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Five Music Releases You May Have Missed This Summer

From VRT NWS · () Dutch

Translated from Dutch and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • The article recommends five music releases that received less attention while summer audiences focused on major festival stages.
  • Nia Archives’ “Emotional Junglist” blends jungle, breakbeats and indie rock with themes of love, longing and grief.
  • Sir Taegen Harris, performing as Love Spells, combines dream pop and indie on “LOVE IS THE LAW,” an album framed as intimate and calming.

Summer music coverage often follows the biggest festival stages, but the quieter months also produced releases worth revisiting. The selection highlights five albums that, in the writer’s view, deserved more attention.

Nia Archives’ second album, “Emotional Junglist,” combines jungle, breakbeats and indie rock. The British DJ, producer and singer has already made music history, with her debut album “Silence is Loud” becoming the first jungle release to receive three BRIT Award nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination.

The new album draws on Archives’ experience of a relationship that began beautifully and ended badly in 2025. In “Train of Thought,” she sings, “Sat on your train of thought / Takin' my heart when your carriage departs / Sat on your train of thought / Till you come back, please forget me not”. The writer hears euphoria, longing, melancholy and grief running through both the lyrics and the music. “Emotional Junglist” became available on July 17, and Archives is scheduled to perform at Brussels’ Halles de Schaerbeek on December 4.

Sat on your train of thought / Takin' my heart when your carriage departs / Sat on your train of thought / Till you come back, please forget me not

— Nia ArchivesLyrics from “Train of Thought,” a song about a relationship and separation.

Another recommendation is “LOVE IS THE LAW,” the debut album by 21-year-old Texas singer-songwriter Sir Taegen Harris, who performs as Love Spells. Harris has presented an intimate, romantic dream world since he was 18. His airy voice, deliberately easy to mistake for that of a young woman, carries songs about love and heartbreak.

The album balances tender dream pop with rhythmic indie. The writer describes the result as music that brings calm and breathing space, and links it to Harris’s advice: “You need to romanticise your life”. “LOVE IS THE LAW” has been available since July 24.

You need to romanticise your life

— Sir Taegen HarrisHarris’s statement is used to capture the mood and purpose of his Love Spells project.
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