James Bruner’s debut album Can’t Keep Wanting You is built around a broad idea of love, and the way desire can shape ambition, insecurity, confidence and self-preservation. Across twelve tracks, the Illinois-born, Nashville-based artist uses that theme to connect songs that move between rock, pop, grunge and more reflective territory. The title-trackContinue Reading
The House Flies return with a heavier sense of purpose on ‘Derelict Crawl’, the first glimpse of their forthcoming second album Lions and Ore. Built on a relentless post-punk rhythm and thick, churning guitars, the single feels immediate without sacrificing the bleak atmosphere that has become central to the band’s sound.Continue Reading
‘Summer In Galt’ opens with the feeling of something already slipping away. Throughout their latest offering, Sky Is Alright capture the slower process of memory changing shape, where a place or season becomes permanently tied to the person who is no longer there. It’s a sense of absence that’s builtContinue Reading
Coconut Shy have spent much of their early catalogue exploring the heavier corners of reflection, but ‘Small Steps (Paces)’ finds the Melbourne four-piece opening the windows and letting some light in. Built around warm indie textures and an easy sense of forward motion, the track trades melancholy for something moreContinue Reading
Oskar Brandt’s debut single ‘Now or Never’ offers a clear introduction to the Berlin-based singer-songwriter’s approach: consisting of personal writing framed by piano, strings and a polished orchestral-pop arrangement. The song centres on a relationship under strain, with uncertainty and internal conflict shaping its emotional direction. But instead of pushingContinue Reading
Mumbai-based singer, songwriter and composer Damini Bhatla has released her new album GOLD, bringing together contemporary R&B with elements drawn from South Indian classical and folk traditions. Developed over the course of two years, the album began during a period of personal change for her and gradually developed into a broader exploration ofContinue Reading
Dublin singer-songwriter Lex Bucha returns with new single ‘Faithless (Sacrifice)’, serving as the first introduction to a new EP due later this year. Produced by Liam Geddes, the track follows his 2025 debut EP Painless Mode but shifts the perspective of his songwriting. While that release dealt largely with anxiety and family conflict, ‘Faithless (Sacrifice)’ exploresContinue Reading
The Bitter Lemons’ debut album Peel A Little Deeper arrives with the kind of energy that only comes from a band that has spent serious time learning what works in a room full of people. Across twelve tracks, the Birmingham four-piece pull from rockabilly, garage-rock, rhythm & blues and punk, but theContinue Reading
Chapalu’s ‘I Will Find You’ is built around a simple promise, but the song gives that promise enough scale to feel almost mythic. Written by Drogheda songwriter Catherine Thomas and voiced by Virginia Richardson, the track places love against a backdrop of instability, using increasingly dramatic imagery to test howContinue Reading
There’s a gentle sense of resolution at the heart of Son of Jacob’s latest single ‘Livin’’. Written, performed and largely shaped by Montclair-based artist Will Jacobson, the track looks at love, uncertainty and the temptation to live too far ahead of yourself, then quietly chooses the present instead. ‘Livin’’ isContinue Reading