Fennesz and Azu Tiwaline are among the artists heading to the Braga event this October

Semibreve has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2026 edition later this year.

The Braga festival returns for its 16th edition this October, and will take in a performance of Saffron On Grey, the new live project from Fennesz and composer Oscar Jockel. The artists will be backed by a 12-piece ensemble, while the set will also include a specially designed light setup.

Also confirmed to play the event are Azu Tiwaline; PUYR; TYGAPAW; Noémi Büchi; Qasim Naqvi; Malcolm Pardon; and João Carlos Pinto. Many of the artists booked will present special audiovisual live shows for the festival.

Further acts will be added to the bill in…

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Jude Rogers counts the way in which a new reissue 50th Anniversary Edition of Radio-Activity is a good and necessary thing

Why is there yet another reissue of Radio-Activity? Let me count the ways.

Eins: Because this Dolby Atmos mix is not quite the same record.

Back in March, in a dark playback studio in the industrial hinterlands of King’s Cross, I heard my favourite Kraftwerk album brightened and shined. I heard tones I didn’t recognise, vocal parts I’d never clearly noticed across hundreds of plays. Reconstructed from the original 16-track tapes, very sharpened frequency, every lifted stem of sound, unsettled my musical memories.

Perhaps it’s unsurprising that Ralf Hütter (along with former Kraftwerk member Fritz Hilpert) is still trying to reconnect with the album’s original energy, even…

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Max Cooper

Feeling Is Structure

The Belfast-born producer risks neglecting what makes music special in his zeal to present himself as an artist

Feeling Is Structure by Max Cooper

Max Cooper’s ninth studio release has been created with microscopic attention to detail, exactly what you’d expect considering the London-based techno and electronic producer’s former life as a computational biologist. But in focussing so intently on the minutiae, the bigger picture can feel neglected. The album was originally developed for Cooper’s audiovisual show, performed last month to a sold-out crowd of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall. Without any of the accompanying techno-psychedelic imagery, it sometimes feels like you’re only experiencing half the project.

At its best, Feeling Is Structure balances grand cinematic overtones with…

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It was made with frequent collaborators A. G. Cook and Finn Keane

Charli xcx has released a new single, ‘Rock Music’.

The new cut follows on from the UK artist’s Wuthering Heights soundtrack album, which came out in February, and marks the start of a new era for her after the widespread success of 2024 album BRAT.

‘Rock Music’ was made by Charli alongside frequent collaborators A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, formerly known as Easyfun. Listen to the song below.

‘Rock Music’ is out now on Atlantic.

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They’re the first two tracks to be unveiled from forthcoming album Inferno

Boards Of Canada have shared two new songs, titled ‘Introit’ and ‘Prophecy At 1420 MHz’.

Released as the first two cuts to be unveiled from forthcoming album Inferno, they follow on from a piece of standalone music, ‘Tape 05’, that the Scottish duo released on YouTube with no other information alongside it last month.

‘Introit’ is a brief track that opens Inferno, while ‘Prophecy At 1420 MHz’ follows it in the album’s tracklist and clocks in at five minutes. You can listen to both songs below.

Spanning 18 tracks and announced last month, Inferno arrives 13 years on from Boards Of Canada’s last LP, Tomorrow’s Harvest. Its announcement was preceded by a teaser…

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In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Chris Pugmire takes us to the radical, experimental, queer racket of the USA’s Pacific seaboard – including Erase Errata (pictured), Tracy & The Plastics, Get Hustle and more

Erase Errata by Holly Rose Wood

The U.S. West Coast underground in the early 2000s was orogenic, jutting out from the collisional dynamics of predecessor scenes with both the brute confidence and flexibility of fresh igneous rock. Sidestepping orthodoxy, its participants generally seemed to forgo the internecine battles of the 90s in favour of a queered politic of mischievous possibility, deep weirdness and all-together-now sense of play. Each major city and university town seemed to suddenly be restocked with a cultural vanguard of cool ruler lesbians, visionary trans…

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Back after an eight-year album gap, the Leeds duo have met the moment, matching the scale of our psychic overwhelm with an album of more-than-human intensity

In Perdido Street Station, China Miéville describes “crisis energy”, the moment when a system pushed to its absolute limit transforms, where collapse and maximum release become the same event. Guttersnipe adopt this idea as their guiding principle. On Extinction Burst!, their first record in eight years, they turn crisis energy from concept into visceral reality.

The Leeds duo (Uroceras Gigas and Tipula Confusa) see the supposed split between the cerebral and the visceral as a cultural fabrication. They reject the idea that intellect and bodily experience must be separate, a myth sustained by a society that…

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Octo Octa

Sigils For Survival

The American producer’s latest album documents a decade of queer life through chaos magic and clubhouse momentum

Sigils For Survival by Octo Octa

In the late autumn of 2015, Maya Bouldry-Morrison, the producer known as Octo Octa, stepped out from the protective anonymity of the DJ booth to claim her identity as a transgender woman. It was a moment that fundamentally recalibrated her relationship with the dancefloor, transforming it from a place of mere performance into a site of profound, public becoming. Now, exactly ten years removed from that threshold, she has delivered Sigils For Survival, an album that functions less like a standard long-player and more like a carefully bound grimoire of the intervening decade.

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Loraine James releases Detached From The Rest Of You this week via Hyperdub, here she interviews collaborator Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, before the tables are turned

Music writers. Who needs ’em? We recently had the opportunity to get music producer Loraine James together with Miho Hatori, co-founder of Cibo Matto, so we left them to interview one another with no interference from us.

One of the most singular voices in British electronic music, James has spent the last decade building a catalogue that folds IDM, ambient, club music and fractured pop into something wholly her own, moving from the knotty experimentation of For You And I through to the emotional openness of Gentle Confrontation and her increasingly expansive work as…

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They’ve also shared a single, ‘Weakened’, which features banjo from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon

Lambchop are releasing a new album, which is titled Punching The Clown.

Spanning 12 tracks, the record was produced by Ryan Olson, and features banjo-playing throughout by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. It’s at April Base, Vernon’s Wisconsin studio, that Kurt Wagner and co. recorded the album.

Speaking about the album, Wagner said: “In early 2024, I heard a song on the radio on my way to get some gas: just a minimal single chord-strummed banjo and a small group of voices. It seemed perfect in the moment as the moment became perfect in itself. I never found out who it was, sounded kinda like early country gospel?

“In a time…

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