Della Mae – Magic Accident (Compass Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
Are we bluegrass? YES. Folk? YES. Americana? YES. So say Della Mae. What are genres anyway but to box artists in. So here we have Magic Accident, their sixth album, a gorgeous celebration of life underwritten by a plea for a better world.
Yumi Zouma – No Love Lost To Kindness (Nettwerk) (13th Floor Album Review)
Four cities, three continents, one band, one fifth studio album. Yumi Zouma have mastered long-distance band polymerization, turning geographic separation into creative fuel.
Planet Hunter – Soothsayer (Sharkhound) (13th Floor Album Review)
Aotearoa’s cosmic misfits (how come every rock band is using space or cosmic to describe their music these days?) Planet Hunter are back with their second album, Soothsayer. The album is marketed as a distillation of life in the nation’s capital.
Floyd Marsden – What Does It Mean? (13th Floor Album Review)
What Does It Mean? is the third studio album from Kiwi singer-songwriter Floyd Marsden, following on from her debut Open Your Eyes in 2022 and 2024’s The Disco Lizards.
Dead Dads Club – Dead Dads Club (Universal) (13th Floor Album Review)
British act Dead Dads Club are releasing their self-titled debut. The name might be a give-away as to the themes they will be covering on this catchy LP which I really enjoyed.
Sunset Tsunami – Dub Till Dawn (Loop Recordings) (13th Floor Album Review)
Sunset Tsunami are rolling into the new year with the release of their debut long player Dub Till Dawn.
World’s Gone Wrong – Lucinda Williams (Highway 20) (13th Floor Album Review)
Just occasionally an album is released that taps into the times with laser accuracy. Lucinda Williams’ 18th studio album, World’s Gone Wrong is such a release: striking from first listen for its relevance to these angst-riven times.
The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (earMUSIC) (13th Floor Album Review)
2026 sees The Damned celebrating their 50th anniversary year of creation, and being the first UK punk band to release a record, New Rose (beating The Sex Pistols Anarchy in the U.K by a month).
David Huckfelt – I Was Born, But… (Don Giovanni) (13th Floor Album Review)
David Huckfelt’s I Was Born, But… unfolds as a carefully shaped narrative built from the songs of others, drawn together into a coherent and immersive statement.
Half Dizzy – Yard Sale (Punkerton) (13th Floor Album Review)
Long Island punk-rockers Half Dizzy have recently released their latest love-letter to nineties Epitaph Records punk releases in their album Yard Sale.
Alice Merton – Visions (Paper Plane) (13th Floor Album Review)
Alice Merton‘s third studio album Visions is a darkly beautiful piece of her soul. Brooding yet uplifting, it’s deep and powerful, her most intimate album yet.
Langhorne Slim – The Dreamin’ Kind (Dualtone Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
On his latest album Dreamin’ Kind, Nashville transplant Langhorne Slim takes a slight detour from the Americana sounds steeped in folk, roots, blues and country of his previous 8 albums with a plugged-in rock and roll feel and what might be termed a more commercial treatment of his familiar excellent songwriting.
Sleaford Mods — The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade) (13th Floor Album Review)
There’s a particular eccentric electricity that East Midland’s Sleaford Mods generate-the feeling that someone has kicked open a door to modern working class reality and is narrating the mess from a position close to, but not right in, the action.
Barry Adamson – SCALA!!! (Mute) (13th Floor Album Review)
Barry Adamson’s SCALA!!! arrives as a love letter to a building that introduced, educated and immersed many in non-mainstream cinema.
Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel – Celestun (Duo Quest) (13th Floor Album Review)
Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel open Celestun with intent and momentum, two acoustic guitars tumbling over one another in music shaped by interplay, response and craft.
Jana Horn – Jana Horn (No Quarter) (13th Floor Album Review)
Jana Horn’s decision to self-title her third album lands with the quiet assurance of an artist settled into her sound.
Sassy 009 – Dreamer+ (Heaven-Sent/PIAS) (13th Floor Album Review)
Dreamer+ is the new album from Oslo producer and musician, Sassy 009. This concept-album’s runtime is packed with a variety of beats, synths and dark melodies, straying into the genres of grunge and shoegaze.
Jenny On Holiday – Quicksand Heart (Transgressive) (13th Floor Album Review)
Jenny is Jenny Hollingworth and she’s on holiday from Let’s Eat Grandma, the duo she formed with her friend Rosa Walton when both were teenagers.
Robert Stillman – 10,000 Rivers (Orindal Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
If, like me, your brain is yet to kick fully into gear after the summer break then it’s in for a rude awakening when you encounter Robert Stillman’s 10,000 Rivers.
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (4AD) (13th Floor Album Review)
Dry Cleaning’s Secret Love builds on the band’s established approach to emotion, one shaped by distance, observation, and restraint.