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ZKIN Expose the Sociopathic Script in ‘Breaking Me Down’ – A Synth-Pop Autopsy of Emotional Erosion

Posted on 2 April 2025

ZKIN’s latest single, Breaking Me Down, tears through the surface with haunting synth-pop stylings that shimmer with trip-hop unease and indietronica nuances. The Swedish duo, formed in Linköping by Jonas Gustafsson and Malin Jeraeus, have crafted their own genre by refusing to compromise their vision to fit a template. Their self-styled descriptors—Dessert Soul, Bristol Blues, Cinematic Industrial Synth Rock—speak to their obsession with pushing past the expected.

The production operates like strobe lighting through fog—illuminating the disorientation of psychological warfare in toxic dynamics. The synth arrangements soundtrack a spiral, while the lyrical plot is paced like a psychological thriller. Jeraeus delivers each line with measured cadence, capturing the ache of recognition and the slow-burn clarity that comes from realising you’ve been pulled into someone else’s constructed reality. Her voice, shaped by years of singing through soul, funk, blues and rock, holds nothing back in its precision.

Thematically, Breaking Me Down resonates as a cautionary tale written for anyone who’s felt reality rewritten by someone more concerned with control than connection. Gustafsson’s lifelong grounding in jazz, blues, and punk bleeds into the track’s rhythmic structure—firm, unrelenting, and laced with menace. Together, they reconstruct the power balance that emotional manipulation seeks to dismantle.

ZKIN’s strength lies in their refusal to simplify or soften. Every element of Breaking Me Down is sharpened to expose what it means to reclaim your voice after it’s been strategically unravelled.

Breaking Me Down is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Jem&i’s ‘Gemini’ is An Alchemical Invocation of Hedonic Alt-Hip-Hop

Posted on 30 March 2025

With the release of his latest single, ‘Gemini’, Jem&i effortlessly dissolves genre boundaries, merging grime, house, garage, and hip-hop into an intricate structure built for pure hedonic euphoria. Through a dark, sultry production style that oscillates hypnotically around the synth lines and the steady pulse of the beats, he crafts a track that compels rhythmic pulses into obedience. Each beat becomes more than percussion—it is a command, sinking deeper into the psyche as the mind melts into the tones.

At a time when indie rap artists frequently deliver half-cooked productions, Jem&i refuses to lower his standards, carefully orchestrating instrumentals that open portals to new sonic dimensions. His arrangements set the mood, amplifying your susceptibility to his bars, which purposefully shift away from predictable rap cadences to fuse seamlessly with melody, paying respect to house music traditions.

Yet ‘Gemini’ offers more than mesmerising instrumentals. Its grime-infused lyrical narrative carries sharp conviction and a streak of lyrical gold, balancing urban grit with atmospheric cultivation. Jem&i navigates the shifting sonic landscape with confidence, embodying an artisan’s precision in his unique approach to rhythmic storytelling.

‘Gemini’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Embrace Emotional Suspension with Daniel Liam Glyn’s Downtempo Dream ‘in this moment for days’

Posted on 29 March 2025

‘in this moment for days’, from Daniel Liam Glyn’s latest LP ‘WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES’, is a slice of indie dream pop reverie that lifts the tones of retro-futurism to a plateau of pure euphonic bliss. Downtempo electronica, trip-hop, and synth-pop coalesce in distinctive flux, offering tranquillity as you’ve never experienced, yet a dreamy palette you’ll compel yourself to acquaint yourself with, time and time again.

Ethereal dream-pop vocals echo tenderness into the release, wrapping delicately around the beauty of preserving perfect moments. The single grasps these ephemeral instants tightly, praying the romance found within small details stays clear from memory’s obscurity. It’s a soundtrack to bliss in every true sense, gentle yet unshakably memorable.

Daniel Liam Glyn, a Manchester-born composer renowned for sinking synaesthesia into his compositions, channels his unique visual perception of colour and sound directly into ‘in this moment for days’. Influenced by the contemporary minimalist styles of composers like Erik Satie and Steve Reich, Glyn transforms abstract mental hues into tangible sonic landscapes. His latest album navigates themes of mental health, hazy recollections, and fleeting serenity, and nowhere is this balance clearer than in this dreamy soundscape—an invitation to pause, reflect, and remain in emotional suspension.

‘in this moment for days’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Titan Titan’s ‘Spiritual Ascendence’: Electronica’s Kaleidoscopic Call to Rhythmically Awakened Souls

Posted on 28 March 2025

With ‘Spiritual Ascendence’, electronica artist and producer Titan Titan reaches the epitome of delivering everything promised on the titular tin. The track taps into beats that awaken the primal side of your rhythmic pulse, effortlessly pulling motifs from across the geo-cultural spectrum.

Lavishes of Latin rhythm interweave seamlessly with smoky jazz breezing from the brass, while funk-infused basslines provide an irresistible, soul-deep kick. Rather than merely inviting transcendence, Titan Titan offers listeners an opportunity to pour some vivid colour directly into their souls. Electronica like this powerfully reminds you of music’s potential to possess, instil catharsis, and inspire infectious melody, urging you to step into its sun-bleached groove.

The artist, also known as Anthony Lavery, is no stranger to producing diverse styles, effortlessly exploring hip-hop, drum and bass, house, chillout, rock, English garage, and samba. With ‘Spiritual Ascendence’, his eclectic background converges into a single cohesive expression, resonating with creative versatility and global inspiration.

This instrumental release exemplifies how electronic music can move beyond the predictable, turning a sonic exploration into a sanctuary beyond sound. By rhythmically transcending genre boundaries, Titan Titan ensures your only real obligation here is to surrender to the beat.

‘Spiritual Ascendence’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

OCEANS OF TEARS Delivered a Neon-Lit Lifeline with ‘LOSING MY WILL TO LIVE’

Posted on 27 March 2025

After starting with the iconic ‘snap out of it’ line by Cher in Moonstruck, which proves OCEANS OF TEARS has their finger on the pulse of the cultural zeitgeist, ‘LOSING MY WILL TO LIVE’ slides into a high-energy synthesis of 80s-spiked pop rock which serves an infectious chorus as the main sonic dish in this existential utopia.

With synth lines streaming neon lights into the production in place of a cliché rock riff, the track remains a seamless ride through synth-pop nostalgia while OCEANS OF TEARS maintains a firm grip on what brings distinctive panache to his sound.

Drawn from Steve W. Boily’s rock musical, Bullet in a Gun, ‘LOSING MY WILL TO LIVE’ confronts despair at its most unfiltered, capturing the raw agony of losing everything—love, work, pride. In a global climate weighed down by economic uncertainty, looming tariffs, and widespread job insecurity, the soul-stirring lyrics feel heartbreakingly real and strike harder than ever. Ian Hardwick’s guest vocals amplify the emotional intensity, channelling betrayal, failure, and isolation into a powerful anthem of desperation.

This is pop-rock sharpened to a neon-lit edge; honest, relentless, and emotionally charged.

‘LOSING MY WILL TO LIVE’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

The Megazord Effect: MannyPacquiloud & LjayNFG Sync Firepower on ‘Fantastic’

Posted on 26 March 2025
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When MannyPacquiloud and LjayNFG collide on Fantastic, the outcome isn’t just collaborative chemistry—it’s juggernautical. The hyper lo-fi hip-hop speaker slammer rides a rift in the genre’s continuum, shooting 8-bit synthetics and phasers across the mix like it’s an arcade battleground loaded with charisma-charged artillery. The conviction behind every bar proves MannyPacquiloud isn’t just tracking with the future of hip-hop—he’s hauling it on his back with unapologetic force.

It’s a spacy oscillation of pure lyrical volition. The beat bucks expectations with distorted minimalism, letting the distorted textures run riot while the vocals carve clarity out of chaos. The collaborators match the momentum with equal intent, making sure the tag-team format never slips into competition—only combustion.

There’s no gloss, no clean-cut production polish; it’s raw by design. Each element is engineered to elevate the energy, not dilute it. The low-fidelity framework serves the track’s ethos—it’s punchy, primal and built for the underground, where aesthetics bow to authenticity. This is what it sounds like when artists prioritise force over pretence and still land every blow on beat.

MannyPacquiloud’s ability to channel chaos into cadence shows he’s not just rapping for the now—he’s setting the stakes for what comes next. And if Fantastic is anything to go by, the altitude of hip-hop vibes might just be reaching stratospheric new levels through his talent.

Fantastic is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Apple Music.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Francesca Pichierri’s ‘Amen’ Strikes Alt-Pop Gold with a Groove-Soaked Rebuke

Posted on 25 March 2025

Francesca Pichierri never lets sentimentality get in the way of precision. With ‘Amen’, her fifth single and a pivotal chapter in her concept album Cellule Stronze, she lays a satirical yet razor-sharp lens on cancer ghosting—the social retreat of those who disappear when illness walks into the room. Rather than wallowing in the emotional wreckage, she chooses to let irony march straight to the dancefloor.

Musically, Amen firmly implants alt into pop. Retro-futurist synth lines and swathes of synthesised bass bring the funk, summoning a sound reminiscent of Depeche Mode warped through the lens of South American disco and gospel. But it’s Pichierri’s performance that overrides the energy of the release. Her vocal lines carry a seraphic sanctity, acting as a vocal exorcism of all the shallow well-wishers and their hollow “thoughts and prayers”.

You plug into Amen—not the other way around. It strips you of autonomy with its animatronic pull, transposing darkness into an earworm of euphoria. The lyrical sting doesn’t get lost in the groove. Instead, it’s accentuated by it. Her vocal delivery pivots from soulful sincerity to smirking irony with a deftness that makes every line land harder. It’s funk with bite. Gospel with gall. Dance music with a grudge.

With Amen, Pichierri soundtracks the uncomfortable silence left by those who recoil from pain—and she sets it to a beat they can’t ignore.

Amen is now available to stream on all major platforms, including SoundCloud and Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Paul Robert’s ‘Release’ Proves Catharsis Hits Harder With Cross-Genre Firepower

Posted on 23 March 2025

With Release, Paul Robert proves that artistic distinction lies within taking influences from genres instead of merely assimilating certain figures within the niche. With a cascade of synths serving as a polyphonic prelude that reminisces with a John Carpenter score before he allows you to imagine a matured offshoot of Bloodhound Gang, Paul Robert becomes the master of inter-genre alchemy.

With a sense of mindfulness reverberating through the enlightened, locked and loaded with lyrical gold track, it’s impossible not to feel the catharsis and the hype simultaneously being injected by the electronica, hip-hop and pop crossover.

After pivoting from a sales career in early 2024 and launching his debut 110—a nod to the steep learning curve and the commitment it demanded—Paul has shown no signs of easing up. When copyright disputes blocked his mixtapeLying from release, he didn’t retreat; he recalibrated. Relocating to Los Angeles, he restarted with new collaborators and fresh resolve. Release arrives as part of his new project Love Different, rolling out one unapologetic track at a time.

Paul’s optimism doesn’t come from naive cheer—it’s forged through friction, stitched through each verse touching on belief, action, love, and digital dysfunction. The track is a pressure valve and an invitation—both release and ignition.

Release by Paul Robert is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

IAMCORNELIUS – Life: A Sonic Altitude Check at 35,000 Feet

Posted on 22 March 2025
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Life by IAMCORNELIUS escapes easy articulation and categorisation. Even if you think along the lines of electro-infused soft melodic rock-tinged folk pop with Avant Garde motifs of soul, you’ll still struggle to run in parallel with the single, which is driven by emotion instead of restrictive genre parameters.

IAMCORNELIUS doesn’t need to make a statement with his moniker when he does it so viscerally through his sound. With his consolingly gruff timbre lifting in the light of the chorus, his intricate acoustic guitar notes bleeding intimacy into the single, and the artful electronic sequences shaping its filmic soul, Life nestles you in its expansive interstellar embrace. If you’re ever caught up wondering about the meaning of life, this track doesn’t offer answers—it reflects the weight of the question in exquisite, untethered form.

Originally from Kenya and now based in Cincinnati, IAMCORNELIUS has spent a life between continents, filtering experience through a diverse musical history. He’s not confined by genre or form—his work is rooted in honesty, written for those tired of looking in the mirror and ready to search their soul.

There are no clean comparisons here. The only adequate metaphor is watching the clouds disappear from the window of a plane as you realise, with both clarity and quiet panic, just how infinite it all really is.

Life by IAMCORNELIUS is available to stream on all major platforms.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Xy Gala Wires Electricity into the Mundanity of Existence in ‘Lifeless Life’

Posted on 21 March 2025

‘Lifeless Life’ opens a pop-hooked Pandora’s box of a paradox, reflecting on how life often inhibits feeling alive, especially as we become numb to atrocities and the monotonies of daily existence. Between the diaphanous candour pouring from Xy Gala’s confessions and the beat that brings a pulse of resistance to the mediocrity of reality, it’s impossible not to lock into the track and feel that he has a gift for unifying those who aren’t content to go through the motions, who struggle to find meaning and pleasure within their autonomy.

It’s a haunting track, sure to vindicate anyone who knows how emotionally paralysing it is to keep your head above water. The electro-rock riff blazes through the mix before the hauntingly pensive, cinematically raw outro, affirming that Xy Gala never pours half measures into his alchemic cocktail of pop, rock, electronica, and trap. The soaring chorus and the Santana-esque guitar solo inject an unforgettable energy into the track, fusing genres into a sound that fans of Post Malone, Falling in Reverse, and The Kid LAROI will appreciate.

The London-based luminary, Xy Gala, has never sounded more authentic or essential. ‘Lifeless Life’ is out on 21st March 2025. Hear it on Soundcloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast