The Report confronts the sheer chaos of the streaming age head-on with their latest EP, "A Thousand Acts To Follow". Originating from Kingston-upon-Thames, the group Hugo Allen, Jo Rogers, Gary O’Key, Jules Harley, and Mark Williamson seem intensely focused on staying fiercely authentic while elbowing their way through a crowded digital landscape. By weaving '60s and '70s classic rock sensibilities into crisp '90s indie...

Listening to gnomes’ new EP, “Microclimbs,” feels less like hearing songs and more like stumbling upon a meticulously catalogued collection of internal weather systems. The Berlin artist has shed an acoustic skin, emerging with a sound that’s electric, nervy, and complex. This is music for feeling overwhelmed in a way that’s almost, dare I say it, cozy. https://open.spotify.com/album/6a9jnB0IcQDdP6BHLaHpdJ?si=1zS3355CRwe4oaDcdouNeA The warm, watery warble of a Wurli synth...