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AquariO crash-landed with a glitched-out hyper-pop intervention on ‘Get Some FCKN Therapy’

Posted on 4 October 2026

AquariO took no prisoners with his debut single, Get Some FCKN Therapy, a straight-to-the-jugular extraterrestrial pop attack on the psychologically wounded who move through life in a daze, blind to the potential of emotional intelligence and accountability. The Los Angeles-based queer artist has killed off his former COATS incarnation and rebuilt himself with convention as a missing component.

After more than 15 years writing pop music, AquariO was more than ready to mutate, and Get Some FCKN Therapy became the ultimate vessel for his freshly unrestrained expression. The debut hit fuses glitched-out alt-electro-pop, hyperpop impulses and alternative dance into a clarion call for people who carry trauma like an accessory, then use it as an excuse to spread the scars. The production feels space-sick and confrontational, with distorted electronics clattering around Björk-esque motifs, spacey industrial aesthetics and otherworldly, psychedelically lush strokes of invention.

His falsetto drifts like strange light through the mix before snapping back into affronting demands, lacing the gravity-defying track with conviction rather than empty provocation. What could have been a novelty shock title becomes something sharper: a darkly playful act of electric catharsis for the beautifully unhinged, aimed directly at the people who mistake damage for a personality.

AquariO has entered the atmosphere, and the therapy bill starts now.

Get Some FCKN Therapy is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Frank Abraham – I Hope You Know: Melodic Mid-Tempo House for When Words Fail

Posted on 26 September 2026

Frank Abraham’s latest cinematic, mid-tempo melodic house release, I Hope You Know, featuring vocals from glasscat, became the ultimate conduit for devotional soul. Centred on appreciation too deep for language to carry alone, the single lets listeners move through the full depth of feeling behind gratitude, connection and the people who change us without ever knowing the scale of their impact.

The dreamy etherealism of glasscat’s vocals carries that gratitude into the rhythms, lifting the track into something far more affecting than a pretty electronic confession. We would call it swoonworthy, but the beats command more than a languid sway, moving through an intricately layered arrangement that hits the spot of tonal sublimity with superlative aim. The melodic house production glows with cinematic patience, allowing the emotional pressure to rise cleanly rather than tipping into easy sentiment.

Calling his sound EEM, Emotional Electronic Music, Frank Abraham has shaped a catalogue built around genre-fluid feeling. As a Recording Academy Voting Member, Class of 2026, he has also built an international creative network, collaborating with vocalists and producers across continents while keeping connection at the centre.

I Hope You Know is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Bobku gave the backstage crew a bass-pounding tech-trance anthem with ‘The Dance & The Crew (Built For You)’

Posted on 24 September 2026

With a bigger universe built around them than most EDM projects would dare to construct, tech-trance artist Bobku is a meta phenomenon within itself, delivering pure escapism through their fictional puppet-run festival world. The Muppets walked so Bobku could run in their deeply conceptual digital realm, now home to a thriving discography of floor-filling, festival-flavoured anthems, including the latest drop, The Dance & The Crew (Built For You).

If any drop from 2026 has a shot at becoming a club classic 20 years from now, it is this viscerally charged, infectiously euphoric, bass-pounding tour de force of big beats, playful synths and some of the most rallyingly magnetic vocals you could throw at a festival crowd. The track carries the kind of production that commands bodies into motion while still holding swathes of resonance for club culture, especially the crews, systems and invisible labour that keep the whole temporary city alive.

Bobku’s anti-headliner ethos gives the track its own strange sweetness. Built on trance foundations, character-led storytelling and the 4pm-to-4am Feltware Festival concept, the project sits near Gorillaz in its fictional architecture while carrying the dance-floor urgency of a juggernaut on speed.

Even if their wide international fan base only converges around Bobku digitally, there is no denying the collective euphoria of the release. It is one hell of a festival-vibes fix that will undoubtedly tide plenty of people over now that festival season has come to a close and autumn has come creeping in.

The Dance & The Crew (Built For You) is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

FEI steamed up house music with the velvet-soft club electricity of her sophomore single, ‘Only Now’

Posted on 20 September 2026

Already commanding rhythm and atmosphere with sharp, alchemically aphrodisiacal electricity running through her hedonically heightened sophomore single, Only Now, Los Angeles-based DJ and producer FEI is far too charged to stay contained in the underground. Working across house and electronic music, she frames the track as a full-body transmission, built for movement, sweat, strobes and the ultimate hit of euphoria when the room collectively loses its mind.

Only Now demands your body submit to the beat as it gyrates around harmonic, hummed, non-lexical vocals that steam up the production, resulting in a velvet-soft hit that practically leaves the taste of the smoke machine in your lungs. Rolling basslines push beneath clean percussion, while the vocal textures give the track a sensual human haze; it’s the antithesis of clinical production. FEI understands pacing as seduction; the track rises, tightens and glows with the patience of someone who knows the club floor responds better to control than overkill.

A Berklee College of Music graduate and GRAMMY U Ambassador, FEI has already taken her sound through GRAMMY U Soundstage, TikTok’s DJ Open House, Breaking Sound LA and Apple Music’s Los Angeles studio. Her sleek sonic signature brushes against the stylish momentum of Peggy Gou, the polished club rush of TSHA and the low-end magnetism of Honey Dijon.

Only Now is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Electro-pop escapism reached its sweat-soaked serotonin peak with obee’s ‘RUNAWAY’

Posted on 27 August 2026

It is always evident when a producer knows the club scene through and through, and it could not be clearer in RUNAWAY, the latest hyper hit from Nashville-based artist and producer obee. After discovering beat-making through GarageBand at college, the 29-year-old has shaped an electro-pop identity around punchy drums, heavy bass and dancefloor-centred writing that understands club-life as a speaker-pounding sanctuary.

Built for rooms filled with sweat-soaked serotonin, when there is heat between the bodies writhing on the dancefloor and escapism tastes the sweetest, RUNAWAY becomes a complete detour from the mundane contours of reality. It is a sugar-rushed illusion that hypes you into a natural, neon-stroked high, with UK-piano-house lift sparking through the production’s bouncy love-song charge.

The lyrics move like a back-and-forth conversation, catching echoes of past relationships, shyness, mockery and the small lines people throw at each other before desire fully knows what to do with itself. Fans of Charli XCX’s hyper-pop gloss, SG Lewis’ club-pop sleekness and PinkPantheress’ UK-garage-adjacent sweetness will clock the appeal of obee’s emotionally framed hits.

For DJs looking for only the freshest cuts, no one will deny RUNAWAY cuts deep. Ahead of his debut album this autumn, obee is on a clear home run to the zenith of his career.

RUNAWAY is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Death by Piano raised a strobe-lit feminist monument with the elemental electronica mythology of ‘Fire & Snow’

Posted on 25 August 2026

Treating electronica as a rabbit hole of experimentalism where no stylistic influence, cultural reference or phenomenon sits off the table, Brooklyn-based Death by Piano push far beyond the usual contours of beat-driven music on Fire & Snow. Led by singer, songwriter and keyboardist KALEN, with Domenica Fossati of Underground System featured and Eric Zeiler producing, the single joins Death by Piano at their voraciously elemental zenith.

Strings and synths become a strobe-lit holy trinity with Greek mythology for anyone whose altar is wired to distortion, drama and reclamation. Following Pandora from the VOW EP, Fire & Snow once again pulls myth through a feminist lens, with KALEN as Metis and Fossati as Hera, reframing Zeus through goddess-led resistance rather than dusty reverence.

The result is a feisty spiritual incarnation of pop that refuses to orbit what already exists within Brooklyn. Through releases such as Fire& Snow, Death by Piano has become iconic enough to raise their monument of empowered aural art, one built from darkwave-smudged electronica, shoegaze haze and analog-blooded instrumentation. There are touches of Lords of Acid within the obscurity around the rhythms, while Deadmau5 devotees are kept reverent, and the flute detail adds sly theatrical mischief to the track’s mythic charge.

After packed-house shows at NuBlu, Sultan Room, Rough Trade, Union Pool and Elsewhere, Death by Piano stands at the vanguard of strobe-lit feminism.

Fire & Snow is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Sams Beatz – Blue Lights: Hip-Pop Cinema for Anyone Outrunning Their Demons

Posted on 29 July 2026

As the ultimate renegade of genre fusion and beyond-contemporary crystalline production, Sams Beatz makes every feat in his discography feel like a cinematic session in pure emotion-driven scintillation. His synaesthesia-dripping mash-up of 90s pop, trap and ahead-of-the-curve hip-hop, Blue Lights, is hauntingly evocative, with every production choice sharpened until the atmosphere feels nocturnally metropolitan and psychologically scarred.

Under all of the modernistic touches and luxe urban aura of the release, the central narrative of feeling lost, alienated and dogged by insecurity and inadequacy remains sharp. The beat never overpowers the confession; instead, it gives the pain somewhere stylishly lit to breathe. The low-end lands with velvet pressure, the melodic details glimmer through the mix, and the vocal treatment gives the track its disembodied, late-night transmission of intimate spiralling.

After years of producing, collaborating and contributing to the Norwegian music scene, Sams Beatz has returned with a self-contained creative vision, writing, composing, arranging, producing, mixing and mastering his own releases. His custom digital voice operates like an instrument inside the wider emotional architecture, giving Blue Lights its distinctive identity.

For everyone who knows how it feels to try and outrun the devil and inner demons, Blue Lights is salvation in the form of communally acknowledged pain, a testament to the fact that suffering is no anomaly in the human experience.

Blue Lights is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Stefanie Michaela Made ‘Carefree ‘a Dance-Pop Ode to Small Joys and Soft Escapism

Posted on 22 July 2026

Stefanie Michaela reframed happiness in simplicity in her latest piece of pop perfection, Carefree. The LA-born-and-raised singer-songwriter has carried music with her since childhood, which has led her to prestigious institutions, including the Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Boston Conservatory. Her pedigree clearly hasn’t inhibited her accessibility, if the open-hearted conviction of Carefree is anything to go by.

With a wholesome sense of soul meeting kinetic beats that flirt with progressive house-pop aesthetics, Carefree is the kind of single that allows you to bathe in dopamine. As it shines a light on the beauty of living slowly enough to embrace small moments of comfort and happiness, the dancey beat creates a clever tension with the thematic core of the single.

Michaela knew exactly what she was doing by bringing Y2K club-pop aesthetics into a celebration of happiness found between your own four walls. Carefree lands right on the cultural nerve of living more mindfully, hanging up your heels and stepping away from self-destructive habits before the hangovers start collecting interest.

After finding sanctuary in studio sessions as a child and returning to recording with renewed purpose, Michaela sounds ready to turn that perseverance into serious pop momentum. With her EP, Turning Pages, on the horizon, Carefree is a glossy, feel-good reset from an artist who understands joy as something you have to choose.

Carefree is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Bucket-List Beats and Primal Rhythms: @joecrook96 Made GET INTO IT the Ultimate Dance-Pop Motivator

Posted on 14 July 2026

Following a war cry of monocultural mould-smashing primal rhythms that take dance pop to cinematically intense new heights, GET INTO IT by @joecrook96 starts to take the form of a slightly more archetypal EDM floor-filler. Even the biggest build-ups and drops can’t diminish the rich rhythmic complexity which defines @joecrook96’s sonic signature.

Eastern guitars fuse with drums that make the Haka seem far less ferocious as the vocals feel like a whole stadium is behind the polished pop harmonies. The Oxford songwriter, working under his Twitter and Instagram handle, draws lyrical inspiration from travel and the wider world, and that global movement runs straight through the production’s percussive muscle. After around a decade writing across genres, he has used GarageBand and Suno AI to pull his ideas into full-bodied form while aiming towards a future writing for artists.

GET INTO IT has obvious commercial reach: fitness playlists, sports montages, festival warm-up slots and dancefloor rotations all feel within its grasp. Its strongest asset is the way motivation arrives through sheer kinetic force. If any dance-pop hit is going to inspire you to shake off complacency and get to the bottom of your bucket list, it is this scathingly motivational hit, landing hard whether you are listening during a workout session or fuelling your adrenaline on the dancefloor.

GET INTO IT is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Ede Carried San Francisco Alt Pop into a High-Octane Rush of a Dreamscape with ‘In Between’

Posted on 7 July 2026

Idaho-born, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Ede has few pop boundaries left to break if her latest single, In Between, is anything to go by. By splicing the evocative drama of a power ballad with blasts of 90s garage in the frenetic beats and augmenting the energy of contemporary dance pop, she has dug the ultimate aural rabbit hole, leaving adrenaline on tap for fans looking for high-octane escapism.

The lush elements are viscerally juxtaposed by the hard-hitting tempos in the progressive single, allowing rushes of momentum to flood the mix before winding back to expose the fantastical dream pop core of yearning implanted into the nucleus of the release. In Between carries the feel of an artist who understands how to let intimacy survive inside large-scale production, keeping the emotional centre alive even as the arrangement races towards a rhythmic detonation.

Originally from Boise, Ede began writing through a lifelong relationship with music, using songwriting as a way to explore creativity and personal growth. Her self-produced alt-pop sensibility gives In Between its distinctive shape, while her forthcoming Heaven Sent collaboration with Jacob Espling is set to exhibit more of her uninhibited melodic ambition. At the very least, In Between may have just coined the neo-classical EDM chamber-pop genre.

In Between is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast