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Released: March 15, 2024 Genre: Electronic / Footwork From: US Label: Hyperdub Why you should listen: Chicago-born and raised Heavee has been a mainstay within the footwork scene in the city. Unleash is his Hyperdub debut, a striking album that features jittery effects and swirling, melodic synths, with footwork’s 160 template as the backdrop to […] Read more

Released: March 15, 2024 Genre: Jazz From: US Label: Native Rebel Recordings Why you should listen: ganavya’s music feels transcendant in many ways. Emotionally potent and always with so much soul, her music is utterly hypnotic, and her new album like the sky I’ve been too quiet is among her most poignant and stunning so […] Read more

Released: March 13, 2024 Genre: Experimental hip-hop From: US Label: Tygr Rawwk Records Why you should listen: Beans, previously of Antipop Consortium has teamed up with Finnish electronic producer Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay for a striking, futuristic new album titled ZWAARD. With disorienting and dynamic production throughout, the album is an almost overwhelming listening […] Read more

Released: March 8, 2024 Genre: Punk From: the Netherlands Label: Strap Originals Why you should listen: Groningen-based band Real Farmer have come through with an electrifying, energetic and hard-hitting debut album with Compare What’s There. Literally appeared in my Apple Music recommended new releases the other day, I was initially drawn by the aesthetic album […] Read more

Released: February 14, 2024 Genre: Hip-hop / Experimental From: US Label: POW Recordings Why you should listen: Enigmatic emcee Fatboi Sharif has teamed up with frequent collaborator Roper Williams for a 10-minute single / EP titled Something About Shirley. It features Fatboi Sharif’s usually eclectic and dystopian world-building lyrics about monsters in the closet, poltergeists […] Read more

Released: March 8, 2024 Genre: Experimental / Jazz From: US Label: Anti- Records Why you should listen: Moor Mother’s music and art defies categorisation. Unapologetically anti-colonial and anti-capitalist, the Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist has been creating some of the most striking, political and experimental music I’ve listened to in the past few years – whether we’re […] Read more