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My Favourite Regional Releases of 2026 So Far
Halfway through 2026, ten albums from across the former Yugoslav region that have genuinely stuck with me. From Skopje’s emerging underground to Slovenian avant-garde jazz, Dalmatian black metal to Belgrade hardcore.
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TMUR – Pustohija
A Skopje quartet who built their sound through live performance before committing it to record, TMUR’s debut is hypnotic doom metal filtered through the ancient sound of the Balkan tambura.
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Block Out – San koji srećan sanjaš sam
Block Out’s third album is a genre-defying masterpiece of late-90s Serbian rock. Psychedelic, vast, and emotionally suffocating in a way that feels like it predicted Yugoslavia’s final collapse before it happened.
Cam
Cam is a music writer and the founder of EX-YU Music: the English-language home for music from the former Yugoslavia and the modern Balkan region. Based in Zagreb.
