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Stephani Ezatoff comes out of the Pittsburgh gospel world with a voice shaped by church music and old hymns, but this version of “Precious Lord Take My Hand” plants her right inside the classic Nashville tradition. She’s cut it with Brian Speer producing, Johnny Minick on Rhodes and Hammond B3, and a small choir of…
Fiona Amaka has been carving out her own corner of London’s indie scene with a mix of “rock’n’soul,” bluesy vocals, and guitars that lean either into crunch or folk warmth depending on the song. Across singles like “No Daylight,” “Cowards and Shadows,” and “Honesty (Psalm 139)” she’s written about betrayal, faith, and fallout, usually with…
Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää on a grey December day, thinking about couples who fell in love and then watched war rearrange…
Tulegon is an Italian musician, producer, and songwriter from Puglia who treats pop structure like a container for poetry experiments. His concept album Pessoa pulls directly from Fernando Pessoa’s world of heteronyms and split selves, writing in Italian, Portuguese, English, French, and his hometown dialect. “All the worlds’dreams” is that idea pushed into a trip-hop…
Andy Smythe is one of those long-haul British songwriters who never really left the circuit. Based in London, he’s eight albums deep, still writing politically loaded folk-rock in small studios and taking the songs out to folk clubs and festival stages with his band. Quiet Revolution, his next record, leans into that side of him…
Thickshake is a one-person pop project out of Rockhampton, a multi-instrumentalist who decided to stop waiting for the “right time” and just make the songs himself. He writes, records, mixes, and masters in a downstairs music room, pulling from YouTube-era indie pop like Blanks and turning very ordinary mornings – driving to work, wishing he…
John Lebanon is a Boston-based project built on split geography: New York apartments, Providence studios, Beirut shows, and a head full of Lebanese pop, disco and indie guitar music. “Disco Boi” started as a slower, jazz-leaning cut back in 2017; the new “Disco Boi Beirut” feels like the version that finally lets his homesickness, club…
Adam Wedd is a British songwriter with a classic rock heart and a habit of turning everyday chaos into hooks. For “FIGURE IT OUT,” he literally wrote the topline in a car queue on the way to Metropolis Studios, walked in with traffic still in his head, and shaped it on the spot with producer…
Koeve is a teenage urbano artist from Murcia, Spain, working in that space where reggaeton, pop rap and moody synth stuff all bleed into each other. He’s young, but Antes de ser yo already feels like he knows exactly what he wants this project to be: tight songs built around hooks, attitude and very direct…
A Violet In Youth are a Los Angeles band who treat songs like collages: guitar loops, stacked vocals, and pockets of space stitched together by guitarist-songwriter Daniella Lollie with bandmates Lisa Yan, Amanda Erwin, Kelly Kuhn and Garrett Zeile. Their records live in that crossing point between indie rock and weirder, more experimental sounds, where…