Omnesia – “Dirty Love”
Omnesia call their thing “future vintage,” and it fits. The Oakland project built around androgynous vocalist Medella Kingston and producer/guitarist M2 treats rock history like a toy box: Zappa, new wave, MTV-era excess, and prog theatrics all thrown together and wired for 2026. For their take on Frank Zappa’s “Dirty Love,” they double down on…
David Kovacs – I try to breath in a Vortex
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. The album pulls ideas from minimalist classical music, electroacoustic pieces, and modern opera, but it feels closer to a single long mood study:…
Atsushi Matsumoto – Études
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. The record plays like a private notebook, a four-year return to sound after silence, written in short…
Artomático – CICLOS
Artomático makes electronic music like a percussionist who got lost in a lab. The Spanish composer and drummer builds tracks from small repeating details, treating rhythm, texture, and sound design as the main characters. CICLOS, his fourth album, feels like a full statement of that approach, folding ambient, post-classical and beat music into something that…
Map of the Woulds – “Goldilocks Zone”
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and then got pulled sideways by every strange idea in the room. Their releases move between psych, art-rock, and jangly indie, but…
Sheila Rafferty – “Soaring On”
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around melody. “Soaring On” was recorded out on the North Yorkshire Moors, and you can hear that in the way it stretches out: no rush,…
Ryoka Hagiwara – “In A Haze”
Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes. “In A Haze,” recorded back near her childhood home and tied to a new strand of work about memory and identity, feels…
The Ghostly Pulse – “Oh Heavy Rain”
The Ghostly Pulse is the project of Cologne-based musician Nik Nova, who’s been building a lane around slow, shadowy tracks that blend trip-hop, post-punk and film-score mood. “Oh Heavy Rain” is a good snapshot of that approach: tightly controlled, full of small details, and completely locked in on atmosphere. The song comes in on a…
RMHNDRX – The Hole
RMHNDRX has already proved he can do sharp, anxious electronic pop with YUKS, but The Hole sits in a quieter corner of his world. It feels closer to someone working late with the lights low, following half-formed ideas and stray memories instead of hooks. The Murakami influence he talks about is easy to hear: this…
Eyal Erlich – “Sentimental Magic Cape – Live”
“Sentimental Magic Cape – Live” drops you straight into its pocket. The bass comes in first, springy and upbeat, with a clear funk streak that instantly gives the track motion and a bit of swagger. Once the electric guitar joins, the song tilts into a loose, American-leaning rock feel. There is a streak of punk…
