Brighton based eclectic sextet Opus Kink are in Irish folk mood by way of Black Country imagery on their new single Low Roader, an invitation to choose the alternate and more adventurous road to cope with life.
Trumpets galore plus a catchy rumbling backbeat lead the way into darkness where it is warm and welcoming, despite it having a bad reputation. The video was made by Kyle McCarthy & Reuben Davies Lindley.
Simon Karolis, nom-de-plume of Dutch musician Arend Jan van der Scheer, had to find time between his job as a teacher and being a father to write and record the songs for his Where To Find Back The Flow album. Being boxed in with his everyday chores and professional responsibilities only enhanced his urge to break free and focus on his dreams of becoming an artist. With telling song titles as Grounded and Oh How I Long For Something New it is abundantly clets that reality has the nasty habit of getting in the way of his ambitions.
Switching between acoustic folk and restrained electric indie rock Van der Scheer searches for answers. He is fully aware that solutions for his predicaments will keep eluding him. When he wakes up from his daydreams, he will be confronted with yet another to-do list, targets and other stuff that will pop up unexpectedly. This is not a good time to try to be vulnerable and creative in an uncaring world obsessed with technology and political turmoil.
Steven Wilson has shared a video for Now Departing, played live (sort of) in the studio with Randy McStine (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals) and Russell Holzman (drums, percussion). It is a vintage sounding t progressive rock rack from his new album Requiem for a Village. Inspired by folk horror he spins a tale about an obsessive collector of sounds, missing twins and a butcher sudddenly offering more meat. Contemplating to board a train to get the Hell out is a futile exercise: "You might get on train but you'll never escape // 'Cause all destinations end here // It's absurd to believe that when you mean to leave // The train will just bring you back here"
Jeff Tweedy's show in Paris at the Alhambra Theatre Music Hall in Paris on February 14, 2026 will be released as a 2LP for Black Friday (November 27): 4400 copies of Twilight in Paris on pink vinyl via Wilco's own label dBpm Records.
Japanese duo Barbican Estate have found a way to bring traditional music into psych-infused avant-garde and Krautrock. Now based in London they are part of the underground where musical and visual arts are joined to create an immersive multimedia experience. Their new album Rock Drill does need not moving pictures - the tracks are perfectly capable to conjure up images on their own.
Bookended by the two parts of the soft-spoken Tokyo Ga they have built a maze of sounds, perusing drones, intimate vocals and swirling guitar flourishes. They can latch upon a riff and let it roam freely upon a backbeat that is halfway Can and the Sisters of Mercy.
