Screensaver are a Naarm/Melbourne-based post-punk group, fronted by Krystal Maynard. Three Lens Approach is their third, a bleak and gritty trip through post-punk and a dystopian exploration of the theme of “power: How we wield it through language and action, how society is affected by the existing power structures, the consequences of the absence of it and how we harness it emotionally and intellectually as individuals, and as the collective.” Sonically, this makes full use of the clash between synthesis and guitars, with razor-sharp drum machines driving a rhythm through a bubbling soup of noisy guitars and bleepy synthesisers. Screensaver will be touring this, playing at Waywards, Newtown, with a headline show on Saturday, November 29. Out now on Poison City Records 

Makaya McCraven is a Chicago-based jazz drummer and composer who has released numerous solo and collaborative albums since 2008. Techno logic features tracks that were captured during live performances in Paris, New York and Athens from 2018-2025, which were then overdubbed and re-edited in the studio (and released). The EP provides access points for non-jazz fans, hip-hop heads, and thoroughfares for experimental jazz fans who enjoy delving into the deep waters of abstract soundscapes. The tracks on Techno Logic are a sonic collage of cosmic jazz and funk, with highly technical drumming and also featuring collaborations with Ben LaMar Gay and Theon Cross, and were released as part of a four-e.p mega-release, out this week on XL recordings. 

Sabine McCalla is a musician based in New Orleans. Don’t Call Me Baby, her debut album, blends a range of styles where her sound combines a myriad of vintage (including pre-WW2) Latin American and US styles including samba, country, Creole folk, and soul, all filtered through the influences of her Haitian heritage.  McCalla creates her own version of multi-cultural American roots music which lays the foundation for her gentle vocals that at turns celebrate independence, reflect on heartache or softly speak to a lover.