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 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 MoreLike a lighthouse teaching the ocean to breathe, Avivie’s Atmos arrives as a self-titled statement of intent: dance music that meditates, meditation that moves. The four-song electronic set locates a rare balance between pulse and pause, sculpted…
Read MoreCanadian polymath Vivek Mehmi releases “The Pressure Rise,” the opener of his EP project “Relation Ships Pt. 1” that sketches its epilogue. Indie-pop shimmer meets pop-rap snap as retro 80s synths and crisp contemporary drums braid flirty verses to a velveteen…
Read MoreA ribbon of tape flickers, the band exhales, and Chris Portka has unveiled “The Album Everyone Wants”—a title that winks while the music simply delivers. The U.S. songwriter’s most collaborative statement to date, this full-band set (eleven songs recorded at NYC’s Sear Sound…
Read MoreLike a disco comet streaking across an L.A. midnight, SOZI has released her EP “DREAM,” a four-song reverie that turns the glamour of summer into philosophy you can dance to. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter…
Read MoreSparks fly the moment CAR287 release their debut, “Looking Through the Lens,” a record that remembers, argues, laughs, and stitches prairie weather into melody. The Winnipeg quartet—Jay Yarmey (vocals, acoustic guitar), Travis “Trabs” Wog (lead guitar, vocals)…
Read MoreFrost on a practice-room window writes better poetry than most diaries; Nabil Muquit has released his song “Augustina,” an instrumental postcard that smells faintly of winter and tape. The piece, born at a lonely piano…
Read MoreClocks keep the minutes; the sky keeps the meaning. Ian Ewing’s EP “In the Sky” treats that axiom like a compass, a chillhop/lo-fi suite that feels both handmade and celestial—beatcraft as a form of stargazing. A self-taught…
Read MoreA second sunrise always throws kinder light: with his album “I’m Still Standing,” Frankie Muriel tilts the day anew, and his reimagined “If I Say” arrives like warm bourbon poured over cracked ice—Americana steady, Country-bred, and unhurried. The project’s premise…
Read MoreMexican artist Paulina Chow releases “Blue,” an indie-folk confession from Mexico that hushes the room before it speaks. The project’s name sets the temperature; the mood is chill but lucid, like ocean light slipping under a closed door…
Read MoreSteph Wall dropped “Start Your Engines,” a flirt‐curious glide of indie R&B and neo-soul that doubles as the third and final single ushering in her EP “TANG!”. Like a midnight test-drive down an empty…
Read MoreCoupdekat has released her song “BURST <3,” a sugar-sharp detonation that previews her forthcoming project BLOW HER UP AND SHE’LL BURST!. This is a spinoff vignette with teeth: a clubland communiqué that both…
Read MoreSteam lifts off a porcelain cup as trombonist-producer Yonathan Peled releases “French Toast,” a hush-lit reverie co-crafted with composer-producer Tal Mashiach and vocalist Dandi, where Retro Soul leans…
Read MoreLike confetti flung from a sunrise, Dylan Rockwell releases his song “I.W.A.L.Y.,” a folk-rock valentine that jogs forward with indie-rock sneakers and a runner’s grin. The title spells a vow; the track makes…
Read MoreSome people are sunflowers—always turning toward validation—but KØLEEN is a wild daisy breaking through sidewalk cracks, uninvited, unapologetic, and gorgeously her own. Her infectious single “I Like It Like That” radiates…
Read MoreLegend whispers that the sky keeps souvenirs for the audacious; The One Eighties pry open the firmament with their incandescent single “Bottle Up the Lightning,” decanting raw voltage into Mason jars of melody…
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