Safi Bugel
From birdsong to pool balls, this Lithuanian musician – a graduate of Copenhagen’s buzzy Rhythmic Music Conservatory – mixes beguiling found sounds into left-field pop and modern classical.
5d
Essaying a broken heart, the New Yorker puts her voice front and centre for her most accessible work yet, though still with unexpected details – and a Schumann cover.
1mo
The Aymara musician takes inspiration from an Andean tradition, resulting in a scrappy sonic meditation with woozy melodies and pockets of warmth.
3mo
The composers’ first collaborative album ebbs from epic, cinematic heights to delicate and dreamy lullabies.
4mo
Sharon Van Etten, Stephen O’Malley, Perila and more transform the duo’s gloomy, sensual songs on an album of covers and remixes.
6mo
Hook-laden tracks are woven through wandering instrumentals, ritualistic drum workouts and scrappy guitar jams.
7mo
Of a piece with the off-kilter pop of Astrid Sonne and Tirzah, Raisa K builds a striking debut out of hazy melodies, unaffected vocals and observations of everyday love.
1y
Shivering with tension, Trouble the Water is an exciting and urgent call to come together and kick off – at once a reflection of, and a cathartic release from, volatile times.
3y
Across 12 songs, she unpacks emotional baggage and memories, transferring them from her Los Angeles bedroom to the world.
4y
The 80s label released hundreds of oddball DIY recordings. Their final compilation, now repressed, jerks from folk to punk to ambient – with moments worthy of great kids’ TV.
1y
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