CABARET VOLTAIRE - Stephen Mallinder & Chris Watson announce details of live album, listen to 'Nag Nag Nag' live - Final North American East & West Coast dates announced - Final UK Tour in autumn

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STEPHEN MALLINDER & CHRIS WATSON

ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE ALBUM

BUT WHAT TIME IS IT REALLY?

OUT VIA MEMETUNE ON 24 APRIL FROM CABS STORE, BANDCAMP, AND ON THE TOUR

LISTEN TO ‘NAG NAG NAG’ LIVE HERE

PLUS DETAILS OF FINAL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR + FINAL TOUR DATES FOR UK AND EUROPE

UK DATES WITH SUPPORT FROM GAZELLE TWIN*

NA DATES WITH SUPPORT FROM I SPEAK MACHINE^

[Cabaret Voltaire, credit Leon Chew]

“It’s rare for a band to be able to lean on material that is abrasive, gritty, jagged and hellishly noisy as easily as they can pull out industrial funk, electro pop, via nods to grinding techno, slippery acid house or ghostly post-punk. Tonight, they deftly glide between the lot.” – The Quietus live review

Ahead of their final tour as Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder and Chris Watson have announced details of a live album, But What Time Is It Really?, due to be released on 24 April 2026 via Memetune.

The album - which will be available on vinyl and CD via the band’s webstore and on the 2026 tour - was recorded during last year’s jubilant sold-out UK tour. Marking 50 years since the live launch of one of Britain’s most influential electronic bands (at the Sheffield Students Union Refectory on 13 May 1975), Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson were joined by Eric Random and Oliver Harrap for an eagerly anticipated and long-awaited tour.

Listen to ‘Nag Nag Nag’ live HERE

But What Time Is It Really? perfectly captures the mood of the UK dates. Fans travelled across the world to see the band present new arrangements of classic Cabs tracks such as ‘Sensoria’, ‘Crackdown’, ‘Do Right’ and ‘Spies in the Wires’ alongside ‘Tinsley Viaduct’, a contemporary piece of musique concrète composed by Chris Watson. The album was engineered and mixed by Benge, recorded by Joe Peat, mastered by James Trevasus with artwork by Dan Conway and Paul Burgess, based on Conway’s live visuals on the tour.

Says Chris Watson, “This record captures the powerful essence of contemporary live performance and establishes a visceral connection to the history of the band.”

Stephen Mallinder goes on to say, ‘It was an opportunity to capture the shows as a unique moment in time but also give people the opportunity to have a memento. Something that presented sounds and music, with respect to Richard’s memory, that also transcended time.”

News of the album is accompanied today by details of the final North American tour that will round off a series of dates that start this week in Norwich. The North American tour will see the band on the West Coast in May, returning to the East Coast in September. Support across the dates will come from I Speak Machine, and ISM’s Tara Busch will stand in for Chris Watson.

Tara Busch says, “Cabaret Voltaire have always been a huge influence on ISM - the grit, the raw electricity, not to mention their visuals and art direction - and it’s truly thrilling to be supporting them in the US. I’m also very excited to be standing in for Chris Watson on synths & samples. I relish this as someone that loves performing and getting a deeper, “nerdier" look at how sounds and songs are created and executed live by bands I love - and Cabaret Voltaire is as good as it gets!”

Composer, producer, and performance artist Elizabeth Bernholz, aka Gazelle Twin, will be special guest across the UK tour in October: “Pinch me. Go on. I’m feeling excessively lucky at the prospect of touring with Cabaret Voltaire in 2026. They are electronic music pioneers, but also the loveliest, kindest folk in music that I could ever hope to share the stage with.”

CABARET VOLTAIRE FINAL TOUR – 2026

21 Feb – Norwich (UK), Synth East Festival – SOLD OUT

6 March – Graz (AT), Elevate Festival

4 May – Seattle, WA (US), Moore Theatre^

6 May – Vancouver (CA), Commodore^

8 May – Portland, OR (US), Roseland Theater^

10 May – Denver, CO (US), Summit^

12 May – Los Angeles CA (US), The Bellwether^

15 May – San Francisco CA (US), The Warfield^

29 May – Malmö (SW), Plan B

30 May – Stockholm (SW), Slaktkyrkan

31 May – Oslo (NO), Søn

2 June – Berlin, Betonhalle

5 June – Paris, Elysée Montmartre

12 June – Brussels, AB

13 June – Amsterdam, Paradiso

18 June – Barcelona, Sónar

19 June – Lausanne, Docks

26 June – Zagreb, Tvornica Kulture

11 September – Dallas, TX (US), Granada Theater^

15 September – Chicago, IL (US), Metro^

16 September – Chicago, IL (US), Metro^

18 September – Toronto, ON (US), Phoenix Concert Theatre^

19 September – Montreal, QC (US), Sat^

21 September – Boston, MA (US), The Wilbur^

25 September – New York, NY (US), Knockdown Center^

26 September – Philadelphia, PA (US), Underground Arts^

7 October – Dublin, The Academy

8 October – Belfast, Limelight

10 October – Birmingham, Town Hall*

11 October – Liverpool, Arts Club*

13 October – Nottingham, Rock City*

14 October – Cardiff, The Globe*

15 October – Bath, Forum*

17 October – Newcastle, Boiler Shop*

18 October – Glasgow, Barrowland*

19 October – Manchester, Albert Hall*

21 October – Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion*

22 October – London, Roundhouse*

25 October – Sheffield, Octagon*

CAMILLE CAMILLE shares new single/video "In a Song" out now via Labelman.

CAMILLE CAMILLE - Shares new single/video "In A Song" out now via Labelman

Photo credit: Ada Güvenir Camille Camille is the musical project of Belgian singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Camille Willemart. Known for her intimate songwriting and delicate, atmospheric sound, Camille Camille creates music that lives in the space between vulnerability and quiet strength. Influenced by the folk tradition, her work feels deeply personal, often exploring themes of observation, connection, inner reflection and the natural world. Today she shares new single & video "In A Song" out now via Labelman. With "In a Song", Camille Camille transports us through a dusty landscape of intimacy and uncertainty. Her ambitious guitar picking, joined by medievalesque vocals, evokes psychedelic folk tones on a gritty percussive loop. On the track, she elaborates "The seed for 'In a Song' started sprouting in the spring of 2023 as I navigated life in Amsterdam, moving between our sailboat home, subrents along the canals, and the boatyard.  I was stuck with only a guitar line for an unusually long time until I finally found melody and words that could do it justice. That was quite new for me compared to my usual creating process. Very quickly, I found myself tapping my feet on the ground in a train-like percussion every time I played the tune. That loop felt evident from the start and became an underlying blanket throughout the track. I recorded the skeleton of the song in my temporary home in Ghent and finished it in the spring of 2025 with the help of sound engineer and buddy Michiel Renson.  The video came together organically with my life and creative partner Vincent Leroi. It was just us, a small digital camera and the dry landscapes of the Canary Islands during our meanderings with our dear floating home, Saga, last winter. 'In a Song' is an ode to doubt, intimacy, the longing for answers, and the beginning of a new chapter!" "In A Song" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lWt0RF2mazA Camille Camille released her debut album Could You Lend Me Your Eyes in 2021, establishing her as a promising voice in the Belgian music scene. The album was praised for its understated beauty and contemplative tone, as well as for Camille’s ability to weave together hope and melancholy. Following the album’s release, she joined King Hannah, Widowspeak, and Kurt Vile on tour across Europe and the UK, bringing her intimate music to international audiences. She later collaborated with long-time friend Sam De Nef on the EP Waving, released in 2023. Through her live performances and recordings, she fosters an aura of closeness and sincerity, guiding listeners into a quiet world where emotions resonate. Her work is anchored in restraint, warmth, and authenticity. "In A Song" is taken from Camille’s upcoming album, which is expected later this year. In A Song artwork: Links: Instagram Facebook Spotify

Slumberland announces reissues of two solo albums from Dolly Mixture's Rachel Love

Slumberland announces reissues of two solo albums from Dolly Mixture's Rachel Love 

The albums were originally released in 2021 and 2024 as limited edition CD-Rs

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Slumberland is proud to reissue the two solo albums by ex-Dolly Mixture member, Rachel Love, 2021’s Picture In Mind and 2024’s Lyra. Originally self-released as limited-edition CD-Rs, they’re lovely, gorgeous pop albums, made on a small scale but with big ambitions, rich with melody and insight, in equal measure, wise and alive to the complications of everyday life and the intensities of the heart.

Picture In Mind wasn’t quite Love’s re-entry to making music – she had released a few albums with her late husband, Steve Lovell, under the name Spelt, in the 2010s, and her post-Dolly Mixture career is dotted with collaborations and unexpected appearances. But it’s certainly the first time we’ve heard Love steering her music entirely in her own direction. It’s an album that embraces the possibilities of recording at home, with the support of close family, and that radiates the beauty of intimacy, in Love’s softly sung, bossa-like vocals.

There are connections to the past through Picture In Mind, most notably on Love’s version of Dolly Mixture’s “Down The Line”, a song collaboratively written by the trio; in Love’s hands here, the song drifts downstream, a lovely, humming melody spun to gold by gentle electronic accompaniment. Both here, and across the fluid, arcing arrangements that Rachel and Steve construct throughout Picture In Mind, that we can trace other threads, too – the beautiful baroque of Dolly Mixture’s Fireside E.P.; the reflective British pop of friends, Saint Etienne; the electronic folk melodies of Broadcast.

Rachel sings with an unforced, unadorned calm, much like Trish of Broadcast. This delivery makes Lyra, written and recorded after the sad passing of her husband, and in tribute to him, even more affecting in its depth of feeling. Co-produced with care and attention by David Lovell, the sound is, in some ways, familiar – we can hear the ticking electronics of Stereolab’s quieter moments, the lovely lushness of Air, the sweet ache of Emma Anderson, some echoes of the home-spun electronics of Sukpatch. But there’s also a melancholy here that takes the breath away: the see-sawing chord changes that land two minutes into “Without You” hit like the heart in motion; the clack and fizz of “I Lost Myself” is gentle psychedelia, disorienting but wise.

Lyra was originally released with The Cat Collects, who also release music by The Cleaners From Venus, and that’s another parallel – beautifully crafted pop songs recorded on a shoestring budget, but sounding like a million dollars, full of sweetly crafted melody and arrangements that collapse pop, psych and folk in unexpected ways. It’s also a music that’s confident in simple, understated gestures, but that doesn’t deny the joy of the big pop moment. They’re two of the most unabashedly lovely, loving pop albums from the past decade – at least.

 

Rachel Love
Picture In Mind
(Slumberland)
Street Date: April 10, 2026
Pre-order HERE

Track List:

 1 Primrose Hill
 2 Down The Line
 3 No More
 4 Dreaming
 5 The Long Way Round
  6 Far Away
 7 Borrowed Time
 8 Wandlebury
 9 Easter Song
10 Look For The Gold

Rachel Love
Lyra
(Slumberland)
Street Date: April 10, 2026
Pre-order HERE

Track List:

1. Without You
2. Why
3. Sad and Lonely
4. Fly Me Away
5. Lyra’s Theme
6. April Love
7. I Lost Myself
8. What Was It For
9. Alone
10. All Across the World

 

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Laura Misch announces new album 'Lithic' out June 5 via One Little Independent Records

LAURA MISCH ANNOUNCES HER SECOND ALBUM LITHIC OUT JUNE 5 VIA ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE “ECHOES” HERE PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE SEE LAURA MISCH LIVE AT THE BARBICAN ON JULY 3, 2026, TICKETS HERE Credit: Joya Berrow | Download here “Celebrates a mystical communion of people, nature and art” The New York Times   “So thoroughly envisioned, it’s almost miraculous” The Line Of Best Fit February 18, 2026—Laura Misch returns with her anticipated second album, Lithic, out via One Little Independent Records on June 5, 2026—presave/preorder here. The announcement is accompanied by her new single “Echoes”, a transportive saxophone- and voice-led meditation—listen/share here. The release comes ahead of Misch’s biggest headline show to date at London’s Barbican on July 3, 2026—tickets are available now here. Reflecting on “Echoes”, Misch says; ““Echoes” is a song about listening through deep time. It calls back to ancient ancestors and forward to future generations, communing with both. The lyrics were inspired by looking at the oldest known female Venus figurines and feeling awe for these Palaeolithic early earth dwellers, and then watching a friend’s baby crawl on the floor - experiencing the same sense of wonder at how sensorily alive she is.” Composed around a small number of primal elements, “Echoes” centres breath - saxophone and voice pitched and echoed through electronics - alongside percussion and a goat skin drum that lends the track a ritualistic pulse. Its reverbs and echoes were shaped by Misch’s experiences improvising in caves and quarries in Cornwall, before the track was further weathered through tape machines. The rhythm of “Echoes” grew out of Misch’s score for BBC Radio 4’s A Lemur’s Song, inspired by research into the rhythmic calls of female lemurs. “Scientists found patterns similar to the drumbeat of Queen’s “We Will Rock You”,” she explains. “I recreated the rhythm using saxophone keys as percussion before adding the goat skin drum, played by Matt Davies. I was drawn to the connections between ancestral rhythms and those shared across species.” Lithic is a cave borne out of emotion and elemental force. Sound and existential thought echo through its chasms, while ancient history lingers within the stone. Fractured by age, eroded by weather, and awakened by voice, body and breath, the album traces sound back to its primal origins - unearthing music summoned from beneath the ground and from the darkest parts of ourselves.  Where Misch’s acclaimed debut Sample of Sky (2023) floated above ground in clouds of sound - followed by its acoustic counterpart Sample of Earth (2024) - Lithic journeys downward through deep time, informed by geology and the elemental forces of wind, water and stone. The album’s conceptual foundations draw on deep listening practices, eco-acoustics and geology. Inspired by artists and thinkers such as Barbara Hepworth, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, eco- psychotherapist and author of Weathering Ruth Allen, and David Haskell’s writing on the origins and evolution of sound, Lithic considers sound as an ancient material - something that can shape, weather and transform over time. It is a deeply feminine record, tracing the rough and soft edges of aging: the weathered lines etched upon a face, the worn fractures in a rockface. Defined as “of the nature of or relating to stone”, Lithic holds both grief and hope, swaying between melancholia and euphoria. It offers music as a communal act - a space to gather, listen deeply, and reconnect with our shared ancestries in a fractured time.   Credits Produced by Laura Misch and Matt Karmil Vocals, saxophone and percussion by Laura Misch Goat skin drum by Matt Davies Mixed by Matt Karmil | Mastered by Erik Breuer Lithic Creative Direction by Laura Misch and Joya Berrow Artwork photographed by Joya Berrow     ‘Lithic’ Artwork by Joya Berrow | Download here   TRACK LIST LITHIC 1. Breathing 2. Kairos 3. Echoes 4. Siren 5. Scrolls 6. Soften 7. Circle 8. Fo(r)est 9. Jealousea 10. Mythic 11. Shell 12. Spiral   LAURA MISCH LIVE July 3—London, UK— Barbican—Tickets   Follow Laura Misch Spotify | Instagram | Facebook | X | Bandcamp   Follow One Little Independent Website | Facebook | Instagram | X