St. Silva is the always intriguing electro-acoustic musical project of Ben Dexter Cooley. His forthcoming album, Forager, is a warm collection of looping meditations that merge formless exploration with found sounds. “Forager is an experiment in collecting and recombining sounds and memories over the course of a year,” St. Silva shares. Using tape loops, modular synthesis, field recordings, and melodic synth lines, his intention wasn’t to create songs, but to weave previously recorded fragments into a collage‑like soundscape that feels as if it always existed. The album lands on July 17th – get a taste below.

Emily A. Sprague, who began experimenting with guitar and keyboard as a teenager before co-founding Florist in the early 2010s, has steadily widened her sound palette into solo ambient endeavours (see here). Now, with Double Moon, she arrives at a more delicate and immersive phase of that path, where every detail feels more focused and deeply felt. A limited 7″ edition is available from RVNG Intl. Wrap your ears around this beauty below.

Out on Loyal Label, the label with a “quality‑only” release habit. If it’s on their imprint, it’s worth your ears. The Setting is the trio of Eivind Opsvik (bassist, composer), Elias Stemeseder (piano, synthesisers), and Will Graefe (acoustic guitar). On their debut, they use jazz as the spark, then stretch the sound far beyond it. The trio draws on the glow of ’70s and ’80s synth music, Eno, Jarre, Zawinul, even Kate Bush, but roots it in acoustic detail, with upright bass, guitar and harpsichord doing the work. With no drums to pin it down, the record feels weightless, quietly melancholy and just a little uncanny. Think jazz, then not jazz tracks that twist the idea of “experimental” in all the right ways. If you are unsure, try the immersive ‘Sacromonte‘ or the vibrant ‘Hold On Tight to Your Music‘. Have fun with it.

SUSS return with Counting Sunsets, a quietly expansive drift through their slow‑motion Americana. The album moves like dusk in episodes, small, neon‑lit moments shaped by tone, atmosphere, and the beauty of negative space. It’s a reflective meditation on memory, decay, and the slow erosion of time. Stream the album below, it’s an absolute must listen!

Feels like one for the astronomers among us, with the Ephemera Quartet drawing celestial inspiration for their third album, Star Opus. The six-track album is a musical exploration of celestial landscapes, including pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, the sun, and the void. With Keyna Wilkins on flute and piano, Elsen Price on double bass, Will Gilbert on trumpet, and Jodie Michael on drums, the quartet blend jazz and contemporary classical textures, enhanced by authentic space recordings and immersive visual projections for a one‑of‑a‑kind listening experience. This one’s been on constant rotation – absolutely hooked.