The American Dream meets a reckoning as LUX the band unleash ‘Heed (America’s Got a Gun)’
The spirit of the great American protest song is alive and kicking, and Paris-based duo LUX the band are bringing it roaring into the present with their politically charged new single ‘Heed (America’s Got a Gun)’. New York-born singer-songwriter Angela Randall and French guitarist Sylvain Laforge deliver a stirring collision of classic folk-rock influences and contemporary urgency,Continue Reading
Map of the Woulds make impermanence groove on ‘Only For Today’
On their latest single ‘Only For Today’, Seattle trio Map of the Woulds wrestle with impermanence, memory and the uncomfortable knowledge that almost everything we try to hold onto eventually changes or disappears. In another band’s hands that could become unbearably solemn. But Map of the Woulds wrap the ideaContinue Reading
The Oldman Sound find beauty in the crooked corners of ‘Fair-weather’
The Oldman Sound make the kind of music that rewards a second listen. And on Fair-weather, the South Shields band lean into melody, melancholy and arrangement instead of trying to overpower the listener. Across three tracks, their off-centre pop instincts come into focus through bittersweet writing, inventive structures and a senseContinue Reading
Liam Mour lets desire fracture into rhythm on ‘Into You’
Liam Mour’s ‘Into You’ works in the space between intimacy and momentum. The Berlin-born, Porto-based producer builds the track around a raw two-step pulse, but the arrangement never feels purely functional. A deep, shadowy synth opening gives way to Reese bass, broken beats and Kind’s serene vocal, creating a trackContinue Reading
Cameron McLain comes back glowing on the euphoric ‘All the Light’
After more than a decade away from releasing music under his own name, Cameron McLain returns with a track that feels appropriately expansive. ‘All the Light’ is built around connection: the invisible pull between people, the memories shared between them, and the brief moments when music seems capable of makingContinue Reading
Hank Tree explores the weight of dependence on ‘Care I’
There’s this unusual tenderness running through Hank Tree’s Care I. The album is rooted in songwriter Fergus MacDonald’s years working within the care sector, but its real subject is the vulnerability of simply needing another person. Across its eleven tracks, he turns experiences of isolation, resilience, recovery and dependence into anContinue Reading
Dan Webb turns ‘Thai Basil’ into a horn-fuelled psychedelic party
After the philosophical weight of the earlier singles from Lion Dance, Dan Webb’s ‘Thai Basil’ feels like a deliberate release of pressure. This new track swaps questions of identity, displacement and reinvention for movement, colour and the pleasure of being fully present. Inspired by the flavours of Southeast Asia, it’s aContinue Reading
Reetoxa revisits the long aftermath of deployment on ‘Timor Leste’
Reetoxa’s ‘Timor Leste’ is a restrained reflection on an experience that has remained vivid for Jason McKee long after the event itself. The song draws on his 2006 deployment to East Timor aboard HMAS Manoora, revisiting memories of conflict, uncertainty and the psychological impact that continued after returning home. But ratherContinue Reading
MALIK. pushes Pakistani club music into new territory on ‘IRIDESCENCE’
MALIK.’s IRIDESCENCE is a club record with a wider argument running through it. Across six tracks, the Lahore-based producer moves between bass music, dubstep, UK garage, drum & bass, jungle and hardgroove, but the EP is far more focused on testing how those forms can be reframed through a contemporary Pakistani perspective.Continue Reading
Disco Proof keeps things direct on the club-focused ‘Left Right’
‘Left Right’ finds Disco Proof simplifying the brief. Where previous releases have explored more atmospheric and emotionally textured areas of electronic music, this new single is built much more clearly for the club. Its central idea is deliberately uncomplicated: if you can tell left from right, you already understand theContinue Reading