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
Mercy Kelly’s ‘Out in the Night’ is a thunderbolt of indie glory
Mercy Kelly aren’t simply easing back in, they’re kicking the doors clean off the hinges. ‘Out in the Night’ bursts out of Greater Manchester like a flare in the dark, the kind of triumphant, chest-thumping indie anthem that reminds you why guitars, sweat, and melody still matter. This is a band returningContinue Reading
Tiny Cities deliver a quiet masterpiece on new single ‘Body Cast’
Tiny Cities have always had a talent for bottling small truths, but ‘Body Cast’ is the moment they hold one up and let us see every fracture line. As the lead single from their upcoming EP ‘Beginning of the End’, the song is an indie-folk slow-burn that feels like examining a bruise youContinue Reading
Lee Feather’s offbeat holiday gem ‘Drugs For Christmas’ lands with a wink
There are Christmas songs that coat everything in sugar, and then there’s this; the brilliantly off-kilter winter woozy from Lee Feather and The Night Movers that swaps sleigh bells for sly grins, late-night wanderings, and a distinctly British brand of yuletide chaos. ‘Drugs for Christmas’ might arrive wrapped in mischief, butContinue Reading
The Kiss That Took A Trip returns with the shape-shifting epic ‘Horror Vacui’
If you’ve followed The Kiss That Took A Trip over the years, you already know that M.D. Trello is much more of a world-builder than a songwriter. But with his latest sprawling odyssey ‘Horror Vacui’, he drags you through a kaleidoscope of twenty years’ worth of sonic obsessions, stitched together withContinue Reading