UCHAYE explores a five-stage reinvention on ‘WAR IS OV3R’
On her debut EP WAR IS OV3R, UCHAYE treats heartbreak as the beginning of a character arc. The Minneapolis-based Nigerian-Zimbabwean artist’s first collection unfolds across five connected tracks, following one protagonist from obsessive denial through escape, ambition and eventual reinvention. It’s a compact concept, but she gives each stage its ownContinue Reading
JAE-X explores connection over isolation on ‘Friendship Manifesto’
Friendship Manifesto is a 20-minute jazz improvisation built around the relationship between isolation, community and self-connection. Created by JAE-X, the project of Indian classical percussionist and producer Jay Mistry, the piece uses tabla as its central rhythmic foundation while moving through a series of contrasting emotional and musical sections. TheContinue Reading
St. Divine revisit political unease on ‘Midnight (to Track)’
‘Midnight (to Track)’ arrives as a previously unreleased piece from the sessions for St. Divine’s debut album The Devil You Know, brought back into focus because the band felt its political themes remained too timely to leave behind. Originally omitted from the LP because of vinyl timing constraints, the track nowContinue Reading
Shak-T channels recovery and reinvention into ‘The Light’
‘The Light’ introduces Shak-T with a track that connects electronic production to a much longer personal history with dance music. Released as the lead single from her forthcoming four-track EP, the song was written and produced with Jack Gourlay and combines heavy basslines with emotive electronic textures. Its club-facing soundContinue Reading
Shortout Kid explores the space between noise and melody on ‘Lamb’
‘Lamb’ showcases Dutch artist Shortout Kid as someone more interested in pushing the physical language of rock music in unusual directions. Central to this direction is his now notorious use of the “razor belt”, a custom-built instrument developed over almost 15 years and designed to combine the visual and sonicContinue Reading
Antoin Gibson’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Eternity’ turns mortality into a maze
Across The Rise and Fall of Eternity, Antoin Gibson constructs a conceptual EP around mortality, consciousness, self-destruction and the uncomfortable limits of what we can ever truly know. But instead of treating those ideas as separate themes, she folds them into one continuous narrative where every answer seems to createContinue Reading
GOODTWIN’s ‘Roadside’ turns the open road into a dream
‘Roadside’, the new single from LA alt-pop project GOODTWIN, takes the familiar image of an open highway and turns it into something softer and more cinematic, pairing warm, driving melodies with atmospheric textures and a distinctly sultry mood. The track began with multi-instrumentalist Brandon Ronquillo, who wrote the original instrumentalContinue Reading
SnakeOil chases truth through a psychedelic fog on ‘The Wild Side’
SnakeOil’s The Wild Side begins with a question and spends the next thirty-three minutes making certainty feel increasingly unreliable. The debut album from Nick Cutrer’s project draws heavily from the colour and looseness of 60s and 70s psychedelia, but its real subject is perception. Across nine tracks, he moves through classic rock,Continue Reading
mozworth sound ready to break something open on ‘Why Not’
Austin four-piece mozworth return with ‘Why Not’, a single that’s heavier, more forceful and more outward-looking than much of their earlier work, setting the tone for forthcoming album The Mountain & The Wolf with the sound of a band clearly energised by change. The arrival of drummer Mike Hall has altered theContinue Reading
Ethan Campuzano brings unstoppable confidence to new hip-hop single ‘HOT SHOWMAN’
Inglewood-born hip-hop and R&B artist Ethan Campuzano has returned with his latest single ‘HOT SHOWMAN’, delivering a confident, high-energy release inspired by classic hip-hop and contemporary production. Following previous 2026 singles ‘Before We Said I Do’ and ‘Smile More’, the new track combines pulsing 808 basslines, infectious piano melodies and sampled vocal ad-libs with Campuzano’s free-flowingContinue Reading