'Vale of Tears' is the new album from harp player Andy Aquarius, recorded during a 7-day retreat that was his way of repairing the damage done by modern life.

Agnes Obel's new album 'The Meaning of Flowers' is her first for six years and inspired by the birth of her daughter.

STUDIOCANAL continue their series of restored and mastered Blu-ray / 4K releases with a collection of Peter Sellers films from an 8-year period in his career from The Ladykillers (1955) through to Hea...

LABELS have given Joyzine readers the first chance to see and hear the onslaught of sound that is their new single ‘Void’.

Pozi are back with 'Hale-Bopp' the first single from their forthcoming album 'Bark Bark'

Rapper and noise artist Moodie Black has given Joyzine readers the first chance to see the video to new single 'Warm For You'.

'Bodies in Motion' is the second album from Chicago’s Plum, and from its opening bars it’s an angular pulse quickening blend of percussion, propulsion, and perspicacity.

'Bad Things Feel Good*' is the sophomore album from Rowena Wise a poetic and often painful autobiography in musical form.

'Atheist Wife' is the new single from Wealthy Women, with righteous anger against JD Vance's "childless cat ladies" comment.

Loma Suyo is a musical project of Liz Fullerton and Ish Quintero who met in the underground and trip-hop scene of Philadelphia but on Paloma they mix Latin folk traditions with Americana.

'An Ear In Place OF A Mouth' completes a trilogy of releases that started with 2025’s 'Prey For Peace' and 'LV: HRD'.

“When I look around at what is happening today, it’s hard not to feel helpless. I’ve never known a time when humans have been more divided. It seems as though we are heading towards something truly ca...

Italy's TIGER! SHIT! TIGER! TIGER! have released 'Glue', a new single with cavernous reverb and mounting distortion.

'unfurl' is an exceptional album by singer-songwriter Orla Noble and she was kind enough to give Joyzine a track by track breakdown.

Cherry Seraph's new single ‘splitting the sky’ is a sumptuous wash of sounds held together by a lightly ticking drum pattern and a beatific chorus.

'Reloved' has DJ Nicola Conte collaborating with house producer Nico Lahs to produce four reworkings of tracks from the golden age of Italian soundtracks, released through the label Four Flies Records...

Alison Cotton ‘s new album The Gods Laugh joins a long line of albums that inhabit dark and ancient parts of our collective past, drawing from folklore and collaging myriad sounds into layered and cap...

Listening to the music of Sumie is to cast off the stresses of the world and be transported to the most beautiful landscape. For many reasons 'Stardust In Valleys' is quite simply her most exquisite a...

KÖLN 75 is one of those true stories that would likely have been rejected by a studio for being too far-fetched had it been fiction. It centres on Vera Brandes who, at 18 in 1975, is living a double l...

Jinjé’s new release maybe an EP but it packs more than a double album’s worth of sounds into its running time. Traces & Tremors is a hugely captivating set of tracks that show Jinjé - aka Yorkshire DJ...

Racines new album Arilos Mennar is a collection of tracks driven by pulsating rhythms and intoxicating beats that it is hard not to move to.

A Certain Frank are Frank Fenstermacher and Kurt Dahlke who emerged from a fertile musical landscape in 1990s Düsseldorf. 2001's 'Nothing' has barely dated since its release.

'Never Been Cheddar' is the new fuzzed-up punk rock is splashy, angular, nearly-out-of-control, febrile and raw EP from Liverpool-based band Tits Up,

Ed O’Brien’s Blue Morpho is an album born out of the darkness during the pandemic. However, it is a sonic journey that encompasses some minor keys en route but also some sun to warm the melancholy.

Cocanha are Caroline Dufau and Lila Fraysse a duo who are reimaging traditional Occitan folk. Their new album Flame Folclòre does not just reimagine tradition but ignites it with their exuberance and ...

'Assikel' is Tamikrest’s new album with the title meaning ‘voyage’ or ‘journey’ and draws on just how the band have come in those two decades.

An exclusive listen for Joyzine readers of Anna Ran's new single 'Vultures with Guilt'.

With Sun's new single is ‘Go Lightly’, written after the death of her mother.

'OUTTANATIONAL is the new album from Pigeon, a wonderful collage of style held together by the incredible voice of Falle Nioke.

'Dahlia' is the beautiful first single from Sumie's forthcoming album 'Stardust In Valleys'.

AySay are Copenhagen-based and led by singer Luna Ersahin who combines Anatolian folk and Nordic pop through her Danish/Kurdish heritage.

Life Slime is the new release from Pictish Trail, and despite being the product of the “personal tumult” following a relationship break-up there is still a great deal of warmth radiating through the m...

dälek’s 'Brilliance Of A Falling Moon' is a rap album that sonically goes to the edge of chaos but dälek has a way emboldening the listener by speaking truth to power.

Topsy Turvy’s new album 'Fighting the Ginormous Macho Nacho' has the low rumble of bass, gravel guitar, pounding drums, super-catchy vocals and some great ooh-aah backing vocals.

Angine de Poitrine play microtonal music, one on a guitar/bass double neck and one on drums. Their new album is their second album and it’s called Vol. II.

The songs that make up 'The Lost Score' were originally written to be performed as a live score for the 1930 German silent film People on Sunday commissioned by Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival.

Printemps is the new album from Aure Delaroière and it’s a gentle delight that perfectly accompanies the turning of the seasons, from winter into the spring of its title.

'Sit Down for Rock and Roll' From The Foot & Leg Clinic is a fabulous ramble through music that’s rooted in their modern take on rock but also diversifies into angular indie and lightly psychedelic fo...

'Life Slime' is the new single and title track of Pictish Trails forthcoming album. The video features Johnny Lynch being covered in 170 litres of pink slime.

‘Dumb Boy’ is the new single from NYC singer-songwriter Annie Dressner and, from the hooky opening guitar riff, we are transported back to a world of 90s music television, vibrant colours and the angs...

Hazel City is the project of Chicago’s Clay Frankel who wrote, recorded and produced the sophomore album goblynmarkytt. There is a golden hour glow to all the tracks, and the warmth of the album radia...

'The Straight Story' is David Lynch's 1999 film based on the 1994 true story of 73-year-old Alvin Straight who, on hearing of his estranged brother’s stroke, decides to make the 240-mile journey from ...

Altin Gün are the Amsterdam-based band that have been bridging the gap between Turkish folk and psychedelia since 2018. Garip is their sixth studio album and shows them at the height of their powers a...

On 'Schlafes Bruder' harpist Andy Aquarius has collaborated with Kimi Recor who is a Berlin-based sonic artist, sound therapist, and educator.

What better antidote to the endless rain that has dogged the start of 2026 than to spend a night basking in the sunshine from Sessa and support act Barney Keen at Strange Brew in Bristol.

'Galaxia Tropical' is Analog Africa’s 43rd release and features a selection of tracks from Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical.

Ayka is the recording name of Norwegian-Turkish artist Ayça Lingaas and new album 'Doggy Bag' Doggy Bag is raw around the edges but totally captivating.

Sleeping Dogs is Annie Gardiner's second solo album under her own name and, once again, the emotive nature of her dark folk is captivating and replete with the poetry of storytelling and allusion.

The Death Machine gig is on a cold night in Copenhagen, and the warmth of venue Hotel Cecil is inversely proportional to the -3°C outside. Death Machine by name, life affirming by nature.