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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Gilla Band

Pugnello

Dublin rock band deliver their most punishing record to date

Pugnello by Gilla Band

Have you ever heard a song for the first time and felt a shiver run so deep it took the floor with it? That, for me, is the first seconds of Pugnello, and it hardly relents from there. Dara Kiely comes in screaming on ‘The Angelus’, all scalded shriek, hollering about Bananas in Pyjamas and Gary Lineker as crisp maniac. The track pitches somewhere between Lightning Bolt and a ten-thousand-mile thundercloud, Adam Faulkner’s rolls hurtling underneath like Swans at triple speed. The title rewires the Angelus, RTÉ’s evening bell, into a street preacher bawling in tongues. That opener alone would underline everything they’ve been since France 98…

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The album is described as the UK artist’s take on a “dark Disney soundtrack”

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Klein has surprise released a new album, titled my own fairytale.

Comprised of 12 tracks, the record features previously released single ‘man in the mirror’, for which a new video has also been shared. You can watch the visual, which was co-directed by Klein and Neva Wireko, below.

my own fairytale is described in a press release as Klein’s take on a “dark Disney soundtrack”, and draws on piano, strings, acoustic guitar, rap, R&B and drone music. It was written, performed and produced entirely by the artist herself.

Listen to my own fairytale in full below.

my own fairytale is out now on Parkwuud Entertainment.

my own fairytale by Klein

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The musician was attending a protest in Liverpool for Palestine Action, an activist group that is banned in the UK

Massive Attack member Robert Del Naja has been arrested for a second time at a protest in Liverpool in support of Palestine Action, the activist group that is banned in the UK.

In a video posted to Instagram over the weekend, the musician was seen holding a sign that read “I oppose genocide – I support Palestine Action.” In the clip, a police officer told him that he was committing an offence and would be arrested, as Palestine Action was deemed a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Del Naja can be heard responding: “I don’t recognise the offence, though, because under UK law, it is…

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Live At The Barbican captures a London show that the artist played in March 2025, backed by a 25-piece musical ensemble

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Kim Deal is releasing a live album and concert film, Live At The Barbican.

Both were captured during a London show that the US artists played at London’s Barbican in March 2025, which saw a 25-piece musical ensemble join her to perform orchestral renditions of tracks from 2024 album Nobody Loves You More, as well as The Breeders’ back catalogue.

Speaking about the show in a statement, Deal said: “I invited myself! That’s how I came to play Nobody Loves You More at the Barbican. Years ago, I had worked with Chris Sharp at the 4AD label and I knew…

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“Some of the songs are quite reflective of stuff that’s been going on in my life,” Vince Clarke said of the LP

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Erasure have a new album on the way, titled Radio!! Radio!!

Spanning 10 tracks, it marks the duo’s 20th studio LP, and was written amidst a period of personal grief for them. “Some of the songs are quite reflective of stuff that’s been going on in my life, but not all of them,” Vince Clarke said in a statement. “We didn’t have to think about it or talk about it – it just happened that way.” 

Andy Bell added: “When you’re a songwriting partnership for so long, it’s very deep, kind of like a soul connection. You trust…

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Gash

At Least You Know What You’re Laughing At

Wisconsin band shape up, think big and get clean

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Wisconsin natives Gash are equal parts brisk and bold. It’s very much in line, sonically, with their previous output, equipped with the same angular, do-it-yourselfness of 304/62, their last album. This record seems less reliant on samplework as a melodic element and more so as a textural one. There’s a warm, roomy quality to a great deal of these tracks, and where guitar and bass might’ve been “lost to the lo-fi”, so to speak, on 304/62, they’re placed front and centre here. Which means that, as slacker rock goes, they exist in a space alongside acts…

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Hitting its 40th anniversary, Julian Marszalek reckons that not only is Iggy Pop’s seventh solo record the most misunderstood of all of his LPs, but that it also happens to be David Bowie’s best album of the 80s

Well, no one saw this one coming. Having spent the previous decade lauded as rock & roll’s most compelling survivor – an intoxicating mix of self-destruction, self-sabotage and musical innovation – Iggy Pop found himself, improbably, with a hit album on his hands. Not a reissue, not a compilation or a soundtrack, mind, but a bona fide triumph that would go on to be his most commercially successful album. And if that wasn’t enough, he then ram-raided – for the first and only…

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