Here are some of our favorite releases from April 2025 — listed in no particular order and grouped by genre. Most of these are also featured in our New Tracks and New Albums playlists on Spotify.

P.S. We update these lists throughout the year as we come across more standout releases — it’s impossible to catch everything right away 🙂 If we’ve missed something great, feel free to let us know in the comments!

AMBIENT

Albums

• Henrik Meierkord, Suseti – Atonalidad
  RIYL: Ambient, Neoclassical, Dark Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Ludovico Einaudi – The Summer Portraits
  RIYL: Neoclassical, Cinematic
  LISTEN: Spotify 

Singles & EPs

• Natalia Tsupryk – Bipolar
  RIYL: Neoclassical, Soundtrack, Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Kollen – Homeward
  RIYL: Neoclassical, Soundtrack, Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

ELECTRONIC

Albums

• Disektor – Aetherial Pulses
  RIYL: IDM, Glitch, Electro-industrial
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• N/A

INDIE-ALT/FOLK

Albums

• Ethel Cain – Perverts
  RIYL: Slowcore, Dark Folk, Dark Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify | Apple Music

Singles & EPs

• Matryoshka – Effulgence
  RIYL: Indietronica, Art Rock, Crossover Classical
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

JAZZ FUSION

• Polynation – Bloom
  RIYL: Nu Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Downtempo
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Amero – Cobalt-60 Jenga
  RIYL: Progressive Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• N/A

METAL

Albums

• After Nations – Surface | Essence
  RIYL: Progressive Metal, Post-metal, Math Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Corroding Soul – Self-titled
  RIYL: Blackgaze, Post-black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Ancient Tome – The Implications Of Ascendancy
  RIYL: Blackened Doom Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Harakiri For The Sky – Scorched Earth
  RIYL: Post-black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Obscure Sphinx – Emovere
  RIYL: Alternative Metal, Post-metal, Sludge Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Deafheaven – Magnolia
  RIYL: Black Metal, Post-black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | YT

• The Monarch – Our Heavenly Bodies
  RIYL: Drone Metal, Post-metal, Doom Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Grima – Flight Of The Silver Storm
  RIYL: Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Pinhead – Used Future
  RIYL: Progressive Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Monosphere – Lapse, Pt. II
  RIYL: Hardcore, Mathcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Suffocate For Fuck Sake – To Rest In The Trust […]
  RIYL: Post-metal, Post-rock, Atmospheric Post-hardcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

ROCK

Albums

• 水中スピカ Suichu Spica – Lux
  RIYL: Math Rock, Post-rock, Dream Pop
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• The Infinity Ring – Elysium
  RIYL: Post-industrial, Goth, Darkwave, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Palehorse/Palerider – Lobotomy Domine
  RIYL: Shoegaze, Doomgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

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