Wet Leg performed live on KEXP on September 9th, 2025, showcasing their signature style with a set of our tracks: “Catch These Fists,” “Davina McCall,” “CPR,” and “Mangetout.” The performance was hosted by Cheryl Waters and featured vocalists Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, along with drummer Henry Holmes and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Mobaraki.
Wet Leg performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 9th, 2025.
On her fourth album, “Unclouded“, Melody’s Echo Chamber embarks on a life-affirming new chapter with an album that celebrates the present moment, whatever state we find ourselves in. Beautifully psychedelic songs and the band on this album are just unreal!
“Unclouded’s” impressive cast includes Swedish maestro Sven Wunder, who co-produced the record and contributed to the writing, Josefin Runsteen on strings, Dina Ögon’s Daniel Ögen on guitar and Love Orsan on bass (who Melody describes as “masters of the velvet groove”), British drummer (and Dinked alumnus) Malcolm Catto, and frequent collaborator Reine Fiske (of the great Dungen) whose guitar parts can be heard shimmering throughout the record.
Last but not least, Leon Michels collaborated with Melody on the album’s gorgeous closer “Daisy”, a sparkling pop song plucked from the ether.
“The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables,” says Melody of the album. “But the more experience I have of living, the deeper I love life and the less I need to escape. If my heart still belongs to the blue hour, it also feels like I’ve gathered up all the pieces of myself that were scattered everywhere and glued them.”
The album includes recent single “Daisy” and with the album announcement comes new single “In the Stars.” “My eyes are closed not in denial, but in devotion—to vibrant memories, to the complexity of human feelings, to seeing more deeply,” says Melody Prochet of her new Melody’s Echo Chamber single. “It’s also driven by a resilient aesthetic that emphasizes the beauty of transient things and the bittersweet feeling of their impermanence.” New album Unclouded is out December 5.
Melody’s Echo Chamber releases her fifth album in December and here’s an early taste.
“We died when we started writing this album,” say Sorry, preparing to release “Cosplay”, their third studio album, set for release on 7th November on Domino Recordings. But if Sorry did, indeed, die before a note had been recorded, before a single word had even been jotted down, who the hell are this bunch now masquerading as Sorry? Who has donned the Sorry outfits so convincingly? Who is it that has recorded “Cosplay“, this album that first meticulously erases and then extravagantly redraws the perimeters of what a contemporary rock’n’roll band can achieve?
Sorry have released “Today Might Be The Hit”, the new single to be taken from their forthcoming new album “Cosplay”,which is set for release on November 7th. The band have recently announced two special launch shows titled COSPLAYOGRAPHY, one of which takes place at the ICA on album release day, as well as UK, EU and US dates.
Welcome to the world of Cosplay, where anyone can be anyone, past or present, real or imaginary, dead or alive. The most direct track on “Cosplay”, “Today Might Be The Hit” has a bouncing energy that recalls the band’s early works but possesses layer after layer of detail. Snippets of bird song, overlapping gang vocals and fragments of conversation are shot through the track, creating something both immediate and overwhelming that blazes across its short run time.
Narratively the song marries the unfortunate life of Ludwig Boltzmann, whose entropy formula was dismissed in his lifetime and later immortalised on his gravestone, with a full-on guitar and drums number that sits squarely in the garage rock tradition.
Sorry – “Echoes” from the album “Cosplay”, out on 7th November on Domino Recording Co.
Indie-pop singer/songwriter Lande Hekt (formerly of Muncie Girls) announced a new album, “Lucky Now“, due out January 30th, 2026 via Tapete Records. She also shared its lead single, “Favourite Pair of Shoes,” via a music video.
Hekt had this to say about the song in a press release: “I wrote this song when I was listening to a lot of The Bats and The Chills, it probably sounds nothing like any of that Flying Nun stuff but that was what was inspiring me at the time. Despite the lines that lean towards despair, I think this is quite a hopeful song. It’s about rising out of a pit of hopelessness and doing something really positive. The song features my old friend and longtime collaborator Samuel Bedford.
Hekt wrote and recorded “Lucky Now” with producer Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back).
We first sang together when we were 16, we recorded a song together for his folk solo project, then we were in an indie rock band together when we were 21 called Selfish Son. Sam sang on my song ‘Kitchen’ in 2020 and now he sings on this song and ‘Coming Home.’ Each of these collaborations are 5 years apart which is tidy.”
“Favourite Pair of Shoes” is the first single from the album “Lucky Now“, out 30th January 2025 on Tapete Records.
Florence + The Machine performed ‘Everybody Scream’ on the Graham Norton Show last night, The London band are set to release their sixth full-length effort on October 31st, following on from 2022’s ‘Dance Fever’. Florence Welch and co. have already previewed the project with ‘One Of The Greats‘, and the title track, which they took on Friday night live in the studio.
The theatrical rendition saw her backed by a choir for a rousing performance amplified by dramatic lighting and Welch’s soaring vocals as she recited: “The harvest, the needle, protect me from evil/ The magic and the misery, madness and the mystery / Oh, what has it done to me? Everybody scream.”
The group recently posted the back cover to the upcoming LP, which contains 12 songs overall. The album opens with F+TM’s two recent singles, ahead of cuts titled ‘Witch Dance’, ‘Sympathy Magic’, ‘Perfume And Milk’, ‘Buckle’ and ‘Kraken’.
The rest of the record is comprised of the tracks ‘The Old Religion’, ‘Drink Deep’, ‘Music By Men’ and ‘You Can Have It All’, before concluding with ‘And Love’.
The stirring track comes from their upcoming album, which is set to arrive on October 31st
“And Your Song is Like a Circle” is the second LP from New York-based artist Skullcrusher, a.k.a. Helen Ballentine. Recorded piecemeal over a period of years following the release of her celebrated 2022 debut, Quiet the Room, “And Your Song Is Like a Circle” does not capture experience – it gestures toward the imprint of an experience that is uncapturable. Swaying between vaporous folk and crystalline electronics, landing somewhere in the snowfields shared by Grouper and Julia Holter, “Circle” probes the ways that grief turns itself inside out. Loss itself becomes as real and substantial as what’s been lost.
The production of “Dragon,” the third single from Skullcrusher’s upcoming album, “And Your Song is Like a Circle“, distinguishes itself from the rest of Helen Ballentine’s discography—similar to “Exhale,” the rare percussion line anchors the song’s tempo, giving it a drive that is typically unsought in Ballentine’s ballads. Typical of many Skullcrusher songs, the lyrics are left to be searched for, hiding behind corners of echoed vocals. which she says she wrote “while thinking about dissociation and how it can feel to be brought back to the ground from this state. Like in Spirited Away when Chihiro begins to disappear in the spirit world she touches Haku’s hand, which pulls her back but then she can’t move her legs. It is a heavy thing to feel the weight of living and pull yourself back to earth. I was interested in the idea of this being a heavy burden but also a necessary aspect of living. It is hopeful but scary as well. Similar to the way armor is a protection but also a burden, either physically or mentally. It’s difficult to protect yourself.”
Ballentine sings in waves of despair, repeating “the weight is heavy” in rounds of harmony and layered vocals. As the song endures, it swells with distortion, and the steady piano lead is trumped by a buzzy synth. Ballentine sings until her repetition goes unnoticed, fusing with the pulsing wall of sound. “Dragon” heralds a new wave of the Skullcrusher sound: passionate, unabashed expression.
Skullcrusher album “And Your Song is Like a Circle” arrives next month
Militarie Gun’s 2023 debut album “Life Under The Gun” was received by fans and critics as a step in a more melodic direction from the band’s grittier, hardcore-informed EPs, but bandleader Ian Shelton said it was the way he’d heard Militarie Gun in his head the whole time. It was during the making of the album that Ian discovered how to hone in on his pop sensibilities, and now, Militarie Gun are back with a new album that presents them first and foremost as an alternative rock band.
This sounds like the work of a band who’s found their comfort zone, and who’s still able to change things up enough to incorporate cheerleader chants (“B A D I D E A”), jangle pop guitars (“Laugh At Me”), hip hop interludes, and a string-laden acoustic emo ballad (“Daydream”). It’s also the work of an artist who’s gone through some shit and is ready to open up about it. After abstaining from alcohol for the first 30 years of his life, Ian says he started drinking and developed an unhealthy relationship with it relatively quickly, and those experiences shaped this album.
The songs vary between desperation, melancholy, and self-sabotage, and it doesn’t take long to realize how dark this subject matter can get. Even before you hear the lyrics, you see such track titles as “Maybe I’ll Burn My Life Down” and “I Won’t Murder Your Friend.” big hooks and big feelings from a noticeably more tortured narrator.
It marks a bold leap forward for the Los Angeles based band, conceptually and artistically, pulling in new sounds, raw reflections on self-destruction, and some nineties ethos. At face value, it’s a concept album about hitting rock bottom and the arc of that crashing, burning, rebuilding, and repeating.
“Pt. II” kicks things off with a distorted spoken word piece of Shelton responding to how he’s been. Judging by his bruised, defeated face on the album’s cover, it’s not good. It is “B.A.D,” to be exact, as it drops straight into lead single “B.A.D.I.D.E.A,” an arena-sized power-punk anthem Shelton originally wrote for Doja Cat, when she expressed interest in making a hardcore punk album two years ago. That might sound odd, but Militarie Gun has been hovering at the edge of pop culture for a while.
On November 28th, Warner/Reprise will release a new 50th Anniversary Edition of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, complete with six bonus tracks – two of those previously unreleased.
Included on the new release are versions of “Lookout Joe” and “Walk On”, both recorded during the original 1973 album sessions at S.I.R. in Los Angeles. “Lookout Joe” replaces the version that was recorded at Young’s Broken Arrow Studio and subsequently included on the original release of “Tonight’s The Night”.
These versions of “Lookout Joe” and “Tonight’s The Night (Take 3)” have never been released. “Everybody’s Alone”, “Raised On Robbery” (featuring Joni Mitchell) and “Speakin’ Out Jam” appeared on “Archives Vol II”, while the unreleased version of “Wonderin’’ and “Walk On” from the same sessions has only ever been available to stream on NYA. This is the first time all six bonus tracks from the original sessions have been available on vinyl.
“Tonight’s The Night 50” will be released on vinyl, CD and digitally, with a clear vinyl version available at the Greedy Hand Store and indie retailers.
A new 18-track version of the ‘Ditch Trilogy’ classic will be released on Nov 28
Our new EP “A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time” is coming out November 21st. It’s 4 songs and features friends & bands we love on each track. @detroitarun produced it with me in Nashville earlier this year and it really shaped up to be something special to us.
You can stream two of those songs today — “Cocaine & Lexapro” featuring Kevin Devine , and “Berlin” feat. Tigersjaw , as well as watch the beautiful video for C&L from our friend @thegrayhall .
You can pre-order the EP at the link in our bio & stories. It also includes the “No Joy Sessions” and “Doom & GloomSessions” on the pressing. Then also get a ticket to come see us on our remaining tour dates this year (before we go do the next record).
I want to give some love to “Berlin”, the second single we released last week featuring the always incredible tigersjaw. yetis, detroitarun and I cracked this on our last full day in the studio when i played a super basic beat on a drum machine and we found a pad sound that reminded us of Foreigner. Then we sent it over to the TJ team, thinking only Ben was going to sing on it, only to get it back with Brianna doing the scratch harmonies we accidentally left in. We absolutely freaked the first time we heard it.
love this song so much and Sarah absolutely took it to another level. Our new EP “A Brief Intermission inthe Flattening of Time”, is out Nov 21, and you can preorder it at the link in our bio (and stream the other 2 singles). First few vinyl variants are sold out so get on it!
And also a new pressing of “Schmaltz” is available now too. Like I said, big day.
Sugar – the band formed by Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould with bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis – return with their first new music for thirty years. Says Mould, “Sugar was a meteorite. I spent all of 1991 writing and performing new material at solo shows. David and Malcolm had never met but I was certain we three would work well together.
“Sugar was a workhorse. After weeks of rehearsal in early 1992, we spent three months recording “Copper Blue” and “Beaster”. By summer 1992, the musical climate was perfect for what we created.
“Sugar was a phenomena. No one could have predicted the results. We held onto the wheel and did our best to enjoy the wild ride. Sugar was part of a pivotal era in popular music, and a special time in my life.”
Beside the new single, Sugar will perform together for the first time since January 1995, at New York City’s Webster Hall on Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3, 2026 and then in London’s O2 ForumKentish Town on Saturday, May 23 and Sunday, May 24, 2026 .
The official promo video from Sugar for the UK single ‘ Changes’ released in August 1992.
Next month will also see Sugar 1992 debut album, “Copper Blue“, commemorated with “Copper Blue – The Singles Collection“, a limited edition 4LP box set to be released by BMG on Record Store Day Black Friday, November 28th.
The Fat Angel Sings 
