There’s something deeply satisfying about Ozark Moon arriving through a process that feels almost completely at odds with the speed of modern music. Here, Jonivan Jones’ new two-track release leans into tape, texture and patience, allowing its stories to unfold with all the dust, distance and imperfection intact. Recorded across Arkansas andContinue Reading
The Oldman Sound make the kind of music that rewards a second listen. And on Fair-weather, the South Shields band lean into melody, melancholy and arrangement instead of trying to overpower the listener. Across three tracks, their off-centre pop instincts come into focus through bittersweet writing, inventive structures and a senseContinue Reading
MALIK.’s IRIDESCENCE is a club record with a wider argument running through it. Across six tracks, the Lahore-based producer moves between bass music, dubstep, UK garage, drum & bass, jungle and hardgroove, but the EP is far more focused on testing how those forms can be reframed through a contemporary Pakistani perspective.Continue Reading
Anniversary records are often exercises in preservation, but here, Occurrence take the opposite route. For Anniversary, the New York trio of Ken Urban, Cat Hollyer and Johnny Hager return to five songs from their earliest releases and deliberately pull them apart. Vocals are rerecorded, synth parts are replaced or expanded, arrangementsContinue Reading
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