Amy Berg took it upon herself to make a documentary delving into the life and career of Buckley and to accompany this, an album was released on all streaming services honouring Buckley. It contains songs used in the documentary and deep cut live performances that have once before never been available on streaming.

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Buckley was an American singer-songwriter, his only studio album ‘Grace’ is a legendary classic, and as of 2025 Buckley has amounted over 10 million monthly listeners on Spotify. A number that would surely make his eyes widen and water had he have been here to see it.

Upon its original release, sales of ‘Grace’ were unhurried, garnering very little radio play. In spite of this the album progressively went gold in France, Australia and the US over a 8 year span. Arguably he’s now more famous than ever, his music continues to touch hearts all across the globe.

Unfortunately, on the evening of May 29, 1997, Buckley innocently decided to go for a swim in the Wolf River Harbor of Mississippi river. The last sighting of him was that of roadie, Keith Foti. Buckley had been swept underwater and after extensive overnight rescue efforts his body was found caught in branches in the Wolf River. His autopsy confirmed no signals of drug or alcohol use, and his death was ruled as an accidental drowning.

Taken far too soon, it is important to let Buckley’s wondrous music live on and this is exactly what Berg is doing. The documentary was first premiered at the sundance film festival to a full crowd of emotional onlookers including his mother and former band mates.

Buckley’s spellbinding lyricism and meditative voice will continue to live on in the hearts of many, if anything this documentary has reignited the love that many individuals formed for him throughout the life of his short-lived musical venture.

A posthumous album has been released on streaming service, ‘Jeff Buckley: It’s Never Over – Songs From The Film’, appeared on listeners devices on December 4. The new take on the beloved authoritative record, ‘Grace’, holds unheard live performances, alternate takes on once lost original songs, and film scored interludes.

Posthumous releases are often a risky move and those behind them must tread lightly , however this is an undoubtedly beautiful celebration of Buckley’s music and life. There is no overproduction, inappropriate mixes or unasked for duets. It is simply strengthening the emotional hold that Buckley’s songs embody.

For longtime fans this is an honorary gift, reminding them exactly why they fell in love with him in the first place. For modern day newcomers this album demonstrates exactly the widespread talent that Buckley was notorious for. The official UK release for the documentary is February 13 2026.

Alongside the announcement of his marriage, he also shared the playlist he is planning on playing while his wedding guests will hear during the dinner service. The playlist only features instrumentals as Byrne has claimed that “words and lyrics can be distracting – the ear goes to them, especially if it’s a song one knows.” Byrne’s dedication to music knows no bounds as he has even curated the soundtrack to his own wedding. Byrne has always had an ear from music made around the world, evidenced in his early Talking Head days.

The Talking Heads album ‘Remain In Light‘ features percussion inspired by Nigerian icon Fela Kuti, German experimental rock band CAN and polyrhythms featured in Afro-Caribbean music. ‘Remain in Light‘ is only one example as his worldwide influences reach through all his music.

This new playlist, titled ‘David Byrne Radio Presents; Dinner Music‘ features 42 songs and runs for just under two and a half hours. This playlist features lots of Latin-inspired instrumentals such as ‘En El Caribe Estoy Triste’ by ‘Meridian Brothers‘, ‘Pa Japón’ by ‘El Alfa‘ and ‘Guajira Sicodélica’ by ‘Los Destellos‘.

He also includes instrumentals from well-known artists such as Brian Eno (‘An Ending (Ascent)’), Jeff Beck (‘Corpus Christi Carol’), Herbie Hancock (‘Watermelon Man’) and Post Malone (‘Wow.’). Even though the playlist consists of only instrumentals, the quality is so high that guests may still be distracted while they ask their neighbours what song is playing or subtly use Shazam.

Included on the playlist is the orchestral ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. David Byrne is currently working with Ghost Train Orchestra to release a new album. The new album, titled ‘Who Is The Sky?’ will be released this Friday September 5 and is a full collaboration between the two artists. The album is available for pre-order here. Byrne and Ghost Train Orchestra have currently released three singles from the new album, ‘Everybody Laughs’, ‘The Avant Garde’ and ‘She Explains Things To Me’. A fourth single titled ‘What Is The Reason For It?’ featuring Hayley Williams (Paramore) will be released tomorrow September 3. See the music video to ‘Everybody Laughs’ below:

Byrne is also touring in the UK next year with his latest album, tickets are available here. His UK tour dates are as follows:

David Byrne 2026 UK Tour Dates;

March 2 – Cardiff Utilita Arena

March 3 – London Eventim Apollo

March 4 – London Eventim Apollo

March 6 – Glasgow Armadillo

March 7 – Glasgow Armadillo

March 9 – Manchester O2 Apollo

March 10 – Manchester O2 Apollo

March 11 – Manchester O2 Apollo

March 15 – London Eventim Apollo

March 16 – London Eventim Apollo

Her latest release contains all the things we have grown to love by CMAT. This includes her pride in her Irish roots, highlighted in the title track ‘Euro-Country’ where she sings the first verse in Gaelic, and her humour shown in the track ‘The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station’. CMAT celebrated the release of her latest album on Instagram where she wrote “today is the day that EURO-COUNTRY is out in the world. i am so happy that we made it even though it was the hardest job i have ever had in my life. i hope you can hear how much work went into it, along with a genuinely quite large part of our souls.”

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The music world has been highly anticipating this release and excitement has been building after her standout performance on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury this year, as well as performances at Primavera Sound and All Points East. CMAT has also released a memorial plate, available for a chance to win if you order the album on her official website before September 4, again highlighting her unique blend of humour and tradition. She shared this with her fans with the following post.

 

 

 

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CMAT achieved viral fame after her song ‘Take A Sexy Picture Of Me”, the sixth song on this latest album, became notable on social media platforms such as TikTok and even gaining it’s own TikTok dance. Though she was well known before this, the viral dance helped her achieve the fame she deserves. Celebrities such as Amelia Dimoldenberg have been performing the dance on her TikTok channel @ameliadimz shown below:

@ameliadimz Love you @cmat by @Sam Morris ♬ Take A Sexy Picture Of Me – CMAT

Fans have been reacting well to the album in discussions online. Tracks like ‘Lord Let That Tesla Crash’ are being seen as one of the highlights to the album, a song about death and materialism which has caused gut-wrenching sadness upon listens. The title song ‘Euro-Country’ tackles the economic boom Ireland had from the 1990s-late 2000’s and the effects of the 2008 crash on the lives of young people at the time. The album is catchy but deals with very real topics in an honest and throat-catching way.

CMAT is on tour next year with her new album, though tickets are selling quickly and she has even added a new date in Manchester. She is also currently performing solo album release shows in record stores around the country before beginning her main tour. Tickets are available here

She has also added an extra date to her tour in Glasgow, Manchester and Dublin. She announced this on Instagram, writing in the caption “can’t believe i’m saying this but presale sold out so quickly we’re adding some extra shows general sale 10am on friday bst / 11am cest !!! wow wow wow”.

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Olivia Dean attended the prestigious BRIT performing arts school, with alumni including Amy Winehouse, Geordie Greep, Adele and Jessie J. In 2019, she released her first EP ‘OK Love You Bye‘, introducing the music scene to her neo-soul melodies and heartfelt, authentic lyrics.

She first gained recognition when she won Amazon Music‘s 2021 Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Since then, she has grown exponentially in popularity, going on to win the BBC Introducing Artist of the Year in 2023. 2023 also saw the release of Dean’s debut album ‘Messy’, which was released to critical acclaim. Listen to ‘Messy’ below:

Dean shot to stardom after the release of her debut album, which was nominated for the 2023 Mercury Prize. In the same year, Dean was also nominated for 3 BRIT Awards, Best New Artist, Mastercard Album of the Year and Artist of the Year.

This year, she has also added to her stardom after she was selected to write the lead single in the soundtrack to the 2025 film Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Olivia Dean wrote the incredible song ‘It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be’ for the film, a song which gained widespread radio play. Watch Dean perform this song on her YouTube channel below:

Olivia Dean has been busy this summer, playing a secret set at Glastonbury Festival, a top act at Forwards Festival in Bristol and even a performance at British Summer Time (BST) 2025 at Hyde Park. Her ‘The Art of Loving Live‘ tour begins in the USA in October 2025.

Before the main tour begins, Dean is playing acoustic sets of the new album at album launch events next month (September 2025), starting in Edinburgh before visiting Liverpool, Leeds, Kingston, Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham, where she will discuss the new album with fans during these intimate sets at small venues. Tickets for these events are currently sold out though she has suggested she will add new dates to her acoustic sets due to high demand.

Dean has currently released three singles from her new album, ‘Nice To Each Other’, ‘Lady Lady’ and ‘Man I Need’. Watch the music video to her latest single ‘Man I Need’ below:

Tickets for Olivia Dean’s 2026 ‘The Art of Loving Live‘ tour can be bought here. General sale begins tomorrow Friday 29 August. Deans new album ‘The Art of Loving‘ is available for pre-order here, which will be released on 26 September 2025.

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The band have also announced an album launch show at the Jacaranda Baltic, a venue within Cains Brewery in Liverpool. This show was initially to be held on August 20, just before the official release of the album, though it was delayed due to illness and will now be held on November 4. The Jacaranda Baltic is a 400-capacity basement venue and will provide an intimate space to sample the band’s new release. Tickets will also include a copy of the album on CD or Vinyl.

Royel Otis achieved fame when their cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’, shown on triple j’s show Like A Version‘ became viral on YouTube and TikTok. See the performance below:

Royel Otis performed at Reading and Leeds festival this year and surprised festival-goers at Reading when Sophie Ellis-Bextor made a surprise cameo during the band’s performance of the viral cover. Royel Otis also performed a viral cover of ‘Linger’ by The Cranberries, released on SiriusXM’s YouTube channel. The band are now ready to push their original material. In a recent interview with NME, Royel Maddell said “It’s so hard, because ‘Murder…’ gets everyone hyped and ‘Linger’ gets everyone singing along, which makes us feel better. It’d be nice to not do them – not because we don’t like the songs, but because they’re not our songs, it feels like a cop out, sometimes.”.

‘(hickey)‘, the new album released by the band, contains only original music and is being celebrated by fans. The first single released, ‘Moody’, is a catchy guitar-pop song though recently garnered controversy due to accusations of misogyny in the lyrics by using derogatory terms for women in the chorus of the song. On August 22, Royel Otis released the latest single from the new album ‘who’s your boyfriend’ as well as uploading a music video to YouTube featuring Lola Tung, best known as Belly Conklin from the Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty. See the music video below:

The album is available on Royal Otis’ official website and include an art card signed by the band.

Tickets for the album launch party at Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool can be bought here. Tickets for the official tour will be released this Friday 29 August. Tickets for the Brixton show can be bought here, tickets for Glasgow can be bought here and tickets for Manchester can be bought here.

About his new single, Waterman said for Partisan Records “I wrote ‘Adriatic’ while failing at moving to Greece. I was trying to break outside of the confines of my immediate physical reality. Life is full of practical limitations in terms of having a body, or what you can afford in terms of money, etc. but you can always go to a place in your head where everything is possible, and the song is a celebration of reclaiming that.”. You can see the music video to his latest single below:

‘A Jackal’s Wedding‘ will be Westerman’s third album, following ‘An Inbuilt Fault‘, released in 2023. His website states “Westerman’s third album, ‘A Jackal’s Wedding‘, is a humid, nocturnal record shaped by constant transition. Written largely in Athens and recorded at night over five weeks on the Greek island of Hydra with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx, Sampha, English Teacher), the album takes its name from a folkloric term for a sunshower, a strange and beautiful contradiction that mirrors the record’s themes of motion, change, and surreal clarity.”.

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Westerman released his first EP, titled ‘Call and Response’ in 2017, though his breakthrough happened the year later with the release of his single ‘Confirmation’, a single awarded Best New Track by Pitchfork. Confirmation introduced his dreamy sound to the wider music world while the song delves into the process of song-writing and the self-doubt when creating new music.

Westerman’s debut album ‘Your Hero is Not Dead‘ was released to critical acclaim, with honest, moving lyrics and a full synth-heavy sound. In this album, he continues his exploration on song-writing while showing his bravery with intriguing instrumentals. His second album ‘An Inbuilt Fault‘ follows the same lyrical themes though it is a lot more stripped back and allows more space for Westerman’s vocals to shine through. If his new single is an indication of the entire album, the new album will turn up the experimentation while using more catchy, danceable pulse. 

‘A Jackal’s Wedding‘ will be released on November 7 2025, you can preorder it here.

Full tracklist

1. S. Machine
2. About Leaving
3. Adriatic
4. Mosquito
5. Spring
6. PSFN
7. Nevermind
8. Agnus Dei
9. Nature of a Language
10. Weak Hands
11. You Are Indelibly Where I Sleep

Westerman is supporting U.S indie band ‘Nation of Language’ later this year. To buy tickets to see them in Manchester, London or Cardiff, buy tickets here. To see them in Glasgow, buy tickets here.

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Welch has also been dropping mentions of “Witchcraft, folk horror, mysticism, magic, poetry [and] insanity,” as well as a photograph of Simon Critchley’s 2024 book, On Mysticism which could be a main theme to the upcoming album.

Florence recently shared a video of herself, frantically digging up the ground in an empty field which ends in a below shot where she stares into the camera in the hole as she lets out the biggest, most horror filled scream.

The lead singer has made a few appearances leading up to the announcement. The band last performed together as a whole back in 2024 with a full orchestra as the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their debut album ‘Lungs’, Welch has since joined Taylor Swift on stag to perform their song ‘Florida!!!’ but more recently The Maccabees during their Glastonbury set to perform ‘Love You Better’ as well as ‘Dog Days Are Over’.

‘Everybody Scream’ will be Florence + The Machine first release since their 2022 album ‘Dance Fever’ and will come shortly after the 10th anniversary of their third studio album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’.

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The album, which first came out in 2003, is now digitally out and will physically be available on October 31, it captures performances of the different songs of the album across various shows the band did between 2003 to 2009.

The live version of the album was mixed by Ben Baptie and mastered by Matt Colton. To celebrate the announcement, the band released a live video performance of the track ‘There, There’ which was filmed during performance in Buenos Aires in March 2009.

The idea for the album came to Thom Yorke, frontman of the band, whilst he was working of critically acclaimed theatre production Hamlet Hail to the Thief, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play and set to a deconstructed score of reworked songs from Radiohead.

In a statement explaining how the record came about, Yorke said, “In the process of thinking how to build arrangements for the Shakespeare Hamlet/Hail to the Thief theatre production I asked to hear some archive live recordings of the songs. I was shocked by the kind of energy behind the way we played and it really helped me find a way forward. For us, back in the day, the finishing of this record was particularly messy and fraught, we were very proud of it but there was a taste left in our mouths, it was a dark time in so many ways. Anyway we decided to get these live recordings mixed (it would have been insane to keep them for ourselves) by Ben Baptie, who did an amazing job. It has all been a very cathartic process, we very much hope you enjoy them.”

The album will be available on vinyl in a limited-edition at independent stores, and on cyan-colored vinyl exclusively from the band’s W.A.S.T.E. store.

Tracklist
Side A
2 + 2 = 5
Sit Down. Stand Up
Sail to the Moon
Go to Sleep
Where I End and You Begin
We Suck Young Blood

Side B
The Gloaming
There, There
I Will
Myxomatosis
Scatterbrain
A Wolf at the Door

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The post videos a deserted landscape with an overlay of soul baring text, in which Caesar shares “I’m trying to write a letter announcing the album, but I want it to be profound and clever. I have this secret desire to think and express a thought that’s never been thought before. But alas.”

The letter goes on to reveal musings on his father’s history, saying “When I was little any time my dad was disappointed in me or felt as though I needed motivation (or he wanted me to understand him, which I didn’t at the time) he would tell me his carefully curated but true origin story. He would tell me of the glory days of the Jamaica tourism industry and how he would sing dinner music at Doctor’s Cave Beach to foreigners from all over the world.”

The video continues with introspective thoughts on family, religion and one’s sense of self. He ends his Instagram letter with “Everything is vanity. Family is everything. Be truthful and forthright in your dealings. Never forget that god is the only eternal measuring stick for morality. I am nothing, but in my flesh I am Spergy’s Son, and in my spirit I am God’s.”.

Sampha’s involvement  in the upcoming album is an exciting new collaboration happening alongside the R&B singer’s recent movements. Sampha recently featured in Oscar Farrell’s latest single ‘Dream Therapy’, a melancholic alt-R&B release from Farrell’s upcoming EP ‘So Far South’. 

Sampha’s last solo studio album was his second, ‘Lahai’, released in 2023. On the record, he spoke to Interview Magazine about his improvisational process, saying

“I’ll take in information and I’ll incubate things. I don’t really plan. The most planning of sessions I’ll do is who’s going to come, the equipment, and what kind of production style I’ll go for, and then I’ll just go with the flow. It’s a lot of improvisation.”

This intuitive electronic soul production will be an exciting feature on Caesar’s gospel-influenced style which will likely appear in his new album.

The project comes after some huge collaborations with Blood Orange on their single ‘The Field’ as well as a production feature on Justin Bieber’s unexpected new album ‘SWAG’. 

Find updates on Caesar’s new album here, and news on Sampha’s solo projects on the artist’s official website.

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The Last Dinner Party said in a statement: “This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.”

Earlier in May, the band teased the mood of their upcoming project in an interview with NME: “It’s got darker themes, and we’ve been processing heavier emotions. It’s a pretty dark time, so I think that is reflected in the music because we’re in touch with the world.”

With the album reveal comes the first single, ‘This Is The Killer Speaking’. The song was met with positive reviews, with Cult Media saying “This confident leap forward is of the same quality as their debut. This is the Killer Speaking swings from tender spoken-word spots to infectious glam-rock moments, which hear The Last Dinner Party implement new ideas into an already present momentum.”

Far Out also gave a warm reception to the new single: “Like if Kate Bush wrote a theme tune for a western flick, it merges the group’s cinematic inspirations with a perfect balance of feminine and masculine soundscapes, letting Morris’ voice show off the full range, including some incredible high points, in a way that perfectly suits the lyrics too.

“Singing of a dark and doomed love and a desire to reclaim the power, it’s likened to a hostage situation or a villain wandering back into town after she escapes and returns a savage, just as the band play it live, marching one by one back onto stage for an encore.”

The band recently appeared at BST Hyde Park as the penultimate support act for Olivia Rodrigo. Here, their performing prowess received high praise, with yahoo!life writing “The setlist varied in musical style, each with rich vocal harmonies, fancy guitar flourishes, and all wrapped in a dramatic flair. I was instantly sensing a combination of Kate Bush and David Bowie influences, with the more contemporary flamboyance of artists like Chappell Roan.”

The group will be trying to continue their successful run which has grown since they stepped on the scene – in 2024, they won the Brit Rising Star Award, and returned in 2025 to snatch the Best New Artist award.

The Last Dinner Party will be curating an exhibition on David Bowie, set to open in the V&A in London this September. You can read our MXDWN coverage on that here.