Blue Earth Sound announces second album, Everything to Remember, and shares first single ‘Limiter’

15 August 2026

We love Blue Earth Sound, the project of Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer James Weir, and we’re very excited to hear he has a new album on the way. We first fell for the project with Cicero Nights, Weir’s 2025 debut which was one of our Album Picks of the year. After years spent making music with Chicago post-punk band NE-HI and synth-driven group Spun Out, Weir took things in a very different direction, building a jazz-inflected and cinematic sound around his love of improvisation. He followed the album earlier this year with The St. Louis Sessions EP, pushing his sound into a more spontaneous territory.

Entitled Everything to Remember, the new record sees him continuing to weave together jazz, soul, improvisation and cinematic music. Across ten instrumental compositions, Weir continues to explore music as a way of holding onto places, memories and feelings that are difficult to put into words. Everything to Remember brings together his longtime collaborators including drummer Patch Romanowski, Resavoir trumpeter Will Miller, flautist and saxophonist Eamonn Prizy and International Anthem engineer Dave Vettraino. The album was recorded over multiple sessions in Chicago, with demos also developed at Romanowski’s family cabin in Rome, Wisconsin, where Weir and his collaborators spent time working in a more secluded setting. Weir comments:

“We started recording in November of 2025 over multiple sessions with Dave at his new studio on the deep south side of Chicago. Trips to Patch’s family cabin in Rome, Wisconsin were done to get demos recorded and fleshed out in a rural, secluded, inspired space while listening to Pink Floyd B-sides, New Age music, Mizell Brothers productions, Marvin Gaye and The Smiths.”

Everything to Remember is slated for a November 20th release through DeepMatter Records. It seems like a long while away but luckily we can already hear the beautiful, soulful and nostalgic ‘Limiter’, an exhilarating introduction to what’s coming. Speaking about the track, Weir says:

“This one was really written by the live band core of me, Martin Diaz, Patch Romanowski, Eamonn Priz and Michaels Wells. Had an absolute blast recording the psychedelic harmonica stems, inspired by Ludwig Goransson’s productions, and the Durutti column echo on the guitar in post-production, with moody Talk Talk space in the interlude. Gotta keep ‘em guessing.”

We can’t wait to hear the rest. Now listen to ‘Limiter’ below.

Watch Trá Pháidín’s video for new single ‘Garbhóg’

15 August 2026

Photo: Sara Leslie

Last month, Trá Pháidín announced the release of their new album Cloch ‘s Claí (trans. Stone & Wall), and alongside it shared the exuberant and jubilant ‘An Béal Bocht’. With release day just over a month away, the Irish collective are giving us another preview of their mighty and magnificent album with new track ‘Garbhóg’. As with the previous single, ‘Garbhóg’ is offered with an accompanying video directed by Peadar Tom Mercier. Watch it below and grab Cloch ‘s Claí when it drops on September 25th through World of Echo.

megiapa unveils video for new single, ‘on the spaceway (frfr)’

11 August 2026

Last month, megiapa announced the release of her debut album Intentions, and shared ‘Open Your Eyes‘, a sun-drenched and seductive first taste of what was to come. Now the LA-based producer, vocalist, visual artist and linguist is enticing us again with ‘on the spaceway (frfr)’, a hazy and lush instrumental that puts her beatmaking skills front and centre, with guest contributions from bassist ghalani of Greenwood (aka The Growth Eternal), pianist Ahmad Muhammad (aka Kafari) and Telemakus. Drawing on the liberatory philosophies of Sun Ra, megiapa describes the track as imagining “Black people in this spaceway just enjoying themselves in all their expansiveness.” The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by LA visual artist Eric Coleman, who had this to say about it:

“The inspiration comes in part from Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and the way Burnett found beauty, intimacy, and humanity within the everyday rhythms of Black life. But rather than focusing on the mundane or the weight of daily existence, I wanted to turn the camera toward joy—specifically the joy that exists within Black spaces. The backyard became the center of that idea. A familiar, almost sacred space where we gather, eat, laugh, create, listen to music, talk shit, tell stories, and simply exist with one another. My intention was to create a day in the life of creative Black folk without making the creativity itself the spectacle. I approached the editing with the same intention. I wanted the video to feel deceptively simple—to move naturally between moments, gestures, conversations, and details while quietly revealing the complexity underneath them. Black life can be joyful and complicated, ordinary and extraordinary, intimate and expansive all at once. I wanted the images, rhythms, and relationships to speak for themselves—to create a small portrait of Black life from the inside, where the backyard is not simply a location, but a space of freedom, creativity, family, and belonging.”

Watch the video below and grab Intentions when it drops on September 25th through International Anthem.

Charlotte Greve shares second single, ‘Own Lap’, from forthcoming album Waterbodies

08 August 2026

German-born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer and singer Charlotte Greve is gearing up to release Waterbodies, her tenth album as a bandleader and debut one under her own name. A bewildering album, Waterbodies is an explosion of many different styles and sounds, bringing together the many different sides of her musical life.

Following the bright and captivating ‘Membranes‘, she has now shared a second track, ‘Own Lap’, an 11-minute orchestral opus filled with wonder, vividly encapsulating the spectrum of Greve’s ideas and influences coming into play. Written in 2019, ‘Own Lap’ is dedicated to her late grandmother and two close friends who had recently experienced hardship, all “strong people who had the ability and strength to keep their head up and keep going”, as she describes. Listen to it below.

Waterbodies is out on October 2nd through New Amsterdam Records.

HUG preview upcoming debut album with second single ‘Catatumbo’

05 August 2026

Last month, we fell completely for the utterly beautiful, enchanting and absorbing ‘Cow With Half Moon Parasol’, the first single lifted from HUG’s upcoming self-titled debut album. HUG is the new trio of Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley and Noah Georgeson, who have known each other and crossed paths in various configurations over the years, even decades. There is still a long wait for the album to drop on September 11th through Luaka Bop, but HUG are enticing us again with the stunning and celestial ‘Catatumbo’. The track features a loop that Noah and Devendra created twenty years ago, when they were living together in Venice Beach. ‘Catatumbo’ is offered with a visualizer and you can watch it below.

Listen to Marina Herlop’s new single ‘Vas volant’

31 July 2026

Photo: Silvio Deiaco, Danilo Gambara & Christian Kondić

Earlier this month, Marina Herlop announced Dja Dja, her fifth album, and teased it with ‘Jaque’, a wildly exhilarating and absorbing piece. Now, and ahead of the album’s release on October 9th, the Catalan composer, vocalist and pianist has shared another galvanizing preview of the record with new single, ‘Vas volant’. Conceived as the point where Dja Dja‘s central journey begins, it unfolds with the playful unpredictability and meticulous detail that have become defining features of Herlop’s music. The track also sees the return of longtime collaborator Adri González (Adri Goor) on synths and keyboards. Take a listen to ‘Vas volant’ below.