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out now: Punchbag – I Am Obsessed EP [Mute]

Artist:
Punchbag

Title:
I Am Obsessed EP

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE692

Release Date:
10th April 2026

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
What’s In My Bag

02.
Pile Of Clothes

03.
Playing God

04.
I Love This!

05.
I Am Obsessed

Press Info:
South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) today announce new EP I Am Obsessed, out 10 April via Mute. The EP will also mark the band’s first-ever physical release, arriving as a Dinked Early Doors Edition vinyl which pairs new EP I Am Obsessed with their debut EP I’m Not Your Punchbag in one combined release.

Opening on off-kilter piano stabs, the track sets up a tension that quickly gives way to something far darker beneath their restless leftfield pop. Clara’s lyrics frame fixation as bodily and inescapable, from dirt under fingernails to crumbs in bedsheets and thoughts that won’t leave your chest.

“It’s about being completely obsessed with something or someone, but not in a cute way, more in a ‘your whole body is under attack’ kinda way. It’s sort of disordered, chaotic, overwhelming,” Clara explains.

The new single follows July 2025’s release ‘I Love This!’ (also set to feature on the EP), a wide-eyed surge of feeling that reinforced PUNCHBAG’s instinct for pairing pop immediacy with emotional overload.

Speaking more on their upcoming second EP, the band said: “If our first EP was a selfie, these new songs are like zooming in and thinking, ‘fucking hell my pores look huge’. This EP is turning up the contrast on everyday life, rinsing the disgusting dish towel so far that all the gunk comes out. It’s pushing PUNCHBAG’s sonic world even further, into a grander landscape, and dramatising the everyday more than ever before.”

With each release, Clara and Anders continue to push their instincts further, tightening their sound and leaning harder into the extremes that define it – all part of a wider mission to distil the most intense, concentrated version of who they are as artists.

That intensity spills directly into their live shows, where the duo’s sibling chemistry and unfiltered energy have earned a reputation for turning rooms into something closer to group therapy than a gig – a visceral, communal thrill and a celebration of feeling too much, all at once.

PUNCHBAG were also named a Spotify RADAR: First Listen artist and sold out their debut headline show at Bermondsey Social Club, before further sold out headlines in the capital at Windmill Brixton and The George Tavern, alongside festival slots at Reeperbahn, Iceland Airwaves, The Great Escape, Bergenfest, Pstereo, Twisterella, Live At Leeds In The City, Sŵn, Ritual Union & more, as well as a live performance on Made In Chelsea.

PUNCHBAG will be heading out on their debut UK and European headline tour in April – more details coming very soon, keep an eye on their social for dates and ticket links!

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out now: JakoJako – Tết 41 (Remixes – Part 2) [Mute]

Artist:
JakoJako

Title:
Tết 41 (Remixes – Part 2)

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
IR2STUMM513

Release Date:
18th March 2026

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
03.
Hoa Đào
(Colin Benders Remix)

04.
Ðà Nāng
(DJ Hi-C Remix)

Press Info:
JakoJako, Berlin-based modular synthesist Sibel Koçer, marks todays Lunar New Year with Tết 41 (Remixes, Pt.1), remixes by Rolando and Elin Piel of tracks from her latest album, Tết 41, out now limited-edition vinyl and digitally via Mute. Pt. 2 will follow next month, alongside an ambient live set at Hackney Church on 21 March, with fellow Mute artist Alessandro Cortini.

Taking its name from Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New Year), Tết 41 – which catalogues her journey to Vietnam with her mother connecting with their heritage – uses a minimal modular set up and field recordings to create a unique and very personal work. Detroit’s Rolando, former Underground Resistance member also known as The Aztec Mystic, takes on ‘Kumquat’’s bright searching melodies and polyrhythmic beats for the perfect introduction to Vietnam’s Lunar New Year, Kumquats being ubiquitous as a key symbol of the Tết celebration, said to bring prosperity and abundance. [DJ

Gothenburg’s Elin Piel, who also appeared on last year’s JakoJako curated collection ‘Hardwired’, remixes ‘Ghi-Ta’. Named after a type of Vietnamese guitar that Sibel encountered on her trip, Piel explains, “What drew me to Ghi-Ta was the harmonies and the small changes in the repetitiveness. It was really fun to play around with the stems trying to find a pulse and create new patterns but still match the original vibe.”

Tết 41 is, in many ways, a distillation of ideas Koçer has been exploring for many years. Tapping into a deep understanding of machine-based music and illuminated by references to her heritage, the album reflects on notions of rebirth, and the pursuit of a sonic core. The album was created with a minimal hardware set up, and from this simplicity emerges some of her most expansive, unworldly compositions to date.

Koçer explains, “I wanted to collect the atmospheres of Vietnam, and strip it back to my language – electronic music. I don’t have huge ties to the traditions of my Vietnamese family, so being able to experience them with my mother, and then bring the Lunar Celebration – the colourful flowers, food and customs – back to Europe through music has helped me realise how important this side of my heritage is.”

A big part of her production process lies in searching for spontaneity, which was heightened during the creation of this album – on just a Eurorack and a Waldorf Iridium Core. Whilst normally she would have a computer to mix and arrange the record, the effects and sequencers of the gear became her tools. She expands; “The more you play with a single machine the more you get to know it. You’ll get muscle memory and play it more like an actual instrument, instead of treating it as a tool.”

Opening and closing with field recordings taken during the Lunar New Year celebrations, she uses the space in between to cast new frameworks, allowing melodic cycles to flow autonomously. Rhythmic fragments weave between analogue processing and harmonic distillations, swirling in organic cycles of warehouse maximalism and sonic minutiae that speak to the somatic and spectral in equal measure.

Engaged in a constant dialogue around the use of hardware in music, JakoJako’s artistic output is informed by the tension and release of techno, but ultimately propelled by ever-expanding forms and structures that play with the contours of the genre. A producer, live artist and DJ who has held a residency at Berghain whilst touring some of the world’s most respected electronic music institutions, she delves into the mathematical patterns of arpeggios and loops, locating kinetic energies that convert into moments of dancefloor catharsis.

Infinitely curious about the threads that connect different genres, as opposed to the rigidity of genre itself, Tết 41 is driven by a desire to document the potentials of analogue and modular synthesis, and to consider new contexts within which these could exist. It’s also a bold and generous vision of new sonic worlds.

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Recommendations:
JakoJako’s “Segmente EP” on NovaMute
JakoJako’s “Verve EP” on Mute
“In Vere EP” by JakoJako & Rødhåd on WSNWG
compilation “We Are Not Alone (Part 2)” w/ JakoJako on BPitch
compilation “Second Nature” w/ JakoJako on Life In Patterns
“Atlas Der Gedanken” by Mareena & JakoJako on Edition Dur
JakoJako’s “Metamorphose” on Bigamo
“The Third Chimpanzee (Rmxd)” by Martin Gore w/ JakoJako rmx on Mute
New Order’s “Be A Rebel (Remixed)” w/ JakoJako remix on Mute
compilation “Hardwired” curated by JakoJako on Air Texture
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out now: JakoJako – Tết 41 (Remixes – Part 1) [Mute]

Artist:
JakoJako

Title:
Tết 41 (Remixes – Part 1)

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
IR1STUMM513

Release Date:
17th February 2026

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Kumquat
(Rolando Remix)

02.
Ghi-Ta
(Elin Piel Remix)

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out now: 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:
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Video:
“Collapse Phase”

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out for a while: Moby – 18 [Mute | Little Idiot]

Artist:
Moby

Title:
18

Label:
Mute | Little Idiot

Cat#:
STUMM202 | IDIOTR007

Release Date:
13th May 2002 (original release date)
09th September 2022 (re-release)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
We Are All Made Of Stars

02.
In This World

03.
In My Heart

04.
Great Escape

05.
Signs Of Love

06.
One Of These Mornings

07.
Another Woman

08.
Fireworks

09.
Extreme Ways

10.
Jam For The Ladies

11.
Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)

12.
18

13.
Sleep Alone

14.
At Least We Tried

15.
Harbour

16.
Look Back In

17.
The Rafters

18.
I’m Not Worried

Press Info:
Moby will release a new album entitled “18” on 13th May. This is the much anticipated follow up to his multi-award winning and ten million selling album “Play”.

The album features eighteen brand new tracks and a brilliant line up of guest vocalists including, amongst others, Sinead O’Connor, Azure Ray, MC Lyte and Angie Stone. “18” expands upon, updates and surpasses “Play”, moving through anthemic nu-new wave, sample centred gospel and blues, electro, funk, warm orchestration and lush instrumentals.

Moby explains the title: ‘In addition to the record being called “18” because there are 18 songs on it, there are other more obscure reasons for it being called “18”…’

The album includes the forthcoming single ‘We Are All Made Of Stars’, which is released on 29th April. It is accompanied by a video directed by the award-winning Joseph Kahn. Filmed on location in Hollywood, Santa Monica and Sunset and Vine, the promo sees Moby assuming the guise of a somewhat distant and removed Spaceman who has come down to earth. He lands in LA and observes Hollywood Babylon at its most banal. Moby is joined by a number of familiar faces on his adventure. These include: Tommy Lee, Thora Birch, Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers, Corey Feldman, Vern Troyer (aka – Mini Me), Angelyne, Ron Jeremy, Dominique Swain, and Kato Kaelin – plus Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges from 80’s TV show Diff’rent Strokes.

MobyRecorded and produced by Moby at his studio in New York over the last twelve months, Moby plays all the instruments on the album and sings on four of the tracks; ‘Extreme Ways’, ‘We Are All Made Of Stars’, ‘Sleep Alone’ and the semi spoken ‘Signs Of Love’. Elsewhere MC Lyte and Angie Stone both guest on the uptempo ‘Jam For The Ladies’. Sinead O’Connor delivers one of her most moving vocal performances on ‘Harbour’ while Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor of Athens, Georgia duo Azure Ray wrote the lyrics for and sing on ‘Great Escape’.

“18” features two stunning instrumentals, the title track is a version of a composition that Moby wrote and performed at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, while ‘Fireworks’ is a short interlude piece and takes its title from one of Moby’s favourite films by the director Takeshi Kitano.

Moby’s love of Soul and R’n’B from the 60s, 70s and 80s is again apparent and he makes brilliant use of a wide range of vocal samples on many of the tracks. Most notably ‘Another Woman’ which samples Barbara Lynn’s, classic, ‘I’m A Good Woman’ and on ‘Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)’ which features a sample of Sugarhill Records founder Sylvia Robinson’s ‘Sunday’.

Moby will play live dates throughout 2002 and 2003. Details of his worldwide tour will follow soon.

Snippets:

Videos:
“We Are All Made Of Stars (Video Edit)”