Brandon Bing’s latest release, AWAYSTEAD, tears clean through the light-soaked, roots-deep euphoria of his punchier party anthems to expose the raw marrow of his alt-country rock soul. Behind the metaphorically cerebral title lies a dark vignette that contorts his…
Resilience became so much more than a buzzword in Dylan Charles’ rendered-with-soul release, Strong At Heart, which comes from a painful place of understanding how hard it is to muster fortitude as you watch your personal world and society crumble around…
Minko tightened the thread between classical precision and future-pop romanticism in her new single, ‘Circle of Fifths’, a track that redraws the shape of pop itself. Slated to feature on her debut LP Lemon Psyche, which will flavour the…
With riffs hotter than the climate we keep fuelling and a vocal presence as raw as the wind across the open plains, the Lürxx pushed their Nature Warrior Glam Punk manifesto into unrestrained territory with Mustang (The Nature of…
With On My Own, the Chicago-hailing cinematic soul singer Jessica Lá Rel watered the roots of self-reverence with sonic poetry that blooms beyond the reach of romantic conventions. While most singers write paeans to codependence, Jessica Lá Rel reached…
With North Star, Matthew Robert Hunt constructed an interstellar corridor between existential rawness and avant-garde elevation. While the distortion-laced vocal refrains drag flickers of pain from the peripheries into focus, the effervescent textures send them back into orbit. It…
With Push & Pull, Nashville-born, Liverpool-based artist Janessa takes the conflicting emotional trajectories of love and constructs a funk-wrapped, soul-drenched sonic sugar for the pill of being torn between distance and closeness within a dynamic you know is ebbing…
Woody Bradshaw may have taken on one of the most relentlessly reworked songs in modern music, but in his hauntingly orchestrated cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, he found fresh soil to sink new imaginings into. With an accord between…
With Speak to Me in Silence, UK singer-songwriter Paul James Project candidly cracks open the consuming complexity of grief after the loss of a parent and pours the bitter-sweet mourning into an anthemic synthesis of Britpop and shimmers of…
With their latest track, Crooked Cranes set a reel of vintage college radio static on fire with proto-punk soul and surf rock swagger. Hailing from Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, this group of lifelong friends, Josh Faw, Dylan Hornaday, Andrew…