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The Roaring Waves

The Roaring Waves

Steve Hackett/InsideOutMusic/2026-08-28

The urge toward symphonic bravura constantly spars with an inclination to vanish into mist across The Roaring Waves, an instrumental suite where virtuosic pedigree yields to patient environmental drift. Rather than staging a competitive duel of soaring leads, Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery share space through textural diplomacy. Nylon-string flourishes and sitar-guitar inflections entwine around singing, sustained electric bends, while Mellotron surges and martial snare patterns mimic the uneasy swell of coastal weather rather than progressive rock grandstanding.

  • Reminiscence

    Reminiscence

    Miscreance/Season of Mist/2026-08-28

    Season of Mist’s reissue of Miscreance’s 2022 debut positioned the northern Italian quartet at the crest of a revived technical death-thrash underground. Arriving on the imprint as a fully backed sophomore statement, Reminiscence pushes past nostalgic homage into stranger, more volatile territory.

  • WHO SOLD YOU THIS TRUTH ++ WAS IT YOURS TO HOLD

    WHO SOLD YOU THIS TRUTH ++ WAS IT YOURS TO HOLD

    Colorblind/Solid State Records/2026-08-28

    Pristine digital gloss coats every edge, buffering detuned guitar chugs beneath synthetic pads and crisp percussion. Rather than jutting forward with jagged distortion, the guitars diffuse into ambient washes, blurred where programmed pulses meet live snare cracks. Overhead, vocals sweep upward in an urgent, compressed tenor, pushed into spotless stereo focus before snapping into guttural growls.

  • Into The Sky

    Into The Sky

    LA Priest/Domino Recording Co/2026-08-28

    Setting aside the sun-drenched, nylon-string wanderlust of Fase Luna, Sam Eastgate retreats into the machine shop, trading organic sprawl for strict rhythmic discipline. Collaborating with producer Alex Ridha, Eastgate sharpens the club-oriented impulses that have long hovered at his perimeter, doubling down on a rigid, minimalist setup dictated by vintage Korg circuitry and his own custom-wired synthesizers.

  • NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS

    NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS

    Turnstile/Roadrunner Records/2026-08-28

    Turnstile’s migration from basement sweatboxes to festival stages here abandons any remaining obligation to hardcore orthodoxy, doubling down instead on total stylistic dispersion. By handing their catalog to an erratic coalition of outside conspirators, the Baltimore outfit treats their songwriting not as fixed scripture, but as ductile raw material for ambient drift, club pulses, and pop pastiche.

Labels

  • Hyperdub317

  • Warp Records389

  • 4AD419

  • Ninja Tune383

  • XL Recordings374

  • Ostgut Ton221

  • Melting Days

    Melting Days

    Lusine/Ghostly International/2026-08-21

    Framed symmetrically by Bryan Manzo’s saxophone on "Sightline" and "Uncharted," the ten pieces trace an arc of measured emotional drift, never letting their ambient surfaces settle into inert drone. Tension gathers through micro-movements: delicate arpeggios in "Bird’s Eye" and the heavily processed cello loops of "Apparition" continuously dissolve and regenerate, giving the early stretch a restless, kinetic momentum.

  • A Beast To Praise (Live in Stockholm)

    A Beast To Praise (Live in Stockholm)

    Dark Funeral/Century Media/2026-08-21

    "Unchain My Soul" emerges from ambient hall murmurs into a barrage of biting tremolo picking and relentless double-kick patterns, Heljarmadr bellowing commands that pull the Stockholm crowd into an echoing chorus. Across its expansive run time, the track establishes the performance's defining dynamic: immaculate technical discipline paired with a surging, forward-driving rhythmic assault.

  • Hallucinating Love (Deluxe)

    Hallucinating Love (Deluxe)

    Maribou State/Ninja Tune/2026-08-21

    Hallucinating Love navigates a persistent friction between private recuperation and collective release, balancing bedroom-scale fragility against expansive, sun-drenched momentum. Rather than allowing personal turbulence to weigh the music down, the duo translates convalescence into uplifting, full-bodied groove, anchoring electronic dance arrangements in the warmth of acoustic performance.

  • Splayed Werks

    Splayed Werks

    Tyondai Braxton/Erased Tapes/2026-08-21

    Spanning fifteen tracks across seventy-plus minutes, the sequence operates as a volatile pendulum between clipped, kinetic miniatures and broad expanses of beatless decay. Compressed rhythm studies like "Multiplay" and "Dia" rattle with rapid-fire footwork percussion, pitched vocal fragments, and metallic percussive chimes, establishing a brisk, twitchy momentum that rarely settles in one groove for long.

  • Cold Velvet

    Cold Velvet

    The Night Eternal/Metal Blade Records/2026-08-21

    Arriving as the German quintet’s high-profile debut for Metal Blade Records, Cold Velvet lands at an intersection where traditional heavy metal revivalism leans deep into goth-rock gloom. Rather than smoothing out their edges for a larger platform, the Essen outfit doubles down on subterranean drama, trading digital amp simulations for the warm, analog saturation dialed in during sessions at Church of Sound Studios.

  • Made Flesh

    Made Flesh

    Untitled With Drums/Season of Mist/2026-08-21

    Crushing weight and spacious melodic clarity refuse to cancel each other out on Made Flesh, locking heavy post-hardcore grit and expansive alt-rock drift into a single, tightly coiled frame. Rather than smothering the songwriting beneath impenetrable walls of fuzz, the French quartet strips away clutter to let unadorned basslines and clean vocal melodies command the center, allowing distortion to surge around the perimeter as structural punctuation rather than background filler.

  • Materia

    Materia

    Julia Holter/Domino Recording Co/2026-08-21

    Beginning in the nimble, off-kilter lurch of "The Laugh Is in the Eyes", the collection unfolds less as a rigid sequence and more as an elastic drift. Clarinet flourishes, synthetic flutter, and rolling fretless bass propel the earliest passages with an agile energy, before the arrangements decelerate into softer, airier territory across "My Lost One" and "Fantasy".

  • Vox Occulta (Deluxe Edition) (feat. The Norwegian Radio Orchestra)

    Vox Occulta (Deluxe Edition) (feat. The Norwegian Radio Orchestra)

    Einar Solberg/InsideOutMusic/2026-08-17

    Front-loading its sharpest melodic hooks, the album establishes momentum early through dense, punchy dynamics before settling into an elongated, patient second half. Heavy, syncopated guitar chugs and surging symphonic swells propel the initial stretch of tracks, while later movements pull back into spacious chamber arrangements that demand sustained endurance.

  • J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net

    J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net

    Jethro Tull/InsideOutMusic/2026-08-14

    Stepping back from electronic gloss and sprawling prog-rock grandeur, this late-nineties entry doubled down on earthy folk-rock roots while sharpening the band's interest in Eastern melodic scales and intimate acoustic arrangements. Rather than chasing turn-of-the-millennium trends hinted at by its tech-conscious title, the material anchored the long-tenured lineup in organic interplay, pairing Ian Anderson's weathered vocal register with nimble flute passages and Martin Barre’s crunchy electric phrasing.

  • Lost In Another World

    Lost In Another World

    James Ellis Ford/Domino Recording Co/2026-08-14

    Unfolding at an even, deliberate stride, the sequencing across the runtime maintains a continuous pulse that holds the record in steady suspension. The opening stretch builds momentum through the pointillist synthesizer patterns of “Overtones” and the breezy, vocoded layers of “People Just Don’t Know”, establishing a balanced mid-tempo cadence where unhurried drum machines and warm analog arpeggios keep the atmosphere buoyant despite the existential weight beneath them.

  • International Anthem161

  • Tresor Records341

  • Basic Channel141

  • Cocoon Recordings338

  • fabric Records192

  • Brainfeeder183

  • Ghostly International399

  • !K7 Records401

  • Domino Recording Co361

  • Jagjaguwar480

  • Metal Blade Records641

  • Nuclear Blast424

  • Century Media482

  • Unique Leader Records255

  • Season of Mist516

  • InsideOutMusic363

  • Prosthetic Records211

  • Rise Records336

  • Solid State Records194

  • SharpTone176

  • Roadrunner Records393

  • Echocord72

  • The Artisan Era117

  • Music For Nations148

  • 20 Buck Spin289

  • Profound Lore288

  • 100% Silk156

  • Rhythm Section International225

  • Smallville101

  • Erased Tapes210

  • Kompakt433

  • Kranky256

  • Príncipe62

  • Mom+Pop Music130