Single Reviews (Page 7)

Since forming earlier this year, OpCritical have made their intentions unusually clear. This is a project built around confrontation, using music as a way to engage with political tension, social instability and the growing sense that many people are being pushed towards the edge. And on ‘Parachute’, their seventh releaseContinue Reading

Following the release of ‘Won’t Let Nobody Hurt You’ earlier this summer, Danny McGuire returns with ‘Friends ’Til The End’, a thoughtful new single that finds him leaning further into the reflective side of his songwriting. Throughout his newest offering, the Scottish-born, London-based artist keeps things relatively understated, allowing theContinue Reading

Having already carved out a wonderfully distinctive identity through The Restless Pursuit To Deliver A Feeling, Paris-based artist Federico Nessi now looks to push his Be My Wife project into even more adventurous territory. With its mixture of theatricality, shadowy electronics and unabashed personality, the project has always felt built aroundContinue Reading

Cork outfit Flywheel first emerged in the 90s, releasing their debut album She in 1996 before stepping away for an extended period. Now, after reforming during the pandemic years, they return with ‘CryBaby’, a single that feels like a sharpening of everything that made their early work so compelling in the firstContinue Reading

There’s something quietly subversive about the way K Abby Jasper approaches ‘Separate the Sage’. Instead of meeting stress, uncertainty and modern overload with outright anger, Joey Fasolino filters them through something more elusive that is part indie folk confession, part ambient experiment, and part private ritual. The title-track from hisContinue Reading

There’s a quiet ache running through ‘Glas und Steine’. Here, Witte approach heartbreak as something slower and more difficult to name; capturing the gradual recognition that a relationship is changing while part of you still hopes it can be repaired. The northern German duo, formed by producer Marvin Burfeind andContinue Reading

There’s a hard-earned weariness running through ‘The Coast’. Podge Lane has spent much of the last year in motion, playing extensively across the United States before returning to Ireland, and his latest single sounds shaped by that same tension between leaving, returning and wondering whether either place still feels entirelyContinue Reading

It would have been easy for Leo Sawikin to write something straightforward with a title like ‘Burning Love’. A huge chorus. A declaration. Perhaps a little heartbreak around the edges. Instead, he gives us wolves. He gives us sparrows crying into the night, distant constellations, strangled flowers, vast oceans and figuresContinue Reading

Sim Simi’s ‘Truckers and Trolls’ takes a relatively small real-world incident and uses it to examine a much larger feature of modern life: how quickly context can disappear once something reaches social media. The song was prompted by a TikTok clip showing a disagreement with a pallet delivery driver atContinue Reading