Ahead of the release of Sometime in February’s new album ‘Where Mountains Hide’, we asked the band about 3 releases that have influenced them a lot in their musical career. 

Emmaleen Tangleweed’s music is more accurately described as a channelling than a song. Summoning stories of lost souls too tortured to let go, she cries and yearns as they no longer can, and yet, a silver thread of faith binds them.

White Willow’s Signal to Noise deserves to be on top of the list of albums with repeatable, desirable listens.

Olivares has always lived between worlds – immersed in the chaos of noise rock, while quietly drawn to the subtle complexities of electronic sound. After years of creating experimental rock, it was the deep, hypnotic rhythms of artists like Pole, Nicolas Jaar, Nils Frahm, Caribou and Floating Points that sparked a shift in his creative direction.

Like the lovechild of a David Lynch fever dream and a warehouse dancefloor at 3 am – The Shops are a perfect cure for anyone drawn to the mysterious corners of music.

Versus Machine is an innovative and genre-blending rock band whose members bring together years of experience from diverse musical backgrounds. The band’s core is made up of singer/guitarist Stephen Tilley, bassist Michael James Stipe, and drummer Brian Doherty, with the group’s formation rooted in both past musical connections and newfound collaborations.

NEON KITTENS, formed in 2022, draw their name from a misheard Ultravox lyric and are influenced by No Wave, PiL, On-U Sound, and ZE Records

The sound of Los Angeles shoegaze band OSNOVA could still be likened to walking alone on a dark night –it strides with confidence, masking an unstable and anxious edge –the sound of forward movement that is all at once evocative, determined and enveloping

One of those albums that’ll be played for a long, long time and keeping the sound, vision, and wonders John brought to the table with its storytelling and poetic structures that is like a movie set in the 1950s with gorgeous and chamber-like arrangements.

Deep Fade are Amanda Votta, Neddal Ayad, and Grey Malkin.  Their second album, Further, delves into themes of disintegration, loss, and distance, expanding on their debut Line Of Flight with a new sonic structure.

Photo: Giovanna Ferin Brighton-based singer-songwriter Juanita Stein has just released her fourth solo album The Weightless Hour via Agricultural Audio. Always in demand, the Howling Bells’ front-woman has just finished a UK tour supporting Evan D …

Massive Attack meets panic attack with a flavour of a Purple-pink Floyd. The Murrays mint another beauty…

Portland Oregon-based heavy post-progressive band Light Creates Shadow release new single, ‘Beauty For Ashes’, their first new music since the release of the 2022 full length, Ghosts Pass Through, Running From The Body.

California death-rock trio New Skeletal Faces talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced the band’s sound a lot.

On the eve of a London headline, we asked the France-based prog-metallers to share three records that have hugely influenced their music and their new album, Mesh.

It remains one of those albums that you keep going back to see what kind of mysteries and hidden clues that Lupo has left behind for listeners to discover.

Juanita Stein has released her fourth solo album The Weightless Hour via Agricultural Audio. The Howling Bells front-woman has just finished a UK tour supporting Evan Dando and is doing a series of in-store shows including one at London’s Rough Trade West this evening, before joining Travis on their UK dates in December.

Singer-songwriter and interdisciplinary artist from Montreal, Olivia Khoury unveils her newest single ‘Fall Forward’ and offers a glimpse of her evolving artistic journey. . .

I wrote “Siphonophores” on guitar, during the first lockdown, a period where I was kind of trapped between an almost empty flat in Edinburgh and Dresden. . .  I´m not a confident guitarist since I am completely self-taught, but, probably because of this, I feel that this instrument allows me to focus on aspects of the song-writing that I normally overlook when writing on piano. . .

Manchester/Cardiff-based doom luminaries The Death Of Money just celebrated their 20th anniversary with their new album ‘Error After Era’. Check out the band’s main influences here…

Thrash-influenced stoner metallers WARPSTORMER are about to release their new self-titled EP on the London Doom Collective. Check out their new single and read about some of the band’s influences here.