Mute Mail #35
With summer in full swing, the heat has brought out the best in our artists. This month, we’re featuring standout music and updates from HAAi, Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo, CAN, Felsmann + Tiley, Swans, and more. Enjoy!
London-based, Australian-born producer, songwriter and DJ, HAAi (aka Teneil Throssell) has announced details of a brand-new album, DIGITiSE – a dancefloor focussed companion piece to her acclaimed album, HUMANiSE – out on 9 October 2026.
The album, which introduces new collaborators – Echonomist and Skybreak plus Cantoalegre, a children’s choir from Medellin, Colombia – as well as artists she’s worked with previously – Pat Alvarez, ILA, James Massiah and Kaiden Ford – was originally intended to extend the world of 2025’s HUMANiSE, but it soon evolved into something so much bigger: a 10-track album that takes us on a genre-defying dancefloor trip that HAAi has become revered for.
Listen to the first track to be shared, ‘DIGITiSE’ featuring long time creative comrade, producer and songwriter Pat Alvarez HERE.
Preorder DIGITiSE HERE.
Psychedelia in White, the third album from former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey and longtime collaborator Amanda Acevedo, is a natural evolution from their 2023 duet debut, Phantasmagoria in Blue.
Composed primarily of original tracks, the album explores themes of mysticism, mythology, love, and loss, and is the second installment of their colour series. This project pushed the duo into wilder, more experimental territories, resulting in an album that is intricately layered and lavishly textured.
Preorder Psychedelia in White HERE.
Can Live in Arles 1975 will be released on 25 September 2026 and documents a performance that founding member Irmin Schmidt remembers fondly.
Can Live in Arles 1975 features the core line up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay. Unearthed from the vaults and painstakingly assembled by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer / engineer René Tinner, the concert is remembered by two fans – including the author Pascal Bussy – in the sleeve notes, which also includes a review from a French magazine at the time; the sleeve notes are printed in both English and French.
Pre-order Can Live in Arles 1975 now, including a limited edition T-shirt and patch exclusively from Mute Bank HERE
German synth-duo Felsmann + Tiley (Dominik Felsmann and Patrick Tiley) have shared the second of a series of reinterpretations of tracks from their debut for Mute, Protomensch. On this new rework, Berlin-based contemporary classical pianist and composer Lambert strips the already minimalist track back further to expose the raw emotion within.
Listen to Open Fields (Lambert Rework) HERE
Felsmann + Tiley have also shared a rework of their track ‘Reset’. The new track follows Costa Rican pianist, singer and composer Sofi Paez’s rework of one of the stand out tracks from the album, ‘Reset’. The track’s central melody is reworked as a delicate refrain, before opening out into an atmospheric and evocative piece that reflects the spirit of the original track with renewed vigor.
Listen to Reset (Sofi Paez Rework) HERE
Swans’ Live Rope is now available on CD. A document of the band’s US/EU 2023-24 live tours, this material laid the blueprint for the band’s most recent studio album, Birthing, released May 2025.
Spanning almost 3 hours of trance-inducing melodies that morph into dense walls of sound, the album is anchored by Gira’s unmistakable vocals and crafted with longtime collaborators on lap steel, bass, Mellotron and dynamic percussion.
Order/Listen to Live Rope HERE.
MUTE has released June’s Fireside Favourite’s playlist consisting of our favourite tunes from each of the FIFA Men’s World Cup countries. Some obscure wonders here: dive in and discover something new!
Listen to the playlist HERE.
Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits – originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records – now returns in a newly remastered edition on grey vinyl and CD, reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era.
New black vinyl pressing is now in stock. Order/Listen to White Souls in Black Suits HERE
The groundbreaking, enduringly influential artist Mark Stewart presents his eighth solo album The Fateful Symmetry, a vital new masterwork completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023.
Testifying to his prolific, unrelenting ingenuity, and signifying one of his most intimate, empowering statements, The Fateful Symmetry is an astonishingly expressive and innovative record; a fierce and beautiful manifesto for a better world. The inimitable, titanic Mark Stewart, never normalised, always extraordinary.
New black vinyl pressing is now in stock. Order/Listen to The Fateful Symmetry HERE.
Swell Maps’ The John Peel Sessions are remastered and a vital document of Swell Maps at their most unfiltered – three sessions of unpredictable, exhilarating noise. Also available A Trip To Marineville, …in Jane from Occupied Europe, and Train Out Of It.
New black vinyl pressing is now in stock. Order/Listen to The John Peel Sessions HERE.
Watch HAAi’s visualiser for ‘DIGITiSE’ HERE
Watch Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo’s music video for ‘Perfect Storm’ HERE
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