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out now: Various – Help (2) [War Child Records]

Artist:
Various

Title:
Help (2)

Label:
War Child Records

Cat#:
WARCHILD16

Release Date:
06th March 2026

Format:
3xvinyl, 2xCD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
CD1-01.
Arctic Monkeys
Opening Night

CD1-02.
Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest
Flags

CD1-03.
Black Country, New Road
Strangers

CD1-04.
The Last Dinner Party
Let’s Do It Again!

CD1-05.
Beth Gibbons
Sunday Morning

CD1-06.
Arooj Aftab & Beck
Lilac Wine

CD1-07.
King Krule
The 343 Loop

CD1-08.
Depeche Mode
Universal Soldier

CD1-09.
Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng
Helicopters

CD1-10.
Arlo Parks
Nothing I Could Hide

CD1-11.
English Teacher & Graham Coxon
Parasite

CD1-12.
Beabadoobee
Say Yes

CD2-01.
Big Thief
Relive, Redie

CD2-02.
Fontaines D.C.
Black Boys On Mopeds

CD2-03.
Cameron Winter
Warning

CD2-04.
Young Fathers
Don’t Fight The Young

CD2-05.
Pulp
Begging For Change

CD2-06.
Sampha
Naboo

CD2-07.
Wet Leg
Obvious

CD2-08.
Foals
When The War Is Finally Done

CD2-09.
Bat For Lashes
Carried My Girl

CD2-10.
Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya & Dove Ellis
Sunday Light

CD2-11.1.
Olivia Rodrigo
The Book Of Love

CD2-11.2.
(silence)

CD2-11.3.
Oasis
Acquiesce
(Live At Wembley Stadium September 28, 2025)

Press Info:
HELP(2) is a brand new collaborative album, inspired by the landmark 1995 release ‘HELP’, which brings music lovers together in support of War Child’s vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world.

HELP(2) carries forward the spirit of the original ‘HELP’ album and was brought to life through a close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, recorded predominantly across one extraordinary week in November 2025. Under the stewardship of acclaimed producer James Ford as Executive Producer, HELP(2) features an incredible line-up of contributors including Anna Calvi, Arctic Monkeys, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Black Country, New Road, Cameron Winter, Damon Albarn, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Ellie Rowsell, English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Foals, Fontaines D.C., Graham Coxon, Greentea Peng, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg and Young Fathers…amongst other musicians, engineers, mixers and producers.

In addition to the stellar cast of musicians involved, renowned filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Jonathan Glazer acted as Creative Director for ‘HELP(2)’, working with Academy Films to assemble a team of brilliant creatives and overseeing the filming and art direction for the project.

All proceeds from this album support War Child UK to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children living through conflict around the world.

HELP(2) represents hope for children whose lives have been torn apart by war. It is a testament to the generosity of artists and the music industry for making a positive difference towards securing a safer, brighter future for those children. Because no child should be part of war. Ever.

Full Track Streaming:

Visualizers:
Depeche Mode – “Universal Soldier”

Olivia Rodrigo – “The Book Of Love”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Depeche Mode and related artists

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out soon: K Á R Y Y N – Physics Universal Love Language (Pull) [Mute]

Artist:
K Á R Y Y N

Title:
Physics Universal Love Language (Pull)

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM479

Release Date:
29th May 2026

Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Collapse Phase

02.
Elsewhen

03.
Further We Fall

04.
Ground

05.
End To Knowing You

06.
Pull

07.
The 6th

08.
Keeper

09.
Mind Over Heart

10.
FWD

Press Info:
KÁRYYN announces her new 10-track album PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL), out 29 May via Mute. The news arrives alongside the release of the first single, ‘COLLAPSE PHASE’, out today with an official video directed by Jenna Marsh, and produced by Black Dog Films. KÁRYYN will also be embarking on a tour of the UK and Europe with Apparat.

PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is the latest from Syrian-Armenian-American singer and producer, KÁRYYN. The new album is a body of work distilled from years of lived exploration into existence, intimacy, and time, where sound becomes the structure through which truth is communicated. KÁRYYN’s voice is the gravitational centre, carrying both weight and fragility as it shapes the record’s sonic world.

Describing her new album “not as inquiry but as conclusion rendered in sound”, PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) maps collapse and reformation through the narrative themes and structural truths of compassion, clarity, and courage. Grounded in physics as the universal language shaping time and space, she asserts that this same language governs inner spiritual coherence, love, and connection. “PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) isabout the forces that hold us, rearrange us, and pull us back together,” she says. “It’s a framework for understanding my relationship with Self. This record is the sound of my human revolution.”
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The first single, COLLAPSE PHASE, opens the album’s universe with KÁRYYN at its centre, as the manipulator of forces. She opens with “You don’t believe me?” almost as a dare, to the listener and herself. Built on the tension between sustain and decay, the track moves like energy held far past its limit, no longer seeking release but asserting it. It captures the moment the final illusion collapses, revealing clarity rather than chaos. “COLLAPSE PHASE is the sonic threshold of confrontation and acceptance,” KÁRYYN explains. “It’s the sound of outdated systems breaking down—relational, emotional, foundational—no longer serving the universal truth that has arrived. It’s the moment I become the force itself, drawing everything obsolete to its end so something true can exist.”

Driven by gravitational rhythms, suspended vocal lines, and a sense of sovereign, deliberate rupture, the single introduces the album’s emotional stakes as a point of arrival, where agency is fully claimed and transformation is no longer a process, but a fact.

Directed by Jenna Marsh, whose work includes collaborations with Charli XCX and Eartheater, the music video is produced by Black Dog Films, part of Ridley Scott’s production company. It features legendary choreographer Supple Nam, whose career includes work for Guinness, Lucozade, and influential music and performance projects, in his first on-camera performance in 19 years alongside dancer Sattva Thanh-Tú Nguyễn. The result is a bold, immersive, and physically expressive performance.

Watch the video for ‘COLLAPSE PHASE’ below

PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) was produced by KÁRYYN and co-produced with James Ford and Hudson Mohawke, with additional production by Jacques Greene, Steve Nalepa, Luca Perry, and Duncan Fuller. String arrangement & performances by Raven Bush, alongside qanun performances by the internationally acclaimed Syrian qanun player, Maya Youssef. The album was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Joker. Built from voice, strings, modular synths and gravitational beats tuned to 432Hz, the record incorporates string arrangements informed by Armenian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, woven quietly into rhythm and melody as the record spans the intimate and the expansive. At its heart, PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is a declaration of courage, connection and renewal; the willingness to confront, collapse, feel and rise. “I went hunting for dark matter”, KÁRYYN says, “and instead I found brilliance, light, and potential.”

Snippets:
soon

Video:
“Collapse Phase”

Recommendations:
K Á R Y Y N’s “Káryyn Remixed” on Mute
K Á R Y Y N’s “The Quanta Series” on Mute
all releases on Mute & sublabels we featured

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out soon: Pan American – Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane [Kranky]

Artist:
Pan American

Title:
Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane

Label:
Kranky

Cat#:
KRANK251

Release Date:
27th March 2026

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Silver Plane, Now Boarding

02.
Death Cleaning

03.
Entrance To Afterlife

04.
Desert Under Bridge

05.
Heaven’s Waiting Room

06.
Silver Tramway (In Snow)

07.
Honeyman-Scott

08.
Taxi To The Terminal

09.
A Window In The Strings

10.
Golden Gate, Silver City

Press Info:
The music on this record is a reflection of journeys and travel. The real world kind and the metaphorical ones as well. Having experienced the arrival of my children, the decline and departure of my parents, and the many years of venturing out and returning home in my own life, travel feels like the perfect tropology to consider the mysteries we inhabit. Travel and Its impressions, rituals, superstitions-the possibilities and risk-all open up onto the landscape of our biggest questions, fear and wonder.

Two songs established the spine of this music. Songs I’ve always loved, it seems even before I’d heard them. The first one, and the source of the title is You Belong to Me by Jo Stafford. Colonial overtones unmissable to our modern ears aside, It’s also a beautiful mid century romance-and an ode to the threat of a shrinking world. The song represents the loneliness and the mystery of being alone and left behind. The singer is not asking their loved one to shut down horizons, merely reminding them to return when the traveling is done. To set aside The Silver Plane of transition, change and the in in-between for the intimacy of solid earth.

The second song is Promised Land by Chuck Berry. Also about a journey and another one that moves easily between allegory and narrative. The singer is on the move across segregated America trying to get to the promised land of California. The song is both a tall tale that evokes Mark Twain, and an American epic that can keep good company with Herman Melville. When the hero finally makes it to California, his first instinct is to call home and reassure the Old World that he’s safely arrived in the new one.

The songs on Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane were recorded at home over the last couple years. I played electric guitar, rubber bridge acoustic guitar, Ableton Live and an Electron Digitone synth. My friend Mallory Linnehan aka Chelsea Bridge contributed beautiful violin and vocals to a couple of the songs. We recorded those performances on a summer afternoon in Chicago at the Not Not space with the windows open.

The cover is a photo of my mom-one I never saw when she was alive. With the headscarf and that excited, nervous expression, she looks about to embark on a journey. Ready, finally, to cross the tarmac and board the Silver Plane.

Wishing safe travels to all. Mark N / Pan•American

Snippets:

Special:
Pan American + DJ Lgcc + m50 – “@ Weird Era, The Cool Room 2024.07.13”

Recommendations:
Pan American’s “A Son” on Kranky
Pan American’s “360 Business / 360 Bypass” on Kranky | Blast First
Labradford’s “Fixed::Context” on Blast First | Kranky
Labradford’s “Prazision” on Kranky

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out for a while: Bad Stream – It Breaks You EP [Antime]

Artist:
Bad Stream

Title:
It Breaks You EP

Label:
Antime

Cat#:
tba

Release Date:
28th April 2023

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
It Breaks You

07.
It Breaks You
(^L_ Remix)

Press Info:
»It Breaks You« is the second single from Bad Stream’s forthcoming third album »Doom ∞ Bloom,« developed in close collaboration with transdisciplinary artist Arash Akbari. After the first single was heavily influenced by post-minimal music, »It Breaks You« stages its core themes of alienation in the face of digital overload, questions of technology and climatic emergency on a highly energetic electronic rock sound that recalls the aesthetics of the Berlin-based artist Martin Steer’s 2018 debut album under the Bad Stream guise. Once again, the song is accompanied by a video that Akbari created with the help of AI, a tool that he has been working with for years. Much like for the video of the previous single, the album’s title track »Doom ∞ Bloom«, Akbari works with dichotomies and dualisms in order to visualise »how meaning, values, and our environment have been shaped and changed by Anthropocene,« as he says himself.

»It breaks you / It breaks me / I don’t want to live / I don’t want to die,« Steer greets the listener, his voice filtered through a vocoder. While the manipulation of the voice aesthetically reflects the predicament that the lyrics express—everything happens too much, everywhere and all at once while everybody seems to be thoroughly petrified—the music creates a sharp contrast. Both upbeat and driving, highly atmospheric and ominous, it epitomises the core theme of the song and the interdisciplinary »Doom ∞ Bloom« project at large: feelings such as anxiety, depression, and sheer shock in face of fast-paced technological disruption and a climate crisis slouching towards catastrophe are juxtaposed with the artistic and liberating possibilities technology offers this world. This ambiguity is further highlighted through samples of children from the 1960s, talking about how they imagined life in the year 2000. Visions of utopia and dystopia are presented in sound and vision as not entirely detached from, but instead inextricably linked with each other.

»It Breaks You« is part of the »Doom ∞ Bloom« project which grew out of the remote collaboration between the Berlin-based Steer and Akbari, who lives in Tehran. The music will be made available as a stand-alone album on Steer’s ANTIME label in the near future, but its release will also be preceded and complemented by the publication of a number of music videos and various live presentations of the material as well as exhibitions of the project in both physical and virtual spaces. Across different media, »Doom ∞ Bloom« musically and visually explores speculative dystopian and utopian models of a future shaped by the on-going climate crisis as well as processes of technological automation. Rather than just asking questions about how the world may look like after the catastrophe, it dares to imagine possible answers.

Full Track Streaming:

Video:
“It Breaks You”

Special:
“@ FM4 La Boum Deluxe – Interview & Mixtape”

Recommendations:
Bad Stream’s “Sonic Healing” on Antime
“Postbrutalism EP” by Bad Stream & ^L_ on Antime
Bad Stream’s “Black Weed” on Antime
Bad Stream’s album “Bad Stream” on Antime
Bad Stream’s EP “Sex Cries” on Antime
Bad Stream’s EP “Already Dark” on Antime
compilation “Antime v04 Compilation” on Antime
Spur’s “Nowhereland” on Antime
AAAA’s “Shiva Watts” on Antime
Kalipo’s “Yaruto” on Antime

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Websites:
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Antime

out soon: Clock DVA – Thirst [Mute]

Artist:
Clock DVA

Title:
Thirst

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
DVA2

Release Date:
05th June 2026

Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Uncertain

02.
Sensorium

03.
White Cell

04.
Piano Pain

05.
Blue Tone

06.
North Loop

07.
4 Hours

08.
Moments

09.
Impressions Of African Winter

10.
The Opening
(Live At The Lyceum)

11.
Remain Remain
(Live At The Lyceum)

12.
4 Hours
(Single Mix)

13.
Sensorium
(Single Mix)

14.
4 Hours
(DVATION 2026 Version)

15.
Sensorium
(DVATION 2026 Version)

Press Info:
The second release in Mute’s extensive reissue campaign of the full Clock DVA catalog, Thirst has been expanded and remastered from the original tapes with input from all surviving members. Available on limited edition double thirst-red vinyl and CD via the The Grey Area of Mute.

Following on from the experimental jazz infused debut album White Souls in Black Suits, 1981’s Thirst is when Clock DVA explored the more commercial song based avenue of what would become the darkwave industrial scene. The album includes fan favorite and Industrial Goth dancefloor classics “4 Hours” and “Sensorium,” including a brand new version of each as bonus tracks, recorded by Clock DVA as they are in 2026.

Snippets:
soon

Full Track Streaming:
“4 Hours”