Single Reviews (Page 2)

Some music belongs unmistakably to a place. While ‘À Procura’, the new single from London and Zürich-based flutist, composer and producer Lucas F. Jordan, seems more interested in what happens between places: the uncertain territory where cultures meet, familiar traditions lose their fixed meanings and identity becomes an ongoing act of discovery.Continue Reading

Some relationships begin after the damage has healed, while others arrive while the past is still moving beneath the surface, asking two people to decide whether uncertainty is reason enough to turn away. And on their new collaboration ‘Dark’, Montreal’s Madrid Exit reunites with Delachute for an atmospheric indie-pop single about choosing intimacy despiteContinue Reading

Perfectionism often disguises itself as discipline. It asks for one more edit, one more correction, one more reason not to let the work leave the room. And on their new single ‘Anti’, Atlanta-based Pterocat confront that trap directly, turning the language of self-censorship into a fluid, rhythmically adventurous piece of art-pop. The firstContinue Reading

Healing is often described as a return to stability, but ‘pollen’ understands it as something less orderly. It drifts, catches, irritates and lingers in the air, carrying traces of what came before into places that were supposed to feel new. On the focus single from A River Runs Through Me, Asheville artist i giveContinue Reading

There’s something immediately compelling about a song title like ‘The Boy You Love To Burn’. It suggests affection tangled with damage, desire sharpened by repetition and a relationship sustained partly by the very pain that should have ended it. And on his latest single, Seattle singer-songwriter Brian Noyes draws that tension into aContinue Reading

There’s something especially unsettling about a song that refuses to rush its anger. And on their latest release ‘WHAT YOU LOST’, Rome duo TOTAL REVERENDS build their tension slowly, allowing a descending guitar figure to circle with increasing menace while the rhythm section tightens around it. The result is a piece of heavy,Continue Reading

At 18, German artist Welcome To Future is approaching punk less as a fixed genre than as a question: what might its original spirit look like to a generation shaped by smartphones, climate anxiety, political instability and social fragmentation? And that question sits at the centre of ‘P!T (Punk ist tot)’, a guitar-ledContinue Reading

Heartbreak rarely respects the clock. It can remain manageable through the distractions of daylight, only to return once the room is dark, the phone is silent and there is nothing left to interrupt the mind. And on ‘Insomniac’, rising pop artist Zack Morris joins Caleb Hearn for an emotionally direct account of those hours whenContinue Reading

On his latest single ‘Imperfect’, New Jersey artist Tony Lio considers the narrow standards through which appearance, behaviour and personality are often judged. For this new anthem, the track combines elements of alternative rock, indie and grunge while arguing that individuality should not automatically be treated as something requiring correction. The song beginsContinue Reading