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…
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…
