Monokate confronts the echoes of endurance and transformation on "Live in Kyiv", a six-track live EP that trades the kinetic electro-folk euphoria of Go_A’s “SHUM” for heavy, atmospheric distortion. Emerging from her departure from the Eurovision-heralded group, her solo work has navigated melancholic indie pop, trip-hop, and darkwave, but here she pivots decisively toward a roaring, full-band alternative rock sound. https://open.spotify.com/album/4IWg937LM2Lwsph7RdGrYH?si=ecW39biCSY-QBNK7oBt_ug Recorded amid wartime power cuts...

Listening to Loup Miracle’s new EP, “Back To You”, feels a bit like trying to navigate by stars through a suddenly unfamiliar city. The French outfit, steered by Vincent Leservoisier alongside Paul Douvier and Miguel Romero Sulbaran (with input here from Pierre Szabo and Issara), crafts art rock that’s simultaneously groovy and deeply unsettling. These three songs thrum with the push-and-pull of modern existence...