Some bands are best understood on record, but Ray’s Music Exchange has always sounded like a group that needs a room, a crowd and enough space for the music to stretch. And their new collection A Live Family Rayunion 2025 LP captures exactly that. Recorded during a sold-out performance at Cincinnati’sContinue Reading
Flame’s debut live EP Medea In Blue offers a straightforward document of a band whose music appears to depend heavily on interaction, dynamics and atmosphere. Recorded live in a rehearsal studio in Edinburgh, the six-track release avoids excessive polish in favour of preserving the feel of a shared performance. Across theContinue Reading
There’s something quite powerful about an artist choosing not to tidy up the difficult parts of life, and on his new release A Nice Neighborhood to Have Bad Habits In, Ryan Yingst leans fully into that instinct. The Philadelphia-based indie-folk singer-songwriter turns addiction, grief, family fracture and personal upheaval into anContinue Reading
Kai Moa’s debut EP Some of My Best Friends Are…Electric Sheep is an ambitious introduction to a producer with a broad musical vocabulary. Across the release, IDM, industrial electronics, jazz and techno are brought together in a way that feels exploratory without becoming unfocused. The opening track ‘≠ What It Is’ isContinue Reading
Connor Riesen has spent the last few years treating each release as an opportunity to move somewhere new, and Beginnings, Vol. 3 continues that pattern with perhaps his most outward-looking three-track set yet. The Orlando producer has already moved through piano music, jazz, digital production and hymn arrangements, but this third instalmentContinue Reading
MALUM’s bouncer ep takes material from the band’s debut album every body and pulls it firmly towards the dancefloor, reshaping familiar ideas through a heavier, more nocturnal lens. But instead of treating the remix format as an afterthought, MALUM hand the material over to artists with their own clearly defined identities. London producer andContinue Reading
gemini summer is the kind of electronic release that gets its strength from what it leaves alone. Across five tracks, iLo Fields avoids overcrowding the music by building from soft layers, long decay and subtle rhythmic movement that allow each piece to unfold at its own pace. Throughout, the South LakeContinue Reading
LOVESHY finds Eli Derby settling into a more defined version of his sound. Across twelve tracks, the Maryland singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist brings together contemporary R&B, pop and guitar-led soul while keeping the focus firmly on desire, uncertainty and the complications that come with opening yourself up to somebody else.Continue Reading
On the captivating Stuff, East Cleveland solo project Monophonic Underground takes a deliberately restrained approach to experimental electronica, favouring atmosphere, texture and unusual source material over obvious hooks. The result is an EP that feels considered rather than chaotic, with its stranger ideas given enough space to fully register. Created aloneContinue Reading
There’s something immediately appealing about a band that understands exactly where its rough edges belong. And on their new collection EP3, Riverside four-piece Loser Demon continue refining a sound that lives somewhere between wiry post-punk, fuzzed-up indie rock and the kind of early-2000s guitar music that once made nervous energy feelContinue Reading