A ribbon of tape flickers, the band exhales, and Chris Portka has unveiled “The Album Everyone Wants”—a title that winks while the music simply delivers. The U.S. songwriter’s most collaborative statement to date, this full-band set (eleven songs recorded at NYC’s Sear Sound…
Read MoreJordan Corey has released “The Tunnel + the Light,” a 12-song suite that wears grief and groove in the same silhouette. The Californian alternative-R&B singer-songwriter turns a season of caretaking and surrender into music that breathes like night air…
Read MoreJosh Kramon, also known as Kramon releases “evolutions,” a debut that treats the heart like a laboratory and the hook like a hypothesis. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter, composer, and producer (stylized as KRAMON) builds…
Read MorePrairie dusk doesn’t ask for applause; it simply turns the sky to copper and lets you breathe. Brian Gallagher’s forthcoming album, Wasted Years (out October 3, 2025), behaves the same way—quietly luminous, Americana in its poise, indie-folk at its marrow, with just enough…
Read MoreSparks fly the moment CAR287 release their debut, “Looking Through the Lens,” a record that remembers, argues, laughs, and stitches prairie weather into melody. The Winnipeg quartet—Jay Yarmey (vocals, acoustic guitar), Travis “Trabs” Wog (lead guitar, vocals)…
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 MoreCall it the musician’s paradox: the more you tidy your mind, the messier the melody gets. Tamar Berk’s ocd embraces that paradox with mischievous clarity, delivering a suite of indie-rock and alt-pop miniatures where fuzzed guitars…
Read MoreAn old photographer once told me the trick isn’t finding the light—it’s deciding what you let through. Jthurston’s album entitled “APERTURE” lives by that credo, treating the studio like a darkroom and the psyche like unprocessed film. Indeed, the Bay Area rapper…
Read MoreMost mirrors tell the truth only when cracked — James Linck’s latest album “One on One” holds that jagged reflection up to the face and refuses to look away. Billed as a feedback loop of self-confrontation, the record…
Read MorePicture a lighthouse assembled from old diaries and ticket stubs—that is the aura of Emily Popli’s debut, Lilith Fair Kid. The title nods to the matrilineal beam that guided her—Sheryl Crow’s amber grit, Sarah McLachlan’s chiaroscuro…
Read MoreNigerian artist Black Jesus has released his album, “Equity,” a ten-track ledger where pleasure, principle, and punchy groove are entered in the same column. The title is a statement of balance: house-leaning textures…
Read MoreDavid Wimbish & The Collection’s self-titled album is like wandering through a lush botanical garden at twilight—beautifully serene yet intimately haunting, imbued with a profound sense of introspection…
Read MoreExperiencing David Redd's sophomore album, "Love Is Everything & It Will Not Save You," feels much like standing before a vast ocean—its beauty captivating yet unmistakably tinged with an inherent melancholy…
Read MoreA raven feather drifts across a projector’s beam, casting obsidian sparks on the screen—so begins Cam Be and Neak’s “a film called black”, an album less streamed than witnessed. Though the record spins through…
Read MoreA rain-kissed koi knows precisely when to break the pond’s mirror—just as Singer-songwriter Odelet decides when to let sound disturb silence on “Raindance”, her quietly audacious…
Read MoreIf music could manifest itself as a dazzling carnival mirror—reflecting familiar shapes but distorting them into thrilling, novel perspectives—then Jackson Breit’s audaciously inventive album…
Read MoreListening to New York-based singer-songwriter, composer, and pianist Shayfer James' new opus, Summoning, feels much like wandering into an enigmatic carnival after midnight—each step illuminated…
Read MoreLike an impassioned painter hurling colors onto an expansive canvas, Brandon Mitchell splashes intricate narratives and sonic hues onto his compelling musical tapestry, “Gametime”…
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