Music for playing in your car, with the windows down – this is head-turning, brain-grating, foot-tapping industrial dance music that demands to be shared. Sod the white vans, with their dessicated Coldplay blandness. The Mushroom Lady of Riga brings myco-techno to the streets.
Sweden’s pop surrealists, The Ändå, offer this witty and catchy track to brighten your day. The AI-assisted video incorporates camels, apes, and gingers among the wildlife.
A new project launches in Germany with Robert Görl and Sylvie Marks collaborating as GÖRL. The pair had been working as DAF since the death of singer, Gabi Delgado, but their partnership takes a new step with the statement that “Some Day Is Now.”
The single is elegant and minimal. “Dark Silver Moon Light,” the first album from GÖRL, arrives on 29 May 2026 via Groenland Records.
From Austin, Texas, deep behind enemy lines, comes this single from SINE. This is the first self-produced offering from the project of former base brat, Rona Rougeheart. It is a grinding, breathy track with a touch of industrial camp.
Erik Ångman returns with a single from the forthcoming 20Hz album. “Every Shadow Has a Tale to Tell” is a collaboration with Louise and Peter Marchione from the amazing Swedish act, Thermostatic. It is also an atmospheric pop track destined for your Bali beach bar playlist.
The fabulous Canucks, Actors, return with a smashing track influenced by Pete Shelley’s “Homosapien.” The Americans might have the edge at ice hockey, but they don’t have any acts this sharp in the post-punk game.
Latvian-born Victoria Nordmann offers Italo-influenced pop to lift your spirits in the gloom of winter:
The sun is on my face
I‘m in a happy place
My heart is beating fast
This joy is made to last
Not a million Swedish miles from the sound of Fever Ray, this. Nano Ona‘s “Diamond Dust” gets the remix treatment from Pelotone.
The original is found on the post-Covid album, Now, Not Later. Pelotone adds vocals to the original and takes it into an even icier, bleaker landscape. Frostier than the Judderman after a sip of Metz.
This is not a love song. Hana Piranha are back with a view of romance through a cracked mirror. Hold the wilted flowers and melted chocolates – Dogtablet are on the scene to administer electro-industrial aid.
The Swedish duo, Ankomst, give their own spin to the Kent classic, “Hjärta” [EN: “Heart”]. The song was written to give succor to missing persons and the relatives left behind. Ankomst performed it at Kentfest, a 2026 event in Gothenburg, and quickly issued it as a single.
Jenny Palmé’s vocals are strong here, while Mikael Lastin’s electro,instrumentation puts a poptronica twist on the original.
