Replay is a monthly music selection: five albums or EPs, chosen for no other reason than that they stayed. No scores, no rankings, just the feeling of listening to something that made you want to listen again.

Ennaria – MANIFESTO
Hyperpop, Digicore, Electropop · Independent

At a time when hyperpop has become a fully codified language, to the point where excess itself has turned into routine, MANIFESTO rejects cleanliness. Australian artist Ennaria favors excess over refinement, hysteria over calculation, as though each track were less interested in being a song than in documenting the precise moment a digital identity collapses under its own weight. The bass distorts, the choruses erupt, internet references collide, yet none of it amounts to mere chaos. This is an aesthetic of overstimulation conceived down to the smallest detail: a record that understands that, in the attention economy, the most radical form of sincerity sometimes consists of shouting louder than the algorithm itself.

If you like Ennaria, you might like: Frost Children, underscores, Jane Remover, Sophie Powers, Zheani.
BANDCAMP: https://ennaria.bandcamp.com/album/manifesto

Hesse Kassel – Morir Saltando
Post-hardcore, Noise Rock, Experimental Rock, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Prog · Amuleto Records

On Morir Saltando, Hesse Kassel approaches post-hardcore as unstable matter rather than a genre. The guitars surge forward in dense masses before collapsing in on themselves, the vocals drift between incantation and rupture, and every song seems to postpone the moment when it might finally resolve. What impresses is not the violence, by now almost conventional within the genre, but the way the Spanish band uses it to create space, allowing silences, fractures, and moments of breath where doubt, exhaustion, and a strange kind of tenderness seep through. More than an outlet for release, Morir Saltando feels like a meticulous study of what remains once every certainty has already given way.

If you like Hesse Kassel, you might like: Maruja, black midi, Chat Pile, The Murder Capital, Candelabro.
BANDCAMP: https://hessekassel.bandcamp.com/album/morir-saltando

mary in the junkyard – Role Model Hermit
Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Post-Punk, Art Rock · AMF Records

With Role Model Hermit, Mary in the Junkyard joins that lineage of bands that understand intimacy is born not from austerity, but from friction. The songs move forward through hesitation, as though discovering their own shape in the very act of being played. The guitars creak without reaching for grandeur, the melodies brush against one another before slipping away, and the vocals retain an almost documentary fragility that resists any temptation toward theatricality. What could have been just another indie rock exercise instead becomes a more subtle reflection on vulnerability not as an aesthetic pose, but as a way of inhabiting uncertainty without ever trying to resolve it.

If you like mary in the junkyard, you might like: Black Country, New Road, English Teacher, Goat Girl, Black Midi, Tapir!
BANDCAMP: https://maryinthejunkyard.bandcamp.com/album/role-model-hermit

Loathe – A Stranger to You
Alternative Metal, Shoegaze Metal, Metalcore, Post-Metal · SharpTone Records

Loathe continues to refine what makes the band distinctive: transforming metal into a space of perception rather than a mere display of power. On A Stranger to You, the riffs, still immense, seem designed less to overwhelm than to alter the density of the air around them, while atmospheric textures and suspended vocals constantly blur the line between brutality and vulnerability. The British band sidesteps easy oppositions; here, chaos is never the opposite of softness, but its logical extension. A Stranger to You leaves the rare impression of a record that has no interest in resolving its tensions, choosing instead to inhabit them until they become an unexpected form of melody.

If you like Loathe, you might like: Deftones, Static Dress, Fleshwater, Holy Fawn, Blanket.
BANDCAMP: https://loatheasone.bandcamp.com/album/a-stranger-to-you

Orquesta Akokán – América!
Cuban Big Band, Mambo, Son Cubano, Latin Jazz · Daptone Records

Orquesta Akokán reminds us that Cuban music is never a static object preserved in nostalgia, but a tradition that survives only by remaining in motion. Beneath the elegance of the brass, the precision of the percussion, and the generosity of the arrangements, the orchestra refuses the comfort of a mere stylistic exercise. Every track on América! seems to ask what it still means to play this music today, at a time when cultural boundaries have become as porous as the influences that pass through them. The result carries the immediate warmth of a great dance record, but also something quieter: the conviction that traditions are meaningful only insofar as they continue to invent their own future.

If you like Orquesta Akokán, you might like: El Michels Affair, Thee Sacred Souls, Kokoroko, The Budos Band, Los Hermanos Arango.
BANDCAMP: https://orquestaakokan.bandcamp.com/album/am-rica