Music

Alli Brown “Undeniable”: Resilience, Raw and Real

Alli Brown's "Undeniable"… Hmm, where to even begin with this kaleidoscope of sound from Salt Lake City? It's like someone took the earnestness of a diary entry, crumpled it up, threw it at a dartboard of genres – pop, folk, country, rock – and then decided to set the whole thing to music. Did the dartboard land on "genius" or "glorious mess"? I'm still...

Guess Pre “Clarity”: A Sonic Blender of Angst

Guess Pre's "Clarity." The name itself feels like a punchline missing its joke, or maybe the setup to a philosophical riddle I'm not equipped to solve. Gregory Stanton, the Wisconsin-based artist behind the moniker, has served up a nine-track album that's… well, it's trying to be a lot of things, and surprisingly, mostly succeeding. https://open.spotify.com/album/2hV27eRxEJp08kML02uRW1 This isn't background music for folding laundry. It's more like the...

Caitty’s “Alone”: The Stark Architecture of Emptiness

Well now. Here’s a feeling bottled, or rather, pressed onto a piano key. "Alone." Caitty, out of Margaret River – which, in my head,...

“To All The Times”: Novozero Captures the Sound of Waiting

Novozero. Anna and Andreas, up there in Tromsø, sending out signals. This single, "To All The Times," arrives sounding less like a postcard from...

Sizmara’s “Mimosa”: A Voyage into Cosmic Elegance

Right, so Georgian composer Tornike Tabatadze, under the name Sizmara, presents this single track, "Mimosa". Not the brunch drink, mind you, though maybe it...

Milo Kobayashi “Think!” Is Breaking Hardcore Rap’s Conventional Chains

A Multidimensional Artist Milo Kobayashi Rewriting the Hip-Hop Narrative. Milo Kobayashi's music is hard to put into a single category because it mixes styles and...

The Sound of Certainty: Just The Empress’s “Hypnotized”

So, Just The Empress delivers “Hypnotized,” and it’s less a command, more a statement of arrival. This track feels built on straight-up, unapologetic self-belief....

Water Street: Find Yourself in the Chaos of “Alone in a Crowded Place”

Water Street's "Alone in a Crowded Place" – Have you ever felt like a sock in a washing machine, tumbled and spun with no...

Feel the Weight: TJ Howlett’s “Not Mine” EP Packs a Punch

Melbourne's TJ Howlett throws a shovel full of coal-dusted reality into the guitar-driven blues-rock furnace with his "Not Mine" EP. Two songs. Just two....

Ooberfuse Speaks Truth to Power in New Track “We Will Overcome”

It's... a sunbeam through a raincloud, isn't it? That’s the initial feeling, anyway. Hal St John and Cherrie Anderson, the British-Filipino duo known as...

Fleanger Crafts Magnetic Electronic Poetry “Soul Logic” With NIRØ & Romy Dya

Fleanger's latest EP "Soul Logic" transforms contradictory emotions into hypnotic melodic house. The newest EP from Fleanger, "Soul Logic," provides this rare quality with amazing...

Omar’s Raw Honesty Hooks You in “Better Be Lucky”

This single. This single. Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and producer Omar has dropped "Better Be Lucky," and, well, I'm wrestling with a sonic octopus here....

Beyond Zen: De/OS’ Profound “Rise I”

Have you ever felt like a lone sock in a dryer, tumbling endlessly, searching for its match, only to find... a button? That's a...

Joize’s “Nasty” Ignites a Friday Night Fever Dream

Manchester's own Joize throws us headfirst into a Friday night fever dream with his new single, "Nasty." And, boy, is it appropriately named. Not...