Assemblage 23
Tolerate Metropolis Records The maverick electronic and industrial music maker Assemblage 23 is preparing to release a new album with a far-reaching tour. He’s been a mainstay artist for darkwave and EBM fans for two decades and more, with records and performances making a mark at regular intervals. There’s a new single out now that precedes the album release. Null is out on the 7th of November and Tolerate makes its way to the front for a preliminary offering. In a realm where European artists make most of the headlines, Assemblage 23 brings a welcome breath of the USA to the market. His own repertoire and style resonate with the genre while remaining true to his heritage. It opens with a fizzing synth tune that blips and crackles as a wave of tension ripples across the surface. The drums arrive in force, crashing in with kick, snare, and cymbal as the harmonies of tone invent new dimensions just for us. It settles for a verse, lyrical and pacey, the music tones out and reveals a sparkling dance energy that wants to build right back up again. And that it does, with a break on the digital drums, the synths roar back into full colour and sing in abstract renditions of complex binary. A mix of gothic gloom and an entertaining party atmosphere meet in the middle and pivot on fulcrums of great sounding electro riffs. Find out more on the Assemblage 23 website Follow Assemblage 23 on Facebook And Bluesky Catch Assemblage 23 on the UK leg of his tour UK TOUR | OCTOBER 2025 15th October BRISTOL Exchange 16th October MANCHESTER Rebellion 17th October GLASGOW Ivory Blacks 18th October SHEFFIELD Corporation 19th October LONDON The Dome TICKETS + 20th October OBERHAUSEN Kulttempel
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Sophie Sirota
Holding Tension Coastal Electronauts The superb quality of the viola and the delicate musicality of Sophie Sirota have a long relationship together. From working as a professional session musician, filling in the blanks for artists far and wide, and studying music at college, a wonderful career of making music and putting things together has followed. The founder of The Wrecking Crew agency, Sophie Sirota complements her talents with those of others, who in their wisdom, have decided to work with her light. Holding Tension is the first track from her recently released album. Last week’s Pressure Drop exemplifies the skill behind the finger work, as the tracks were meticulously performed week after week in Kent’s Coastal Electronauts' community. A flame in the dark and a moment in time, as universal and it is deeply personal, here is Holding Tension. Strange digital sounds sparkle and grumble in the distant hum of forthcoming music. A jittery synthesiser tone then begins to swell and loop on a bowed fascination. Vocal sounds echo like phantoms in the mists of memory, calling from their past tense into the present with ethereal grace. Are we being pulled back, are they trying to reach us, or is this the manner of the natural universe? A mysterious flow of ambience builds as delicate notes find abstract sitting places within the mix. Oddly conjoined harmonies span galactic widths as their touching ends spark with fantastical clarity. The music builds and flows like the weather viewed from space, an ambiently decorative backdrop to contemplation and rumination. You can follow Coastal Electronauts on Facebook and Instagram You can get music by Sophie Sirota on Bandcamp 
LORI
This Is My Haus (featuring Lukey B) Sheffield When dance and pop meet a vibrant punk attitude with the kind of Northern Soul you can recognise, you get Sheffield’s head-turning mistress of music ministry, LORI. She’s been working her way through her creative attributes with projects and professionalisms spanning from fronting a rock band to producing beats. A culmination of the efforts, This Is My Haus takes the icon to her debut solo album, out now on London’s Criminal Records. Her recent singles have been steady and progressively catchy, all of which take pride of place on this new record. To headline the opus, there is a video out now for the title track. A no nonsense and counterculture template provides ample room for exploration. Let’s check out LORI’s Haus. Quick bass pumps with spiralling tones climb through the movement and release a huge oscillating pulse. The energy is so intense it feels like a hardcore track. Lori enters; her vocals provide a girl-power style soliloquy that carries through with lots of studio work to decorate her voice. Her style is cutting; you can’t help but listen. Elements of hard techno and glitch form frameworks of intent that cause the whole piece to boil with frothing heat and drive. It’s got a vibe that hits home for the alternative scene while making full use of the charismatic techniques you might find on a boring yet super-polished commercial album. Nina Hagen anyone? Find out more by visiting Lori online Follow Lori on Facebook and X 
Misha and cocabona
JOMO Finland Nothing quite beats spending quality time doing your own thing and on your own terms. No personalities to try to jigsaw with, no moody scenario, no hubbub of chaotic humanity, just you and your moment. The new Misha and cocabona EP frames itself on the opposite flux of marketing’s little trick, the Joy Of Missing Out or JOMO puts everything back into perspective. Sure, we’re social creatures, we like a party, and we like to spend time with our loved ones, however making a conscious choice to not invest in one of life’s little avenues means we don’t waste a second more comparing the front doors. More time for great sounding and dancing beat music made by some of the scene’s most celebrated icons. They’re preparing to hit their European tour this November, after a long summer of composition, remixing, and a steady flow of performances, Misha and cocabona have plenty to keep them occupied. Let’s miss out on everything else and check out their title track just to get you started. Smooth, joyous, and easy-going beats lay down the groove. It’s a mix of house beats and bassline that sits comfortably in the air. Vocals add the layer, soulful RnB melodies fly out in portioned angles of sound. The harmony that exists between the two voices is expertly crafted as the deskwork brings out subtle tones and warmth from within their individual timbres. Keyboards journey in jazzy chord structures that, once dismantled, offer moving passages of tune that sit on the ideal within the sensual drumming. There’s a subtle hip-hop that feels like there’s a rap somewhere, maybe it’s on the EP, in a future remix by Snoop Dogg, or maybe it’s in my imagination. I can miss out for now; this music is too good to pass by. You can follow Misha on Instagram and TikTok you can follow cocabona on Instagram 
The King Canutes
Seymour Stein (for Earle Holmes) Brooklyn-London A duo comprised of Keir Woods from the homely North of England and Richard Alwyn Fisher from the tower-lined streets of Brooklyn, The King Canutes bring an indie-folk mashup of sonic greatness. Accompanied by trumpeter Mac Gollehon, who’s worked alongside David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Al Jarreau, and Duran Duran, bass player Dave Derby from Gramercy Arms, Lloyd Cole, and Dam Busters, plus Guided by Voices drummer Kevin March and vocalist Jessie Kilguss, the full band is completed by Ray Ketchum from Guided by Voices, Luna, Elk City, and Gramercy Arms on keyboards and percussion. As one machine of multiple moving parts, from their international web of creative genius, comes the album Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer, on November 21st via Magic Door Records. Taken from the record is their new single, the rather intriguingly named Seymour Stein (for Earle Holmes). It sounds like something from a musical, shall we see? A burst of brass and then a gust of the band breezes in and creates an upbeat, colourful, and dynamic music piece. The guitar and drum playfully coalesce with a chorus effect and rattling drumbeats that leap from the skin and into the air. Keir Woods offers a deep and resonant vocal that sinks in like wood polish as Jessie Kilguss produces harmony suitable for a cathedral. The song jogs along with a smiling face and a vivid imagination which manifests amply via bouncing chords and flowing vocal lines. Super. You can follow The King Canutes on Facebook And Instagram You can get music by The King Canutes on Bandcamp 
Mathis Akengin
Mer D’hiver France A slowed down ocean and waves you can almost walk on, Mer D’hiver stands alone on the horizon as the sparkling new single from Mathis Akengin. The mesmerism of the storm as its clouds funnel and collide with invisible fields of tension, the majesty of the oeuvre that reflects all within frequency and lyric, filtered through an artistic mind of passion and flair. Featuring the vocals of Claire Passard, Akengin reveals a poetic duality within the portrayal of nature’s contrarian forces. As the water builds around us, and the ocean moves beyond measure, we can hear the lashing of thunder crawling ever closer on lanes lined with lightning and song. Here is one now. It opens with a solitary folk vocal, the Français lingering like snowflakes on a steady breeze. Bass and subtle drums reveal a pulse, like a mechanical artwork, the music begins to tick and turn as the vocal adds colour and effervescence. A delicate mix of masculine and feminine sprinkles vocals into a framework of beauty and charm, The Winter Sea, Mer D’hiver, its oceanic freeze calming us as the symbolic melodies reveal nostalgic and emotional dream sensibilities. Longing for balance yet captured in the twist of nature’s fingers, Mer D’hiver glows and subsumes in its minacious equality. You can follow Mathis Akengin on Instagram And Facebook |
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