BEST NEW TRACKS: SPIRITED FOLLOWERS – RETURNING
Cardiff experimental folk group Spirited Followers have just released their new single Returning. They’ve built a reputation as one of Wales’ most immersive and powerful live acts, and this new track truly speaks for itself. It opens with a delicate field recording and a beautifully captured acoustic guitar, soon joined by additional instruments and subtle…
BEST NEW TRACKS: WINTERLIGHT MOTEL – BEAUTIFUL SKIN
Winterlight Motel is a project whose sound feels very close to me – veiled vocals, immersive lo-fi textures… The new single Beautiful Skin comes across as deeply introspective, and the whole project feels truly born out of late nights in Salt Lake City and long drives through the desert. I’ve happily gotten lost in that…
BEST NEW TRACKS: THE NOTWIST – PROJECTORS
Another single by the legendary German band The Notwist, titled Projectors, is a rather subdued affair. It opens with a gentle, almost sea-shanty-like mood — a duet carried mostly by acoustic instruments. Halfway through, the song unfolds into a beautifully stretched-out instrumental passage, adorned with delicate sonic details and subtle embellishments. The entire track drifts…
REVIEW: FEVER FIELDS – RAW AND UNFILTERED: SOME DEMOS I
I have to admit that whenever words like “raw” or “unfiltered” appear in a title, they immediately catch my attention. On this blog, we try as much as possible to highlight music that isn’t overly polished – music that carries a certain roughness and an intangible aura of authenticity. That is exactly the case with…
BEST NEW TRACKS: D. INVER – THE PEAKS
Oh, this is an absolutely stunning track. d. inver (Route 500) has a voice that seems perfectly attuned to this slowcore-leaning, melancholic, and unhurried musical landscape. We truly can’t recommend his new track the peaks highly enough. For the first two minutes, the peaks lingers in a lethargic, almost monochromatic instrumental space, evoking artists I…
BEST NEW TRACKS: SNOWCUFFS – BURST
Snowcuffs are a Chicago-based dream pop band weaving dueling guitars, hypnotic synths, and entrancing vocals into lush, multi-layered soundscapes. Their palette of inspirations includes a range of familiar names, from DIIV and Beach House to the more subdued, timeless glow of Mazzy Star. Their new single Burst leans most clearly toward the dream pop sheen…
BEST NEW TRACKS: OFFERING FIELD – NO INNER LIGHT
Sometimes, after just a few opening notes, you can tell you’re about to hear something truly exceptional – and that’s exactly the case with no inner light by offering field. From its very first tones, the song transports you into a beautifully warm, lo-fi world. What surprised me even more, though, are the unusually prominent…
BEST NEW TRACKS: STAGGER – EVER
Wow, guitar music from Australia truly ranks among my absolute favorites! Stagger are a post-punk / noise-shoegaze outfit from Awabakal Country in Newcastle, Australia. Drawing inspiration from English Teacher, Wolf Alice and Turnstile, they fuse dreamy guitar textures with heavy, driving riffs, striking a compelling balance between angst and release. On the single Ever, you’re…
BEST NEW TRACKS: SUNDOZER – LIQUID HEAVEN
Liquid Heaven is the new single from indie solo artist Sundozer, released on Valentine’s Day. The track arrives ahead of his debut album, which is set to come out later this year. In the realm of shoegaze, it’s increasingly difficult to come up with something truly groundbreaking. Still, I see Sundozer as one of the…
REVIEW: BLACK ASTRONAUT RECORDS – AI12DIE
Atlanta-based artist and producer Charles Luck approaches music as a space for curiosity, empathy, and fearless experimentation. Through his platform Black Astronaut Records, he has built a genre-fluid creative hub that resists easy categorization, operating somewhere between hip hop, pop, and alternative expression. His latest project, ai12DIE, is his most expansive and ambitious statement yet…
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