With England back on the world stage tonight, the timing couldn’t be better for Impact Sound Lab’s new track ‘Rise Up England (We Shall Never Surrender).’ It’s a proper football anthem: big guitars, thunderous drums, soaring chorus… the sort of thing that sounds like it was built for a stadium full of fans in full voice. Behind the project are David Matheson and Norm Sabourin, two producers and songwriters with serious combined experience across pop, rock, country and hip-hop

The title of Gab Gordon’s latest single functions as both description and instruction, and the track delivers on both counts with a discipline and atmospheric intelligence that marks it as one of the more fully realised dream-pop releases of recent months. Instagram, Website, Spotify Featured on her EP The Pretty Bazaar, ‘Slowburn’ is exactly what it claims to be: a track built from restraint and patience, trading instant gratification for the kind of emotional weight that on

The melodic and progressive house space has developed a sophisticated vocabulary for a particular kind of emotional experience: the late-night feeling of existing between states, where nostalgia and presence occupy the same moment and stillness and movement are somehow indistinguishable. Danish producer FAVNA has been developing his own contribution to that vocabulary across a catalogue that has accumulated over 700,000 streams and earned support from respected artists and in

There is a version of French pop that exists purely as aesthetic: the beret, the cigarette, the existential shrug, the whole studied apparatus of cool deployed in service of not very much. And then there is the real thing, rooted in the chanson tradition, where the song is a vessel for actual thought and actual feeling and the lyric carries genuine weight. Sylvain Zebo belongs emphatically to the second category, and ‘Test’, his latest single, is another demonstration of why.

Virginia-based post-punk quintet Dayfiction have been building toward something with considerable purposefulness, and Divine Intermission, their new EP, arrives as the fullest and most urgent expression yet of what that something is. Recorded in the days immediately preceding vocalist Evan Solomon’s temporary relocation to London, the project carries the specific weight of a record made at a threshold: the particular clarity and desperation that arrives when you know somethin

The title of Carlotta Schmidt’s sophomore album is both the most honest thing an artist can put on a record cover and the most universally relatable. Overthinker: ten tracks, entirely self-written, entirely self-produced, composed on a 1979 Guild D55 acoustic guitar on a bedroom floor, and shaped by a period of life that contained more significant personal change than most people experience across a decade. Coming out. Devastating loss. Working with heroes. All of it swirling

The second single from Peter DiMaggio, following the warm reception of his debut ‘Fly Away’ and released through emerging independent label Passeri Records, arrives as a track that lives in the precise emotional territory its title identifies: the space between holding on and letting go, where memory and forward motion exist in productive and sometimes painful tension. ‘Chasing A Trace’ is bittersweet and hopeful in equal measure, and DiMaggio’s gift for pairing intimate stor

Shamanic pop. Yes, that is a real genre now, and it slaps! Mané is making the case for it so convincingly across her second album The Goddess in the Room that by the time you have spent any meaningful time with it, the question of whether shamanic pop is a legitimate category feels less interesting than the music itself. Which is exactly as it should be. Released 2nd June via Livana Music, the nine-track record arrives as the fullest expression yet of an artistic vision that