Every year has one song that feels like a diary left open on the kitchen table; for Alexa Kate, “Forever” is that unguarded page. Over mid-tempo, indie-folk-kissed acoustic pop, she dissects time…
Read MoreMidnight is that strange hour when the sky feels half-closed, and Hayden Calnin’s Middle Night sounds like the diary you write there. Recorded in his coastal studio, this seven-song cycle of adult contemporary, alt-pop and indie folk lingers in the quiet…
Read MoreEvery copyright lawyer’s worst nightmare might sound a lot like Nada UV’s Ideas Won’t Behave—three tracks of neo-soul and indie R&B that treat intellectual property as a cosmic joke rather than…
Read MoreThey say the soul weighs twenty-one grams; Giuseppe Cucé answers by asking how much memory, desire, and regret weigh when they start singing. 21 Grammi is his response—a nine-song indie-pop cycle that treats that old myth not as a scientific claim…
Read MoreEvery quarter-life crisis deserves its own hymn, and Drew Schueler’s “I Thought By Now” arrives like a confession whispered over blue light and unpaid dreams. The title track from his EP Vulnerable For Once turns the myth of linear success…
Read MoreIt’s a common knowledge that every lost summer has a soundtrack, and Brando’s “When You Stay” volunteers itself as the quiet anthem for the moments you replay in your head long…
Read MoreEvery revolution needs a bar jukebox, a desert highway, and a girl who refuses to shut up. ILUKA’s the wild, the innocent, & the raging album arrives as exactly that: a neon-lit road movie of an album where witchy cowgirls, runaway girls and manic pixie…
Read MoreThey say winter teaches the pulse to whisper; in SIESKI’s “Close,” that whisper becomes a hearth, glowing steady as snowfall along a quiet Canadian street. Catchy piano keys chime like frost-bright porch lights, while a cello moves beneath them…
Read MoreA campfire flickers on the prairie while the city votes to forget—rrunnerrss, the eponymous debut by the Austin-born band rrunnerrss led by award-winning songwriter and composer Michael Zapruder, arrives as both shelter and flare…
Read MoreA roof leaks from the inside first; by that law of damage and repair, Khi Infinite’s new single “HOUSE” reads like both confession and renovation permit. The Virginia native, fresh from a high-water…
Read MoreHeartbreak teaches a sly etiquette: walk softly, speak plainly, and keep your ribs untangled. By that code, Ghanaian-Norwegian artist Akuvi turns “Let Me Know” into a velvet checkpoint, a chill Alternative/Indie R&B…
Read MoreCall it velvet jet-lag: Michael O.’s “Lagos 2 London” taxis down the runway with a grin, a postcard of swagger written in guitar ink and pad-soft gradients. The groove is unhurried yet assured…
Read MoreA Lagos evening teaches patience: traffic hums, neon blooms, and Calliemajik’s “No Way” settles over the city like warm rainfall. Producer-turned-troubadour, the Nigerian architect behind Magixx and Ayra Star’s “Love don’t cost a dime (Re-up)” now courts intimacy with quieter bravado…
Read MoreUnspoken rule of Saturday nights: change your type, change the weather; on “Pretty Boys,” Diana Vickers tests that meteorology with a convertible grin and a sharpened tongue. Following the sherbet-bright comeback…
Read MoreA good record behaves like weather: it arrives, it lingers, and it quietly teaches you what to wear. Sloe Paul — Searching / Finding is exactly that kind of climate—nine days of pop-weather calibrated for the slow slide into autumn…
Read MoreThere’s a superstition that moths trust the porch light more than the moon; Meredith Adelaide’s “To Believe I’m the Sun” wonders what happens when that porch light is your own chest, humming. Across eight pieces of Indie Folk and Soft Pop parsimony…
Read MoreEvery scar keeps time like a metronome; on Chris Rusin’s Songs From A Secret Room, that pulse becomes melody—ten pieces of Indie Folk/Americana rendered with candlelight patience and front-porch candor. The Colorado songwriter, now three years…
Read MoreCold seasons teach a quiet grammar: to stay, to breathe, to bear the weather. Laura Lucas’s latest single “Let The Winter Have Me,” arriving through Nettwerk, alongside her album “There’s a Place I Go,” treats that grammar as a vow…
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