Find Sakai: Instagram, TikTok, Website, Spotify “It feels so good to release the DYLMN EP. It’s a vulnerable thing, sharing something you’ve poured yourself into with the world. It’s a delicate dance.” When Marié Sakai describes the release of Sakai’s debut EP Do You Like Me Now? in those terms, she is describing the subject of the record itself, which makes the statement more resonant than most artist quotes tend to be. This is an EP about wanting to be seen and fearing what

At just 13, Iris Danbury is already showing a clear instinct for turning everyday emotions into songs that feel immediately accessible. Her latest single, ‘About You’, takes that instinct in a warmer, more personal direction, swapping the attitude of her debut ‘I Don’t Care’ for a celebration of friendship, connection and the people who unexpectedly become important to us. (Notion) INSTAGRAM | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | SPOTIFY | YOUTUBE Built around live guitars, sampled

One of one. The title earns itself completely. Before we talk about ‘One of One’ as a single, it is worth taking a moment to understand who Cece actually is, because the biography here is genuinely extraordinary and it matters enormously to understanding what this release represents. INSTAGRAM Born in a small village in Nigeria and raised in the Bronx after naturalisation in the United States, Chinasa Gift Nwokocha began through poetry, creative writing and alternative freest

slowdrip Returns with New Single ‘Nightflower’: A Dark Meditation on Presence, Alienation, and Finding Feeling Again “It’s an invitation to feel and belong.” That is the simplest and truest description of what ‘Nightflower’ offers, and it is enough. Instagram, TikTok, Spotify Teddy Reimer grew up on the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota, in a highly conservative environment where his inner artistic world existed, in his own words, passionately without the encourage

FACEBOOK | SPOTIFY There are songs that you approach as a critic and songs that make the critical apparatus feel beside the point entirely, and ‘Good Morning’ by Colm Warren falls unambiguously into the second category. It was written for his friend and long-time collaborator John Byrne after Byrne lost his wife Christine O’Gorman in June 2025. Byrne, one of Ireland’s best-known musicians and arrangers who regularly performs with country star Nathan Carter, has collaborated o

A rarity in music An artist arrives at songwriting not through ambition or aspiration but through sheer necessity, the songs coming because not writing them was no longer an option. Chris Arthur did not set out to make an album. He set out to survive the end of a relationship, and the songs poured out of him, in his own words, like he was bailing water out of himself so he would not drown. The fact that those songs are now Underneath The Scar, a debut album arriving August 6t

The question Harry Hudson Taylor kept asking, he says, was this: what do you take me for? Addressed to the system and to himself simultaneously. The algorithms, the tribalism, the sense that everyone is being sorted into a predetermined side and you are supposed to know which one is yours. He wrote the song while trying every coping mechanism he had available: addictions, fasting, meditating, medicating, just to stay standing in the middle of it all. The song is not about the

Twenty-plus years in the making… That is the timeline behind TroubleChutes, the creative universe that ‘Something Real’ is now introducing to the world, and it is a timeline that reflects not procrastination or hesitation but the opposite: the slow, careful, determined accumulation of a vision that grew from a lifelong interest in songwriting, psychology and education into something that now spans music, publishing, illustration, animation, television and a whole-school emoti

A confident, emotionally vivid debut from an artist with a genuinely distinctive creative vision! The EP opens with ‘intro’, an escalating orchestral vortex blending electro-pop with dark fantasy influences and layers of ticking clocks that evoke Alice in Wonderland’s anxious rabbit. The symbolism is precise: anxieties about time slipping away, the moment of falling down the rabbit hole into an inner world detached from reality. ‘Lucky Charm’ follows with playful pop melodies

‘Let Down’ pushes back against the always-on mentality Lucy Robinson sees flooding her feed. She’s spoken about feeling worn down by content pushing constant productivity, and the song reads as a deliberate unwinding of that pressure - a reminder, in her words, that hustle doesn’t equal sustainable. It’s a message that lands particularly well coming from an independent artist juggling every role in her own career, from performer to manager to marketer. Facebook, Instagram, X,

For anyone who has ever loved deeply and wondered if their effort mattered: ‘I Built The Man’ is the song that answers that question with warmth, honesty and considerable melodic craft! The full band arrangement gives the track its sonic character: acoustic guitar and mandolin sitting alongside drums, bass, electric guitar and piano in a combination that feels simultaneously intimate and fully realised, the instrumentation creating space for the emotional complexity of the ly

Green Light is a ten-track post-punk and alternative rock statement rooted in deep engagement with New York’s musical history: the Velvet Underground, the Ramones, the Arctic Monkeys, the Strokes, all present as ancestors rather than templates… That haunted, nocturnal relationship with the city as idea rather than geography gives the album its distinctive atmosphere across tracks ranging from ‘Avenue A’, an experiment in dissonant harmony that took three years to complete, to

The album unfolds as a deliberate narrative journey, moving through guilt, confusion, frustration and sorrow before arriving at reflection, acceptance and genuine renewal. Noah Villeneuve himself has described it as holding up a mirror to himself, and the emotional honesty of that description is entirely consistent with early listeners’ responses: beautifully intimate, heartbreaking, mystical indie brilliance. The influences he cites, spanning Bleachers, The Magnetic Fields,

Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, Apple Music, YouTube, Spotify, IMDB “It’s time to lock in, believe in yourself, and get ready for whatever it is you’re hoping for”: a message delivered through genuinely compelling music! The particular quality that distinguishes Lauren Akosia as an artist is the seamlessness with which her work across television, theatre and music informs and enriches each other, the emotional intelligence of a trained classical performer finding its fullest

‘Poison Rain’ opens with the kind of quiet that feels deliberate, the sound of a song built to sit with you rather than rush past you… Nanseera, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter raised between London, Uganda and Ethiopia, has crafted a track that wears its politics openly without ever losing its intimacy. FOLLOW: THREADS | INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | FACEBOOK | LINKTREE WEBSITE | SPOTIFY | YOUTUBE | APPLE MUSIC | BANDCAMP Written after the US Supreme Court’s ruling to signifi

As a statement of arriving at a new creative era, ‘Teenage Popstar’ is both empowering and genuinely moving. Mya Angelique is an artist well worth watching closely! The track follows the emotional journey of a young person balancing ambition, self-doubt and the desire to belong, offering a candid look at how dreams, expectations and self-image shape the teenage experience with a specificity that prevents it from tipping into the merely generic. “‘Teenage Popstar’ is about wan

‘Holdin On’ was born from that birthday, and from the ache of rereading that final message a hundred times afterward. The single serves both as tribute and reflection, channelling through music the specific grief of losing someone who understood you, the irreplaceable weight of a friend who had been one of the biggest supporters of Pannella’s music even when he was still an amateur who did not yet sing. Thomas always encouraged him. Pannella waited until last year to finally

On stage, Eon Awa delivers performances defined by elegance, emotional intensity and a commanding presence. Drama captures exactly that quality in recorded form: a body of work that balances intimacy with theatricality at every turn! Switzerland’s contemporary music landscape does not often generate artists with the kind of theatrical pop ambition and emotional range that Eon Awa brings to Drama, his latest body of work, and the six-track release firmly establishes him as one