The Body & Cel Genesis

November brings us new chaos from heavy Portland duo The Body, this time around paired with Oakland experimental and industrial-tinged electronic act Cel Genesis.  Check out the sparse, ominous, and still noisy "Candy Crush" below and pre-order the "Whole Wide World" LP here from Thrill Jockey.

Black Duck with Elena Setien

Chicago trio Black Duck have a kind of jazz infused post-rock thing going on for them.  On their new album they pair with Spanish singer/songwriter Elena Setien, adding an element of Americana and almost loungey groove to the sound.  Check out "Land of the Many Eyes" below and grab the appropriately titled "Black Duck with Elena Setien" LP here from Thrill Jockey.

BIG BRAVE

Montreal's BIG BRAVE is back with a new album of weird and noisy experimental rock this summer with the upcoming "In Grief or In Hope."  Check out the practically oozing "The Ineptitude for Mutual Discernment" below and pre-order the LP here from Thrill Jockey.

Setting

April brings us new music from North Carolina band Setting.  The band's self-titled album fuses elements of progressive rock, folk, electronic, krautrock, post rock, and more to craft a hypnotic, sometime delirious sonic tapestry.  Check out the album opening "Heard a Bubble" below and pre-order the LP here from Thrill Jockey.

claire rousay

On her upcoming new album "A Little Death," LA artist claire rousay makes experimental and droning bits of ambient music that play like the last slivers of light fading out at dusk.  Listen to the M Sage assisted "Just" below, space out for a little while, and pre-order the LP here from Thrill Jockey.

BIG|BRAVE

Montreal band BIG|BRAVE make a mix of metal and Americana that is uniquely their own.  On new album "OST," the trio drops all of that for something much more improvisational and avant garde.  The whole thing plays out like some kind of minimalist film score that's both foreboding and surreal.  Listen to "innominate Nº ii" below and pre-order the upcoming LP here from Thrill Jockey.

SUMAC and Moor Mother

Poet and rapper Moor Mother has collaborated with all manner of artist in the past, and on the upcoming new album "The Film," finds herself aligned with post metal supergroup SUMAC.  Expect an intense, noisy, and weird time.  Listen to "Scene 1" below and pre-order the LP here from Thrill Jockey.

Gnod & White Hills

UK band Gnod and New York band White Hills have joined forces in the past to bring us droney, psychedelic mayhem, and they're back at it again with the upcoming "Drop Out III."  Check out the humming and hypnotic "Run-a-Round" below and pre-order the LP here from Thrill Jockey.

The Body

Portland experimental metal duo The Body have proven to be quite prolific throughout their career.  2024 has already seen them release an excellent collaborative album with Berlin based electronic artist Dis Fig, and now November brings us a more traditional record from the duo (as traditional as you can get with the ever experimenting and innovating band).  Check out the ominous and noisy "End of Line" below and pre-order "The Crying Out of Things" here from Thrill Jockey.

BIG|BRAVE

Montreal noisemakers BIG|BRAVE are back with a new sonic stew of metal, drone, Americana, folk, and more.  Grab the new "A Chaos of Flowers" LP here from Thrill Jockey and listen the practically oozing album opener "I Felt a Funeral" below.

Myriam Gendron

Montreal singer/songwriter Myriam Gendron is set to release her new album "Mayday" next month.  Check out the absolutely haunting folk track "Terres Brulees," or "Scorched Lands" in English below and pre-order the record here from the artist in Canada or from one of her American distributors, Thrill Jockey and Feeding Tube Records respectively.

SUMAC

And now for some heavy, thudding, crunchy new music from from sludgy post-metal supergroup SUMAC.  The trio features members from such groups as Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer, Baptists, Russian Circles, and These Arms Are Snakes, and they bring all the noise that pedigree would suggest they do.  Check out "Yellow Dawn" below and pre-order the upcoming "The Healer" LP here from Thrill Jockey.

BIG|BRAVE

Montreal's BIG|BRAVE have a sound grows from the sweet spot, right in the middle where folk, American, and crunch heavy metal meet.  The band's new album "A Chaos of Flowers" is out in April on Thrill Jockey Records.  Pre-order the LP here and listen to "I Felt a Funeral" below.

The Body & Dis Fig

Experimental metal band The Body have been pushing their sound into new and different directions pretty much since their inception, with forays into industrial, folk, noise, and more, either on their own with a plethora of collaborators.  On upcoming new album "Orchards of a Futile Heaven," the duo find themselves working with dark electronic artist Dis Fig, and together make some dense, world-ending music.  Check out "Holy Lance" below and pre-order the album, out in February, here from Thrill Jockey.

Sightless Pit

I totally forgot we were getting a new Sightless Pit album this month.  The duo of Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) find themselves collaborating with a slew of different artists on the new "Lockstep Bloodwar."  Check out the opening track "Resin on a Knife" featuring Midwife below and get the LP here from Thrill Jockey.

BIG|BRAVE

The hard-to-pin-down Montreal trio BIG|BRAVE had a banner year in 2021, releasing an excellent album of heavy post-metal and a equally excellent collaboration with fellow noise making duo The Body.  And now they've got a new album heading our way early next year.  Check out the doom-laden "Carvers, Farriers and Knaves" below and pre-order the "Nature Morte" LP here from Thrill Jockey.

Plankton Wat

It looks like it's about time to expand our minds again.  Dewey Mahood's Plankton Wat project has a new album of cosmic weirdness and head trips coming our way in May.  Pre-order the "Hidden Path" LP here from Thrill Jockey and listen to the title track below.

The Body and BIG|BRAVE

Experimental metal bands The Body and BIG|BRAVE have paired together for the forthcoming collaborative effort, "Leaving None But Small Birds."  Our first listen is kind of dusty, grungey alt-rock crawl of "Oh Sinner."  Check it out below and pre-order the album here from Thrill Jockey.

Colleen

Barcelona artist Colleen is readying her latest album for release in May.  There's a really cool kosmische vibe going on the spacey electronic pop of "Implosion-Explosion," undoubtedly the work of the Ace Tone organ and the '60s drum machine at play.  Check the track out below and pre-order "The Tunnel and The Clearing" here from Thrill Jockey.

Plankton Wat

Things are going to get trippy on the upcoming "Future Times" LP from Plankton Wat, a solo project of Eternal Tapestry's Dewey Mahood.  "Nightfall" bubbles and floats, an improvisational psych joint of layered guitars and the great expanding universe.  Check it out below and pre-order the album here via Thrill Jockey.