Podge Lane lets the tide turn on the restless ‘The Coast’
There’s a hard-earned weariness running through ‘The Coast’. Podge Lane has spent much of the last year in motion, playing extensively across the United States before returning to Ireland, and his latest single sounds shaped by that same tension between leaving, returning and wondering whether either place still feels entirelyContinue Reading
motko turns ‘home’ into a quiet search for the self
There’s a patience to home that feels entirely deliberate. The nine-track album from motko, the solo project of musician Shorty, is a record focused on perspective. After years spent playing in bands including Millhouse, Symbiosis and IONS, he has stepped into a space that feels more private and self-directed, using the recordContinue Reading
Leo Sawikin looks beyond the familiar love song on ‘Burning Love’
It would have been easy for Leo Sawikin to write something straightforward with a title like ‘Burning Love’. A huge chorus. A declaration. Perhaps a little heartbreak around the edges. Instead, he gives us wolves. He gives us sparrows crying into the night, distant constellations, strangled flowers, vast oceans and figuresContinue Reading
Sim Simi reflects on online judgement with ‘Truckers and Trolls’
Sim Simi’s ‘Truckers and Trolls’ takes a relatively small real-world incident and uses it to examine a much larger feature of modern life: how quickly context can disappear once something reaches social media. The song was prompted by a TikTok clip showing a disagreement with a pallet delivery driver atContinue Reading
GOODTWIN lets an old idea bloom on the dreamy ‘Shortcuts’
There’s something fitting about a song called ‘Shortcuts’ taking years to find its final form. GOODTWIN’s new single began as a bedroom-written idea Augusta “Gus” Alexander once considered too slight to pursue. But instead of forcing it into shape, she left it alone. When the song eventually resurfaced, collaboration gaveContinue Reading
INTERVIEW: MirrorMouth
What if your dating app isn’t the only thing influencing who catches your eye? MirrorMouth is asking exactly that on new single ‘My Genes Are Shouting’, an upbeat alt-pop track that turns evolutionary biology, modern romance and human attraction into an unexpectedly catchy thought experiment. Behind the project is a Swiss songwriter withContinue Reading
torched porsche turns fleeting moments into something lasting on ‘with soul’
There’s a contradiction at the centre of ‘with soul’ that gives the track much of its appeal. Music disappears the moment it’s played, yet somehow manages to survive long after the people who made it are gone. Toronto artist torched porsche takes that tension and turns it into a sleek,Continue Reading
Magdi Aboul-Kheir reimagines our assumed destiny on the joyous Yesterday’s Future
There’s a particular kind of nostalgia attached to the future we were once promised. Chrome surfaces, neon skylines, talking cars, glowing dashboards and synthesisers announcing that tomorrow had finally arrived. And on his newest album Yesterday’s Future, Magdi Aboul-Kheir taps directly into that collective memory and turns it into nine tracksContinue Reading
Nrvs turn political dread into the stark, unsettling ‘The Tanks Are Coming Out’
Nrvs have little interest in separating music from the world that produces it. And on their newest release ‘The Tanks Are Coming Out’, the band take contemporary political anxiety, personal conflict and the creeping normalisation of violence and fold them into a track that feels deliberately uncomfortable. Written while membersContinue Reading
French Inhaler examine digital disconnection on ‘PRACTICED LINES’
French Inhaler’s debut album PRACTICED LINES is a controlled, carefully assembled take on synth-pop and post-punk, using familiar genre elements to examine distinctly contemporary forms of isolation. The Chicago trio, comprised of Ashvin Prakash on vocals and synthesisers, Adam O’Leary on bass, and Zane Chao on drums, draw from the colder texturesContinue Reading