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Mondrian’s Alt Indie Rock Instrumental, B1, Slashes Through Post-Rock Psychedelia, Tension and Cathartic Euphoria

Posted on 11 May 2026

Alt indie rock scintillation awaits anyone who hits play on the seminal release, B1, by Mondrian. The metronomic beat in the intro might have you bracing for an amateur lo-fi earache, but what follows in the first verse is a synthesis of classic rock guitar chops slashing their way through Pixies-esque atmospheric euphoria, hints of Grandaddy in the keys, and the Beatles in their psychedelic era with the sitars. Mondrian knits it all together in this homage to rock and indie history.

Though it may be void of lyricism and vocal evocation, B1 isn’t lacking in emotional expression, especially when the instrumental piece arrives at a sermonic sequence of progressive post-rock, but it’s not long before the independent artist switches gear once again, with fret mastery a major part of the alchemy in this medley. If you love hearing how gifted artists can efficaciously manipulate tension, catharsis and emotional transpositions, Mondrian is more than deserving of a spot on your radar.

Founded in Buenos Aires in 2020 by Matias Jimenez, Mondrian operates as an indie electronica project with Jimenez writing, performing, producing and engineering the material from his own De Stijl Studios.

B1 arrived ahead of the January 2026 debut album, 2020–2025, a five-track set shaped by obsessions with drones, minimalism, pop art, musical organisation, world music and krautrock.

B1 is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Methyl Orange Fixed a Krautrock Gaze on the Sick Collective Psyche in ‘Important Things’

Posted on 30 March 2026
Important Things EP by Methyl Orange

Methyl Orange has launched a synthwave meditation with Important Things that, if everyone got caught in the tides simultaneously, tomorrow would be a very different day. The Manchester project of sonic architect Nick Wall has spent years building immersive instrumental worlds, and this release sharpens that vision into something pointedly humanistic. Since 2017, Wall has steadily grown a dedicated following through a prolific catalogue, with 2025’s Lost for Words drawing strong praise, before 2026 opened with a top-three placing in the Radio Wigwam Awards’ Best Electro Act category. Important Things feels like another decisive step forward.

Advocating for empathy, equality, and compassion rarely translates into a hypnotically stylised sonic experience that leaves you increasingly arrested, but this cinematic feat of expansively stylised electronica is no ordinary strain of synthesised fare.

The cinematic scope is panoramic as Methyl Orange delivers spoken-word mantras over cold cosmic synths that nod to krautrock’s pioneers while keeping their gaze fixed on rectifying the sick collective psyche of the present, an individualised navel-gazing downward spiral race to the top. There’s power in the softly spoken repetition, in the slow unfurling tension, in the way the track holds its nerve and lets the message land without dressing it up in cheap sentiment. John Cooper Clarke and Kraftwerk alike would approve of this message.

Important Things is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify and Bandcamp.
Review by Amelia Vandergast

Ida Stein Let Rawness Resonate in the Trip-Hop Adjacent Elegy, ‘It Doesn’t Matter’

Posted on 19 August 2025

As haunting as a synthesis of the dark experimentalism of Chelsea Wolfe, Björk’s arcane spirituality, and Angel Olsen’s pensively hollow sonic soul would be, It Doesn’t Matter by Ida Stein is lush with cavernous melancholy; the kind that chills the synapses while pulling you into the introspective depths of the Norwegian alt-electronica artist. The diaphanous, downtempo, trip-hop adjacent production nestles fragile emotion, prising your own rawness into the spectre of sound.

Stein doesn’t reach for resolution; she lets the ache remain exposed, granting the listener a quiet permission to feel without patching up the wound. The syncopated, moody beats and bass lines become illustrations of the lyrical weight, abstract yet razor sharp as they hit nerves you didn’t realise were waiting to be struck. Her spectral vocal presence sits between lament and invocation, pulling you closer with its paradoxical intimacy.

Already celebrated across Norway and Germany, with performances at by:Larm and Slottsfjell and her music woven into Netflix’s El Club and NRK’s Unge Lovende, Stein has cultivated an unmistakable voice in the alt scene. After collaborations with names like Nils Hoffmann and Ben Alexander, she now builds towards her debut self-produced album, Bring It On, due later in 2025, which promises a crystallisation of the strength and vulnerability already glimmering through It Doesn’t Matter.

It Doesn’t Matter is now available on all major streaming platforms – including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Dissolved Girl Delivered Existential Sensuality and Dystopian Grit in Alt-Electro Single Granite State

Posted on 12 June 2025

Dissolved Girl brought brutalism to the airwaves with their latest single, Granite State, released on the 30th of May. Reverb may cushion the blow in the architecture of this trip-hop-adjacent dark indie electro cascade into catharsis, but nothing masks the bruising impact. When the unsettling voice samples enter and the ethereal vocals start to drip with a subdued kind of existential sensuality, the distortion-slicked guitars pare back the production and deliver a white-hot solo that bleeds with finale flair, resulting in a release that takes root where reality grows raw.

Known for their cinematic edge, Dissolved Girl pushed their signature into new dimensions with Granite State. The bleak stylisation creates a mirror to the crumbling glamour of their own city, reflecting a truth more tangible than the stretch of escapist synthscapes that often feel too far removed to reach. Through dystopian elegance and viscerally magnetic production, the four-piece London outfit sharpened their edge without polishing away their purpose.

Fuelled by a shared love of 90s trip-hop, alt-rock abrasion, and dense sonic layering, Dissolved Girl took their time crafting their debut LP. With Dani Castelar at the helm of production and Matt Colton finalising the master, their sound digs deep into the hollowed-out spaces where genuine emotion still pulses. Their ever-rising Spotify play count and pending European tour plans are no fluke. Their intent is clear, and so is their trajectory.

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

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Maxell’s Psychedelic Indietronica Debut ‘Hide and Seek’ Taps Into the Ether

Posted on 27 November 2024
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Maxell, a London-based trio, might be a fledgling force, but with a synth-driven sound more psychedelically potent than anything you can buy in a back alley in Camden and the wealth of experience they bring from other bands, they’re proving to be unreckonable.

Following an intro which hits with the pulse of She Wants Revenge, their memento-musing debut single, ‘Hide and Seek’ soon twists into a stylistically embellished installation of Avant-Garde indietronica.

The synths distort into kaleidoscopic oscillations as they synergise around the shimmering organ tones and delay-saturated guitars, creating an entrancing backdrop for the ethereally crystalline vocal lines, which paradoxically carry immense weight as they embed the lyrics deep into the listener’s psyche.

If you have a lot of love for Legendary Pink Dots, you may as well hand your heart over to Maxell and their signature ‘hauntology’ sound now.

Stream the official music video for Hide and Seek on YouTube or head over to Bandcamp where you can purchase the single; all proceeds from this single will be donated to the homeless charity, Crisis UK.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Yodashe is a spectral siren in her avant-garde electronica track, EASTER

Posted on 3 April 2024

Yodashe, an avant-garde firebrand will leave you eating out of the tones of her spectral vocal presence as she weaves a tapestry of sound that transcends the ordinary in her single EASTER.

She didn’t need any further testaments to her ingenuity at this stage in her rapidly ascending career, but in EASTER, she became an undeniable contender for the accolade of one of the most prodigal names in electronica. While others are content riding on the coattails of Trip-Hop pioneers, Yodashe uses glitchy elements as one facet in her richly layered sonic synthesis.

In EASTER, Yodashe’s production skills shine through the complex blend of massive beats, trance-esque phasers and indietronica trappings, creating a hauntingly panoramic soundscape. Her introspective vocals weave through the music, creating a sense of intimacy that contrasts with the grandeur of the electronic backdrop. This juxtaposition is the heart of the track, a dance between the colossal and the vulnerable.

As the less-than-archetypal rhythmic progressions storm through you, playing havoc with your rhythmic pulses, until you are left wantonly desperate for the next hook to ensnare you into the ebb and flow this production that is as disorientating as it is exhilarating.

For those seeking a track that defies convention and delivers a profound sonic experience, EASTER by the London-based artist, producer, and Redbull Music Academy alumni is an essential listen.

Stream the EASTER EP on Spotify now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Etherdene – Summer Dreams: An Indietronica Ode to Seasonal Longing

Posted on 22 February 2024

Etherdene’s latest single, ‘Summer Dreams‘, is a masterstroke in indietronica, blending the magnetic allure of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with the Smiths’ jangle-pop melodies, all while infusing a shoegaze and retro-futuristic electronica reminiscent of Tiny Ghosts.

Since her solo debut in June 2023, Etherdene has been an indomitable force in the music industry. Each release has solidified her place in the hearts of listeners and playlist curators. Her music, an affectingly arresting cocktail of empowering messages and evocative soundscapes, resonates deeply on every conceivable level.

‘Summer Dreams’, released in the heart of February, initially strikes as a paradoxical choice. However, the track’s lyrical yearning for the warmth and sticky-sweet hues of summer, set against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest’s rainy winters, unifies through the affirmation that we’re all in it together, and now we have the ultimate soundtrack to our unified longing.

We didn’t think there was much scope for improvement from Etherdene’s previous single, You Are My World, but the complexities within Summer Dreams that reveal a new reason to fall head over heels for the single with every listen prove that Etherdene is poised to become an indietronica firebrand in 2024.

Summer Dreams was officially released on February 9th; stream the single on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

J.MYSTERY granted the permission to ‘Breakdown’ in the ethereal catharsis of his artfully raw alt-electronica score.

Posted on 9 November 2023

‘Breakdown’ is the latest innovatively polished and artfully raw electronica score by the Portuguese virtuoso and genre-melding alchemist, J.MYSTERY, who has garnered an accoladed reputation over the last few years with his command over ethereal ingenuity.

After a strong yet wavy reminiscence of John Grant in the intro which puts J.MYSTERY’s honey-timbered croons atop oscillating synthesised turbulence, echoes of the darkest Arctic Monkeys album start to manifest in the reverberance before the single veers into intersections of atmospheric soul, which will captivate any fans of Hozier and George Ezra.

Given the strength of his discography, crafting his most powerful single to date was no easy feat, but inspired by the grief shared with his wife following the sorrow of a miscarriage, J.MYSTERY found the necessity to extol the virtues of breaking down and refusing to listen to ‘be strong’ commands. Unless your soul is cast in stone, you’ll find tears to shed over this overwhelmingly vulnerable release.

Breakdown was officially released on September 29; sink into the soulful avant-garde electronica by heading over to Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

London indietronica artist Lily Juniper is anxiously auspicious in her narratively dreamy single, All Mine

Posted on 26 March 2023

After a successful debut in 2022, Lily Juniper enriched the London indie electronica scene with her dreamily dance-leaning sophomore single, All Mine.

The ethereally warm vocals inject as much soul into the production as the softly tensile looped progressions as they wrap the vibrant texture around the affectionately uncertain lyrics, which project the compulsion to solidify a relationship when it is in its early stages of romantic hesitation.

We’ve all been there, not wanting to go all in for fear our vulnerability will lead to our greatest fears. But there’s nothing bittersweet as this Four Tet and James Blake-ESQUE soundscape. All Mine is as rich as Musk in its artful beguile, making the deeply evocative context of romantically anxious edge all the more intoxicating while the indietronica poetry in motion is auspiciously unravelling.

Lily Juniper said:

“All Mine is a song about new love and the nervous energy that it brings, about seeing someone you like at a party and then going home alone, about overthinking everything you said and did, reading into every word and look. All of the best (and worst) moments that humans can experience.”

Stream All Mine via Spotify.

Connect with Lily Juniper on Twitter & Instagram

Review by Amelia Vandergast

 

mooncrüe have made their psychedelically existential debut with the spacey alt-electro hit, Animal

Posted on 6 March 2023

Alt-electronica originators mooncrüe went heavy on the philosophy which will be as euphonic to existential ears as the kaleidoscopic synth-pop beats in their debut single, Animal.

If you have ever looked at the lesser-aware species that roam this scorched earth with us with envy for their habitual simplicity; you will find visceral resonance in this mix. Animal leaves the highs to the instrumentals, and the realism within the lyricism that becomes even more astute with every listen to the spacey psychedelic score.

It isn’t every day that you discover a debut that leaves you desperate for the sophomore, but clearly, the indie psychonauts within this devilishly clever outfit are anything but your run-of-the-mill aural peddlers. They’re on their very own spacey plateau. Hit play and join them.

Animal is now available to stream on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast