Still Ruins turn longing into light on the radiant ‘Our Penance’
There’s a certain kind of song that feels like it slipped through a crack in time; too polished to be underground, yet too emotionally complex to be pure nostalgia. ‘Our Penance’, the latest offering from Still Ruins, sits squarely in that gorgeous in-between, glowing like a rediscovered artefact from another era yetContinue Reading
Pisgah reimagines ruin on her debut album ‘Faultlines’
Pisgah’s ‘Faultlines’ arrives on the scene like a flare shot into a dark sky. Brittney Jenkins has crafted the rare kind of record that feels both volcanic and intimate, delivering a work that pulses with intensity even in its quietest corners. This is Pisgah stepping out of the shadows and into herContinue Reading
Jonivan Jones ignites something special on ‘At Joe’s Sound Room’
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
Ula’s ‘Boysulk’ is a dazzling, devastating alt-pop debut
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’ ‘Sakura’ is a neon-goth reverie about everything beautiful that refuses to last
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
Intercontinen7al’s ‘Love Is Everywhere’ radiates pure, borderless joy
Some bands chase scale with volume. Intercontinen7al chase it with vision, and that’s why ‘Love Is Everywhere’ hits like sunlight breaking through cloud cover. The globe-spanning collective are nearing the final chapter of their extraordinary experiment, yet instead of looking inward, their new single stretches its arms wider than ever. ‘Love IsContinue Reading
Sound of Fractures turns memory into art with SCENES: Prompts to Reflect
London producer and world-builder Sound of Fractures has always operated in the spaces most artists overlook. But with SCENES: Prompts to Reflect, he steps fully into that liminal space and gives it shape, offering a reason to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with the human side of music. Rather than pushingContinue Reading
Cole Blouin’s ‘Preludes’ is a fevered glimpse of futures already unravelling
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
Jane Honor dives into the dark corners of the heart on the mesmerising ‘Bloodhungry’
Jane Honor has always written with an old soul’s clarity, but ‘Bloodhungry’ feels like the moment she stops circling the wound and finally puts her finger on it. It’s a song that dares to say the quiet part out loud: that envy can devour you from the inside, and the only wayContinue Reading
Wotts drift into dream-state disillusion on the luminous ‘he spoke with conviction’
Ottawa duo Wotts close out the year with one of their most intoxicating releases yet: ‘he spoke with conviction’, a shimmering mirage of a song that blurs the line between comfort and delusion. It’s psychedelic pop in soft focus; all warm and woozy on the surface, but carrying a quiet acheContinue Reading