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[video] Hilary Woods – Endgames

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Hilary Woods has announced her new album, Night CRIÚ, due out October 31 via Sacred Bones Records.

Woods live in Bologna’23

The record’s first single, “Endgames”, arrives alongside a self-made video that showcases Woods’ unique analogue film practice. Working with 16mm and Super 8 film, she hand-processed her own footage in the darkroom, layering it with archive clips, home videos, profile photographs by Joshua Wright, and her own drawings directly onto celluloid. The result is a deeply personal visual language that mirrors the song’s emotional weight.

The single is a haunting, beautifully restrained piece that lingers long after it ends. In both sound and vision, it reflects on the unspoken bonds that tie us to one another, opening a door into the shadowy, luminous world of Night CRIÚ.

Speaking about the LP, Woods shared: “Each record is a life buoy, a raft, a snapshot, a marker in the sand, a date that requires me to meet it. Making records is a way of being”.

Watch below and pre-order the album on Bandcamp.

[album] Lathe of Heaven – Aurora

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Listening to Aurora by Lathe of Heaven feels like stepping into a dimly lit goth club, where time no longer matters and the past merges with the present. The post-punk four-piece doesn’t just reference their influences—they reshape them, creating songs that are at once melodic and aggressive, dreamy and dangerous, yet somehow entirely organic.

A strong romantic feel runs throughout the album, amplified by poetic and heavy lyrics that read like fragments of nocturnal dream journals, but the music never drifts into softness; there’s always a volatile edge just beneath the surface. The title track (which is set in a dystopian future where Earth is long abandoned due to nuclear fallout) feels like the record’s beating heart—an expansive, deeply affecting piece that manages to be both urgent and elegiac.

Together, all these qualities make Aurora something really-really special: an album that channels the ghosts of the past while speaking with startling clarity to the present, glowing with a natural intensity and musical beauty from beginning to end. To arrive at a sound this confident, cohesive, and emotionally charged so early on is rare, and it marks Lathe of Heaven as one of the finest bands around.

Stream below and buy the LP here, out now via Sacred Bones Records.

[video] Marissa Nadler – Light Years

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Marissa Nadler’s much-anticipated new album New Radiations arrives tomorrow via Sacred Bones and Bella Union. After captivating listeners with the title track and “Hatchet Man”, the acclaimed American singer-songwriter now unveils the third glimpse into the record: “Light Years”.

A haunting meditation on love’s slow fade, the single drifts through memories of connection once vivid, now dimmed with time. Wrapped in Nadler’s signature poetic intimacy, the track blooms with dreamy instrumentation, layered harmonies, and an atmosphere you can almost step inside.

Accompanied by a music video shot and directed by Nadler herself, “Light Years” is as much a visual reverie as it is a sonic one.

Watch below and pre-order the LP here.

[album] Anika – Abyss

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With Abyss, Berlin-based Anika—long revered for dubby synthscapes and slow, haunting songs—slams on the brakes and pulls a sharp left turn into rougher, grungier terrain. Full of guitars and propulsive rhythms, the result is a seamless transformation that redefines the artist without losing what made her music magnetic in the first place.

Lyrically and thematically, the album explores society’s turbulence alongside deeply personal reflections. Appropriately named, it takes us to the rock bottom of the current political landscape and serves as a call to arms to make a change. The raw, visceral production combined with Anika’s one-of-a-kind vocals set the combative tone for the 10-track journey, which demands your attention and barely allows you to breathe.

Abyss isn’t just about rage and noise, though—it’s about what comes after. In letting the vulnerability shine through at the end with “Buttercups” (funnily enough, after the track titled “Last Song”), the record closes with the chaos tempered by clarity, violence softened by the longing for something better for us all.

Listen below and buy the record here, out now via Sacred Bones Records.

[live] Lust For Youth announce a tour for this fall

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Photo taken by Alexander Rotondo

Beloved Scandinavian duo Lust For Youth announced a tour for this fall. It will include three shows in Italy, as per the below:

December 13 – CAP10100, Turin
December 14 – Arci Bellezza, Milan (with Croatian Amor & Club Amor)
December 16 – Largo, Rome

Find all information about the tickets here and check out the group’s outstanding latest single “Giorgia”, if you haven’t already. It was released back in May and follows the previously shared “Accidental Win”.

Stream below.