Dall’infinito alla linea retta. Così si potrebbe definire la strada tracciata da Jack Cooper con il progetto Modern Nature, nato nel 2019 e giunto al quarto disco. Se No Fixed Point In Space (preceduto dagli ottimi How To Live e Island Of Noise) era stata la più temeraria e aperta alle collaborazioni (tra le quali citiamo Julie Driscoll, Alex Ward degli Spiritualized, Chris Abrahams dei Necks) delle sue uscite con questo moniker, The Heat Warps ci offre il parto di una vera band: con il leader e autore Jack Cooper suonano il batterista Jim Wallis, la new entry alla chitarra Tara Cunningham e il sassofonista Jeff Tobias qui prestato al basso.
The Melody Chamber are from Richmond, Virginia, but they sound like they hail from early 80’s Manchester and/or Athens, Georgia. Little is known about the background of the band other than the songwriting duo of Wallace Dietz and Dan-O Deckelman, partners at Sound Of Music Studios, bonded over a shared appreciation of obscure UK group, The Monochrome Set. The gravitational pull of Dan-O’s guitar riffing makes first impact, but Wallace’s icy vocals, the insistent snap and pop of Blee Child’s drum beats, and Randy Mendicino’s bubbling bass melodies pull listeners in deeper. The lyrics, shrouded in mystery, much like the band, start to saturate the consciousness in a way that allows the listener to build their own world within the album. It’s now too late to turn back, but the tug of the atmospheric synths you hadn’t noticed before weren’t letting you get out of here, anyway. Put on your headphones at your own risk and immerse yourself in The Melody Chamber’s new romantic post-punk and southern gothic jangle-pop world where each song will feel like a lost classic that you wore out on your VHS dub of an old MTV 120 Minutes, watching it over and over. A perfect hybrid of R.E.M., The Smiths, The Psychedelic Furs, and The Church, every song could be a single or the perfect track for that next mixtape. Though The Melody Chamber are reminiscent of some of the great guitar pop bands of the past, they have forged a distinctive, original, and modern sound that promises to appeal to music fans across all age groups. The Melody Chamber is out now on HHBTM Records (USA) on vinyl andToo Good To Be True(Europe) on vinyl and CD.
We’ve always loved the music of The Last Dinosaur, Jamie Cameron’s project known for its atmospheric, intimate, and spacious arrangements — piano, acoustic guitar, viola and strings, minimal electronics, layered vocals, and ambient textures. Comparisons to artists such as Talk Talk, Penguin Café Orchestra, and other experimental ambient-folk hybrids have always felt apt and revealing. Now, five years after the extraordinaryWholeness, his last solo album, and more than two years after Black and White Memories Ignited by the Scent of Springtime Explode in Colour— his delicate and experimental collaboration with Lila Tristram — The Last Dinosaur returns with a song that redefines everything we thought we knew about Jamie Cameron’s sound. Closer in spirit to Not Not Cool, his recent collaboration with Will Clapson, Lonely Fans is a disconcerting yet thrilling new single that pushes Cameron’s songwriting into unexpected territory — and you can preview it here. Once again, Cameron proves that restraint and experimentation can coexist, reaffirming his place among the UK’s most eclectic and innovative songwriters.
Named after a poor English translation of a Salvador Dali painting, Virgin of the Birds treads a line between intimate, lo-fi pop and the occasional grandeur of early art rock. Songwriter Jon Rooney has written, recorded and performed as Virgin of the Birds in both solo and band configurations, releasing two LPs on Song, By Toad Records in the UK and Abandoned Love Records in the US, several of EPs on Abandoned Love and contributions to numerous compilations on labels like Perpetual Doom, Fox Box Records, Beep Repaired and Ok, Pal Records. Now, after a long hiatus, he is back with two new songs: Telephone Songs is out today.
From Fort Collins, Colorado, Logan Farmer crafts music that lingers in the quietest corners of folk — intimate, slow-moving and heavy, with atmosphere. Soft guitars, murmured vocals, and the subtle drift of ambient textures that suggest distance, memory, and decay. Farmer’s writing often turns on the small collisions between the personal and the universal, tracing how environmental and emotional fragility echo one another. After early experiments under the name Monarch Mtn., he released his debut as Logan Farmer, Still No Mother (2020), a stark, quietly urgent meditation on isolation and climate dread. A Mold for the Bell(2022) followed, refining his sound into something even more spare and cinematic, with contributions from Mary Lattimore and Joseph Shabason adding a fragile shimmer around his voice. His most recent work, the Butchers EP (2025), turns inward again, pairing field recordings and minimalist instrumentation with lyrics that read like fragments from a fading diary. Farmer’s music occupies a rare register: contemplative but unsentimental, rooted in the folk tradition yet open to drone, ambient, and experimental gestures. Each release feels like a small, self-contained world — an invitation to listen closely, and to sit with the uneasy beauty that remains when everything else has quieted down. Nightmare World I See The Horizon, his third album, will be released by Western Vinyl on January 16th, 2026. The first single is Manhattan, which is out now.