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Get caught in the hauntingly hypnotic drift of Virtual Nobodies’ bluesy Americana neo-pop act of longing, ‘Bona Fide’

Posted on 22 April 2026

Bona Fide by Virtual Nobodies will prick shivers straight through your soul; with one of the most affecting crooner timbres resonating from an artist of this generation, the dusky neo-pop single becomes an act of evocatively uninhibited haunting hypnotism.

By kicking their sound right back to the 50s, ensuring the modernistic touches remain arcane instead of archaic, Virtual Nobodies, with the swaying scintillation in their downtempo cinematic sonnet, blew us away with Bona Fide.

The sense of romanticism is filtered through a hazy lens of americana; nothing is forced, nothing is rushed, everything drifts at an achingly amorous pace, stretching across lonesome nights, pining for the return of the muse of this profound panorama of a love song which sits heavy on your chest, giving you butterflies with every lift in the ethereal with blues folk nuances. There is a dusky grandeur in the delivery that evokes the ghostlier magnetism of Roy Orbison and the velvet-hearted ache of Chris Isaak, while the atmosphere carries its own narcotic sway, steeped in nocturnal longing.

Helmed by Jeremiah Gray and Xavier Valdez, Virtual Nobodies pull from cinematic Americana, desert-born mystique, and outsider poetics. With guidance from producer Niko Bolas, upcoming debut album anticipation, NPR support, and recent recognition from LA Living magazine, they are shaping a space where vintage swagger and modern melancholy meet with arresting emotional force.

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

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Westminster Park wrapped romanticism in sonorous retro cinema with their country folk serenade, A Pair on a Pier

Posted on 19 September 2025
Westminster Park

Westminster Park unravelled the ache and splendour of enduring love with their country folk serenade, A Pair on a Pier. Recorded in their home studio and brushed with the warm gloss of Brandon General and Ben Srokosz’s mastering, the waltz drifts in like a slow tide, heavy with sentiment and light on pretension. It is retro arthouse cinema in sound, a sonic photograph of a week in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where nothing existed but the salt air and the slow burn of reignited affection.

With a Parisian sense of timeless style sewn into the sepia-tinted sonics, A Pair on a Pier becomes the aural epitome of romanticism; tender in all the right places, scintillatingly sonorous in all the rest. The harmonies hum with the kind of synergy that sidesteps cliché. They don’t rely on overplayed tropes or declarations; they breathe. They murmur truth and tangle around the lyrics like the arms of someone you never want to let go of again.

If you’ve never been to Montmartre, hand in hand with the one who became more your world than the earth beneath your feet, this track will take you there, while letting you inhale the Nova Scotian breeze and stripping away years of distraction. This is for everyone who still believes love’s eulogy hasn’t been written yet.

A Pair on a Pier is now available on all major streaming platforms. Support the artist by purchasing their music on Bandcamp. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Giu Delivered Velvet-Toned Heartbreak in His Seminal Serenade, ‘Je Ne Peux Plus Rester’

Posted on 24 July 2025

Giù poured velvet across his fretboard in Je Ne Peux Plus Rester, the emotional high point of his latest LP, Back is Rock. The guitar-driven grooves work catharsis into your soul as Giu takes the tragedy of broken heartstrings and retunes them in preparation for a new chapter; one that we’re always fated to take romantically alone.

His way of transcending epoch-defined style and genre constraints within Je Ne Peux Plus Rester is a triumph within itself; it’s as though the sound of the 60s seduces contemporary French indie, establishing the esteemed singer-songwriter as an alchemist of eras, a crooner of timeless magnetism, and we might as well say it, the ultimate aphrodisiac of the airwaves for the way he takes vulnerability and makes it a currency of resilience that anyone can cash in on.

The 6th track on Back is Rock, Je Ne Peux Plus Rester, traces the story of a man still in love but unable to stay; happiness has faded, and despite the pain, he must walk away. It is a powerful moment of truth about letting go, even when the heart clings. As a singer-songwriter, painter, novelist, and emergency doctor, he’s a man of myriad talents, with an unflinching desire to channel the trauma of his near-death experience into art that resonates universally. His latest album encapsulates freedom, urgency, and rebirth, shot through with poetic depth and authenticity; Je Ne Peux Plus Rester is the distillation of all those qualities.

Je Ne Peux Plus Rester is now available on all major streaming platforms, including YouTube and Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

And1noel Channels Nocturnal Intimacy and Horoscope Heat in Alt Hip-Hop Love Song ‘MOON SIGN’

Posted on 20 July 2025

With nocturnal intimacy and the heat of a hip-hop summer entwined, And1noel proved he’s one of the rare artists who can say their flow is unequivocally his own with MOON SIGN.

Razor-sharp in all the right places, soft, melodic and hooky in all the rest, MOON SIGN is the epitome of a hip-hop love track; And1noel chooses the moments to wear his heart on his 808s and when to wax lyrical until the track delivers a polished track that resonates in the reality of contemporary affection, which proves that cliches were always getting in the way of true humanistic expression. MOON SIGN will have all the horoscope girls reading out of the palm of his hand.

Born and raised in Willingboro, NJ, And1noel started making music with friends before it became an outlet for bottled-up emotions. Initially focused on raw personal struggle, his subject matter evolved as he matured, taking love as the next great hardship to chronicle. Now in his latest chapter, he shares stories from the endless chase of love, giving listeners late-night honesty with every release.

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


Review by Amelia Vandergast

Lisa Goldin Turned Fantasy into Feeling in the Epic Piano Pop Ballad ‘How Love Can Start’

Posted on 2 June 2025

With How Love Can Start, Lisa Goldin channels the kind of emotion that could shatter silence in a stadium or breathe warmth into a dark theatre. The South African-born, UAE-based artist knows exactly how to evoke emotion through the interplay of her piano progressions and the euphoric romanticism in her harmonies. There’s a magnitude in her vocal presence that carries the power of Broadway without tipping into the theatrical. Her delivery remains intimate, even when it feels monumental.

There’s something sentimentally spectral about the dreamy way she takes the phenomenon of love and portrays it as a liveable fantasy, one that we all have the potential to touch. This life may not be a fairytale, but within epic piano pop ballads such as How Love Can Start, we can briefly feel the blissfully safe emotion ebb and flow as we explore and appreciate the beauty and possibility of sparking new connections.

With a global presence spanning London, Ibiza, Dubai and beyond, Lisa Goldin has earned her place alongside international icons. Whether gracing stages with Ed Sheeran or fronting events from the Coca-Cola Arena to UEFA finals, her reach speaks volumes. But How Love Can Start shows that behind the accolades and airplay, her focus is firmly rooted in human emotion, delivered through music that was made to matter.

How Love Can Start is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Janessa Turns Emotional Whiplash into Soul-Centred Geometry in the RnB Mosaic ‘Push & Pull’

Posted on 27 May 2025

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 away at the colour of your world.

Written in the immediate aftermath of a breakup and conceived in one cathartic sitting with producer Jacob Weinreich and guitarist Josh Phillips, Push & Pull captures the raw clarity that floods in when the emotional fog finally lifts. With Janessa’s timelessly sanctifying harmonies easing you into her lyrical reckoning, the track swells with a cinematic warmth, yet it never sacrifices the jagged truth of the experience.

As the moody textures thicken around her intimate vocal performance, the kaleidoscope of tones brings relief to the tension without dulling its emotional weight. There’s honesty, but also groove. There’s melancholy, but also a lightness that finds its form in the funky polyphonic beats and synths. If you’re in the same languid space Janessa was when she penned the single, dig into Push & Pull and embrace the sanctuary built within it.

Now 23, Janessa has spent over a decade shaping her musical sensibility, first through early performances in Nashville, and now through her continued songwriting evolution at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Her RnB-laced sound pairs vulnerability with melodic precision, grounding her heartbreak narratives with the unmistakable authenticity of lived experience.

Push & Pull is now available to stream on all major platforms, including SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Pam Messer Painted Wistful Waltzes into Indie Balladry with ‘Only This Song’

Posted on 26 May 2025

Pam Messer reimagined indie balladry through a lens of cinematic opulence and spectral artistry in ‘Only This Song’. The South Devon multi-instrumentalist orchestrated a waltz that pulses with soul and sensuality, transforming traditional ballad conventions into a living, breathing fantasia. Messer’s arcane vocal range serves as the gravitational force, her harmonies floating above an arrangement that doesn’t so much serenade as awaken the senses. Each note arrives with the promise of spiritual rapture, the spectral instrumentation lingering like a half-remembered dream.

Messer’s background, shaped in a home studio built by her father and further refined at Dartington College of Arts, infuses the track with decades of creative immersion. The influence of contemporary opera and a painter’s eye for subtlety radiates from the composition; Messer draws beauty from the intersection of joy and sorrow, sound and colour, nostalgia and invention. Through oscillating electronic pulses and reverberant synths, she conjures an atmosphere that straddles the material and the otherworldly, building a single that moves beyond indulgence to evoke decadent romance.

‘Only This Song’ is a rare feat in modern indie—a sensual waltz where Messer’s voice drifts and dances between the lines, never settling for less than transcendence. This is a track for those who believe balladry still has undiscovered territory, where echoes of tradition can spark experimental reverie.

‘Only This Song’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Apple Music. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Dekovian Rashad Scorched Through the Conflict of Heartbreak in the Soul-Mined Resonance of ‘Torn’

Posted on 17 May 2025

Dekovian Rashad unravelled the visceral fallout of romantic warfare in his latest single, ‘Torn’; a sonic storyboard of conflicted heartstrings, written through retro R&B aesthetics and polished contemporary production, as a courtesy of Thomas Coleman and Chris Byron, who stepped in to mix the scorned vignette of how serenades can all too easily lead to dodging grenades in the minefield of the soul.

The 23-year-old Athens, Georgia-based artist proves that when musical legacy runs through the bloodline, it ignites the creative spark until it starts an inferno. Raised in a family of musicians, Dekovian soaked up every note of soul, rhythm, and harmony from his grandfather and great uncles before finding his voice at seven and carving out his own blueprint in the genre. Inspired by the emotional architecture of Brandy, Aaliyah, Usher, and Tank, Rashad etched out his sound through the mould of tradition while letting his own vulnerability sculpt the contours.

With the resonance of the layered R&B harmonies and the guitar riffs that cut in towards the outro, ‘Torn’ carves through the decades while staying timeless. The outro sample of a voicemail saying, “I wish it was me”, amplifies the weight of the impassioned track, which effortlessly triumphs in illustrating how matters of the heart can swallow us whole.

‘Torn’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including SoundCloud.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

SUHAIB Revived Romance with his Intimate Self-Produced Indie Pop Debut, ‘All It Was’

Posted on 14 February 2025

 After years of crafting soundscapes under the moniker ‘Osiris’, SUHAIB (Suhaib Qasim) stepped into his new era with his debut single, All It Was, a resonantly raw indie pop ballad that proves his place among the genre’s most evocative storytellers.

Out on Valentine’s Day 2025, the track arrives with a lyrical tenderness reminiscent of Elliott Smith, complemented by acoustic guitars that shimmer with diaphanous warmth. It’s the kind of sound that reaches into the depths of the listener’s soul, tugging at threads that often go untouched by today’s fleeting pop trends.

Through orchestral crescendos and delay-soaked arrangements, SUHAIB transcends indie conventions, offering a poignant meditation on how the smallest moments and exchanges can leave the most profound impacts, especially when they touch people as they come of age in a world full of potential, determined to hold what’s close to them in spite of the possibilities. The weight of the single feels all the more impactful in an era where such subtleties are often overlooked. SUHAIB has called All It Was one of his most personal creations to date—and it shows.

As an Indian-American, second-generation Southerner with roots in jazz and a pandemic-forged production ethos, SUHAIB brings a singular perspective to his music. His path from poetry-filled quarantine nights to mastering multi-instrumental arrangements speaks to his dedication to the craft. Following his early successes with the EP Half Life and singles like Euphoria, SUHAIB’s reintroduction under his birth name reflects an artist who has grown into himself, bringing both emotional depth and technical sophistication to his work.

Stream All It Was on all major platforms, including SoundCloud, from February 14th.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Nick Pritchard promised perpetuity in his pop ballad  ‘Forever with You’

Posted on 23 May 2024

After breaking international ground in the jazz scene, leading to sold-out shows in major theatres across the globe and holding residencies in prestigious venues in London and Dubai, the endlessly ascending artist Nick Pritchard has proven his heart-wrenching mettle as a balladeer in his latest single, Forever with You.

Though the arcane production which amplifies the affecting impact of the singer-songwriter’s velvet-toned serenade resonates akin to a sonic fantasy weaved out of the fabric of an imagination locked into unrealistic romantic expectation, the single narrates Nick’s own life story; how his world was transformed by a chance encounter on a train with his girlfriend.

“This is the most heartfelt, meaningful song that I have released. It comes from a place of pure emotion, that I believe everybody will be able to relate to. Everyone has someone special to them that has impacted their life”

While the piano keys echo the deeply touching progressions of Lou Reed’s Perfect Day, the ornate instrumental crescendos match the expansive soul-stirring intensity of earworms in the same vein as Take That’s Rule the World. Yet, Nick Pritchard’s awe-inspiringly dynamic octave range, tenderly flawless pitch-perfection and striking sense of sincerity are beyond compare. Few artists could ever hold a candle to his luminous presence on the airwaves.

Forever with You was officially released on May 10th. Stream the single on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast