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
Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, “The only constant in life is change”. The human experience is in constant flux, and we can’t expect things to stay the same, no matter how much we want them to. Naturally, such a dilemma would inspire artists. This appears to be the caseContinue Reading
The quotidian slog suffered by all of us in the modern world can conceal moments of profound spirituality and meaning. Just ask Hauspoints, a post-punk outfit birthed in a “dilapidated industrial estate” in Lancashire, UK. These upstarts sport a distinctly northern flavour, and their flammable forays into snarly post-rock holdContinue Reading
For the past decade, US musician Helen Yee has been honing her craft. By live looping her violin with various other instruments and electronics, she creates otherworldly and delicately balanced compositions, collected carefully on her debut album, Orchestrope. While Yee ostensibly put much effort into the composition and production ofContinue Reading