Here are some of our favorite releases from September 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

• R1ayc – Abismo
  RIYL: Neoclassical, Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Apoptose – Die Zeit Und Die Dunkelheit
  RIYL: Dark Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Kjetil Husebø – Oscillations of Memory
  RIYL: Dark Ambient
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Shawn Wiliams – Beyond The Stars
  RIYL: Cinematic, Ambient, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Gísli Gunnarsson – Heima
  RIYL: Ambient, Cinematic
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Jordan Critz – Revenir
  RIYL: Neoclassical, Ambient, Cinematic
  LISTEN: Spotify

ELECTRONIC

Albums

• Venera – Exinfinite
  RIYL: Experimental Electronic, Dark Ambient, Industrial Rock, Doomgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Grandbrothers – Elsewhere
  RIYL: Electro-Neoclassical, Ambient-Electronic
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Houndtrack – Stuck In A Memory
  RIYL: Downtempo, Ambient-Electronic
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Niels Nielsen – Interstellar
  RIYL: Downtempo, Ambient-Electronic
  LISTEN: Spotify

• Tambal – Dreadful Splendor
  RIYL: Downtempo, Trip Hop
  LISTEN: Spotify

INDIE-ALT/FOLK

Albums

• Bright Eyes – Kids Table
  RIYL: Alternative Folk, Indie Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Oldest Sea ft. Kathryn Mohr – Sometimes Come The Wolf
  RIYL: Alternative Folk, Dark Folk
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

JAZZ FUSION

Albums

• Ebi Soda – Frank Dean And Andrew
  RIYL: Nu Jazz, Jazztronica
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• N/A

METAL

Albums

• Heretoir – Solastalgia
  RIYL: Post-black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Cult Burial – Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust
  RIYL: Blackened Death Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere
  RIYL: Progressive Metal, Mathcore
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Sundrowned – Higanbana
  RIYL: Post-metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• Blut Aus Nord – Shadows Breathe First
  RIYL: Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackgaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Smote – Snodgerrs
  RIYL: Stoner Metal, Psych Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Psychonaut – And You Came With Searing Light
  RIYL: Progressive Metal
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

ROCK

Albums

• Sprints – All That Is Over
  RIYL: Punk, Alternative Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Show Me Mary – All The Things You Are
  RIYL: Grungegaze, Alternative Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Algernon Cadwallader – Trying Not To Have A Thought
  RIYL: Math Rock, Post-rock, Progressive Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Money – Stovepipe
  RIYL: Alternative Rock, Grungegaze
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

• Rainy Knight – Reyk
  RIYL: Instrumental Rock, Progressive Rock, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

• After-Math – Let It Go
  RIYL: Post-rock, Ambient Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify 

• Totorro – New Music
  RIYL: Instrumental Rock, Math Rock, Post-rock
  LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube

• Neil Kupicki – Lumen
  RIYL: Instrumental Progressive Rock
  LISTEN: Spotify

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