Curbside Lambsear

Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands

Members of The Umlauts and caroline find scrappy joy in dissonant chaos mixed with cinematic grandeur

Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands by Curbside Lambsear

This is an intriguingly hard-to-pin-down debut from London’s Curbside Lambsear, AKA Magdalena McLean and Annabelle Mödlinger. Having met while playing in the (still active) art punk band The Umlauts, the duo assembled this lengthy EP in a patchwork fashion. You wouldn’t know it. There’s a coherent sense of purpose to these five tracks, as well as a free-roaming attitude when it comes to genre.

The post punk-tinged opener, ‘No Ordinary Word’, slouches in on heavy-limbed drums and thick, dubby bass, Mödlinger’s insouciant vocals…

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It appears on a new retrospective compilation of Mogwai’s work, celebrating 30 years of the band

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Mogwai have teamed up with Iggy Pop for a new track, ‘Underground’.

The track’s release comes alongside news of a new retrospective compilation celebrating 30 years of Mogwai, called Happy Tears. It features highlights and rarities from across the band’s discography, including a special new re-working of ‘New Paths To Helicon 1’, featuring the Budapest Art Orchestra and orchestrated by Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie.

The compilation will be released digitally, as well as in 2xLP, 4xLP and 2xCD editions. The 4xLP and 2xCD editions feature 13 additional tracks. Six of them are previously unreleased, while others encompass remixes, live cuts and rarities.

They’ve also…

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It’s the second track to be shared from forthcoming album Burning Song

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Kali Malone has released a new song, titled ‘My Eve My Dawn’.

It’s the second track to be shared from forthcoming album Burning Song, which was announced earlier this month alongside the unveiling of lead track ‘Heavy With Fruit’. Listen to ‘My Eve My Dawn’ below.

Marking Malone first LP of solo compositions since 2024’s All Life Long, Burning Song takes in seven tracks. It was recorded at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where the artist became the first musician to perform contemporary works on the church’s Bach organ.

Lucy Railton provides cello accompaniment on Burning Song, while Stephen O’Malley also plays bowed acoustic guitar across the album….

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It’s the second cut to be unveiled from forthcoming album Late Loop

Andy Stott has shared a new track, called ‘Songbird’.

It’s the second cut to be lifted from forthcoming album Late Loop, which the UK artist announced earlier this month alongside lead track ‘Something In Mind’. Like that song, ‘Songbird’ features vocals from Elaine Howley.

Howley provides vocals for four tracks on Late Loop, while longtime collaborator Alison Skidmore contributes vocals to the other four songs on the album. Stott gave himself a number of parameters when he set out working on the record, deciding to use no basslines, no reverb and no effects, save for a delay unit.

Four of Stott’s previous albums – Luxury Problems, Faith In Strangers, Too Many Voices…

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It’s the artist’s first album in over a decade

David Sylvian has shared details of a new album, The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing.

Comprised of recording sessions dating from 2012 to 2025, it marks the artist’s first album in over a decade. The LP is based on recomposed improvisational sessions with musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Otomo Yoshihide, Bilianna Voutchkova, Miako Klein and more.

The record is entirely instrumental, and is made up of one 46-minute piece. It follows 2009 album Manafon.

NANOQ will release The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing on 26 February 2027.
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The LP has been built from archival vocal recordings of late frontman Mark E Smith dating from 2001 to 2014

The Fall are releasing their “definitive” final studio album, Post Script.

Coming nine years on from 2017’s New Facts Emerge, the band’s 32nd studio LP was built from archival vocal recordings of late frontman Mark E Smith dating from 2001 to 2014. The musical backing was completed by long-time collaborators and former manager / producers Ed Blaney and Simon Archer.

The nine-track record brings together garage rock and spoken word pieces, according to a press release. It will be released on CD and vinyl formats.

Cog Sinister will release Post Script on 2 October 2026.
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The release comes as the US artist gears up to tour his classic album to mark its 50th anniversary

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Stevie Wonder has shared an EP of previously unreleased tracks that were recorded during the studio sessions for 1976 album Songs In The Key Of Life.

Songs In The Key Of Life: The EP takes in four outtakes from the album: ‘It’s Easier’, ‘My Life Story Of Love’, ‘I Can See The Sun In Late December’ and ‘I’m Into Livin”. “We’ve lived with Songs In The Key Of Life for 50 years, but there’s still more to hear,” Wonder said in a statement. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was…

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The deluxe box set includes unreleased demos and studio recordings, as well as various non-album cuts

The Flaming Lips are reissuing their 2006 album At War With The Mystics to mark its 20th anniversary.

Available in 6xCD, 6xLP and digital editions, the deluxe reissue features the full original album, as well as 19 previously unreleased demo tracks, 14 previously unreleased studio recordings, and a further 42 non-album cuts. The audio recordings of 2007 live film U.F.O.s At The Zoo and a concert at The Hollywood Bowl will also be included in the CD release.

Released four years after the wildly successful Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, At War With The Mystics was The Flaming Lips’ 11th studio album. It was more guitar-driven than…

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The Great Ecstasy Of Woodcarver Steiner also features reworks of their tracks by james K, ML Buch and Lorenzo Senni

Popol Vuh’s soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s 1974 film The Great Ecstasy Of Woodcarver Steiner is getting a long-awaited official release.

The score had previously only been available to listen to via fan-made audio recordings, but will now get a first-time vinyl and digital release. It features the German band’s full score, as well as new reworks of the track ‘Steiner’s Ecstasy’ by james K, ML Buch and Lorenzo Senni.

Herzog’s film told the story of Walter Steiner, a Swiss ski jumper who was chasing a world record in ski flying while also working full-time as a carpenter and indulging in his hobby of…

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Ahead of her new album which touches on the fear, power and ecstasy of childbirth, the Norwegian musician explains her fierce interest in a Medieval English anchoress. Words: Jude Rogers. Church photography: Eirik Havnes

Revelations of Divine Love by Susanne Sundfør with Kit Downes

If you know Susanne Sundfør’s shapeshifting back catalogue, it will be unsurprising to hear she’s made an album of devotional music, recorded live in a Norwegian church, inspired by a female mystic. From her third album (2010’s The Brothel) onwards, she’s nailed doomy piano balladry, high-octane electronica, fingerpicked folk and art-pop in both polished and fidgety forms. Her voice is a powerful pop instrument, capable of gloss, sharp edges and shivery intimacy, and it sounds gorgeous singing and…

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