Capsule Reviews: August 2026

Photo by Sonny Sixteen

“River” from Colorado’s Radical Man is a propulsive exercise in cosmic electronic ambitions.

The psychedelic pop stylings of Ireland’s Flywheel are summery sweet on “Stop looking At Her”, a blistering single that, despite the aformentioned sweetness, doesn’t skimp on the grit.

Get lost in the exquisitely beautiful ambient world of “Hosono rented a place” by Lebanon’s Sege Volant

France’s Waxstar make lucid and emotionally driven dance music on the rousing new single “Lemon”

UK artist IRIE merges performative and personal vocal performances with abstract and textural production on “Breathless”

Kunming’s MieMiedos constructs a complex and beguiling mindscrew on the recent single “Between Coordinates”

AuxVolta spin a web of hypnotic electronic structures on “Generic Gazelle”, a track that achieves significant intensity without ever trying too hard.

Fanciful neoclassical delights with surprising twists and turns on “Empirical Evidence of the Existence of Angels” by Leon Clowes

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