Eoin Shannon: Every Drunk’s Gotta Story
Eoin Shannon is an Irish singer-songwriter building Every Drunk’s Gotta Story around a late-night lounge bar setting. He records his vocals at home, then brings in session musicians and a rotating cast of backing vocalists. The influence list is straight bar-room canon: Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Mick Flannery, Bing Crosby. The whole album plays like…
OCHRE’s “Way Out” Flips From Dreamy to Grit
OCHRE frames “Way Out” around the idea of using emotion as momentum. It’s written as a push-forward track, not a calm-down song, and the arrangement follows that by building tension and then snapping into something heavier. It opens on a repeating guitar line that sets the mood immediately, dreamy with a melancholic tint. The vocal…
Giuseppe Cucé – 21 grammi
Giuseppe Cucé is a songwriter from Catania who made 21grammi with producer Riccardo Samperi and a big cast of players. The album leans on real instruments and real room sound: Hammond organ, piano, bass, drums and percussion, keys and programming, vocal harmonies, plus a studio orchestra and horn section. Cucé’s concept is the “21 grams”…
David Goundry Keeps “Lucy” Hooky and Psychedelic
David Goundry is a London singer-songwriter and guitarist leaning into 60s psychedelia on “Lucy (Remix 2026).” He’s backed by Joanna Griggs on vocals and worked with producer Nick Sykes, whose credits include Average White Band and Go West. Goundry also points to the Beatles, Small Faces, and ELO as reference points for where he’s pushing…
DJThriller Turns “Locked N Loaded” Into a Short Film
DJThriller is a Los Angeles artist working in hip-hop with MOZS on “Locked N Loaded.” The track comes with a long music video that plays like a short film, with an opening skit written by Darrell K. Horn and the visual produced by OnslaughtStudios LLC. The backstory is as homegrown as it gets: built during…
Chris Ami Pulls Electronic Music Through Mood Words
Chris Ami is a UK-based electronic producer, and Temperament is his debut album. The record is built around single-word track titles pulled from emotional and psychological territory, and it leans on a hybrid palette, electronic production with piano and orchestral textures in the frame. “Hubris” sets the concept plainly by opening with a licensed Alan…
Apstara Turns “Con Te Partirò” Into a Choir-Lit Drift
Apstara is the Los Angeles project of singer, songwriter, and composer Juliet Lyons. She’s worked professionally for years as a vocalist, and she also has a parallel career writing for film and television under her given name. This cover launches her Etherealized Series, a set of reworks built around voice layering and atmosphere. She also…
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…
