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…
Ellery Twining – “Oy!”
Ellery Twining made “Oy!” as part of a soundtrack for a student film by Ben Bostian, a filmmaker he connected with through a loose web of shared SCAD history and mutual contacts. Twining describes getting pulled into the project under unusual circumstances, then deciding to commit once the film’s structure and detail made the work…
Aptøsrs – “Rust Mountain” (Monochrome Piano Version)
Aptøsrs is the instrumental project of composer, songwriter, and producer Paul Terry. “Rust Mountain (Monochrome Piano Version)” is a rework of “Rust Mountain” shaped by the black-and-white version of Godzilla Minus One. Terry’s idea was to rebuild a track that originally leaned on bigger forces, drums, bass guitars, and strings, as a solo piano arrangement….
Fish And Scale – “Tapestry”
Fish And Scale is the songwriting name of Roland Wälzlein, a German artist who leans hard into story and atmosphere. He’s open about where that comes from. As a child growing up in Franconia, he survived a serious heart operation, and that early brush with life-or-death questions sits behind his writing. He also points to…
Michael J McEvoy – Adil Searches
Michael J McEvoy composed and performed the score for White Gold, a short film by Luke Bradford. The film was built out of Bradford’s time documenting people living with albinism, and the story is framed around injustice, endurance, and faith. The soundtrack is released through Rezzonator Music as a standalone listen, not just a film…
