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

Here is a name worth knowing if you do not already: MIIA, the Norwegian alt-pop artist who released ‘Dynasty’ at seventeen years old and watched it hit number two on the US Viral 50 in under three weeks. That was 2016. Nearly a decade later, ‘Dynasty’ still pulls around 200,000 daily streams and over 300 million total plays. Whatever she has been working on since, it had better be good. Based on ‘Necessary Evil’, the wait has been entirely justified. This is a genuine left tu

The most honest accounts of why debut albums get made tend to be the most interesting ones, and Brian Elodi’s explanation for After Only, his thirteen-track debut full-length, is both entirely honest and genuinely moving. Following the birth of his daughter, Elodi decided to record and preserve a collection of songs accumulated over many years: a musical time capsule created with the hope that she would always have something of her father’s to listen to. That origin gives the

Right, so: twenty-seven tracks, recorded in a Costa Rican jungle cabin surrounded by mango trees above a surf break, by an artist raised between American and Costa Rican worlds who spent six years in his mother’s village getting around by bicycle and making music in a home studio that smells like ocean air and afternoon rain. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, BandCamp, Website If that setup sounds too good to be true, prepare to be corrected, because Country Love Song is t

Elare André – ‘Music For All Occasions’ The title of Elare André’s debut full-length album is, as the artist himself is at pains to explain, intentionally ironic. MUSIC FOR ALL OCCASIONS is emphatically not music for all occasions: it is not background listening, not mood utility, not content designed to accompany a specific activity or emotional state. It is music that exists on its own terms, rooted in queer identity and emotional complexity and the kind of genre-dissolving

Sam has a particular kind of artistic honesty that can only be achieved by removing the safety nets entirely: no producer softening the rough edges, no label executive asking for another take, no studio polish covering the moments where the voice cracks or the note misses its mark. Instagram, Spotify, Website Sam Gelston’s new album See Through Now, written, performed and recorded in its entirety in his bedroom, is built from exactly that philosophy, and the result is one of

There is a particular kind of courage involved in turning a private wound into a public document. Danielle Holian has done exactly that with Growing Pains, her fourth collection and arguably her most unsparing. Structured in five sections — Honeymoon, Handcuffs, Hangover, Hindsight, and Homecoming — the book charts the full emotional cartography of a relationship spanning half a decade: its intoxicating beginnings, the slow erosion that followed, and the long, deliberate work

'Amaze You' is a song about earned confidence. In 2026, that feels genuinely rare… INSTAGRAM | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | X | THREADS We are not short of songs about love. We are not short of songs about loss, longing, second chances, or the complicated terrain between people who have hurt each other. What is rarer is a song that sits inside the specific emotional space of wanting to be trusted again, without demanding it. AudioGust's new single 'Amaze You', rel

In LEXA’s own memorable framing: Scouting for Girliepop, Arctic Montheys, Transvil Levine. Where cathartic messiness and human authenticity are not limitations but the entire point, and the music is richer for every one of them… In a moment where conversations about representation in music often remain at the level of aspiration rather than practice, ‘Baggage Claim’ by LEXA arrives as something genuinely and materially significant. The lead single from her forthcoming EP A Gu

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There are collaborations that emerge from creative convenience and there are those that feel genuinely necessary, where the combination of two artists produces something that neither could have made alone and that addresses material requiring exactly the resources both bring. Isabelle Rose: Spotify, Instagram, TikTok NMDA: Spotify, Instagram, Apple Music ‘Stoned’, the new single from multi-instrumentalist producer NMDA and vocalist and songwriter Isabelle Rose, is unambiguous

From the opening brooding keys on Mollie's latest single Momentum you know this single’s a bit special, a powerful darker Adele like-intro with Mollie's voice reminiscent of Kate Bush in some bits and even a slight Beth Gibbons in others. The ominous intro sets the pace for the drama that follows... The track charts the dying embers of a relationship from the perspective of someone looking back at the clear signs that the other was wanting to go but not wanting to see it. Th

A particular kind of song that could only have been written by someone who has spent years learning how to carry things quietly. ‘Throw’, the second single from Liverpool-based queer non-binary artist Jensyn, is exactly that kind of song. Written in the aftermath of their grandfather’s death, ‘Throw’ navigates a terrain that most songwriters would shy away from: not grief itself, but the way grief fractures the people around it. Jensyn found themselves, as they have so often

A particular kind of music that does not ask for your attention so much as quietly earn it. SERALUNE, a newly launched virtual artist project built around cinematic electronic music and emotional atmosphere, makes exactly that kind of entrance with debut single ‘Where The Light Remains’, out today, 3 June 2026. Conceived and curated by Arturs Plaude, SERALUNE sits at the intersection of downtempo, ambient vocal, dream pop and new age — a project designed less for the danceflo

The Sydney Brit rockers open their debut album with an emergency in reverse, a singalong built on a single line, and a guitar part that arrived from somewhere out of the ether on a Friday night. FOLLOW: INSTAGRAM | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY The release will be supported by an East Coast Tour & limited 150 copy vinyl run! There is a moment at the top of ‘My Love’, if you listen carefully, where the heartbeat doubles as a bass drum accent and the sound of an emerge