Soft Machine – Slightly All The Time: Recordings 1970-1974
A 14-CD, three-Blu-ray box with Soft Machine’s five CBS albums, from “Third” to “Seven”, plus BBC sessions, concerts and TV footage, much of it previously unreleased.
New Releases Radar
Enigmatic Sound Machines – Divided By One
The fourth album by Jeremie Arrobas and Thomas Szirmay’s Montreal project, now a quartet with Hansford Rowe and Alain Bellaiche. Nine tracks, the last a Gary Numan cover.
Matt Carmichael – Held In The Dark
Matt Carmichael (saxophone) has released “Held In The Dark”, Carmichael’s fourth album, through Porthole Music on 16 October: eight tracks, with Fergus McCreadie on piano and Ali Watson on bass.
Cathedral – The Guessing Game (Rethink)
Rise Above Records releases “The Guessing Game (Rethink)” on 30 October, a reissue of Cathedral’s 2010 album with a new mix by Jaime Gomez Arellano.
Marc Ribot Quartet – Hurry Red Telephone
Pi Recordings releases “Hurry Red Telephone”, by the Marc Ribot Quartet, on 30 October: six tracks, four by Ribot and two by Frantz Casséus, on CD, vinyl and digital.
The Gathering – Echoes Of Mandylion
The Gathering have released the live album “Echoes Of Mandylion”, of sixteen tracks, recorded at Doornroosje in Nijmegen from 27 to 31 August 2025, digitally on Bandcamp.
Atomic Kings – Too
Atomic Kings, with the bassist Greg Chaisson (ex-Badlands), release “Too” on 19 October through FireRock Music Group: their second album, with nine tracks.
Fake Names – Punk Ruins
Fake Names, with members of Bad Religion and Refused, release “Punk Ruins” on 23 October through Epitaph: twelve tracks recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago in five days.
Avaland – Chemical Poetry
Avaland release “Chemical Poetry”, the French band’s third album, with twelve tracks. It is out on 30 October through Storytium, produced by Joost van den Broek.
Leng Tch’e – Hammered Into Collapse
Leng Tch’e release the EP “Hammered Into Collapse” on 23 October through Season of Mist: two tracks, digital only, and the first new material since “Razorgrind” (2017).
Temple Nightside – Cenotaph Severance
Temple Nightside release “Cenotaph Severance” on 30 October through Iron Bonehead Productions: the Australian band’s fifth album, with eight tracks, on CD and vinyl.
Joanne Shaw Taylor – The Trouble With Love
Joanne Shaw Taylor released “The Trouble With Love” on 23 October through Journeyman Records, produced by Kevin Shirley, with Joe Bonamassa and Orianthi as guests.
Maryann Cotton – Chester Rose
Maryann Cotton releases “Chester Rose” on 30 October through Deko Entertainment: twelve songs written by Cotton, Dick Wagner and Alice Cooper.
Polyphia – Be Not Afraid
Polyphia, from Plano (Texas), released “Be Not Afraid” on 23 October through Rise Records: a fifth studio album with twelve tracks and RJ Pasin as co-producer.
Dream Unending – Certain Uncertainties
Dream Unending release “Certain Uncertainties” through 20 Buck Spin: six tracks and guests including Leila Abdul-Rauf, on trumpet.
Michael Kiwanuka – FUDGE
Michael Kiwanuka releases “FUDGE” on 23 October through Polydor: twelve tracks and the first album produced without Danger Mouse or Inflo.
Ensemble Tikoro – Tortoise
Ensemble Tikoro, a five-voice choir from West Java, release “Tortoise” on cassette and digital, with parts two and three of the work.
SEK – Wallensteins Garage
SEK, a Berlin trio, make their debut with “Wallensteins Garage”, five tracks on Exile On Mainstream about General Wallenstein.
Queens of the Stone Age – Perfecth
Queens of the Stone Age release “Perfecth” on 30 October through Matador: their ninth studio album, produced by Josh Homme and Michael Shuman.
Enslaved – Mið
Enslaved release “Mið” on 30 October through Nuclear Blast: eight tracks, two guests and the first album since “Heimdal” (2023).
Anagnorisis – Caregriever
Anagnorisis, from Louisville, release “Caregriever”, their fourth album and the first since “Peripeteia” (2016), on CD and vinyl.
Zero Hour – No Man’s Land
Zero Hour release the EP “No Man’s Land” with two songs, “Codes Of Violence” and the title track, plus their instrumental versions, on CD and digital.
Clive Nolan – Song Of The Winter Throne: The Saga Of Håkon Håkonsson
Clive Nolan releases “Song Of The Winter Throne”, a concept album about the medieval Norwegian king Håkon Håkonsson, with an earbook edition of 2CD and DVD.
Big Crown Records – BCR10
Big Crown Records celebrates ten years with “BCR10 – Ten Years of Big Crown Records”, a 25-track double LP of songs from the label’s catalogue and recent releases.
Forbidden – Forbidden
Forbidden release their self-titled album on BLKIIBLK on 23 October 2026, the San Francisco Bay Area band’s first full-length since “Omega Wave” in 2010.
Sue Foley – alone (together) A Holiday Companion
Sue Foley releases “alone (together) A Holiday Companion” on CD and vinyl, eight tracks produced by her and Michael Zschoche.
N8NOFACE – Tomorrow’s World
N8NOFACE releases “Tomorrow’s World” on Stones Throw on 16 October 2026, an album produced by Dave Sitek with Hudson Mohawke, Snow Wife and Angélica Garcia.
Hexecutioner – Ascension Rock
The Seattle trio’s third album in three years, recorded by Dylan Wall at 7Hills. “Manifested” chains a psychedelic meditation into frontal doom.
Madam Orange – Parallax
The Chicago duo debut on Amalgam with bass clarinet, drums and electronics. Five of the eleven pieces come from one night at the Hungry Brain and the record never says which.
Tony Iommi – From the Dark
Jørn Lande came in for “maybe a song or two” and ends up singing and co-writing all eight. The only guest left is Brian May, with a solo on “Death Wake”.
Lesoir – Tomorrow Is Now Today
The Maastricht six-piece move to V2 worldwide with John Cornfield producing. The three singles released between June and September are also the album’s first three songs.
The Flower Kings – HOPE
Four compositions, two of them written in five and seven movements, all of it by Roine Stolt and Lalle Larsson. The Atmos and 5.1 mixes reach the limited digipak only.
Dollar Brand, Don Cherry, Carlos Ward – The Third World-Underground
First international edition of the concert Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Cherry and Carlos Ward played in Copenhagen in 1972, until now issued in Japan only. It arrives three months after the pianist’s death.
Amanda Gardier – Transmutations: Björk Rearranged
Eight Björk songs without a single voice, with The Bad Plus drummer Dave King. The tone is the find; the credits are the hole, because nobody is named as arranger.
Fumi Tomita – Yokai: Songs of the Japanese Supernatural
Fumi Tomita writes nine pieces out of a book of Japanese monster prints and records them with a quartet in Amherst. The label’s own press release describes a track that isn’t on it.
Blair / Huber – ECLIPSE
The Frankfurt duo debut on LEITER with saxophone and guitar and nothing else, cut between Funkhaus Berlin and Offenbach. It ends on vocals the credits never account for.
Florian Arbenz, Greg Osby & Bill Frisell – Quiet Lights
A trio with no bass, cut on 8 September 2025 in about four hours and almost entirely in first takes: Arbenz builds the low end out of custom-made percussion.
Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire
The fourth album by the Gothenburg trio was recorded by Tommy Hanning, the drummer from their first record: he learned the songs at home and had one weekend of rehearsal before the session.
Amaseffer – When The Lions Leave Their Den
Eighteen years after “Exodus: Slaves for Life”, Erez Yohanan returns with the second chapter of the trilogy: ten songs, an oud among the guitars and eighteen names in the credits.
Flight76 – The Abyss
Eleven tracks and one man: Ian Wright writes the music for all of them, the lyrics for ten and produces the record. All that is left of the 1975 Hastings band is Nigel Wade’s artwork and one lyric.