Experimental cellist and sound artist Lia Kohl has announced her new album, Various Small Whistles and a Song, which takes direct inspiration from Ed Ruscha’s 1964 artist book, Various Small Fires and Milk. Listen to a three-track preview, one of which features claire rousay. The suite guides listeners from the bustling streets of China to rousay’s LA home, and finally to Kohl’s own kitchen in Chicago.

Following Hirons’ critically acclaimed lead single “Being The Cause”—a sharp meditation on capitalist superstructures—”The Rabbit Hole” offers a sonic journey into the ethereal. Born from a vivid summer night’s dream, Hirons channels a memory of childhood escape. Watch the accompanying visualizer.

Taken from The Mountain Goats’ forthcoming new album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, a maritime tale of survival and delusion centred on the aftermath of a devastating shipwreck, listen to their two new singles, “Cold At Night” and “Rocks In My Pockets.” The album features appearances from The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis, musical theatre royalty Lin-Manuel Miranda, and bassist Cameron Ralston.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland announces his new studio album, Laughter In Summer. This deeply personal project is a collaboration with his wife, eco-poet, actress, and producer Elizabeth Copeland, born from their nearly half-century-long love story. The album is described as a tender ledger of shared devotion, memories, grief, and joy, arriving as Glenn navigates LATE, a type of Dementia. Listen to their double single, “Children’s Anthem” and “Let Us Dance (Movement One).”

On The Dwarfs Of East Agouza’s “Sasquatch Landslide”, there are instrumental wails and squalls, bits of melody careen into the middle distance, an electronic soup bubbles away, and a thick buzz underpins everything. While it sounds like it could be messy, it’s not; it’s more like the semi-organised bustle of a busy souk, with its tension between chaos and order, where every sound has its meaning and its place.

Centred on themes of dreams and the supernatural, with their vintage guitars accompanied by just Jon Thorne on double bass, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage’s fifth album, The Strangers’ Share, sees a return to the single microphone intimacy of their debut. A captivating reminder of how, especially in the hands of  this duo, less can so often be more. The album is indeed a shared pleasure.