With her debut album "Komorebi," UK-based composer, producer, and pianist Sylvie Natsume captures something entirely elusive: the chaotic, precise physics of shifting daylight. The title borrows the Japanese term for sunlight filtering through a canopy of leaves, an absolutely fitting metaphor for this nature-inspired, entirely instrumental excursion. https://open.spotify.com/album/2wcL4kspBNshakVWHCZNu5?si=3E_vexVHREaT8Kv9n-O0lA Designed to be digested as one continuous suite, the record ignores our modern urge to compartmentalize. Instead, Natsume...

Well, this is a bouncy little slice of existential dread, isn’t it? Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends, stepping out from his REDMOON duties, wraps up a deep discomfort in the shiniest power-pop paper, adding a jagged punk ribbon and just a dusting of folk’s earnestness. “Sing-Along Songs” struts in with a deceptive grin, all upbeat guitars and a melody that genuinely wants you...