Debut albums often arrive carrying the pressure of introduction, but ‘I Want to Be the Anchor’ from Emma Miller seems far more concerned with quietly establishing trust. Across its carefully arranged songs, the Edinburgh artist builds an album rooted in clarity, restraint and emotional precision. Recorded in Tennessee with producer Nick Bullock and aContinue Reading
On her sixth full-length release, Buildings and Food moves further away from urgency and deeper into reflection. Her newest outing ‘Yutori’ isn’t an album designed to overwhelm us with dramatic crescendos or dense architecture. Throughout, it unfolds patiently, almost weightlessly, inviting the world to slow down alongside it. Created by Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalistContinue Reading
After more than a decade away from releasing new full-length material, Block returns with ‘Love Crash’, an album that feels shaped equally by exhaustion, survival and rediscovery. The record arrives during a remarkable resurgence for the New York songwriter, whose recent reissues, streaming revival, and growing international audience have reintroduced his work toContinue Reading
There is a fascinating tension running through Amateur Ornithologist’s ‘The Haunted Life of Architecture’. The album feels ancient and modern simultaneously, as though fragments of forgotten folklore, post-punk anxiety, and chamber-pop grandeur have all been stitched together into one sprawling, spectral collage. Written after songwriter Daniel Clifford spent time wandering through theContinue Reading
Kenton Hall has always written like somebody trying to document emotional collapse with one eye still fixed firmly on the punchline. That balancing act becomes the beating heart of ‘Songs for the Swung’, an album that transforms heartbreak, uncertainty, memory, and exhaustion into something unexpectedly uplifting. What’s remarkable is how aliveContinue Reading
There is a quiet emotional intelligence running through ‘Traces’ that separates it from much of contemporary melodic house music. While many records in this space lean heavily on euphoric release or functional club momentum, this new collection feels more interested in emotional residue, and the feeling that lingers after moments, relationships, andContinue Reading
Some records feel designed for movement, while others feel designed for reflection. ‘Nothing Under Heaven’ belongs firmly to the latter. Yulyseus has always approached composition with remarkable sensitivity, but this latest chapter feels especially refined. Across eight slow-burning pieces, the Glasgow-born multi-instrumentalist transforms ambient music into something deeply tactile and emotionally immersive.Continue Reading
There has always been something fascinating about artists who reject easy categorisation entirely. And Portland’s Mary Knoblock belongs firmly in that lineage. Existing somewhere between experimental composer, underground songwriter, visual storyteller, and atmospheric producer, she has spent years building a catalogue that refuses to settle comfortably into one shape. ButContinue Reading
There is a long tradition of bands attempting to soundtrack social collapse through noise, distortion and cynicism. But few manage to make that collapse feel this physically alive. On their new album ‘Vivisect’, Knifing Around channel dread, exhaustion and emotional fragmentation into an album that never stops moving, even while staring directly intoContinue Reading
There is an easy, unforced quality to ‘Little Epiphanies’ that gives the record much of its appeal. Built across multiple continents by a group of longtime friends now scattered between Australia, Europe, Asia, the UK and the US, the album could easily have felt fragmented by circumstance. Instead, it carries aContinue Reading