There are left turns, and then there are full-speed swerves into entirely new terrain. With this four-track burst of circuitry and social commentary, Chas Leman detonates all expectations of him up until now. Where earlier work leaned on classic songcraft and literate guitar pop traditions, ‘REPETITIVE STRAIN’ dives headfirst intoContinue Reading
Right from the very start, ‘Cage of Water [Remixes]’ cements itself as a four-track meditation that transforms a single composition into an expanding emotional landscape. At its heart lies David Cloyd’s original piece, already charged with psychological weight, now refracted through the adventurous imagination of James Tabbi. What emerges is aContinue Reading
There’s a special kind of electricity that crackles through a release when a band refuses to treat history with polite gloves. On ‘Under the Influence’, Mortal Prophets grab those melodies by the collar, drag them into their own darkly lit world, and dare them to survive the transformation. What comes outContinue Reading
There’s a moment when ‘Lost In Space’ clicks into focus where you realise John Beckmann is opening a door and daring you to step through. This latest chapter from Mortal Prophets feels like the most confident expression of his long-running vision yet: delivering something immersive, restless, and charged with a strange,Continue Reading
Some artists chase grandeur. Jonivan Jones chases truth, and on ‘At Joe’s Sound Room’, he catches it with both hands. His new three-song EP glows with the electricity of an artist tapping directly into the heart of why this folk music endures. It’s intimate, alive, and hits with the force of a whisperedContinue Reading
Some EPs whisper their way into the world. While ‘Boysulk’ blooms, glows, and crackles. Ula’s debut project lands with the kind of confidence and cinematic sweep that makes you sit up straight, press replay, and immediately wonder where this artist has been hiding until now. Ula crafts ‘Boysulk’ entirely by herself, and you can feelContinue Reading
West Wickhams have always been a universe, a hallucination, a cult whisper delivered in reverb. And their latest offering ‘Sakura’ may be the purest extraction of that world yet. Born from a meditation on fleeting beauty, the EP is a series of sonic polaroids from a place where nothing stays, everythingContinue Reading
Cole Blouin has never been an artist to colour inside the lines, but ‘Preludes’ feels like the moment the lines themselves dissolve. This new EP captures the eerie electricity of New York at its most chaotic, when the world feels like it’s accelerating and collapsing in the same breath. It’s a recordContinue Reading
If you’ve followed The Kiss That Took A Trip over the years, you already know that M.D. Trello is much more of a world-builder than a songwriter. But with his latest sprawling odyssey ‘Horror Vacui’, he drags you through a kaleidoscope of twenty years’ worth of sonic obsessions, stitched together withContinue Reading
CS Hellmann’s new EP ‘In My Head’ erupts like someone finally tearing through the fog to reclaim the spark that’s been flickering just out of reach. If the Nashville artist’s previous work hinted at something stirring beneath the surface, these two tracks crack the whole thing wide open. It’s bold, emotionally supercharged, andContinue Reading