And one a bit more English:
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver - Hinterland
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Junk Drawer - Days of Heaven
Good blend of indie rock, psych, post-punk and a little bit of Americana
Movement81 - If infinity,
This would be my top dance/electronica nomination. Swansea duo Jason and Becky with this debut album ofā¦ well itās a bit of a mix of styles, but minimalist techno feels like the dominant theme for me, quite 90s influenced too. Has an insistence to it that keeps pulling me in.
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Belfast based folk singer. Trad enough to appeal to folk fans, experimental enough to offer something for wider tastes. Hands down the best folk album Iāve heard in years, not a weak track on it.
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Gnod + MC Sissi ā Inner Fucking Peace
For a description Iāll quote myself when I was 2024 AOTY deliberating
Maybe my favourite album title of the year. Noise rock band Gnod now down to a duo and going experimental electronica in this collaboration with Portuguese vocalist (and now wife of Gnodās Chris Haslam) MC Sissi. Love the creeping intensity of Reprise, and the overall variations around a theme on this album.
Jessica Winter - My First Album
Released on 11th July 2025 so just sneaking into the qualifying period. Canāt get enough of this album, weirdo electropop at its best.
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Shanti Celeste - Romance
Sherelle - With A Vengeance
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
UNIVERSITY - McCartney, Itāll Be Ok
You better believe Iām gonna nominate my own record. Who do you think I am, someone with class and tact?
Adventsong - Verdancy
Upbeat, sunny and shiny electronica, with a mix of new age, lo-fi, bubbly ambient and expansive ambient techno
And while weāre here, an actual proper record from a proper artist
Dawnwalker - The Unknowing
DW at their most melodic and accomplished. Progressive / post-metal goodness, with haunting depths, sparkling and soaring highs, and some total bangers to boot
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Must have missed this in the new release thread but this is fantastic!
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YOUNG KNIVES - LANDFILL
Oxford, UK // 24th January 2025
Expand your mind and embrace the transience of all things with this rattlebag sixth album from the Dartnall brothers.
Standout track: Ugly House
HENGE - JOURNEY TO VOLTUS B
Manchester, UK // 31st January 2025
Board a spaceship bound for the distant Earthlike planet Voltus B! The journey is long, but nothing passes the time like a rollicking sci-fi rave.
Standout track: Slingshot
PIT PONY - DEAD STARS
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK // 7th February 2025
A fuzzy, punky album that comes at you with its teeth bared. If it doesnāt make you flinch, it may just make you swoon instead.
Standout track: At Dawn
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Work, Money, Death - People of the Fast Flowing River
Arguably the greatest spiritual jazz band of the decade continue to get better with each release. Itās not often that a jazz release gets three times as many votes as the second top album in the weekly release poll on here, but it happened the week of 29th November 2024 with this record, which āreally brightened up a hungover winters morningā (@badmanreturns) . The legacy of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders shines brightly through this album
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And we tell ourselves
That weāre not scum
We tell ourselves
That weāre someone
At the public library
I got over my wife
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k6iorFo48exhoJU7zghE82OYXzF2Hjgc8
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Just listened to Gideon Coe on catchup and he played a track from this. It was great and Iām going all in.
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Abduction - Existentialismus
February 21st 2025
Fifth full length from Derbyās premier black metal band. Fires out of the gate with the furious Legacy of Sores and never really lets up through its entire 45 minutes, melodic riffs, swirling atmospherics, pummelling drums. Although there are some moments of relative calm, with even some clean vocals later in the album! Seeing it performed live at Fortress Fest a few months ago was a highlight of the weekend!
Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran
October 4th 2024
Progressive doom from London with a distinct Middle Eastern flavour thanks to vocalist Nina Saeidiās amazing voice. One of my favourites of 2024.
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Melodic elements of post-rock, psych and kosmische manifest in a widescreen electronic world. Electronic Sound magazine said āThe Yellow Knife feels like lightning flashing through fogā¦ā and āit demands to be heard as a whole and rewards repeated listeningā. They also called Constant Little Ghost āa master of musical storytellingā and included the artist in their 2025 list of favourite grassroots musicians.
Unsigned and working solo, āThe Yellow Knifeā was written, performed, produced, recorded by Constant Little Ghost at home and released in October 2024
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āThe Yellow Knifeā by Constant Little Ghost
October 2024
constantlittleghost. bandcamp. com/album/the-yellow-knife
Not letting me post links 
Welcome! I think as a new member youāre restricted from posting links, so in the meantime Iāll put this here:
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Thank you! Very kind of you to help me out!
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