Emiliano Heats’ “PRIVATE HEAT” treats the New York City soundscape as a personal instrument, and the track holds the city under a private name. The single opens an album the composer has been building since Venice, since Miami, since Apple…
Mick Eddy has lived in six countries and settled in a seventh, and Strange Weather is the debut album he has written and produced from a long-distance love. “Come Over” and “About You” are the first two singles, both shaped…
M & J’s “Kindness Is Back in Fashion” asks the listener to hug their son, hug their political enemy, and stop signalling virtue, in the voice of someone worn down by the world who has not lost the will to…
Maddie Regent’s “See Me” is a song about the moment a person has been seen, and the singer has already started running from the room. Regent has named the moment: leaving someone at a train station with her bag, the…
Cloudy June’s “jAGUAR” is a song about the moment a poster on a bedroom wall becomes a stand-in for salvation. The track is her third self-produced release, an acoustic guitar with old strings kept on, hard-hitting minimalistic drums underneath, a…
bimbette’s “LIKE A BITCH!” runs the slur as a job description, a synth-pop reclamation where the only thing louder than the synth solo is the singer’s refusal to be sorry. The Brooklyn bim-band opens with a fake accusation, “You make…
Eden Rain’s “Open Season” arrives as a record that has stopped performing the artist she thought she was supposed to be. Raised in Yorkshire on family sing-alongs, Carole King, and homemade mixtapes, Eden has spent the years since a talent…
Kefaya and Elaha Soroor’s “I Ran and Ran (Leaving Crumbs)” takes a traditional Hazara nursery rhyme and lets it carry the emotional weight. Water becomes wheat, wheat becomes bread, bread becomes knowledge, knowledge becomes consciousness. The chain does not argue.…
IDYL’s “L’ennui” is a song about the silence that has been loaded with everything the silence is not allowed to. IDYL, a Belgian singer, has been shaping this project since 2023, produced by Simon Le Saint and mixed by Nicolas…
Steam Full Cloud here. Atta Boy’s “Full Cloud” is a song from an LA indie rock quartet that started in high school, and the time between the first rehearsal and the album Silt is the cloud. The single arrives with…