A good record behaves like weather: it arrives, it lingers, and it quietly teaches you what to wear. Sloe Paul — Searching / Finding is exactly that kind of climate—nine days of pop-weather calibrated for the slow slide into autumn…
Read MoreThere’s a superstition that moths trust the porch light more than the moon; Meredith Adelaide’s “To Believe I’m the Sun” wonders what happens when that porch light is your own chest, humming. Across eight pieces of Indie Folk and Soft Pop parsimony…
Read MoreEvery scar keeps time like a metronome; on Chris Rusin’s Songs From A Secret Room, that pulse becomes melody—ten pieces of Indie Folk/Americana rendered with candlelight patience and front-porch candor. The Colorado songwriter, now three years…
Read MoreCold seasons teach a quiet grammar: to stay, to breathe, to bear the weather. Laura Lucas’s latest single “Let The Winter Have Me,” arriving through Nettwerk, alongside her album “There’s a Place I Go,” treats that grammar as a vow…
Read MoreTelevision once taught us that a hug and a laugh track could mend anything; Z’cano’s “Friends,” the second single from his concept EP 22 Minutes, slips that myth onto a turntable and lets it revolve until the varnish shows grain. The American singer channels…
Read MoreThere’s an old kitchen proverb that warm bread heals arguments; Otis Kane’s Love Is Alive arrives with the same oven heat—steam, sweetness, and a patience that softens the room. He tilts Neo-Soul toward sunlight, binding Contemporary R&B sheen to tactile warmth…
Read MoreOld cartographers wrote “Here be dragons” at the map’s edges; Bre Kennedy plants her lighthouse there with “Looking For,” a mid-tempo alt-pop glow destined for late drives and tidy epiphanies. The New Nashville storyteller releases a song…
Read MoreOld philosophers say the hardest person to be honest with is your own reflection; on PURE ILLUSION, Jhon Allan basically locks himself in a Stockholm apartment and refuses to look away from the mirror. The Swedish-Peruvian…
Read MoreEvery wardrobe hides one shirt that smells more of memory than detergent; Tastes Like Nostalgia operates exactly like that garment you can’t quite throw away. Under the moniker Daybreaker, singer-songwriter Chelsea Balzer turns…
Read MoreLampposts flicker on over New York as if they’re highlighters, and Amy Jay’s MNEMONICS feels like the scribbled notes they suddenly expose. Across ten songs, the indie pop architect pulls threads from rock and folk, weaving a sonic…
Read MorePicture a roadside bonfire licking a Pacific dusk—contained, glowing, and just risky enough to feel alive. That’s the temperature of Jake Cassman’s “Idling High,” a debut album that treats malaise like tinder and lights it with a dark, sidelong grin…
Read MoreGIULIA BE has released “fool for love,” the first English chapter of her trilingual, audiovisual project, “GIULIA BE.” Built for bright rooms and freeway horizons, the single is commercial pop with electro-pop tendons…
Read MoreMatroda and KLP have released “Bullshit,” a Croatia-meets-Australia broadside dropped on October 24 via Insomniac Records. The record is less a single than a filtration system, sifting clout-choked air until pulse remains. Matroda’s relentless…
Read MoreCertain albums arrive like a key discovered in an old coat pocket—unexpected, familiar in the hand, and suddenly unlocking rooms you thought you’d sealed. M. Byrd’s new project ”A Better Place” is that kind of key…
Read MoreConsider this a stand-up routine with 808s—ANTH has released “I hate You,” a pop-rap missile that detonates with grin-and-grimace energy, featuring Corey Nyell — on the Hook. The U.S. rapper leans into an…
Read MoreA warehouse light blinks once, twice, then yields to a tide of electricity—so begins “ON STEROIDS”, the debut LP from Toronto hardware duo World News, a record that breathes through cables rather than code…
Read MoreA glitching neon diary cracked open at 3 a.m.—that’s what the EP project “Tales From The Modem” feels like, JulianTheGirl and Dais trading stories across fiber-optic nerves instead of notebook pages….
Read MoreImagine a night surfer reading the tide by moonlight—Elaskia’s “Either Way I Lose” rides that calm, mid-tempo swell, carrying you toward the quiet where honesty finally speaks. Australia’s alt-pop and adult contemporary artisan sketches…
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