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Gamal Drops the Mic for Introspective Jazz on “A Ring For Kiki”

Gamal recently shared his new instrumental release, "A Ring For Kiki", a surprisingly introspective pivot for the versatile multi-instrumentalist. After a ten-year career stacking up over 25 million streams by fusing modern pop, hip-hop, and R&B, he has abandoned the lyrical rulebook entirely. Listen to it below. https://open.spotify.com/album/1XrkPSQMKwoVGyC8rV0kWn?si=00jZqvUoRjqbEstDtYrDTw This latest neo-soul and jazz outing thrives in the complete absence of vocals. The melody relies heavily on...
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“Worth it”: Love Ghost & The Skinner Brothers’ Raw-Nerved Descent.

Love Ghost and The Skinner Brothers have dropped their new single, “Worth it,” and it arrives not so much with a knock as with...
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“Far-Off Summer’s Night”: Mahuna’s Dream-Like Elegy.

To begin, Mahuna's new single “Far-Off Summer’s Night” does not fill the room with sound so much as it hollows out a small, reverent...
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Solin Anj”: Olivier Laurent’s Masterpiece of Muffled Truths.

Olivier Laurent’s new concept album, “Solin Anj”, doesn't so much play for you as it does around you. Listening feels like an act of...
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Cracking Open Paul Louis Villani’s “The Other Side of Silence.”

Listening to Paul Louis Villani's new EP, The Other Side of Silence, feels less like pressing play and more like cracking open a locked...
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Earth-o-Naut’s “Bring The Light”: A Cosmic Soul Reunion

With a name like that, you expect a certain solitary drift, so when Earth-o-Naut’s “Bring The Light” kicks in, the effect is disarming. Here...
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The Bold Sound of “Música El Idioma Del Amor” by Neil Potter.

There are songs that sound like a place, and then there’s Neil Potter’s "Música El Idioma Del Amor," which sounds like a specific time...
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The Lonely Piano of Sugarfoot’s “Jolene.”

To cover "Jolene" is to stand in a very long, very deep shadow, yet with their new single, Sugarfoot have brought their own strange...
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The Turmoil Within: John Keenan’s “Wreckage of the Past” Reviewed.

Listening to John Keenan’s “Wreckage of the Past” feels like being handed the audio diary of a ghost who is not yet dead. This...
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Unpacking “SORRY” by The Alessandro Savino Project.

The Alessandro Savino Project serves up a new single, “SORRY,” and it arrives feeling less like a song and more like a strange, beautiful...
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The Quiet Shame: Nom De Plume’s “Circle the Dream”.

Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on...
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Moving On: Wild Horse Crafts “Don’t Wait.”

With their new single "Don’t Wait," Wild Horse has crafted something of a beautiful contradiction. On its surface, it’s a bright, tight piece of...
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Jacob and the Starry Eyed Shadows’ “Racing on the Back Straight.”

The latest from Jacob and the Starry Eyed Shadows, “Racing on the Back Straight,” performs a fantastic trick: it dresses up a full-blown existential...
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