New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).
The ambient guitar duo, Hammock, return with a new album of inner contemplations and moody guitar excursions called Nevertheless. It’s a music that sits somewhere between here and there.
Music from Bill Nelson in what seems to be an endless stream of new music. This one is called Studio Cadet and echoes the early 60s guitar band sound of The Ventures and The Shadows.
An electronic excursion with Rival Consoles. Landscape from Memory is the ninth studio by the UK artist, Ryan Lee West, and it may be his most kinetic and accessible yet.
Some chilled music for the hot summer with Nicholas Gunn’s August CD of the Month, 30. It’s an expansive album that celebrates the 30th anniversary of Gunn’s album, Music of the Grand Canyon.
Ankylosing Spondylitis is a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror.
Marconi Union sticks the landing with their album, The Fear of Never Landing, Echoes June CD of the Month. AvaWaves just misses and AESEAS eyes the top in Echoes Top 25 Releases for June 2025.
AVAWAVES talk about their new album, Heartbeat hot on the heels of their soundtrack to The Buccaneers and we remember Mark Dwane, the guitary-synth artist who passed on July 24.
Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions including deep ambient music. We talk to this master musician.