Lauren Presley’s debut EP ‘Hanging In The Balance’ doesn’t just wear its heart on its sleeve- it lets it bleed all over the studio floor. In five carefully carved tracks, the Nashville-based artist opens the door to the anxious, unspoken corners of young adulthood with stark clarity and striking musicality.Continue Reading
The Heroic Enthusiasts return with a second full-length album, ‘Illuminate’. Arriving like a sonic prism, the record is a testament to the enduring allure of synth-driven alt-pop. It is also a rare collaboration between modern romantics James Tabbi and Thomas Ferrara, and production legend Stephen Hague. Hague’s fingerprints- sleek, refined,Continue Reading
Back with their new EP, ‘Empire’, Velvet Sun has never been a band to chase trends. Emerging from the shadows of New York and now rooted in the heat haze of South Florida, their sonic identity is both timeless and temporal, crafted in the mould of overcast city streets andContinue Reading
On his hotly-tipped new LP ‘Nu Wav(s) & Fade Outs’, Birmingham’s Jackson Homer offers a well-curated release that pulses with rhythm, groove, and emotion. It’s a record that doesn’t shout for your attention but effortlessly commands it, drawing you in with its vintage polish and future-facing finesse. Across eleven tracks, HomerContinue Reading
With ‘Deichtine’s Daughter’, Dee Armstrong steps from the ensemble shadows of Kíla into her own resplendent light, and the result is nothing short of spellbinding. After decades as one of Ireland’s most quietly essential musical visionaries, Armstrong delivers an album that feels less like a debut and more like theContinue Reading
Despite all our scientific advancements, dreams remain one of our greatest mysteries. Some say dreams help us process emotions or file away memories, while others claim they’re just neural sparks or even spiritually significant. On Drømmene (The Dreams), Danish saxophonist, composer, and producer Henrik Pultz Melbye channels these mysteries intoContinue Reading
The salvific properties of music are on display across Carillon Reverie, an ambient concept album by Italian musician Mauro Corbia, AKA 4partment. Now based in Berlin, Germany, Corbia presents a recent album that tells the tale of a young girl who heals her village with a flower and the melodyContinue Reading
Hertfordshire production duo Nick Foster and Luke Barratt fuse samples like maniacal welders on psychedelics across their debut album Psychedelic Soul & Trash Vol.3. These samples and tidbits are drawn from a well of inspirations, but always reference the past. Even the duo’s moniker, Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires,Continue Reading
There’s a warmth permeating All The Same, the debut album from Californian-native, Seattle-based Americana folk artist Megan Brickwood. This warmth emanates from the rich and naturalistic instrumentation, wooden vibrations of the guitar, and earthy percussion, but also in Brickwood’s vocals, the timbre of which has an unaffected and organicContinue Reading
New Orleans-based Conor Donohue has a penchant for eschewing specific genre classification, dealing instead in a smorgasbord of pop, indie, rock, electronic, and country, all basted in a vague Americanaesque vibe. The songs on his third album, Stray Dogs, appear to be from a storied life, one keen on pickingContinue Reading