SUMAC push their experiments with free-improvisation out further into the cosmos with the first single from May You Be Held.

Listen to "The Iron Chair" now

Written in the studio as a fully unscripted spontaneous moment, “The Iron Chair” sounds both completely uninhibited while also locking into some kind of alien logic, hitting with the blunt force and spiritual intensity of past collaborators Keiji Haino or Casper Brötzmann, twinned the textural density and complexity of Merzbow or Stephen O’Malley.

The Consuming Flame is available to pre-order now on limited-edition on clear vinyl. 

Matmos offer up two new excerpts from new album The Consuming Flame, demonstrating the sheer breath of collaborators, moods and textures covered across the album’s sprawling 3-disc expanse.

Listen to both tracks now

“I’m On The Team”, a collaboration with hardware-techno agitators Giant Swan and shapeshifting producer Rabit, harks back to last album Plastic Anniversary with its angular dancehall swagger, while “Lo! Lavender River Karez” in contrast offers a moment of relative calm, buoyed by Yo La Tengo’s free-flowing basslines and shimmering guitar textures.

The Consuming Flame is out at a limited-edition 3xCD box-set on August 21st, and is available to pre-order now.

Morgan crafts an ode to verdant June and the simple pleasures of horticulture on the second single from her debut solo record.

Listen to "Garden Song" now

Tracing Morgan’s myriad of influences and their deep connections, from the psychedelic leanings of Trees and the Third Ear Band, to folk singers like Jean Ritchie and Nic Jones, to Pauline Oliveros, Thread finds the multi-instrumentalist weaving disparate musical ideas into intricate and beguiling patterns. With a penchant for tuneful melodies, combined with hypnotic rhythms, Morgan’s solo work is at once steeped in tradition and yet verges on pop.

Thread is available to pre-order now - with the first 20 orders of the LP coming with a hand-written card from Morgan, printed on her own letterpress.

Ahead of the September 11th release of his new album Comma, Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake) as shared the single "September Remember". With Comma, Prekop’s wide-eyed sense of discovery guides his exploration of beat-driven music, pushing him to use rhythm as a narrative tool and to embrace electronic music’s romantic and emotional qualities. “September Remember” is notable precisely for its lack of drum track, opening up the field of sound and obliterating all but the faintest after-echoes of skittering percussion in its astral melancholy.

Listen to "September Remember" now

The album places Sam Prekop’s work squarely in the tradition of electronic music pioneers like Brian Eno and Yellow Magic Orchestra. In approaching his writing with a completely open mind and letting himself be guided by the music, Prekop maintains a delicate balance between composition and chance, control and spontaneity.

Pre-order Comma now

 

Matmos take you on a virtual safari through the subconscious, translating the kaleidoscopic audio collages of their new album The Consuming Flame into visual form on “No Concept”.

Watch the video now

Featuring contributions from a wildly eclectic line-up of 99 different musicians - from Oneohtrix Point Never and Mouse on Mars to Yo La Tengo, The Consuming Flame is available to pre-order now as a limited-edition 3xCD box-set, featuring a HUGE colour poster mapping all the contributors across three-hours of music.

An incredible record brimming with the unbridled energy and creativity of mixtapes or pirate radio, perfect listening this summer for anyone missing raves right now.

For more than 25 years, Matmos have remained one of the most consistently exciting acts in electronic music. This summer, the duo present a vast expansion of their genre-less approach to composition with arguably their most ambitious album to date, The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form.

Oriented around a deceptively simple idea, the album features contributions from 99 different musicians,  all given only one simple instruction: they could play anything that they wanted, but the tempo of any rhythmic material had to be set at 99 beats per minute. The resulting album is a three-hour long assemblage that travels across a shifting kaleidoscope of genre, mood and density, all synchronized to a constant underlying tempo. The Consuming Flame will be released on August 21st. The triple-CD album, crafted as one long piece, is packaged with a fold-out poster that visually tracks the exact timing of each of the 99 guest musician's contributions through color coded bars.

Listen to excerpt "No Concept" from disc 1 of The Consuming Flame, featuring clipping. and David Grubbs

Prekop evokes the glistening neon of futuristic city-scapes and the relentless forward-motion of public transport with the second single from forthcoming new album Comma.

Listen to "Circle Line" now

Focusing his electronic experiments with a newfound rhythmic pulse, Comma compiles some of Prekop’s most warm and inviting synthesiser music yet. Big tip for fans of Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel and Vangelis' sci-fi soundscapes.

To coincide with the single, we've released a new set of limited-edition postcards of Prekop's photography, which you can pre-order alongside Comma.  

Ripley Johnson serves up a proper barnstormer from his new Rose City Band album, fully leaning into the album’s country music and bluegrass influences with blazing fretwork.

Listen to "Real Long Gone" now

In case you missed it, we recently put a new colour version of the Summerlong LP up on the store - a glorious “summer sunset” orange. That's available to pre-order now. The full album will be out digitally on May 15th, with the LP and CD in stores June 19th.

Not content with just releasing the one album to critical acclaim this month, Drew Daniel of Matmos follows up his hypnagogic masterpiece Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? with a new album of queer rave covers of classic crust-punk tracks.

Listen to Am I Free To Go now

Am I Free To Go? is out now as a PWYW download, with all profits going to with all proceeds going to the International Anti-Fascist Legal Defence Fund, which assists people all around the world with the legal repercussions of protesting fascism.

Shall We Go On Sinning... is available digitally now, with the LP and CD up for pre-order.

Ahead of the release of their debut collaborative album next month, Portland electroacoustic duo Golden Retriever and guitarist Johnson have shared new single “Sage Thrasher”.

Listen to "Sage Thrasher" now

The 13-minute epic marks a turning point in the album, as bass clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff's increasingly distorted winds guide Johnson and synthesist Matt Carlson towards an overwhelming deluge of sonic tension and release. 

Rain shadow is available to pre-order now on limited-edition crystal clear vinyl. The album will be out digitally on May 15th, with the LP in stores June 19th.