Paris-based indie art-rock project Books Of Moods has just released their debut album, "Dreams". Guided entirely by Hugo Sailer, a self-taught singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and fiercely independent one-man studio, the record arrives as a hazy, beautiful shock to the system. Sailer wrote, performed, produced, and directed the accompanying visual universe from the ground up. I’ve spent the last few days letting these tracks sink into...

DJ Aquana confronts grief with a pounding, club-ready surrender on his latest release, "Piece Of My Heart". The Netherlands-based electronic producer reimagines a classic by the ’90s group Intermission the precise song to which he proposed to his late wife, who passed away from cancer in 2017. What results is an intricate Slap House eulogy drenched in euphoric Eurodance nostalgia. https://open.spotify.com/track/3eveJIKzLY6ILgtZcHIoJo?si=oMNkcj6ARSyzGz3L4bVthQ Aquana approaches his production with...