It's Ausmusic Month - and ABC Jazz is excited to announce our annual 'best-of' album release once more, showcasing new studio recordings captured by the network from the past little while.

Gracie Abrams Releases Her Pain in Cathartic ‘I Told You Things’ Live Performance From Red Rocks. The performance was captured for the concert special Apple Music Live: Gracie Abrams, available exclusively on Apple Music.

Peter Phippen’s fervent, emotive flute entwines with Paulina Fae’s ethereal vocals and Ivar Lunde Jr.’s introspective ambient soundscapes to form a ghostly world shimmering with melancholy, beauty, and wistful elegance. Each of THE PHANTOM MOON's seven compositions moves as a slow mist — unfolding with lingering intensity in a nocturnal environment, steeped in hues of mystery. The creative process was intimate and organic: the music arrived first, and Paulina responded with her voice — soft and silken, like lullabies sung across time — weaving non-lyric tones, whispers, and harmonies that drift between shadow and light. Interlaced with Peter’s haunting flute and Ivar’s textured atmospheres, the results feel both like memory and dream: a misty October night, tender and searching, haunted yet luminous. This collaboration is a soundscape where calm and longing coexist, and where music itself becomes moonlight — fragile, mysterious, and full of quiet revelations.

“Een bloemgezang. Op het album verzamelden we versjes. Sommigen van mij, andere van en met collega’s die ik bewonder, volg of toevallig tegenkwam. Allemaal van betekenis of omdat ze me raken. We hebben liedjes gesprokkeld die we wagen te zingen met een handvol stemmen die ik even mocht lenen.”

With special guest Jem Cassar-Daley One of Australia’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, Bernard Fanning, will mark a major milestone with a one-night-only performance on Friday, 31 October 2025, celebrating 20 years since the release of his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Tea & Sympathy. Originally released on 31 October 2005, Tea & Sympathy debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, won three ARIA Awards including Album of the Year, and earned Fanning APRA’s Songwriter of the Year Award in 2006. Featuring tracks like “Wish You Well”, “Songbird”, “Watch Over Me” and “Thrill is Gone”, the album established Fanning as a powerhouse solo artist alongside his success with Powderfinger.

The Devil Makes Three has always thrived in the spaces between genres, where the grit of folk, the soul of blues, and the rebellious spirit of punk collide. Their music doesn’t just follow the American storytelling tradition—it redefines it. Whether evoking the deep melancholy of Delta blues or the frenetic energy of punk, their sound is raw, powerful, and unmistakably their own. For over two decades, this genre- defying trio has carved out a place in the American roots scene, delivering high-energy performances that leave audiences captivated and wanting more. They've released seven studio albums and three live recordings, with their latest, Spirits, marking a return to their stripped-down roots.

Revered producer and composer Daniel Avery returns with a new album, his most ambitious works to date. Channelling every corner of his sound, Tremor is a bold and transportive body of work through euphoric shoegaze, submerged techno, ambient soundscape and industrial bliss. It remains unmistakably Avery, yet dramatically evolved. With the album Avery has welcomed an inspiring cast of collaborators, including the likes of Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Walter Schreifels (Quicksand / Rival Schools), bdrmm, Julie Dawson (NewDad), yeule, Ellie, Art School Girlfriend, yunè pinku, andCecile Believe. Each artist leaves their indelible mark, yet the record’s true power lies in the communal spirit at its core.

Tomorrow, October 31st, marks the re-release of Earthling's iconic Trip Hop album "RADAR," timed to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Issued by Chrysalis Records, the album is a seminal work of the Bristol Sound that emerged in the early '90s. "Radar," originally released in 1995, despite its cult following among genre enthusiasts, remains one of the most underrated albums in Trip Hop, having never achieved broad commercial success. The Bristol-based band Earthling comprised producer Tim Saul and rapper Mau. Multi-instrumentalist Andy "Edison" Keep and Portishead's Geoff Barrow, who contributed scratches, also participated in the album's creation. The re-release is a remastered version featuring new cover art by artist Mark Murphy, offering fans of the genre an opportunity to discover and rediscover this important album from Trip Hop's golden age.

Following two acclaimed experimental instrumental records in Feral Hymns (2021) and Acts of Light (2023), Hilary Woods returns on her new LP Night CRIÚ, out October 31st, to song form and most notably, to her voice. Crafting songs centered around it, Night CRIÚ’s intimate ecosystem of seven songs uses layers of vocal harmony and lyrics as ways to re-enter the body, and to speak to and uproot old scripts. A ceremony of light and shade, Night CRIÚ’s unmoored sonic threads recall the cracks, fringes, forgotten agency and dormant personas that surface at night, waiting to be retrieved and integrated come daylight. Despite its economy, each song on Night CRIÚ breathes into an emotive expanse quintessential of Woods’s compositions, and true to her artistry, a search for new direction is ever present, expressed most keenly here in her writing for brass band and children’s choir.

The title refers to an album by Wayne Shorter ,released in 1964. With the amazing McCoy Tyner on the piano. For us Night Dreamer has several symbolic meanings, including unlimited possibilities , unimaginable expectations & paradoxical dreams. As musicians we live a great part of our life’s at night, in the darkest hour. (As so many of us;)This reflects in our music & compositions, as well in the beautiful cover artwork by Michael Cheval. Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable, and you might get surprised by the Unexpected. A nice phrase a friend sent some years ago as a New Years wish. Kept always resonating in my mind. As a trio we had so much fun and joy while recording this album. Therefore, we hope to spread that positive energy, whenever you hear us playing live, or while listening to our album.

From the creative minds of Daniel Ash (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets/Tones On Tail), Bruce Smith (Public Image Ltd/The Pop Group) and Paul Spencer Denman (Sade/Sweetback) comes a darkly glittering new musical project that marks a huge evolutionary step in these storied musicians incredible careers! The album, recorded over the course of six years, contains sonically compelling, powerfully melodic music with mixing and engineering duties held by Robert Adam Stevenson (Queens of the Stone Age, Jane’s Addiction, The Kills)!

A Certain Trigger 20th Anniversary Deluxe Double CD w/ Rarities & B-Sides.

in 2025, the world celebrates the 200th anniversary. The birthday of Johann Strauss's son – the composer who made Vienna dance and whose melodies have long become part of the soul of this city. For two centuries, his name has stood for elegance, romance and rhythm. But what happens when this timeless beauty speaks the language of modern jazz?

Juniper is the second studio album by British singer-songwriter Joy Crookes, released through Insanity Records on 19 September 2025, and follows her 2021 critically acclaimed debut Skin.[

Sublime pieces inspired by fantasy tales and the world of childhood (the magnificent suites from The Firebird, Jeux d'enfants and Ma mère l'Oye) by Carlo Maria Giulini and the Philharmonia Orchestra, available digitally for the first time in a splendid remastered version: one hour of pure orchestral magic!