Zachary Mason: Melancholy Guitar Rock With an 80s Spine
Zachary Mason is a Guildford, UK artist who records at home and releases music at a steady clip. He’s built a big backlog of demos since getting a recording kit from a relative, and he’s already well into double digits on singles. For “Sweetheart,” he brought in drummer Nate Barnes of Rose Hill Drive and…
Michael Servus Mariae: Organ Hymn With a Wide Screen
Michael Servus Mariae is a songwriter and author who also publishes daily gospel prayer journals. “Unity” starts from an online prayer text that he says hit him instantly, the kind of words that already carry their own melody. He spent months working the piece, revising it with professional feedback, aiming for hymn-writing that can actually…
Schau.Schou: Winter Melancholy With Teeth
Schau.Schou is a new Norwegian duo pairing Kristopher Schau and Christoffer Schou. It started as a namesake link-up: Kristopher realized Christoffer was also an active musician, sent over rough song sketches, and Christoffer produced and arranged them into a five-track EP, January, released via Cafe Superstar Recordings. Christoffer comes from dreamy pop projects like Remington…
William Kalmer & Audrey Karrasch – Graceland
William Kalmer is a Johannesburg artist who made “Graceland” as a real collaboration with Audrey Karrasch and producer Edward George King. Karrasch, a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who previously appeared on The Voice USA, shares the writing and carries the vocal. King, a South African film composer and founder of King Music, produces the track. “Graceland”…
Pat Piperni – Quiet Storm
Pat Piperni is a Montreal musician making solo piano music he writes, performs, records, and masters himself in a home studio. He points to a wide range of listening, and names Debussy and Chopin alongside modern piano composers like Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, and Joseph Nimoh. “Quiet Storm” comes from a specific headspace he describes as…
Adam Wedd – for u i’ll cross the sea
Adam Wedd is a London songwriter working in acoustic folk and country, writing in a direct, story-first mode. For this single he brought in Georgina Leach for the string arrangements and performance, with Marek Deml handling guitar and vocal engineering, Ken Abel mixing, and Tom Hall mastering. Wedd has name-checked Tom Waits, Ben Folds, and…
Charli XCX – Wuthering Heights (Soundtrack)
Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights plays like a soundtrack that refuses to act like wallpaper. It’s built around strings that grind, drones that sit under everything, and production choices that keep interrupting the easy satisfaction you expect from a pop writer this good. The hooks are still there. They do not arrive as relief. They arrive…
Rellyo Bambini – Cloned and Upgraded, Insert Soul Here
Rellyo Bambini is an artist from Knoxville, Tennessee, building a full album around identity, technology, and what “humanity” looks like in a world obsessed with replication. The title, Cloned & Upgraded, Insert Soul Here (Rebirth Edition), lays the concept out in plain language: people get copied, upgraded, replaced, and the emotional cost still shows up…
Ivelisse del Carmen – Illusion
Ivelisse del Carmen is a Puerto Rican songwriter and trained singer based in London. She frames “Illusion” through bolero and jazz, with Sylvia Rexach named as a lyrical reference point and Billie Holiday named as a vocal touchstone. She also documents process and identity on her Substack, Letters in Melody, and is releasing the track…
Patti Zlaket – Second Chance at Love
Patti Zlaket is a Tucson, Arizona songwriter and pianist with a long résumé outside the usual album cycle. She started playing piano young, wrote songs as a teenager, studied theatre at USC, and recorded early work in Los Angeles before time in Nashville and a return to Southern California. She toured the U.S. and U.K.,…
