Midnight is that strange hour when the sky feels half-closed, and Hayden Calnin’s Middle Night sounds like the diary you write there. Recorded in his coastal studio, this seven-song cycle of adult contemporary, alt-pop and indie folk lingers in the quiet…
Read MoreEvery quarter-life crisis deserves its own hymn, and Drew Schueler’s “I Thought By Now” arrives like a confession whispered over blue light and unpaid dreams. The title track from his EP Vulnerable For Once turns the myth of linear success…
Read MoreIt’s a common knowledge that every lost summer has a soundtrack, and Brando’s “When You Stay” volunteers itself as the quiet anthem for the moments you replay in your head long…
Read MoreThey say winter teaches the pulse to whisper; in SIESKI’s “Close,” that whisper becomes a hearth, glowing steady as snowfall along a quiet Canadian street. Catchy piano keys chime like frost-bright porch lights, while a cello moves beneath them…
Read MoreTelevision once taught us that a hug and a laugh track could mend anything; Z’cano’s “Friends,” the second single from his concept EP 22 Minutes, slips that myth onto a turntable and lets it revolve until the varnish shows grain. The American singer channels…
Read MoreOld cartographers wrote “Here be dragons” at the map’s edges; Bre Kennedy plants her lighthouse there with “Looking For,” a mid-tempo alt-pop glow destined for late drives and tidy epiphanies. The New Nashville storyteller releases a song…
Read MoreImagine a night surfer reading the tide by moonlight—Elaskia’s “Either Way I Lose” rides that calm, mid-tempo swell, carrying you toward the quiet where honesty finally speaks. Australia’s alt-pop and adult contemporary artisan sketches…
Read MoreLabit’s single “SOL,” the namesake centerpiece of his debut album SOL, unveiled on October 17th, radiates like a slow dawn crossing a quiet room. The Filipino-American singer, songwriter, and storyteller builds a contemporary R&B reverie on tender, soul-washed piano, letting…
Read MoreLike a campfire story told to the tide, Tavia Rhodes releases HER SAY and the coast answers back. The Seattle singer-songwriter—whose gigs have matured into a full-band electricity—turns grief, love, and flight into a living document you can hear breathing…
Read MoreEstella Dawn releases “Conversations,” an alternative-pop/adult-contemporary disclosure that warms and rattles at once. The project, “Conversations,” opens bare: melancholic piano keys and an alto voice at confession’s distance, the air…
Read MoreA heart is a roadside map that redraws itself at every state line; Lila Holler releases “The Way I Am Now,” a chill, mid-tempo indie-pop communique, quietly luminous, that carries dust from her nomadic childhood across the United States…
Read MorePicture a quiet room with the lights dimmed and the truth humming like a fluorescent bulb: U.S. artist Drew Schueler paints that feeling through his single “mirror,” a standalone project that masquerades as a breakup ballad yet ends a friendship…
Read MoreStreetlights blink, and Estella Dawn presses “send”: “Drunk & Messy” is out, a velvet siren wrapped in glass. The USA-based independent force splices Indie Pop with Adult Contemporary finesse, crafting…
Read MoreStar-bright and softly devastating, Avery Raquel releases “The Letter,” a confessional keepsake dressed in candlelight and courage. The Canadian songwriter situates her Adult Contemporary sensibility inside…
Read MoreCall it a weather report for the soul: Pēlikel’s Okay, Maybe scans the horizon, names the clouds, and stays outside long enough to be rained on. The Montreal-based Lebanese trio—Joey Semaan, Kevin Semaan, and Roy Andraos, with Mark Bitar on drums…
Read MoreCandles don’t heal; the way you breathe beside them does. On her new album project “Soul Alive,” pianist and singer-songwriter Jennifer Harper turns breath into architecture—piano motifs rising like lanterns, melodies locating their own pulse until the room remembers…
Read MoreNeon insomnia wears a borrowed halo at 2 a.m. as the group Midnight Til Morning release “Welcome to LA,” a slow-burn confession that treats the city like a mirage you can hum. Framed as a surprise for fans, the track whispers rather than waves…
Read MoreMexican artist Paulina Chow releases “Blue,” an indie-folk confession from Mexico that hushes the room before it speaks. The project’s name sets the temperature; the mood is chill but lucid, like ocean light slipping under a closed door…
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