The dramatic continuation of the multitalented producer’s epic musical saga.When Labrinth released his lofty concept album COSMIC OPERA ACT I at the top of 2026, anticipation was already building for the long-awaited third season of the prestige teen drama Euphoria. By extension, anticipation was also building for Labrinth: He’d served as lead composer since the series premiere in 2019, and his atmospheric score was considered integral to the show’s broader cultural impact, earning him an Emmy and an Ivor Novello Award along the way. But with just weeks to go before the third series was due to air, Labrinth withdrew from the project, taking his contributions with him.

Lucrecia Dalt’s A Danger to Ourselves is a fearless reflection on the unfiltered complexities of human connection. Following up her breakthrough 2022 album ¡Ay!, A Danger to Ourselves unravels like a deeply personal conversation; Dalt’s voice is foregrounded and formidable, supported by a lush array of acoustic orchestration and processing, collaged percussive patterns, and an esteemed cast of collaborators including David Sylvian, who co-produced the album with Dalt, Juana Molina, Alex Lazaro, and Camille Mandoki.

Rostam’s third album, American Stories, is his first new music in over five years. The Iranian- American artist and acclaimed producer returns with a record that explores his life across dual cultural worlds. The music weaves together elements of Americana and Persian traditions, blending finger- picked guitars, pedal steel, and strummed chords with microtonal Persian melodies. “That marriage of east and west felt like music that I needed to make for this album.” Interweaving his own experiences, Rostam's lyrics are a collection of stories and reflections, “The Weight” takes place on college campuses in America in the spring of 2025. In “Forgive is to Know,” Rostam processes real events and the act of songwriting itself. Rostam makes sense of the end of a relationship in “Hardy ft. Clairo” and contends with humanity’s uncertain future. The result is a record that feels deeply individual yet unmistakably American. “Ultimately I hope listeners find comfort in this record and I want to leave people with a feeling of optimism.”

There is a door, always ajar, into the invisible world. It is made of all the things we cannot see and cannot touch. It starts with a note. There is no end to anything round, Alicia Lázaro’s debut album, unfolds as a constellation of mythical tales. Inspired by ancient stories from all over the world, heard and imagined, the album connects with the myth of the eternal return, unfolding like a circular never-ending emotional journey. Blending classical and jazz influences with contemporary electronics, it features collaborations with artists such as Arve Henriksen. The songs are a quiet loom of voices, blooming one into another like a tactile fabric of sound, rough and eroded on the edges.

"Veils" is the mesmerizing seventh studio album from singer-songwriter and pianist Vanessa Carlton. Arriving after a five-year hiatus, the record marks her most philosophical and sonically adventurous chapter yet. Produced by the legendary Dave Fridmann, Veils moves beyond the piano-pop boundaries of her early career into a realm of cinematic alt-pop and art-rock.

A mythic and introspective work, Syrr (Arabic for “secret”) transforms memory, loss, and lived experience into a shifting world of sound, voice, and embodied emotion. Written and composed by Maryam Saleh, a luminary of Egypt’s alternative music scene, the album traces a journey in which the self is fractured, questioned, reassembled, and ultimately expanded. Blending raw lyrical expression with subtle dramatics, Saleh crafts an immersive sonic autobiography rooted in intuition, embodiment, and human becoming.

"The Man Comes Around" is a cover of a song by another JC: Johnny Cash, no less! It was featured in "The Hack", a TV dramatisation of the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of "The News of the World" newspaper back in July 2011. "Marrying for Love" and "Cold Call on the Hotline" date from the demo sessions for the album More. Nick Banks wrote the music for "Marrying for Love", Candida Doyle wrote the music for "Cold Call on the Hotline”.

Live at the BBC Proms: St. Vincent joins Jules Buckley and his orchestra in brand-new symphonic arrangements from her eclectic back-catalogue.

'I kept forgetting I was lost because the drift became so normal. I slowly started to remember where I came from. A long limousine drive in the dark twist of night reminded me I hadn't left the earth with you, and i was still tethered. I wished a Thelma and Louise escape; TV static end credit; unresolved mystery; no sense: nonsense. Instead, from a grieving bed and in the company of a sleeping dog, these songs arrived.'

Charlotte Day Wilson is a Canadian contemporary R&B singer-songwriter. She came to prominence in the mid-2010s with her single "Work" and collaborations with other Toronto-based artists like BadBadNotGood and Daniel Caesar. Wilson released her debut album Alpha in July 2021.

With his new record Croak Dream, Puma Blue (real name Jacob Allen) returns to the spectral intimacy that first won him a cult following, now reimagined with the raw, instinctive energy of his live band. The album fuses lo-fi jazz balladry with jungle breaks, krautrock textures and trip-hop atmosphere, drawing comparisons to Portishead, Jeff Buckley, and D’Angelo.

Labrinth’s fourth studio album, Cosmic Opera: Act I, arrives January 30 via Columbia Records, and today, the production powerhouse shares the latest single, “Implosion.” Like its predecessors, “S.W.M.F.” and “Orchestra,” “Implosion” finds Labrinth blending symphonic sensibilities with electronic impulses for a boisterous, bold blend of both spacey trap and dubstep with the operatic foundations implied by the album’s title.

Italian singer-songwriter Marta Del Grandi returns with Dream Life, an album that bustles in a field of dreams, a multi-dimensional panoramic snapshot punctuated with serene disillusionment, that transcends musical boundaries as personal hopes and aspirations are cast against the vastness of the stars and beyond.

Naive Melodies is a bold and visionary tribute to the music of Talking Heads, reinterpreted through the lens of Black musical innovation. Curated by Drew McFadden — the creative mind behind BBE’s acclaimed Modern Love (David Bowie tribute album) — this new collection dives deep into the Afro-diasporic rhythms and experimental soul roots that helped shape Talking Heads’ unmistakable New Wave sound. Inspired by artists like Fela Kuti, Parliament, and Al Green — whose influences loomed large in the band’s rhythmic DNA — Naive Melodies shines a light on the Black music traditions that underpinned their artistry.

The quietly devastating ’Picture of Bunny Rabbit’ forms a long fabled studio sequel of sorts to Arthur Russell’s divine debut and sole album, ‘World of Echo’, offering up nine previously unreleased recordings from the same, enchanted 1985/86 sessions.