Still and moving: This week at South Records

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The Leaf Library return with After The Rain, Strange Seeds, their most immediate and melodic record to date. Chiming guitars, motorik rhythms and warm string arrangements shape a quietly uncanny set of songs rooted in memory, place and the strange pull of the everyday, with production and mixing from John McEntire (Tortoise) bringing a bold clarity to their sound.

Damaged Bug returns with a loose, exploratory set drawn from years of unfinished ideas, abstract, poppy, fried and melodic in equal measure. It’s John Dwyer in a more inward, reflective mode, balancing warped hooks with a hazy sense of hope and unease. Green-House’s Hinterlands expands their sound into something more fluid and expressive, still grounded in layered synthesis, but with a greater sense of movement and emotional depth. Hey Colossus hit album number fifteen with a raw, live-in-the-room record built on instinct and volume. Recorded quickly with amps up and no overthinking, it captures the band at their most direct - loose, heavy and fully locked in. House Of All return with their fourth album, pushing further beyond post-punk lineage into something more expansive and self-defined. It’s bold, restless and shaped by decades of experience without ever sounding nostalgic. Also in: Cut Worms’ Transmitter, produced by Jeff Tweedy, deepens Max Clarke’s melodic world with a darker, more reflective edge, balancing classic songwriting with a sense of modern unease.