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Extended Field, the long-anticipated eighteenth entry in RVNG’s intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, unites avant-rock quartet Horse Lords and veteran minimalist composer and psychoacoustic pioneer Arnold Dreyblatt.

Together, the group creates a vibrant harmonic environment fueled by a shared devotion to rhythm, achieving a marriage of discreet but related aesthetics for the ages. This intersection of adventurous musicians drawn to the sonically radiant world of just intonation—an ancient tuning system in which scale intervals are derived from whole-number ratios—is a perfect manifestation of the FRKWYS spirit.

We share “Advance”, the tone-setting album opener and sonic map of the hypnotic rhythms that contour the album. Layers of Dreyblatt’s bowed metallic double bass mingle with a cascading pulse of excited strings, echoing the staccato thump of Max Eilbacher’s bass. The tom-patterns of guest drummer Andrea Belfi rumble in the distance, sending battle signs to warn listeners of the off-kilter churn to come.

Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt’s FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field arrives in full November 21, 2025 in vinyl and digital editions. Available for pre-order now, direct from the RVNG webstore and Bandcamp.

“Witch Grass” is the final window into M. Sage’s Tender / Wading before the record emerges this Friday, September 26.

Reflecting the album it belongs to, “Witch Grass” synthesizes the studio experimentation and improvisation of his past work with a sharpened ear for melodic phrasings and chord changes. Rhythmic, guitar-driven, and gently playful, the song nods to a native drought-tolerant plant in Sage’s home state of Colorado, a “powerful symbol in naturalist mythos: protection, healing, resilience.”

The single arrives alongside the final chapter of Sage’s trilogy of self-directed and edited videos. Listen / look / let it grow.

Fire of God’s Love is the legendary 1973 album by Australian nun Sister Irene O’connor—a sincere, soulful, and unwittingly psychedelic song sequence devoted to self-reflectiom. arriving November 14 on Freedom To Spend.

While residing at a Sydney convent in the early 1970s, Sister Irene channeled her devotion into a collection of original folk spirituals. Recorded on a 4 track reel-to-reel by fellow nun and recording engineer Sister Marimil Lobregat, Fire of God’s Love is an archive of early electronic experimentation filled with reverb and analog synthesizer hum.

Today, we share a glimpse in the form of “Fire (Luke 12:49)”, a track that introduces the album’s uncanny otherworldliness, with Irene’s ethereal voice communing with electric organ drum beats to hypnotic effect.

After a half-century of underground lore, Fire of God’s Love is available now for pre-order in limited fire marbled and black vinyl, cd, and digital editions.

The second pin on the unfolding map of Emily A. Sprague’s forthcoming album Cloud Time arrives today with “Hokkaido”

“Hokkaido” is infused with the vibrations of sprague’s Japanese tour, which commenced in september 2024 with a show in Hokkaido. Guided by Kankyō Ongaku, the environmental music philosophy, “Hokkaido” finds sprague traversing an animated landscape grounded in the potency and potential of live improvisation.

A terra of liquid synth lines is populated by sprightly sonic spirits, and sounds linger like footprints tracked through tall grass, lucid in their simple poetry.

Cloud Time arrives October 10, and is available for preorder now in limited cloudy blue and black vinyl, Japanese import CD, and digital editions.

I Am Shee: Original Recordings, 1979-1987 is a musical anthology and image capsule surveying the work of new york vocalist, composer, and visual artist Amy Sheffer. Arriving October 24 from Freedom To Spend.

Emerging from New York’s lower east side in the late ‘60s, Amy Sheffer worked across music, painting, and performance art for over three decades. Rooted in the city’s loft jazz scene, Sheffer privately pressed a series of albums defined by her vibrato vocals and collaborations with various ensembles. While her music was steeped in the city’s creative community, her visual art was a more solitary pursuit, shaped by her experiences with lsd therapy.

Today we share a first glimpse of the collection in the form of “From the Warm”, a track that exemplifies sheffer’s output.

I Am Shee: Original Recordings, 1979-1987 is available now for pre-order. The collection features selections from her albums and is accompanied by a vibrant print companion of ephemera, photographs, poetry, and hallucinogenic drawings.

Lucrecia Dalt’s A Danger to Ourselves arrives in / to the world today.

A Danger to Ourselves emerged from fragmentary declarations scribbled while navigating life after the release of ¡Ay! in 2022, an album whose acclaim, live shows, and expanding audience catapulted Lucrecia far from her creative comfort zone. After a period of processing, she relocated from berlin to southwestern us, where her spirit lifted and her creativity spilled forth. Working with relentless focus and a sense of joy, she produced her most fearless work to date, crystallizing a collection of intimate fragments into a purposeful constellation of songs.

This record stands as both culmination and departure, stepping away from the fictional narratives of her past work into something strikingly introspective and expansive.

A Danger to Ourselves is available now as a limited edition LP with alternative cover design, black LP, CD, and digital editions, all available via the RVNG webstore, and across all digital platforms. A white vinyl edition is also all circulating at our favorite indie shops.