Here are some of our favorite releases from July & August 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

• Hainbach – Retold
  RIYL: Ambient-Electronic, Neoclassical
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Judah Earl – Stories, Vol. 3
  RIYL: Cinematic, Neoclassical
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Charlie Hooper – Astronomia
  RIYL: Neoclassical
  LISTEN: Spotify 

ELECTRONIC

Albums

• N/A

Singles & EPs

• Cix9 – Half Light
  RIYL: Downtempo, Deep House
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Liquors – Iguana
  RIYL: Trip Hop, Downtempo, Future Garage
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Eqwillus, CyberMafia – Hyper
  RIYL: Darksynth, Cyberpunk
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Blaudiss – Three Seven
  RIYL: Future Garage, Downtempo
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Prash – Hold On
  RIYL: Progressive House, Deep House
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Grandbrothers – Where Else
  RIYL: Electro-Neoclassical, Ambient-Electronic
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube 

• Akkiles82 – North Ramp Overpass
  RIYL: Darksynth, Cyberpunk
  LISTEN: Spotify

INDIE-ALT/FOLK

Albums

• Credit Electric – Salvation
  RIYL: Indie Rock, Slowcore, Indie Folk
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Marissa Nadler – New Radiations
  RIYL: Indie Folk
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• N/A

JAZZ FUSION

Albums

• Ill Considered – Balm
  RIYL: Ambient Jazz, Dark Jazz
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Daoud – OK
  RIYL: Nu Jazz
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• N/A

METAL

Albums

• N/A

Singles & EPs

• Conjurer – Hang Them In Your Head
  RIYL: Sludge Metal, Blackened Hardcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Axsoire – Obsidian
  RIYL: Sludge Metal, Post-metal, Blackened Post-hardcore
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Kami No Ikari – See You In Hell
  RIYL: Deathcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Slowcut – Flesh
  RIYL: Doom Metal, Post-metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Cloudkicker – Things You Can’t Change
  RIYL: Instrumental Metal, Post-metal, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Heretoir – The Ashen Falls
  RIYL: Post-black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Their Dogs Were Astronauts – The Scorpion
  RIYL: Instrumental Progressive Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Unprocessed, Paleface Swiss – Solara
  RIYL: Progressive Metal, Metalcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

ROCK

Albums

• Deftones – Private Music
  RIYL: Alternative Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Slow Crush – Thirst
  RIYL: Grungegaze, Alternative Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• She’s Green – Chrysalis
  RIYL: Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Indie Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• The World Is A Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die – Dreams Of Being Dust
  RIYL: Alternative Rock, Post-hardcore, Punk
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Velvet Aura – Flowers
  RIYL: Alternative Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Adebisi Shank – This Is The Second EP Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank
  RIYL: Indietronica, Math Rock, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Fawn – Paper Thin
  RIYL: Alternative Rock, Grungegaze, Shoegaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Niskala – Antara Derai
  RIYL: Post-rock, Ambient Rock, Shoegaze
  LISTEN: Spotify 

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