Free Jazz, fusion, Neptune Anteater, New Album, Psychedelic, Sasquatch Landslide, Single, Stream, The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, track
Constellation welcomes The Dwarfs Of East Agouza to the label and will release the Cairo-based trio’s new album Sasquatch Landslide in early October.
Maurice Louca, Alan Bishop, and Sam Shalabi expand on their telekinetic fusion of North African rhythm, heat-haze improvisation, shaabi rawness, free jazz, and psychedelic groove, following acclaimed albums on Sub Rosa, Akuphone, and Nawa Recordings.
Sasquatch Landslide overspills with the group’s signature trance-inducing explorative energies, anchored by Louca’s hypnotic beats and electronics, with Shalabi and Bishop deploying guitar and alto saxophone in a variety of signal-mashing modes. Comprised of seven febrile jams across 42 minutes, this is at once the most focused and twitchiest album in the DOEA discography to date. Recorded by Emanuele Baratto (King Khan, Elder) and mixed by Jace Lasek (Elephant Stone, Sunset Rubdown, The Besnard Lakes), the record will be issued in 180gram vinyl and CD editions, featuring artwork by Mark Sullo.
First single ‘Neptune Anteater’ is a signature example: Shalabi opens with a skittish repeating guitar groove (that draws from his parallel lifelong practice as an improviser on oud) as Louca progressively builds a widescreen 6/8 hand-drum rhythm while oozing bass notes support Shalabi’s excursions around the central riff. This is kinetic trance, East Agouza-style.
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Watch: ‘Made Of Rain (Almost Acoustic)’ by Beauty in Chaos ft Ashton Nyte & Whitney Tai
Posted: 19 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: alternative, Beauty in Chaos ft Ashton Nyte & Whitney Tai, Gothic, Made Of Rain (Almost Acoustic), Michael Ciravolo, Official Video, Single, Stream, The Awakening
“’Made Of Rain’ is a song of hope. It is about getting up and trying again despite the scars life can leave. This “almost acoustic version” is very dear to me. I love the organic elements present: the pedal steel, violin, and, of course, Whitney Tai’s beautiful, ethereal voice elevate this piece, making it something transcendental. Similarly, the video shoot was an almost spiritual experience. A celebration of friends and art. What more can you ask for?” asks Ashton Nyte of The Awakening, who will soon tour Europe in support of the band’s self-titled album.
“‘Made Of Rain’ is a warm amber glow in a velveteen speakeasy where tales of folk and longing send a message from the beyond. There’s a wisdom and a patience in Ashton’s voice. His lyrics swarmed in the magic of Beauty In Chaos’ production for the acoustic version hits different. Doing this duet with Ashton is a dream, as he is someone with the vocal tenacity of the wisest tree in the forest. Together, it felt like we planted wildflowers in a gentle field. What made this collab special for me apart from the music is the friendship that Michael, Ashton and I share. We are family and making art with feeling is at the forefront of our passions,” says Whitney Tai, who appears on many BIC tracks. Her latest single ‘Slumber Party’ is out now, previewing her third full-length album ‘American Wasteland’ (out in September).
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Listen: ‘How Long Is Now (Richard Norris Remix)’ by Pale Blue Eyes
Posted: 18 June 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPsTags: Broadcast Recordings, How Long Is Now (Richard Norris Remix), Indie, New Place, Pale Blue Eues, Shoegaze, Single, Stream, Tour Dates
Pale Blue Eyes have just released a remix of ‘How Long Is Now’ by legendary ‘spatial landscaper’ Richard Norris on their own Broadcast Recordings label. The original track is on their current New Place album, released earlier this year.
Richard describes his approach to the track as such:
"As soon as I heard the track I knew I’d approach the mix somewhere along the autobahn, about 3am, with Klaus Dinger trying to overtake on the inside lane. Approaching the speed limit. One for the kosmik and expanded psychonauts."
The track will be released as an extremely limited 12” white label vinyl on 18th July.
Pale Blue Eyes – Live Dates
Thu – 14th Aug – Where Else?, Margate
Fri – 15th Aug – The Horn, St. Albans
Sat – 16th Aug – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
Sat – 30th Aug – Psych Fest, Manchester
Sun – 31st Aug – Project House, Leeds (supporting DIIV)
Thu – 11th Sep – L’Aeronef, Lille, FR
Sat – 13th Sep – Cafe V Lese, Prague, CZ
Sun – 14th Sep – Club MECHanik, Warsaw, PL
Thu – 16th Oct – SŴN Festival, Cardiff
Fri – 17th Oct – South Street, Reading
Sat – 18th Oct – Heartbroken Festival, Southampton
The band also tour Europe in September / October, playing 19 major city dates with The Midnight.
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