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Lee Clark Allen’s debut album My World Is Yours sounds like the work of someone who’s lived every note. The Duluth-based singer, songwriter, and producer spent six years building the record through personal upheaval, moving between Seattle, Aurora, and Denver studios, recording whenever he could. Across twenty tracks, Allen blends classic soul and modern R&B…
Verticoli have been shaping Tasmania’s alt-rock scene for years. The trio built their name on direct songwriting and the kind of unpolished precision that comes from time on stage. They’ve toured across Australia, sharing bills with Cog, DZ Deathrays, Kingswood, and British India, and their live reputation feeds straight into how they record — loud,…
Frank Joshua is a London-based songwriter who has been steadily releasing singles over the past few years. Days Like These, recorded between Exeter and London, continues that streak with a track built on simplicity and focus. A four-on-the-floor kick gives the song its pulse, keeping it in forward motion. Guitar lines hover quietly in the…
Jon Darc has been circling Berlin’s queer underground for years, staging performances that feel closer to ritual than to concerts. Their background in theater bleeds into every gesture: fashion as armor, lyrics as confession, visuals as extensions of sound. Morast, their new EP, arrives September 12 and pulls all those strands into a concentrated statement…
Kendra Connors has been steadily shaping a body of work that threads personal history into cinematic songwriting. Based in Spokane, she’s four singles deep into what feels less like a string of disconnected tracks and more like a mapped-out narrative. Each one moves along a path from loss toward renewal, and Golden House might be…
Slow Walk’s debut album The Mountain is a self-contained climb. Written and recorded alone in his London home over just two weeks, it takes the shape of a classic concept record: each track a step upward, each layer another shift in the terrain. The blueprint nods to War of the Worlds and Tommy, but the…
Nikita Noebel records under the name Walilamdzi, a project rooted in Berlin but drawn to landscapes that stretch far beyond the city. The music sits in that space between instrumental songwriting and film score: guitar-driven, slow-burning, shaped as much by atmosphere as by melody. Noebel calls each set of songs a “chapter,” small arcs that…
Hilgrove Kenrick and Nick Norton-Smith both come to Sylph with long résumés in film, television, and stage music, but their collaboration moves in a different direction. Kenrick, a composer with credits ranging from 12 Monkeys to classical commissions, has also carved space for solo piano work and ambient explorations. Norton-Smith, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, has…
Jasmine Gardosi, Dan Whitehouse, and Ryan Pinson come from different corners of the UK music world. Gardosi is best known as a slam champion and former Birmingham Poet Laureate, a performer who merges spoken word, beatboxing, and movement into something closer to theater than page poetry. Whitehouse has built a reputation as a songwriter and…
After 15 years without a release, Michael Shouse has returned with Jaded, an instrumental rock record that shows he never stopped thinking about the guitar. The Jackson, Kentucky musician pulls together an unlikely cast of players: Michael Angelo Batio, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Tony MacAlpine, Charlie Zeleny on drums, and James Amhelio Pulli on bass. The…