Pocket Lint – Cyanometer
Pocket Lint is Mark Heffernan’s project, built around short songs as little exhibits. He’s using “Cyanometer” as a door into his next album, Wunderkammer, a cabinet-of-curiosities concept where each track is meant to feel like an object you stop in front of. Heffernan talks about Romantic-period poetry in the background of the larger idea, Shelley…
Mashal MN – The Solar Cycle Fragments 1
Mashal MN is a solo producer in Saitama, handling the writing, arrangement, and mix alone in Logic Pro. He talks about film-score scale and neo-classical influence in the same breath, pulling from names like Hans Zimmer, Ramin Djawadi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gustavo Santaolalla, and Erik Satie. The Solar Cycle Fragments 1 plays like a short set…
Eternal Mourning – Working That Mine
Eternal Mourning is a Montreal indie folk project that likes its songs dark and cinematic. “Working That Mine” is framed as a track about persistence and internal pressure, the grind part, not the glory part.It gets you in the mood from the first seconds. The intro feels like the opening shot of a southern film…
Cries of Redemption – Patterns
Cries of Redemption, Ed Silva’s project from Bloomingdale, explores themes of modern isolation through a non-linear music approach. The album features tracks like “Impulse,” showcasing Italian vocalist Chiara A’s raw style alongside varied sonic shifts. With influences from hard rock to ambient sounds, it evokes a range of emotions and settings.
SYLIANRUE – Reflection
SYLIANRUE is the solo project of Yuichi Nishikawa, a former industrial rock vocalist who shifted into composition after developing a vocal disorder. He’s written music for dozens of stage productions, including plays and contemporary dance, and has worked closely with director Kenta Fukasaku through the theater unit Fukasaku-gumi. He describes his music as a place…
Soft as Hell – I’d Rather Fly
Soft as Hell is a Brighton project led by one person who wrote the track and played everything except the drums, which are handled by Jamie-Ray Scarratt. The stated reference points are Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, and western films, and the track leans into that mix through mood and movement. “I’d Rather Fly” opens with…
Kim Cameron – Forever We Shine
Kim Cameron is a Miami Beach artist with Billboard chart history who’s been stepping into a progressive new age space for a run of singles. “Forever We Shine” teams her with producer Carl Fernandes, and she frames the track around togetherness and growth, written as a deliberate shift away from heavy dance beats. The song…
Susan Style – Only a Broken Heart Can Hold the World
Susan Style is a Taiwanese producer and singer-songwriter based in London, writing and producing her own material and treating this debut as a personal record shaped by leaving Taipei for London. She also worked with Max Heyes on the mix, a detail that matters here because these tracks move between club-ready drums and stranger, more…
Lana Crow: In Spirit
Lana Crow is a British singer-songwriter who was born in Kazakhstan and classically trained on piano from early childhood. She’s written about significant health challenges and a turbulent upbringing, plus a long break from music before getting back into writing after moving to the Spanish countryside. In Spirit is her third album, a seven-track set…
Social Treble – Skyline Motherboard… The Burden of Being Known
Social Treble is a Bengaluru-based artist making instrumentals tied to tech anxiety and identity pressure. “Skyline Motherboard… The Burden of Being Known” is framed around “algorithmic colonization,” the feeling of being pushed into a cleaner, corporate version of yourself. The track starts on soft piano, low and heavy in tone. A guitar solo enters early…
