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M. Sage offers Brush Flier, surfacing material from sessions surrounding his 2025 album Tender / Wading.

Whether “the weirdest, noisiest, stormiest, or most spacious” of Sage's latest album, these six songs make a wild, distinct grouping. A collection of daydreams from a different world, the experiments of Brush Flier veer into glitchy jazz, dubbed-out electronics, pastoral Kosmiche folk, and beat-centric laptop music; a veritable sound sampler that reminds us of sage’s boundless cross-genre capacity.

Today, we christen Brush Flier’s journey with two enthralling tracks. On “Thunder Covered Brush,” Sage pairs light guitar strums with pattering percussion in anticipation of a storm rolling in. The track speaks to what Sage calls a “yeehaw exoticism,” examining how Western identity overlaps with otherness, and how the unfamiliar can be found in the everyday.

The next spacious primer, “Near Faraway Place” rests in Sage’s core memory of going to a farm-and-ranch expo as a kid. road-tested out the open window of Sage’s pickup truck, the glitchy mix of chimes and voices pays spiritual homage to Aaron Copland’s “Rodeo”

Both tracks emerge out of the open air alongside a seamless video crafted by Sage, transforming the mundane into something bizarre and truly beautiful.

M. Sage’s Brush Flier arrives September 25, 2026 on all digital platforms.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind is a sonic travelogue of stories waiting and wanting to be told.

Motorcycles and Cherry Wind holds sounds of timeless quality—like inherited folklore, draped with secondhand nostalgia—taking the shape of whoever is eager enough to claim it as their own. Rich and full of character like the dusty mystery of an archeological site, Kural whispers to the living and the long gone alike in a warm, poetic embrace.

Today, we prime the palette with “Winter Sun,” arriving with a softness of dawn, caressing slowly and illuminating with a midwinter glow. Violin strings intertwine with ethereal piano keys over Kural’s gentle humming of sweet somethings. Time feels suspended as Kural hints towards a state of being: like lovers walking through a misty city park, a glint in the eyes giving away what the lips hesitate to admit.

The single arrives alongside a video directed by Barnaby Omar, capturing the radiant, restless sensations of a brand new, blossoming love.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind will be released on October 30, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

Khotin’s remix of “Sing To” washes a scattered brightness over Emily A. Sprague’s contemplative composition.

In polar complement to its original track, this remix re-organizes mood fields into palpable grandeur and re-threads the limits where soundscape meets song. Melancholic patches are lifted into soft exuberance through a collage of flutes, percussive chimes, and radiant beats that meet the listener at the forefront of feeling.

Blending nostalgic timbres with new compositional considerations, Khotin breaks open a space where inspiration and memory effortlessly merge, creating possibility beyond sound.

"Sing To (Khotin Remix)" is available now, glistening for you on all platforms. Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano will be released in its entirety on October 2, 2026, in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

“Auratones of desire” is the next swirling vision from Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession.

“Auratones of desire” is a study in contradictions, a “classic psychological story of projection.” Chang's intimate vocal melodies are guided by half Stravinsky, half noir strings, creeping trepidatiously along until the suspense crescendoes. As is often the case in psychological thrillers, the figure that “Auratones of desire” is about is really just another facet of the self.

The single arrives alongside a surreal video by Chang and filmmaker Annie Horner, featuring Chang exploring dreamlike settings across several scenes and existential situations.

Frances Chang’s been thinking about confession will be released on August 21, 2026.

Cyano is Emily A. Sprague’s fifth solo studio album, a meditation on visibility, psychic transformation, and worlds beyond our knowing.

In Cyano, Sprague builds an intricate world, expanding a sonic register that is both familiar and viscerally new, reflecting the synthesist and composer’s internal register with mirrors to alternate realms. Cyano was conjured through ideas of an imagined planet whose inhabitants are rebuilding forbidden capacities for expressivity and emotional connection. An arc of faithful gestures, the album revels in configurations of connective possibility, where shadow and vision meet incisive truth.

Today we share “Sing To,” a cool wind gush, a rush of revolving doors. The piece builds a soft clearing around Sprague's vocals, her quiet admissions intertwining with delicate synth arcs that effortlessly cloud feeling and reason. What emerges is a broader space of acceptance, a warming of new life and grief.

“Sing To” is accompanied by a video directed by Sprague’s life and creative partner V. Haddad. An abstracted narrative of two people connecting through memory, “Sing To” explores the science fiction lore of Cyano through video art and documentary.

Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano will be released on October 2, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! manifests in our world today, an ecstatic invitation to a utopic dimension of sound.

D2BT2HA! marks RVNG’s fourth release with Horse Lords, and the tenth full-length accumulation of material in the band’s sixteen year history. Sixteen years is a long haul, and no easy feat for a band that found three of its four members transplanted from Baltimore to Berlin in 2021. While expatriating added a certain spice to the band dynamic, they recognized that D2BT2HA! would be the first Horse Lords album synthesized from a distance.

This endeavor offered an experiment with proximity, a dedication to communal philosophies, an opportunity for individuality to harmonize in the great spirit, and experience, of communication. As the band describes: “though the goal is still to speak from the position of a compound subjectivity, to break down the boundaries that individuate us, much more than past records there are four individuals speaking here. parallel play.”

And parallel play they have. D2BT2HA! is the most euphoric and joyful the band has sounded, a true exploration of spiritual rapture. Weaving numerous sonic and conceptual layers together with ease and intensity, the Lords have emerged with their most ambitious work, a celebration of music’s undeniable power and humanity. Is it a coincidence that 2026 marks the Year of the Fire Horse?

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is available now in clear and marbled blue LP, black LP, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.