Pascal Boyer – “Run Away”
Paris composer and guitarist Pascal Boyer sits in that space between post rock and metal where everything feels big but still personal. His work leans on long builds, slow-burn emotion and a sense of drama that feels closer to European art rock. “Run Away,” taken from his EP safe with us, is one of those…
My Lovely Haunting – Forgotten Moon
My Lovely Haunting is the project of Alex and Lucy, a Melbourne duo who treat songs like scenes. The name fits: everything they make seems built for dim rooms and late-night screens, with Lucy’s voice out front and Alex filling in the spaces with film-score detail. They call it “Bladerunner folk,” which sounds like a…
Until They Burn Me – A Carnival of Reveries
Until They Burn Me sound like a band that started with stories before songs. Based out of Ferndale, they pull from alt rock, classic rock, and Americana, but everything circles back to voice and mood: deep, close-mic’d vocals, roomy drums, and desert road feeling guitars. A Carnival of Reveries plays like one long late-night drive….
Televised Mind – “Word to the Wise”
Televised Mind are a Lincoln rock band built around Ste’s songwriting and a taste for loud, sharp guitars rather than polite indie feel. Their records so far have moved between scrappy hooks and heavier moments, and “Word to the Wise” lands firmly on the rowdier side, helped along by production from Billy Lunn of The…
James Shumway – “So Glad You’re Mine”
James Shumway writes the kind of piano music that still believes in big feelings. A classically trained player who started young and stuck with it, he leans toward the Romantic side of the spectrum, chasing long lines and clear emotion. His recent work has moved from solo pieces into more arranged material, and “So Glad…
Kimi Nickerson – “My Time”
Kimi Nickerson moves between studio, stage, and sound desk. As a singer and producer, and as an Offie-nominated theatre sound designer and co-founder of KG Records, she treats songs like scenes: built around a central voice, then lit from every side with detail. Her past singles have already picked up support from BBC Introducing and…
Áyal – “Pixelated Perfidy”
Áyal is a queer singer-songwriter working out of New York, somewhere between musical theatre and indie rock. Their songs lean into big-feeling melodies but stay tied to very specific, modern anxieties: apps, isolation, the ways tech gets into your head and rewires what intimacy even means. “Pixelated Perfidy” goes straight at that. It opens like…
Pennan Brae – Paint
Pennan Brae is a Vancouver songwriter who writes like someone raised on seventies radio and worn cassettes. His records have always circled classic rock, but Paint leans all the way in, helped by Steve Ferrone on drums and a tight small-band feel tracked at Blue Light Studio. “It Ain’t Perfect But It’s Free” opens with…
Soek – “We Were Taller Then”
Soek is the outlet for composer Grant Borland when he steps away from briefs and trailer work and writes for himself. Under his own name he scores ads, films and TV, but with Soek he pares things down to piano, a few electronic touches, and live strings from players in Croatia, giving him a small…
Bastion’s Wake – Go Tell the Bees
Bastion’s Wake come out of Delaware with a mix that doesn’t quite sit in one lane: part melodic death, part doom, part symphonic metal, all built around Sami’s vocal and Ray’s guitar writing. What started as a duo playing with programmed backlines has grown into a full band, but the songs still feel like they…
