The Cunning Linguists have tapped into a very specific, sharp-edged reality with their latest single "CAN'T WALK HOME". Hailing from Menai, Australia, the duo comprised of Clare Easdown and Jade Ryan strip away the unnecessary gloss of modern production to reveal something much more skeletal and urgent. It is a Lo-Fi blend of Post-Punk and Pop Punk that feels as immediate as a sudden...

Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...