Mega Bog, the audacious avant-pop collective led by Erin Elizabeth Birgy, have released their enigmatic seventh album, End of Everything. Exploring the boundaries of experimental soundscapes and traditional songwriting, Birgy grapples with bewilderment through expressive and highly stylistic singing and production, seeking something palpable to convey surrender, mourning, and resilience amidst introspectiveContinue Reading
Photo by Ömerhan Datlar Tom Verberne – Vicodin folktronica New Zealander Tom Verberne delights with percussive acoustic guitar, understated vocals, and thoughtful writing on his recent release, “Vicodin”. Achieving a peculiar guitar sound by jamming some paper between the strings on his guitar’s bridge, “Vicodin” is a gentle song thatContinue Reading
Photo by Tibor Krizsak Daniele Sciolla – Magenta idm Italian electronic producer Daniele Sciolla spent several years working on his recent single “Magenta.” Personally recording and processing every sound, Sciolla slightly detuned his notes to generate microtonal scales, processing them through analog effects before repitching them to create an organic,Continue Reading
Photo by Gemma Evans Ruby Gaines – How It Looks pop Glaswegian Ruby Gaines uses her impressive lungs to make soulful proclamations about the threats to our independence that come from miscommunication in complex human relationships in her recent single “How It Looks”. The lead single from Ruby Gaines’Continue Reading
Photo by Aishah Rahman Scasca – Glue (feat. Talipes Valgus) downtempo Serbian electronic composer and producer Scasca has a gentle touch on his recent single “Glue”, which features the transcendent vocals of St. Petersburg resident Talipes Valgus. The Belgrade-based artist uses lo-fi textures to colour his spluttery and preciseContinue Reading
Finnish neoclassical composer Aki Yli-Salomäki stretches his sparse compositions towards oceanic and blurred parameters on Jäi mieleen, an album of nine patient, thoughtful and colourful compositions for strings and synthesizer. The first three tracks see heavily sustained bows of cello and violin rise and fall around melancholia, sometimes finding disharmonicContinue Reading
Photo by Mikhail Volkov Oldest Sea – Wolf Dream alternative Oldest Sea, founded by Sam Marandola in 2017, started as a personal exploration of folk music’s darker side. Now a full band, they blend haunting solo passages with walls of grit and distortion, weaving ambient folk and Americana with elementsContinue Reading
Photo by Leo Sokolovsky Left Iris – Crash indie rock Multi-instrumentalist Dubliner, Left Iris, delights his listeners with breezy 90s-tinged acoustic folk rock verses and an operatic falsetto chorus on his recent single “Crash.” The moniker of Finn O’Reilly, Left Iris’ tightly-knit combinations of straightforward guitar pop merge with more dreamyContinue Reading
Photo by Krišjānis Kazaks Autumn Girl Cry – She Listens to Girl in Red alternative Belgian bedroom pop artist Autumn Girl Cry delivers sweetly-sad slices of dreamy, low-key atmospheres. With reverbed guitars, captivating drum loops, and hazy vocals, her poetic lyrics create a captivating experience. Drawing comparisons to beabadoobee, AutumnContinue Reading
Photo by Александр Македонский Laura Wolf – Alluvial Fan alternative Making music that is both intelligent and fun is a perennial challenge, yet for cellist, singer, and producer Laura Wolf, this balance seems to come naturally. Her recent single, “Alluvial Fan,” is taken from the album “Shelf Life,” self-produced betweenContinue Reading