Yours Sincerely is the Yellow Magic Orchestra musician’s 23rd album

Haruomi Hosono is releasing his first album in seven years, titled Yours Sincerely.

It’s the Yellow Magic Orchestra musician’s 23rd LP in a decades-long career, and marks his first through Ghostly International. The album’s title, Hosono said in a statement, was inspired by omoiyari, a concept that can mean both “suffering together” and “rejoicing together”, depending on its use.

Hosono is scheduled to mark the album’s release with a pair of US shows alongside Toro Y Moi later this year, at New York’s Radio City Music Hall (16 September) and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles (20 September).

Ghostly International will release Yours Sincerely on 11 September 2026.
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the 14-track record is out in September

Arab Strap have shared details of their ninth studio album, Half-Told Tales.

Spanning 14 tracks, its release comes 30 years on from the release of the duo’s debut single. The album was written and produced amidst a push-pull, back-and-forth dynamic between the group’s Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton that saw them compromise on each other’s various ideas.

“The excitement comes because me and Aidan like and hate different things,” said Middleton in a statement. “There are things in the record that individually we might not choose but that’s why I like this album so much, because it’s not the one I wanted to make. I don’t think it’s what Aidan wanted to make either, it’s this…

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The band’s own take on the score for David Lynch’s feature debut will be released in July

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Xiu Xiu are releasing their own interpretation of the soundtrack to David Lynch’s 1977 feature film debut Eraserhead.

The material featured on the album is based on a new live show by the band, which sees them recreate the film’s score alongside a screening of the movie itself. The film’s original score and sound design was produced by Lynch and Alan Splet, with Peter Ivers famously composing the most prominent piece of music, ‘In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)’.

Xiu Xiu previously produced the album and concert concept Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks in 2016 with the blessing of David Lynch…

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The six-track release closes a cycle of records that began with 2019’s Existenz

Function is releasing a new mini-album with Tresor, titled Aeternum (Existenz).

Comprised of six tracks, it serves as the final chapter of a series of records that started with 2019 LP Existenz, and has since included Subject f (Transcendence), Awakening From The Illusory Self and Green. All six tracks on the new release were recorded between 2016 and 2019.

To mark the announcement of the mini-LP, the Sandwell District member has shared lead cut ‘Growth Cycle (Hermetic Mix)’, which draws on emotive synth melodies that recall 90s Detroit techno. Listen to the song below.

Tresor will release Aeternum (Existenz) on 3 July 2026.

Aeternum (Existenz) by Function
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From vintage folk and country through 90s alternative and some modern classics, Kurt Vile takes Julian Marszalek through the songs he can’t stop playing on repeat

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Much like the way Lou Reed became inextricably linked with his beloved New York, Kurt Vile has long come to be associated with Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love whose streets, neighbourhoods and history have long shaped his sound and his artistic outlook. With the release of his new album Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me, he finally names the city outright, grounding the album in his hometown and the life that he’s built there.

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Anna Doble remembers passing out during a Manics gig in 1996 and coming round clutching part of Nicky Wire’s feather boa… and an album that came to define that summer

I didn’t mean to miss the gig but part of me was genuinely pleased about it. Despite being bruised, dizzy and dehydrated I found myself coming back to consciousness during ‘The Girl Who Wanted To Be God’ and when I looked down, padding my own body as if reconvening with existence, I saw that my T-shirt was covered in Nicky Wire’s feathers.

I was 17 when Manic Street Preachers first brought Everything Must Go into my world. Ten months after I had got hold of the album (on release day in May…

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Han-earl Park

uᴉɐƃ∀ ʍǝN sI plO sI ʇɐɥM

Originally conceived as short online videos, the Korean-American guitarist’s new suite of improvised tracks manages to re-invent the guitar without hiding it behind a swathe of electronics and effects

uᴉɐƃ∀ ʍǝN sI plO sI ʇɐɥM by Han-earl Park

Han-earl Park’s last solo guitar album, 2021’s Of Life, Recombinant, ended in an eruption. The record’s opening tracks sounded like rogue metallurgy in a temporally displaced graveyard. Spooky sparks and shards of chords punctured looming tonal clouds, causality went askew as echoes seemingly occurred before their initial plucks. This eerie tension was shattered in the closing title track, an explosion of tendrilous lines midway through tangling and twitching over each other in a febrile dance.

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JR Moores listens to some alt rock releases and has a bone to pick with the chief Foo Fibber 

The Claypool Lennon Delirium, photo by Jay Blakesberg

Dave Grohl is on the charm offensive. I know what you’re thinking. That’s exactly what he’s been on for the past 30 years. Buttocks nestled into Norton’s sofa. Chummy cover features by David Fricke. NICEST GUY IN ROCK, don’t you know. Grohl brushes off that nickname, which was imposed on him, as well he might. In a recent Guardian feature, the other Foo Fighters disclosed how difficult Grohl is to work with (or, rather, for). Then there are those widely reported personal life revelations. They might have come as a greater shock if Louise Post…

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For Breakfast

Longer Than Spring

North Londoners follow a brace of EPs with a leaner, more sophisticated sound

Longer Than Spring by For Breakfast

After four years, North London’s For Breakfast return with Longer Than Spring, an LP trading the murky, sprawling friction of the seven-piece band’s roots for a leaner, solo-led architecture. It’s a sophisticated if occasionally sanitised evolution; while the band’s signature virtuosity remains, it is now tethered to the singular narrative of vocalist and keys player Maya Harrison.

This shift is catalysed by Harrison’s decade-long recovery from illness, framing the record’s elastic pacing as a non-linear map of healing built around lyrics the band used as a centering force for their arrangements. Longer Than Spring also reckons with the external: the relentless…

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