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Tristan Allen @audiotootoo announces Osni the Flare, the second installment in a mythic trilogy exploring a mortal’s metamorphosis into the deity of fire. Released via @rvngintl, the project extends Allen’s discipline in “telling true lies,” weaving a creation myth through the intersection of experimental composition and traditional puppetry.
The lead single and video, “Act I: Garden,” serves as an entry point into this primordial world. The sonic architecture is built from a “toy orchestra”—meticulously recorded ocarinas, tuned music boxes, and a failing Casio SK-1—paired with the wordless, incantatory hum of Virginia Garcia Ruiz.
The accompanying visual documents a “puppet ballet” premiered at La MaMa, featuring a custom-engineered rod puppet that serves as the protagonist in Allen’s exploration of temporality and the origin of myth.
Osni the Flare arrives March 27, 2026.
Explore “Act I: Garden” via the link in bio.

📸 Virginia G. Ruiz
🎥 Video directed by Travis Hood & Ross Mayfield

#TristanAllen #OsniTheFlare #RVNGIntl #ExperimentalMusic
Jana Horn - @janus__janus - occupies an in-between world where she works with such restraint and such a keen ear for the space at the centre of a song that it renders genre practically meaningless.🕯️✨

When it seems like melodic prettiness is the order of the day, a lyrical barb will lodge itself under your skin, or a brief passage of uncanny avant-pop will blindside you.

Her latest self-titled album (out this week @noquarterrex) is much more stripped back than her previous album, much less reliant on traditional song structures. Just because she maintains a basic quietness doesn’t mean that Horn’s excursions aren’t exploratory. Nor does the quietness imply submissiveness. There is a hard-won acceptance in Horn’s songs that goes hand in hand with a willingness to take on the world anew. Even when dealing with moments of physical or emotional breakdown…she has the gift for breathing life and lived experience into her words, and this muted, wandering album is her best yet.   

Read Tom Blake’s full album review on KLOF Mag and pre-order the album (Link in Bio)
#janahorn #noquarter
David Moore | Offering 🎹✨
“‘Offering’ is an extension of my never-ending quest to move through harmony like water using an instrument that is very much like stone.”
Known for his atmospheric work with Bing & Ruth, David Moore returns with a soul-stirring first look at his debut solo piano album, Graze the Bell. The track is a sanctuary of sound—a meditative ritual where melodies leap like fish from a flowing current of trembling keys.
The accompanying film, directed by @nickvranizan, is a technical feat that honours the album’s hand-stitched cover art. By shunning generative AI, the duo crafted a visual language of “digital embroidery” that feels as mercurial and familiar as a fading memory. 🧵📺
Graze the Bell arrives Jan 30 via @rvngintl.
🗓️ Catch David Moore live at Roulette in Brooklyn on February 12, 2026.
🔗 Link in bio to watch the full video and pre-order.

📸 Portrait - Nina Gofur

#DavidMoore #BingAndRuth #AmbientMusic #RVNGIntl
@lyrband announce their third studio album, Dark Sky Reservation, arriving 3rd April via Real World Records! 🌌
The creative trio of UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, producer Patrick J. Pearson, and singer-songwriter Richard Walters return with a project that explores the “messed-up weather” of our modern world—both meteorological and psychological.
To mark the announcement, you can stream the first single “Blah! Blah! Blah!” now. It’s a hypnotic, minimalist look at the noise of contemporary society and the “choice blindness” that comes with it.
From the soggy back-gardens of suburbia to the furthest points of light in the cosmos, Dark Sky Reservation is a place of refuge, dreaming, and musical redemption.
L.Y.R. are also heading out on an extensive UK tour this April and May, including a headline show at London’s ICA.
UK Tour Dates: ✨ 16 April – Cambridge, Storey’s Field Centre ✨ 17 April – Kendal, Arts Centre ✨ 18 April – Liverpool, Tung Auditorium ✨ 19 April – Birmingham, Bradshaw Hall ✨ 21 April – Nottingham, Squire Performing Arts Centre ✨ 22 April – Glasgow, Cottiers ✨ 23 April – Gateshead, Glasshouse Sage 2 ✨ 24 April – Pocklington, Arts Centre ✨ 25 April – Hebden Bridge, Trades Club ✨ 04 May – Leeds, City Varieties ✨ 05 May – Bristol, The Lantern ✨ 06 May – London, ICA ✨ 07 May – Brighton, Komedia ✨ 08 May – Exeter, Mount Dinham ✨ 09 May – Falmouth, KCM Church
Pre-order the album and grab your tickets at the link in bio. 🎫

📸: Grace Lightman

#LYR #DarkSkyReservation #SimonArmitage #NewMusic
New music news! 🕯️ @oracogan has officially announced her @sacredbones debut, Hard Hearted Woman, arriving March 13th.
The first single and video, “Honey,” is out everywhere now. It’s a slow-blooming, psych-folk burn that explores the shells we build to survive a fractured world. Directed by Paloma Ruiz-Hernandez, the video is a beautiful, chaotic whirlwind of longing and dance.
Pre-order the record and watch the video at the link in bio. 🕊️
Cogan is also heading out on tour this Spring: 📍 March 13 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl 📍 March 19-April 3 - UK & Ireland Tour
“Ora Cogan’s music is alchemical: part instinct, part ritual, and always conjured from the edges where life feels sharpest.”

📸 Alexa Black
🎥Paloma Ruiz-Hernandez

#OraCogan #HardHeartedWoman #SacredBones #NewMusic
Anjimile’s newly announced LP, You’re Free to Go (due 13 March), signals a profound tonal shift toward a state of radical, open-handed grace.
Lead single “Like You Really Mean It” serves as a luminous entry point—a composition that prioritises tenderness as a form of resilience. Produced by Brad Cook and featuring contributions from Sam Beam, the record masterfully synthesises folk sensibilities with a nostalgic, late-’90s alternative pop melodicism.
It is a sonic map of transformation, navigating the intersections of non-monogamy, spiritual inquiry, and the evolving resonance of Anjimile’s own voice. It suggests that liberation is found not in the absence of friction, but in the courage to remain porous to the world.
Watch the Caity Arthur-directed video and pre-order the album at the link in bio.

📸 Xander Opiyo

#Anjimile #YoureFreeToGo #NewMusic
Resonances in the Archive: A Review of Tragic Magic
The long-anticipated collaboration between @juliannabarwick and Mary Lattimore - @maryoverthere arrives not as a mere meeting of minds, but as a site-specific emergence. Recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris, Tragic Magic finds the duo interrogating the sonic possibilities of the Musée de la Musique’s permanent collection—pairing antique harps with an array of vintage analog synthesizers.
What could have been a static exercise in archival reverence is, instead, a vital modernist statement. 
From the post-rock architecture and minimalist repetitions of “The Four Sleeping Princesses” to the stark, ecological mourning of “Melted Moon,” the record moves with admirable dexterity. It culminates in “Rachel’s Song,” from the Blade Runner soundtrack, which seems to show us a markedly different future world from Vangelis’ original vision: a cold, depopulated place, perhaps, but one that still has the potential for beauty and love.
And those two things, beauty and love, seem to be at the heart of Tragic Magic. It is a radiant album, confident in its unique sound, which lingers in the memory long after its last notes fade out. 

Read Thomas Blake’s full review via the link in our bio. 🔗

🎨 Cover art by @catsolen

#TragicMagic #ModernComposition #juliannabarwickwill
“River flow, water into water, not a loop but a continuum.”
@tashidorjiiiishares “burn the throne,” the second single from his upcoming album low clouds hang, this land is on fire. Trading his signature acoustic friction for electric guitar resonance, Tashi delivers a “declaration of war rooted unshakably in peace.”
The accompanying video is the work of a longtime friend and Godspeed You! Black Emperor projectionist, Philippe Léonard. 🎞️
💿 New album out January 30th on @dragcityrecords. 🎫 Catch Tashi on tour across North America this February, with European dates to follow soon!
Check the link in bio to watch the video and pre-order the record.

📸 Matias Corral

#TashiDorji #DragCity #NewMusic #ExperimentalGuitar
Coming Soon: @katherinepriddy’s third album, THESE FRIGHTENING MACHINES, drops on March 6th via Cooking Vinyl. This highly anticipated record follows her acclaimed chart-topping albums, The Eternal Rocks Beneath and The Pendulum Swing.
Priddy has also released the album’s third single, ‘Hurricane,’ a track that showcases a captivating expansion of her sound with a sultry groove and a cautionary tale of dangerous love. The single is accompanied by a new music video directed by Jay Bartlett.
These Frightening Machines was produced by the renowned Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi) and recorded at The Glaucus House, Middle Farm Studios. It features collaborations with Torres on ‘Madeleine’ and Richard Walters on ‘I’m Always Willing,’ as well as contributions from Ben Christophers.
The album explores a spectrum of emotions and themes, from reclaiming women’s voices to confronting illness and the complexities of growing older. As Priddy notes, it delves into “the ever shifting relationship I have with my sense of self as a woman, my body and my place in the world as a 30 year old artist”, adding “but I’d like to think that whilst the songs are born from personal experience, the feelings expressed are widely relatable.”
In support of the new album, Katherine Priddy will be undertaking a series of in-store appearances across the UK through January, February, and March. This will be followed by an extensive UK headline tour throughout April and May 2026.
Pre-order information and dates via link in bio!

📸 Matty Deveson

#KatherinePriddy #TheseFrighteningMachines #NewAlbum #CookingVinyl
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