The new trio featuring Phil Manley of Trans Am / Life Coach channel their cosmic energy and considerable chops into a sinuous space-rock jam on the first single from their debut album, Soft Opening.

Listen to "Specificity (Or What Have You)" now

A kind of in-house band at El Studios, run by Manley along with studio co-owners Donny Newenhouse and Phil Becker, Terry Gross began as an opportunity for the trio to test the boundaries and gear of the studio. With the tapes rolling on rehearsals, Soft Opening captures the sheer exuberance of playing together, “Specificity…” in particular managing to distil the improvised sessions into a tight pop-structure without losing any of the expansive energy of the trio’s live performance.

Terry Gross debut album Soft Opening is available to pre-order now on limited-edition pink vinyl. 

One of the most prolific and unique voices in modern psychedelic music, we’re ecstatic to be releasing Portland guitarist Dewey Mahood’s lush new opus as Plankton Wat, Future Times.

More info / pre-order Future Times

From acclaimed albums with heavy-psych mainstays Eternal Tapestry to his prolific solo excursions, Mahood’s work has always been defined by his restless exploratory spirit and reverence for the environment. As Plankton Wat, his expressionist compositions exude a supernatural grace and patience, reflecting the resplendent beauty and mythical energy of the West Coast’s wild places.

Future Times elevates Mahood’s psychedelic instrumentals to new planes. Blossoming from low-lit, porchside ambience into powerful head-trips, Mahood finds hope in the aftermath of 2020, tapping into the healing power of nature and the fervor of social protest. A huge tip for fans of everything from Rose City Band’s effervescent country-psych to Barn Owl’s expansive sonic vistas.

Following the release of Marisa Anderson’s astounding collaborative record with Dirty Three drummer Jim White earlier this year, we’re extremely excited to be working with Anderson on this collaboration with guitarist William Tyler.

We’ll be releasing a new album from the duo in 2021, but you can get a taste early and support one of our favorite festivals at the same time - William and Marisa will be performing a live-streamed performance for Big Ears Festival on Friday November 20th, as part of a triple-bill with Yasmin Williams focusing on guitarists taking folk forms to surprising new places. Make sure you tune in.

More info on the livestream here.

With just over a fortnight to go until the release of his debut full-length Love, prodigious composer John Bence has shared the latest excerpt from the piece: “Church Doors”.

Listen to "Church Doors" now

Making dynamic use of silence and quiet melodies, displaced by trudging dissonance, “Church Doors” mirrors Bence’s personal journey from tumultuous addiction towards a kind of salvation in sobriety. In just under two minutes, he explores minutely detailed and specific emotional expressions through razor sharp compositional precision. Properly engrossing, and quietly breathtaking.

John Bence's Love is available to pre-order now on limited-edition orange vinyl, and the reissue of his acclaimed Kill EP is out now.

From technoid steppers to outernational electronics: the Berlin-based duo’s latest outing takes their playful exploration of new technologies a quantum leap into the future.

Listen to first single "The Latent Space" now

Collaborating with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers and longtime Mouse On Mars percussionist Dodo NKishi, the duo here explore artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, augmenting their already dizzying array of digital and analog experimentation. A far cry from the dystopian takes on technology that we’re all very much used to by now, Mouse on Mars instead take a more optimistic tone, crafting some of their most direct and dancefloor-oriented productions to date while simultaneously traversing heady philosophical territory.

AAI is available to pre-order now on limited-edition translucent green vinyl.

Arriving at a perfect time, as our election anxieties are peaking, the inimitable Brother JT invites you to indulge in some much-needed escapism with the delightfully DIY, suitably psychedelic video for “Back To The 90’s”.

Watch the video now

Brother JT's latest LSD-tinged long-player Tornado Juice is out everywhere now. Listen to the whole thing here.

Black To Comm shares another staggering piece from his latest collection of hypnagogic electronics, fusing evocative field recordings with staggered loops and stuttered voice sampling to summon an atmosphere of subtle mystery.

Listen to "Oocyte Oil" now

Less melancholy than the companion title track “Stolen Androgens” but still invoking the same intensity of emotion and otherworldly beauty, “Ooctye Oil” feels forever just at the edge of memory and perception - a dream half-remembered. Grounded in the familiar, it drifts through alternate realities and higher states of consciousness, constantly evolving and evading easy characterisation.

Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens is out October 30th, and is available to pre-order now on limited-edition translucent green vinyl.

Ahead of the release of Raw & Disfigured next week, Holy Sons (Emil Amos) shows off the album's breadth and depth with two new singles:  

Listen to "Slow To Run" ft. Steve Shelley

Listen to "Cóiste Bodhar"

Where "Slow To Run" distills rippling kosmiche textures and southern gothic swagger into a concise pop structure, "Cóiste Bodhar" provides a more expansive and meditative counterpoint, Amos spinning smouldering guitars out into a shadowy desert-rock instrumental. 

Raw & Disfigured is available to pre-order now on double-LP, CD and digital.