Issue 092 · Oct 23, 2026
LoudQuietLoud is an automated discovery engine for physical media. A knowledge graph maps artists and labels from listening data, the music press, and radio airplay, then points you straight to the artist or label where possible, and to indie record shops when it’s not. How it works
After a pair of excellent albums fronting his New Orleans quartet Silver Synthetic, last year's Painters Street saw musician and vocalist Chris Lyons venturing into promising solo pathways.
A year after his moody collab with Nosaj Thing, the Montreal producer returns with his clubbiest album yet.
The Danish artist achieves a beguiling flow state on her second solo album: a set of future standards full of empty space.
The most-played albums on KEXP, KCRW, KRCL, KUTX, The Current, and WXPN yesterday. Stations don’t endorse or sponsor these picks.
A daily cut of the knowledge graph: two dozen artists ranked by listeners, and anyone the music press has covered in the past two weeks jumps the queue.
Nobody hand-picked this list. These are the independent labels showing the most life in our graph right now: fresh releases and deep rosters, majors excluded.
What the music press is talking about right now: news, reviews, and reissues from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, and Gorilla vs. Bear, pulled in twice a day. Read the story, then chase the record.
Jeremiah Chiu is a musician who thrives with a limitation.
Ishmael Butler explores the cosmos within on a shadowy and uncharacteristically introspective new album.
Habibi Funk’s latest compilation shines a spotlight on the vintage soul, disco, and jazz that sprang up as a homegrown response to Lebanon’s brutal civil war.
She beat out Sir Paul McCartney, Olivia Dean, Jade, Nia Archives, and more
She reportedly makes a cameo in What Happens At Night with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence