“I can get completely caught up in a person, a feeling or even a conversation that hasn’t happened yet.” I laughed when I read that quote from Jessmin, because I once spent a whole bus ride rehearsing a text I never sent. Her debut EP “Hyperfixated”, out since 2 October, is five songs built around that exact habit. Four were
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Three seconds in, before any lyrics show up, you already know this isn’t a song for sitting still. Nathan Bryce and Loaded Dice just released “Panic Is the Norm,” and it grabs you by the collar before you’ve even decided if you like it yet. Candace Crockett wrote these lyrics from a place most songwriters avoid. She’s a widowed mother
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“Nobody’s Dreaming” starts with almost nothing, a few synth tones hanging in open air, and takes its time deciding whether to become a song at all. That patience is the whole trick. Cloud, the Japan based producer who has quietly built a US heavy fanbase without the usual industry scaffolding, understands that tension works better than volume. By the two
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Julia Thomsen and Raphael Beaudon meet in the middle of a genre that has become oddly crowded lately, the neo classical piano piece designed less for concert halls than for algorithmic playlists with names like “Rainy Day Focus” or “Piano for Sleep.” “Meet You In Notting Hill” knows exactly which lane it’s in, and mostly it stays there without complaint.
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Marsha Swanson’s first new material since “Like an Angel” arrives as the opening chapter of TroubleChutes, a project she’s been building for years out of classrooms, therapy rooms and the messy, unglamorous business of helping children figure out what they’re actually feeling. You can hear that history in every bar on “Something Real” This isn’t a songwriter dabbling in children’s
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Thomas Cole has built a career on turning small, specific images into full blown pop hooks, and “Stubble” might be his cleverest one yet. The premise is almost too simple: a few days of not shaving becomes a metaphor for authenticity. It should feel like a gimmick. It doesn’t, mostly because Cole commits to it without winking too hard. Musically
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Bushman has been making reggae for long enough that you can hear the miles in his voice, and on “Reggae In Nashville” that weathered quality is exactly what carries the track. I came to it expecting a novelty, some half serious nod to country music, and instead got a record that takes its title at face value and just plants
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Nathan Bryce watched someone he loved standing in a Texas crowd with a dragonfly pin in her hair, and then she drove back to Missouri and took something with her that he couldn’t name for a while. What Bryce and co-writer Candace Crockett have figured out, and what so many bands fumbling around in the blues rock space haven’t, is
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Paul Le Rocq has released “Rock to the Top,” and it is a real treat this summer! The Buenos Aires-born multi-instrumentalist opens with guitar work that feels like muscle memory. Those thick, slick riffs have the DNA of Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe running through them, but there’s something sharper happening underneath. It’s classic rock language, sure, but Le Rocq
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Pharaoh Jo tells the truth on “Enough For You” from his new album “A Wasteland Called Love”. The Louisville rapper and songwriter wrote this song from a place most artists are too guarded to go, and you can hear it in every line. It’s about something most people have felt but never quite managed to put into words: giving everything
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For nearly two decades, Copenhagen brothers Thomas Charlie and Daniel Pedersen have been building Vinyl Floor into something worth paying attention to. Their sixth album, “Balancing Act,” released on Karmanian Records on February 27, 2026, finds them operating at a level of craft that suggests years spent thinking carefully about what rock music can do. The album opens with “All
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We’ve all ignored a late night text we probably shouldn’t have. Nathan Bryce knows that feeling, and he turned it into three and a half minutes that actually gets it right. “Drunk Dial Baby” doesn’t pretend the situation is noble or romantic. It’s messy and it’s real and it hurts a little, but the song refuses to take itself seriously
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Julia Thomsen is back with “I Love You”. The piece begins with a declaration rather than an invitation. Heavy piano notes cut through the mix with a kind of aggressive clarity that most solo pianists avoid. This is someone who wants to be heard, not contemplated. The opening statement doesn’t build gradually into emotion. It simply announces itself and demands
Read moreRebecca Richards is from Bargoed in South Wales, which is about as far from Nashville as you can get in spirit as well as miles. She did not move there gradually, did not work her way up through the usual industry machinery. Saskia Griffiths-Moore, founder of Talent Is Timeless, turned up at her gig one night and handed her an
Read moreFolk music doesn’t need saving. But every so often someone comes along and reminds you why it mattered in the first place. Ervin Munir is that someone. “When I Think,” his third album, is out now and it’s the sound of a songwriter who has stopped worrying about what anyone thinks and just made the record he needed to make.
Read moreThere’s a kind of confidence that comes with releasing a solo instrumental track and daring people to care. Amit Jain, the one man force behind philojain, has that confidence in abundance, and frankly, he’s earned it. “Riff Raff” opens with sub-bass so thick you half expect your landlord to start banging on the ceiling. It is the kind of low
Read more“The Swan of Eileen Lake” is built around piano and stacked vocal harmonies, and from the first few seconds it feels like the kind of track that was written slowly, carefully, with a lot of changes along the way. Thomas Charlie Pedersen has said it started as something else entirely and shifted direction during the writing process, and you can
Read moreBruno Gugliano’s “Brunio’s Mind” is one of those albums that demands more than a casual listen. The Buenos Aires musician has put together 16 tracks that refuse to sit still, moving from quiet reflection to late night intensity without warning. This isn’t just a collection of songs. Gugliano has built an entire world here, treating the album like a chapter
Read moreBrixton’s The Here And Now have just dropped their new single “Riptide”, and it’s an absolute powerhouse. From the very first riff, the track grabs you and doesn’t let go. Guitarist Jason Bond comes in swinging with sharp, aggressive lines while Cherry Terzza’s vocals cut through with both intensity and vulnerability. The song perfectly sums up that irresistible pull toward
Read moreErvin Munir has just released his new single “Lifeline,” this time teaming up with local singer Kate Swanson, and it feels like a really nice shift for him. The song focuses on that moment when someone shows up in your life and somehow makes everything feel a bit less heavy and lonely. It’s a simple idea, but it lands emotionally.
Read moreVon Venn’s Forgetting the Fall is the kind of album that creeps up on you. Right from the opener, Still Falling, you can feel the mix of innocence and experience that runs through the whole record. Gary Cox and the Dublin crew don’t try to shout or impress with big gestures, they just tell their story, and it’s easy to
Read moreCloud’s new single, “In My Dream”, hits hard from the start. The track immediately shows off the guitar work from both Cloud and Luis Gerardo Moreno, building steadily through the song’s three sections until it explodes in the right spots. Alex DP’s drums keep everything grounded, giving it a real live feel even in a recording. What makes the song
Read moreThere’s a real sense of history behind Educatable, and you can hear it in “Thank You”. This isn’t a track that exists in isolation. It carries years of friendships, losses, and persistence, and that weight gives the song a lot of its character. Educatable began life back in the early 2000s as a school band called 24/7, with Ricky Barson
Read moreJesus of Nazareth by Italian violin duo I Musici Gemelli is one of those albums that asks for time and attention. It isn’t background music, and it isn’t trying to impress with volume or scale. Instead, it unfolds slowly, telling a familiar story in a very stripped-back and personal way. The album follows the life of Christ from birth to
Read moreI’ll be honest, when I first heard “ВЕРЛАНГ” (Verlang) by Prophetic Psychosis, Iwasn’t sure what to make of it. It dropped back in October and I kept coming back to it because there’s something about it that just sticks with you. The thing is, it’s not doing what you’d expect. There’s this restraint to the whole production that almost feels
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