For the Innermost

Artist: Gydja Album: Níu kom ek heima fyr Niflhel neðan Label: Winter-Light Release date: May 2026 In the current era of utter commoditisation of music and quasi-anonymous dark ambient works emerging in their dozens on the internet every month, coming across a new release of a mature, established artist feels almost soothing. Such is the case with Gydja, the main project of New Zealand-based audio-visual artist Abby Helasdottir, whose work I haven’t had the pleasure of review

Artist: ERGA Album: Fragment of Their Yearning Landscapes Label: Self-released Release date: May 2026 Erik Gärdefors, the talented songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind Grift (among others), is back with a new project called ERGA. The choice of name (basically the first two letters of the artist's first and last name) is no coincidence and, diving into the album for the first time as I gazed upon the beautifully symbolic cover art, I was sure that I was about to listen