Baz Edmondson

Baz Edmondson Bridges Nature and Nostalgia in ‘Ladybird Red’

 When the digital haze clears and the static of modernity subsides, Baz Edmondson’s latest single, Ladybird Red, stands as a reminder of the wonder that still exists beyond screens. The Dorset-based singer-songwriter, whose evocative sound places him in the lineage of…

AILEN

A Sonic Rapture: AILEN Channels the Divine in Catharsis

Delivering everything it says on the titular tin through the sonorously enriching tones of every sonic spectre in the single, Catharsis demands your surrender, compels you to sink into the evocatively weighted production and allow the progressions to abstract the weight…

KayOShea

Dialling Up the Future: KayOShea Reinvents RnB with Yo Number

With echoes of the iconic Nelly and Kelly Rowland track behind the syncopated beats, scuzzy synths and trickles of piano keys, KayOShea didn’t just break the mould with Yo Number, he contoured a retro-futuristic hybrid that instantly catches you off…

Joyland

Joyland Finds Grace in Uncertainty with ‘Mysterious Ways’

Faith is rarely a straight road, and in Mysterious Ways, the up-and-coming genre-fluid evocateur Joyland trails its winding paths with a diaphanous acoustic score that filters spirituality through the lens of Americana folk. Vulnerability pours from the vocal notes, cascading…

Nick Marks

Nick Marks Charts New Coordinates in Jazztronica with ‘Current Location’

From the first note of Current Location, Nick Marks and his armada of collaborators pull listeners into an aural cosmos where jazz motifs greet futurism with traditionalism. Opening Cinematic Chromatics Vol. III, the final instalment of his 3 EP trilogy, Current Location exists…

The Secret Radio

The Secret Radio Tune into Indie’s Melancholy with ‘Mockingbird’

Aching in the same vein as Elbow, Badly Drawn Boy, and Starsailor, The Secret Radio’s ‘Mockingbird’ carries the weight of nostalgia with the kind of orchestrally laced swells that sharpen the emotion without slipping into saccharine cliché. The song, taken from…