Hiding in your heart: This week at South Records

A strong week for new releases, led by black midi's Cameron Picton’s My New Band Believe arrives as a massive, hallucinatory debut, swerving through shifting emotional registers and dream logic, largely acoustic but still maximal in feel, with an all-star cast helping shape something constantly forming and reforming. Dagmar Zuniga’s In Filth Your Mystery Is Kingdom / Far Smile Peasant in Yellow Music is a fragile, far-reaching set recorded over five years on a Tascam 424, lo-fi, warm and devotional, drifting like disrupted signals between bedrooms and open air (album of the year stuff right here). Gnod mark two decades with the first in a trilogy born from sessions with John ‘Spud’ Murphy, a vivid, expansive record moving from pastoral tranquillity to Earth-like riff monoliths and Kraut-leaning intensity, driven by repetition and their refusal to sit still.

Les Imprimés’ Fading Forward blends ‘60s and ‘70s soul, doo-wop, hip-hop rhythm and alternative vocal stylings into something immediate and deeply felt, while the Melvins and Napalm Death come together for a full collaborative release, an extended version of a previously super-limited record, two heavyweight forces pushing each other into new territory. Parlor Greens’ Emeralds delivers infectious organ-led funk instrumentals, soulful and tight. Elsewhere, a collection of hard Texas funk surveys Mickey & the Soul Generation’s 1969–77 run, and Eccentric Sweet Soul leans into late-night intimacy, lush strings, falsetto vocals and unguarded emotion. South London duo PUNCHBAG pair both EPs for their first physical release, pushing their chaotic, emotionally overloaded pop further out, available as a limited Dinked Edition.

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Max Romeo’s Let The Power Fall is a deep roots statement, politically charged, rhythmically stripped-back, and carried by Romeo’s unmistakable voice. Recorded in the mid-70s, it leans into militant rhythms and heavy, meditative grooves, reflecting a moment of unrest and change in Jamaica.

We’ve got a UK first pressing in - a serious piece of roots history, and not one that comes up often. Pick it up here.