Katie Noir – What Is Unseen Still Exists
Album | 23/06/2026 | Noir Records
1:45:18 | 23 tracks | Digital
R’n’B / Dark Pop
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
By releasing her first album, Katie Noir unambiguously makes clear that she is very serious about what she does. What Is Unseen Still Exists is not just an album or a loose collection of twenty-three banger tracks. The longplayer follows a cohesive concept, a golden thread, and a very relatable plot. The artist from Germany’s vibrant North West tells an emotional and thrilling story. Powered by anthemic soul, r’n’b, dark pop and rap, Katie Noir invites her listeners on an exciting rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of nowadays’ emotional reality. Fragility and strength, friendship and uncertainty, loss and healing, are only some of the features that make What Is Unseen Still Exists so intensely soulful and yet heavy. And if you want to be furtherly amazed, check out Katie Noir‘s YouTube channel with its sheer amount of lyrics videos of the album’s tracks.
starfish64 – Travel Light (Twenty Years of starfish64 2006 – 2026)
Compilation | 01/05/2026 | 51st WHL
59:57 | 11 tracks | Digital
Art Pop / Dream Prog
Germany
Here we are, looking back on two decades of dreamy, artistic, and progressive music. Since 2006, Germany’s starfish64 have stood for the rather gentle and smooth version of prog rock. Simultaneously, the has been connected with a heavier or more solid variant of art pop. Between the worlds, starfish64 have created their own universe, and their tunes have since then been full of emotion, reverie, melancholy, and hope. Now, the time has come to close this chapter, but not without joyfully looking back onto twenty great years. starfish64 say goodbye with dignity, and with an anthology full of re-recorded and remixed versions of some of their greatest songs.
Село Близнюків – Пляж
Album | 03/06/2026 | electricity
47:22 | 9 tracks | Digital
Indie Pop / Psychedelic Pop
Kyiv, Ukraine
Straight from the underground of the Ukrainian capital, here comes an album so sweet and versatile, it will easily outshine estival meadows. Село Близнюків perform nine coherent tracks full of life and melancholy. Sometimes hiding behind smooth mists of shoegaze and psychedelia, sometimes dancing forward at the pace of beating hearts, Пляж is as capricious as the weather at the beach. Reaching deep into the realms of indie rock and even post punk before sinking back into hazy and psychedelic spheres, Село Близнюків combine nostalgia with hopeful dreams and sober severity. Пляж is an album so beautiful, you may forget the conditions it was produced under.
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Press materials by courtesy of Katie Noir, starfish64, and Село Близнюків
