Boggis And Beyond

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Obscure East Anglian name for a bounder/cad or a character from Dahl or Pratchett? Who knows In any event Boggis Fringe are from Leeds and they sound great and all of their new EP gets played. The rest of this playlist is dominated by new 2026 releases, showcasing the current state of independent and experimental music. The collection also includes historical recordings and archival projects, featuring music that ranges from a 1978 studio album to a 2024 documentary soundtrack.

AUDIO

PLAYLIST

• Boggis Fringe - Handbag - Desperate Dreams Destroyed ¹

• Dave Graney and Clare Moore - I Ain’t Got No Float - Laburnum Of The Mind ²

• Palmar de Troya - Come Back - III ³

• Poly-Math - Terror Management Theory - Something Deeply Hidden ⁴

• Tomistoma - Beowulf, Parts I-IV (Reconstituted Outtake Compilation, 2020) -The Thirteenth Hour (Demos, Outtakes and Auditory Ephemera- 2018 - 2025) ⁵

• Glissandro 70 - You The Vandal - G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa ⁶

• The Joy Thieves - The Wrong End of Your Rifle - The Wrong End of Your Rifle ⁷

• Boggis Fringe - Authorities - Desperate Dreams Destroyed ⁸

• David Torn - gold and its oxide - now I imagine a place not the same ⁹

• Flavio Villani -Nocturne op. 27 No.1 - In Memoriam ¹⁰

• Alister Spence - Begin From The Middle - Always Ever ¹¹

• Asteroid Ekosystem - Open To - Sounds Have Dreams ¹²

• Moff Skellington - Solid Ground/Unster Chugg/Holiday On Broken Feet - Dawn Ablutions ¹³

• Boggis Fringe - Rave Scene - Desperate Dreams Destroyed ¹⁴

• The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane (Live) - G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology - Volume 3 ¹⁵

• Harry Howard David McClymont - Trust in your Luck - BLISTERSTICKS ¹⁶

• Hugo Race Fatalists - Open Field - I Made It All Up For You ¹⁷

• Salem Trials - Twelve - Fingerprint on a Blind Eye ¹⁸

• The Dream Syndicate - Halloween (Live in Tokyo, Japan, 1984) - Live Through The Past, Darkly ¹⁹

• Boggis Fringe - I Spoke Out Of Turn - Desperate Dreams Destroyed ²⁰

• Bruford - Adios a la pasada - Feels Good To Me ²¹

• Echoes Of Distant Stars - Archon - Tower of Echoes ²²

NOTES

1. A Leeds-based “punk-adjacent” power-trio formed in the summer of 2024, known for energetic live performances in the Yorkshire indie/punk scene. They released their EP Desperate Dreams Destroyed in February 2026 and regularly play live gigs, including appearances at The Fox & Newt

2. Dave says “Second single from the forthcoming Dave Graney and Clare Moore album, LABURNUM OF THE MIND. I Ain’t Got No Float is an R&B groover with a drop D funk chugg to it. Rhythmic switchbacks and asides that summon the very Dan. Lots of space to it and some post punk white pepper on those clean, asymmetrical guitar licks. Clare Moore rocking straight through it like Bonzo or Paul Cook. Dave Graney on guitars and bass and vocals. Clare Moore on drums, keyboard and backing vocals.”

3. Reptilian Records presents III, the dynamic third release from Spanish alternative/punk outfit PALMAR DE TROYA. The follow-up to their II EP, released by Reptilian in 2024, III maintains the late-1990s sonic roots that define the band’s essence, the new material reflecting a stronger identity and a clearer departure from genre clichés, sounding more personal than ever. III draws directly from the influences that shaped the band’s members, while also embracing the new wave of European and British noise rock/post-punk, referencing bands such as Lambrini Girls, Ditz, and Dry Cleaning. The seven gripping tracks on III were recorded at The Borderline Music Studio in Granada with J.A. Salinas at the helm, as with the prior record. Mixing was handled by Rafa Camisón at El Bisonte Estudio in Jerez de la Frontera, and the record was mastered at Kadifornia Mastering in El Puerto de Santa María by Mario G. Alberni.

4. Based in Brighton and London, Poly-Math is heavily influenced by early classic prog, Ethio-jazz, post-rock, and math rock, having explored different genres and identities over the course of their five albums, two side project lockdown albums, and numerous EPs. The band has morphed through several line-ups, initially started as a trio in 2013, formed by guitarist Tim Walters. Originally the drummer of post-rock band Monsters Build Mean Robots, Walters formed the band to focus on guitar and explore more expansive instrumental music, joined by bassist Joe Branton and drummer Chris Woollison.

5. Solo musical project based in Stoke-on-Trent, created and fronted by multi-instrumentalist and producer Cai Brown. Described as “reptilian piano-led doom,” the project blends elements of doom metal, psychedelic rock, and dark jazz, often eschewing traditional guitars in favour of heavy, distorted electric piano (Fender Rhodes), organ, and synthesizers. The music is known for its atmospheric, eerie quality and lyrical themes that delve into local folklore, nature, and the macabre.

6. The second album from Glissandro 70, the exploratory electronic duo of Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri, both longstanding mainstays of Toronto’s music underground. Glissandro 70 began in 2003 with an invitation from Chicago’s Muted Tones blog to collaborate on music that sat between analogue dub, trance, afrobeat and pop abstraction. This yielded “Something”, an extended rework of material Dunsmuir had originally developed for his Kanada 70 Solo Guitarkestra, and went on to become the opening cut on Glissandro 70’s acclaimed self-titled 2006 debut album for Constellation. 20 years later, the archival follow-up G70 2: Bones of Dundasa uncovers and reworks various abandoned threads from that era.

7. Chicago altrock-industrial outfit back with ‘The Wrong End of Your Rifle’, previewing their ‘Apocalypse Pending’ album, out June 5th via Armalyte Industries. Featuring Chris Connelly (Fini Tribe, Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Pigface), this ripping track addresses the intense frustration we’re all feeling over corporations and billionaires able to do whatever they want, whenever they want, without consequence. A jagged critique of the intersection between state violence, corporate greed and digital voyeurism, they examine a world where human life is devalued and even the most violent acts are packaged as content or conveniently filtered, filmed yet ultimately ignored by the screen-numbed masses.

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9. Electric guitarist and composer David Torn with an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn’s early processing language while carrying it forward with the perspective of decades of exploration. Visceral yet weightless, it deepens his long-standing dialogue between alternate tunings, looping systems, and touch-sensitive electronics. Melody, noise, and atmosphere move through one another in a continuously shifting field of tone.

10. A 2026 solo‑piano release dedicated to the memory of David McDonald. The programme places Busoni’s monumental transcription of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor as a structural anchor, around which Villani’s five‑movement In Memoriam suite unfolds. The suite was shaped during a period of personal loss and incorporates material developed through improvisation. Its movements trace emergence, elegy, fixation, farewell, and return, closing with a quiet dissolution of thematic material. Chopin’s Ballade No. 2, Ballade No. 4, and Nocturne Op. 27 No. 1 extend the emotional terrain into turbulence, lyricism, and suspended introspection.

11. Always Ever, an ambitious, singular and deeply personal collection of inventions and experiments from Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence, released on April 24, 2026 via his own Alister Spence Music. The album consists of 16 wholly improvised pieces, each one approaching the piano from a distinct perspective - documenting a process of discovery into the boundless possibilities of the instrument that he’s played for his entire life. It ventures further down the path on which he embarked with his acclaimed 2020 album Whirlpool, which All About Jazz hailed as “a good place to hear [Spence’s] uncommon imagination at work.” Spence’s nearly four decade career includes his 15-year tenure with the internationally acclaimed group Clarion Fracture Zone, membership in Wanderlust and The Australian Art Orchestra, and collaborations with the likes of Satoko Fujii, Myra Melford, and Lloyd Swanton of The Necks.

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21. The closing track on Bruford’s 1978 album Feels Good To Me, written by Bill Bruford and Annette Peacock and performed as a vocal piece featuring Peacock, with the arrangement centred on Jeff Berlin’s bass lines, Allan Holdsworth’s guitar, Dave Stewart’s keyboards and Kenny Wheeler’s flugelhorn, while John Goodsall and Neil Murray are credited on the album but not present on this track.

22. Echoes of Distant Stars is an ambient space-rock project from Newcastle Upon Tyne that specialises in expansive, cinematic soundscapes designed to evoke the vastness of the cosmos. Released via Echodelick Records, their album Tower of Echoes serves as a deep dive into “kosmische” music, blending psychedelic rock textures with layered synthesizers and rhythmic pulses. The music is primarily instrumental and atmospheric, favouring slow-building analogue warmth and intricate guitar delays over traditional song structures. By balancing modern production with the experimental influence of 1970s drone and electronic music, the project creates an immersive, long-form listening experience that functions as a sonic exploration of celestial themes.