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

• Edoardo Gastaldi, Jay Brewer – Atlantic to Adriatic
  RIYL: Ambient, Neoclassical
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Hekla – Turnar
  RIYL: Dark Ambient, Drone
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Max Richter & Co. – Perihelion
  RIYL: Neoclassical, Cinematic, Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify

ELECTRONIC

Albums

• Pria – Who Will See Me Then
  RIYL: Alt Pop, Trip Hop, Downtempo
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Howling Nebula – First Day Of Light
  RIYL: Downtempo, Ambient-Electronic, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Sinemis – Us vs Them
  RIYL: IDM, Ambient Techno
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• BlauDiss – Reaching Towards The Infinite
  RIYL: Trip Hop, Global Bass, UK Garage
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Lazerpunk – Crusader
  RIYL: Darksynth, Cyberpunk
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

INDIE-ALT/FOLK

Albums

• Audoynaud – Hyperboréen
  RIYL: Dark Folk, Neofolk
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Rufus Coates & Jess Smith – Heavy Eyes
  RIYL: Indie Folk, Dark Folk
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

JAZZ FUSION

Albums

• The Brums – Soleil Noir
  RIYL: Jazztronica, Nu Jazz
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Pyry Peltonen– 43440
  RIYL: Ambient Rock, Jazz Fusion
  LISTEN: Spotify

Singles & EPs

• Sroka – Refuge
  RIYL: Ambient Jazz, Jazz Fusion
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Poppy Daniels – Boundaries
  RIYL: Jazz, Jazz Fusion
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Amero – Weaponized Boba Tea
  RIYL: Progressive Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

METAL

Albums

• Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
  RIYL: Post-black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Dawn Of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence
  RIYL: Progressive Black Metal, Post-black Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Fange – Purulences
  RIYL: Industrial Metal, Sludge Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• This Gift Is A Curse – Heir
  RIYL: Blackened Death Metal, Blackened Hardcore, Sludgecore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
  RIYL: Melodic Death Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Daevar – Sub Rosa
  RIYL: Stoner Metal, Doom Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Blossom & Wither– Nevermore
  RIYL: Post-metal, Blackened Metalcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Sunvher, Harakiri for the Sky – Digital Madness
  RIYL: Post-black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Vildhjarta – + Sargasso +
  RIYL: Progressive Metal, Djentcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Iress – What I Was Made For
  RIYL: Doomgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Sleep Token – Emergence
  RIYL: Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• One Chin, Nick Eyra – Let The Fear Remain
  RIYL: Metalcore
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Entheomorphosis – Iätön
  RIYL: Avant-garde Metal, Doom Metal, Drone Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

ROCK

Albums

• Kallsup – En Sista Räddning
  RIYL: Shoegaze, Dream Pop
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Theodore Sandberg – Abscission
  RIYL: Post-rock, Ambient Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Grapefruit Astronauts – Grapefruit Astronauts
  RIYL: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Instrumental Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Lockstep – Drag Along
  RIYL: Shoegaze, Doomgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Alex Henry Foster – I’m Afraid (Live in Cologne, July 27, 2024)
  RIYL: Noise Rock, Heavy Punk Rock, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Vantre – Clonocracy
  RIYL: Instrumental Rock, Post-rock, Noise Rock, Math Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• L.O.E – After All Is Said & Done
  RIYL: Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Blankenberge – Escape
  RIYL: Shoegaze, Dream Pop
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Kaschalot – Elsewhere
  RIYL: Math Rock, Post-rock, Instrumental Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

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