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So great to see Jessica Moss and Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter in this list!

Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound review – unabashedly gorgeous noise from ‘ecstatic black metal’ band The LA group deliver all the power and euphoria of heavy music with imaginative detailing on their second album, which will have you levitating with joy

Agriculture ★★★★★ review in The Guardian !!!
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I love the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal by the band Agriculture.

Love to see The Dwarfs Of East Agouza in here.
Thanks Simon @sun13music.bsky.social 💚

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza interviewed by #fifteenquestions 15questions.net/interview/dw...

“We don't really go looking for or want to force anything in our music. We are just the vessels for an animating spirit or energy.”

Sasquatch Landslide (great album title!) is out today at #Constellation

Listen: ‘050809’ by Spotlights Spotlights, the beloved trio of Mario and Sarah Quintero with drummer Chris Enriquez, release Rarities, a remastered nine-song compilation of early and rare tracks spanning the band’s full discogra…

Gets the Aural Aggravation vote... and mine! auralaggravation.com/2025/10/02/l... @ipecac.com @rarelyunable.bsky.social

Anthony Chalmers 8th September 2025 Playing Noise Rock, Post Punk, Experimental. Anthony Chalmers, promoter of Baba Yaga's Hut, London's top night for left-field & experimental music visits NTS for a monthly showcase of his heavy collec...

Can listen to my NTS show from last week here:
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@gazelletwin.bsky.social, Faten Kanaan, @sealionwoman.bsky.social, Diamanda Galas. That sorta thing

Agriculture: “As artists, we’re interested in finding the profound… Agriculture are one of the boldest bands in American black metal, but their grandstanding music is founded in the simple beauty of the world around them.…

Sam Law's interview with Agriculture for #kerrang magazine reads like it was a lot of fun - new album out this Friday via The Flenser: www.kerrang.com/agriculture-...

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, “Sasquatch Landslide” The Cairo trio craft energetic, left-field guitar music that practically launches itself at you.

Taking influences from Arabic music, jazz, and funk, the Dwarfs of East Agouza's new one is a left-field whirling dervish of a record, and our Album of the Day.

Borrowed Voices, Borrowed Time — SANAM's Infinite Fire The Lebanese sextet's second album 'Sametou Sawtan' transforms twelfth-century poetry and contemporary texts into experimental rock that captures both the intensity of their cult-like recording sessio...

The Tonearm: Borrowed Voices, Borrowed Time — SANAM's Infinite Fire www.thetonearm.com/borrowed-voi...

Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound album cover. Close up of an upturned face in black and white.

“The difference with what we’re doing is that we’re earnest about where we’re pulling all that from, and postmodernism is doing that as a distancing effect. Our interest in all this different kind of music is almost more from seeing a through line with it"

Agriculture Interviewed

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Whitney K: Bubble On his first release for Fire Records, Konner Whitney dispenses more of the good oil.

"[H]is most expansive release yet."

Album review: Whitney K's 'Bubble' - out now via Fire Records.

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Festival Review | @supersonicfest.bsky.social 2025 – Sunday
"Supersonic is the most forward-thinking and open minded-festival in the UK by far, and long may this continue." By Gavin Brown bit.ly/SF_Sunday @rarelyunable.bsky.social Photo of Warrior Queen by @snaprockandpop

Absolutely love this! "a delightfully woozy, gently psychedelic record...magical realism, open hearted storytelling and intimately confessional personal realisations."
The musical world of Whitney K - new album Bubble out today!

Agriculture give it all, and the impact hits like nothing else... auralaggravation.com/2025/09/10/a... @rarelyunable.bsky.social

ROVR - Multiversal Discernment An impossibly Kranky special edition

Oh hey new ROVR show, it's a @krankyltd.bsky.social special!! Came out nice I think.

Faten Kanaan lanza ‘Soseol’, un viaje sonoro entre naturaleza y estaciones | Mindies Faten Kanaan presenta hoy ‘Soseol’, un delicado adelanto de su próximo trabajo ‘Diary of a Candle’, que verá la luz el 17 de octubre a través de Fire Records. El nuevo sencillo, cuyo título significa ...

Faten Kanaan estrena ‘Soseol’, una pieza que adelanta ‘Diary of a Candle’, donde sintetizadores y contrapuntos evocan la llegada del invierno y la fuerza transformadora de la naturaleza. www.mindies.es/2025/08/fate...

“There’s a post-punk integrity underpinning their music which can be linked back to the indispensable soundscapes and motivations of bands like CRASS, The Raincoats and The Slits.” - Hell yeah! Thanks @backseatmafia.bsky.social for the Rún review!

Rún – Rún | The Quietus Mining sludge metal, free improv, krautrock, sacred music, electronica, and folk, Rún are playing with horror, not just as a trope, but as a worldly experience

Excellent review of Rún's debut @thequietus.com "Heavy, feral, and beautiful.” @rocketrecordings.bsky.social
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Review: Rún - Rún - Devolution Magazine Rún Rún Rocket This is a release that grabbed our attention so much on the first single that we instantly emailed their PR for a copy. The sound of Rún covers a lot of ground from the beautiful tender...

Rún's debut album is described by Devolution Magazine as being “like the collaboration between Massive Attack and Julie Christmas that definitely should have happened… a multi coloured album of magnitude and imagination”.
devolutionmagazine.co.uk/2025/08/27/r...
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Championing alternative music and celebrating experimental art-forms is the lifeblood of Birmingham’s #SupersonicFestival (@supersonicfest.bsky.social)

We caught up with CEO & Artistic Director Lisa Meyer to talk all about this idiosyncratic event! 🖤

Read here: getinherears.com/2025/08/26/i...

"The level of exploration and creativity in this album is exciting and frankly, enormously impressive." Out Of Rage 9/10

We are quite ecstatic to announce that Rún's debut S/T album is finally released today in all good record shops.

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Supersonic 2025: Your Quietus Essential Picks With this year's Supersonic Festival just a week away, tQ's Claire Biddles selects 10 must-sees from a stacked lineup, from Nigerian rap to Philadelphia queercore to locally-sourced Brum heaviness, vi...

"Supersonic has a truly global outlook, putting on trailblazing artists from every corner of the world, not just the English-speaking minority." Ace preview @thequietus.com by the icon @msclairebiddles.bsky.social thequietus.com/news/superso... The festival opens its doors next week & we cannot wait

FIVE FAVOURITES: Me Lost Me By exploring the binary oppositions of hope and despair, experimental Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent aka Me Lost Me pushes herself to her emotional limits. On her most recent album, This Materia…

Fabulous Five Favourites selections from Me Lost Me @getinherears.bsky.social today - huge thanks to Kate for putting this together: getinherears.com/2025/08/22/f... @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social

Lovely Echoes & Dust preview @supersonicfest.bsky.social "Supersonic is a beacon of oppositional culture offering a sense of underground community & a brief glimpse of a better way to do things. A notably supportive space for all involved."

Cor this artwork is everything! We are delighted to get the chance to work with Smote on the new album (out Oct 17th)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy performs at the O2 Institute at last year’s Supersonic. Photo by Robert Barrett

"I feel like it’s important that lot of the artists that we’re putting on have got something to say. I feel like we’re so under the radar that people can say what they want and they’re not going to be on the front page of some shit newspaper."

Lisa Meyer on #Supersonic 2025

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Agriculture’s new single “The Weight” is out today. It bears witness to queer life, danger, love, and community. From The Spiritual Sound, out October 3rd on The Flenser.

• Watch the lyric video: flnsr.co/weight
• Pre-order merch & viny: nowflensing.com

Celebrating 15 years of Rarely Unable PR with this incredible artwork from #arcaneandfable as commissioned by a very dear friend of mine.