The four-track record is out through his own World Music label

Dean Blunt has released a new EP under his Babyfather moniker.

Spanning four tracks, icl features vocal contributions from DJ Escrow (who appeared on 2015 album “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow) and TYSON, as well as production from Vegyn and Wraith9. It follows the June 2025 release of Babyfather single ‘ƐƐƐƐƐ’.

Listen to icl track ‘Pop’ below.

icl is out now on World Music.

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The new record was produced alongside Stuart Price, who worked on the first Confessions… offering

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Madonna is releasing a sequel to her classic 2005 album Confessions On A Dance Floor.

The new record, titled Confessions II, sees her rekindle her partnership with producer Stuart Price, who worked on the original album. Ahead of the release of a lead single, she has shared a visual teaser of new music, which you can watch below.

In a statement, Madonna said: “People think that dance music is superficial, but they’ve got it all wrong. The dance floor is not just a place, it’s a threshold: A ritualistic space where movement replaces language.”

When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record,…

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Drass

On The Hill

Mixed media artist Shardcore makes his first foray into music-making with an album of fizzing and glitching electronic pop

On The Hill by DRASS

The disruptive art world figure Shardcore (Eric Drass) has adopted the name Drass for this unexpected debut: his first sideways slide into solo music-making. He’s based in Brighton, so I’m long familiar with Shardcore and his visual work, which mixes media including painting and elaborate conceptual installation with degenerative art online, often in glitchy Dadaist collab with machine learning tools. With his rhino-horn quiff and black varnished nails, a classy dresser, he cuts a ubiquitous silhouette around town, at our juicier tech gatherings, or propping up the bar at a certain kind of indie gig. Still,…

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Danny Passarella, author of Spacemen 3 Vinyl Extended Edition offers us ten entry points into the medicated back catalogue of Rugby’s transcendent narco rock minimalists. Plus a Quietus Essentials playlist for top tier subscribers

Spacemen 3 were never about flashy solos or instant pop hooks. “One chord best, two chords cool, three chords okay, four chords average.” Their music is hypnotic, meditative, and intensely immersive. They blended restraint, repetition, and raw emotion. It demands you listen but rewards your patience. From the droning, blistering immediacy of Sound Of Confusion to the widescreen, psychedelic layers of Recurring, the band reshaped what it meant to create space, intensity, and trance in British guitar music. Listening to them is an act of surrender; the reward…

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Silicon Valley made everyone think we could operate alone. It was wrong. Music marketing expert Darren Hemmings explains why 2026 will mark a reckoning for big tech and music.

As technology has developed in the last twenty years, it has brought with it a sense of enablement. Over time, access to nearly everything has become simpler, and as such, the message from Silicon Valley and its offshoots was that you can do it all. 

I have worked in the music industry since the late 90s, and through the company I founded in 2011, I have worked with a fantastic array of incredible artists covering anything from top-tier pop to extremely weird and wonderful out there leftfieldism. 

When I started my company, it certainly…

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Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland

Eternal Life No End

Members of Jerusalem in My Heart and Oiseaux-Tempête join forces to compose a fractured soundtrack to a conflict-riven world

Eternal Life No End ليلة ظلماء ملعونة، كحياة طالبيها by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland

Unexpected encounters often yield unexpected results. It is easy to get lost in Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s extensive discography. Especially if your eye (and ear!) is drawn to the albums recorded under the name Jerusalem in My Heart, which take Arabic music as their starting point, falling somewhere in the vicinity of bands such as Land of Kush, Praed or Sanam. These unexpected collaborations sometimes result in overlooked releases, such as the exceptional The Sentimental Moves – a…

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MC Yallah & Scotch Rolex, Holy Tongue, and more will play the Berlin event this summer

MC Yallah

Berlin festival Gaswerk Music Days has revealed the first wave of acts playing its 2026 event this summer.

Taking place across two weekends, the festival will take in sets from the likes of MC Yallah & Scotch Rolex, Holy Tongue, and Burnt Friedman & João Pais Filipe. Also lined up to play are Rabih Beaini, Azu Tiwaline, Jay Mitta, and NSI. (the duo of Max Loderbauer and Tobias Freund), among others.

Gaswerk Music Days will take place at Gaswerksiedlung, a former industrial residential complex that now houses 105 studios. In addition to its programming of music performances, the festival will be the base for a residency…

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“In Britain in 2026 you can be arrested under the Terrorism Act for sitting in silence, holding a cardboard sign stating that you oppose genocide and supporting non-violent action to prevent it,” he said in a statement

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Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja was arrested in London over the weekend for taking part in a protest in support of the organisation Palestine Action.

Del Naja was seen in photos at the protest holding a sign that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. He was charged with suspicion of showing support for a proscribed organisation, after the UK government banned the protest group last year under anti-terror laws.

The musician was one of 523 people, aged between 18 and…

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The Scottish band will celebrate the album in a run of shows this September

Primal Scream will play their 2000 album XTRMNTR in full in a series of tour dates later this year.

The Scottish band will play seven UK shows, kicking off with a pair of hometown gigs at Glasgow’s Barrowland on 3 and 4 September. They will then play at NX in Newcastle on 8 September, followed by a show at Nottingham’s Rock City the following night.

From there, the tour will go on to Manchester’s New Century Hall on 11 September, and Bristol’s Electric on 13 September. They will wrap up the run of shows at HERE @ Outernet in London on 15 September.

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A version of one of its songs will be debuted as part of her Echolalia exhibition later this year

Björk has revealed that her next album will be released in 2027.

Taking to Instagram to clarify details about her upcoming Echolalia exhibition and accompanying Iceland rave to mark the total solar eclipse, she refuted fan predictions that the LP would also be titled Echolalia and confirmed that she is currently working on the record.

“I saw all your comments and wanted to massage out a potential misunderstanding that has been floating around: Echolalia is not the title of my next album”, Björk wrote. “It is an umbrella-exhibition-name. An umbrella that gives two of my Fossora songs the treatment I always dreamed of, and some…

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