First new release thread of 2026, and the first new release thread I’ve ever done I think.
Fuath - III
Third Fuath album (obvs) from Andy Marshall (Saor), Scottish atmospheric black metal.
Ellende - Zerfall
Sixth full length of Atmo black from Austria’s Ellende
Wraithlord - If Blood Is To Spill… Make It An Ocean
Ninth album from the American one man black metal artist
A fittingly bleak choice of music
Yeah “happy” new year folks! 
iZeo - My Zeo
Umpteenth album by a highly prolific Latvian producer who my bestie put me onto last year. Very listenable IDM/ambient, like a bedroom version of µ-Ziq.
Post punk shoegaze dream pop
skramz life 2026, let’s have it
Let’s remember to include Artist name - Album name in each post for the weekly polls (and search/avoiding duplicate entries).
BALF - EASTSIDE | INDUSTRIAL COAST
I made noise*. Inspired by techno and electronic experimental stuff and my brain worms. Digital sounding mad noisy experiments from the East coast of the UK. Digital and tape available.
*I’m not sure it’s even noise but it’s not really music either.
Rx Cowboy - I AM BEING WATCHED
Ruff loud rap from the underground.
Kitu - Songs For Future Slaves | Satatuhatta
Brooding noisy experiments.
Knifedoutofexistence - Dead Man’s Eyes | Outsider Art
Drones on slowed down tapes with loads of reverb, the classics. This is more on the unsettling side.
Clark - We Bury the Dead
Clark brought us the “return to form” album Steep Stims in November, but he’s not done with film scores and today drops one for ann Australian arthouse zombie film.
New single from My Best Unbeaten Brother.
Adam and Ben (ex Nosferatu D2) along with DiSer @hippy_smell
Indie/emo/spoken wordy.
Have a listen, there isn’t much else out 
DIIV - Boiled Alive
DIIV have added their live version of my favourite album from 2024 to streaming, along with all the Intermissions, which probably make more sense with the videos themselves. The video version’s still available to buy or rent at www.boiledalive.com. I’m not sure if this is a recording of a full album run through, but I’d have preferred it if they’d done the show they toured, including the songs they played from other albums, but still nice to have this as a companion piece, I guess.
loopcinema - My-Lovely-Yellow-Kombi
Her LOOP:GLAMOUR was one of my favorite albums of last year and while that felt like rapidly hopping between rooms of a raging nonsensical Brazilian house party, this is a far more relaxed pace. Or a different drug, perhaps. 6 long joyous tracks that take their time unfolding and following their own psychedelic logic. Hypnotic and dense.
Yess, that loopcinema album is awesome, great one to start off the year with
Daniel Lopatin had three votes on last week’s poll and therefore came top, with three other releases each receiving one vote.
What did you like this week, if anything?
Huh, disappeared off bandcamp but it’s on streaming.
Since she doesn’t appear to be on BC at all (her album last year wasn’t on there either), I wonder if someone made a fake account there to scam some sales.
Feels Like Heaven - Within Dreams
nice melodic hardcore from Sweden
SPILLINGS - SPILLINGS
Montreal duo with heavy, spacious, electrical incantations. Linked by the BIG|BRAVE insta and seem like fellow travelers.