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LUISA is a Scotland-based composer, pianist and producer who builds electronic pieces out of piano, beats, folk instruments and field recordings taken while living across Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine and Albania as a military spouse. Wanderlust pulls those years into one record, 11 short tracks that feel very tied to real places and events…
Night Wolf comes out of the cinematic side of electronic music, the kind that already lives half in trailers and title sequences. For Lost My Way Home he pulls Norfolk singer Lois Powell into that world, and her voice turns one of his darker instrumentals into something more direct and emotional, still moody but now…
Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen has been building a catalog about distance, memory and home. After more than twenty years away from the island she finally started calling herself part of the diaspora, and her recent work leans straight into that realization. Mi Sangre Baila is the point where all of that…
The Iddy Biddies started out at Berklee chasing a pretty specific lane: hooky indie songs with a folk/Americana backbone and story-driven lyrics. On The World Inside, they lean into that idea. The songs feel like pages from the same notebook, all circling the way people act in public versus what’s going on in their heads….
Omnesia call their thing “future vintage,” and it fits. The Oakland project built around androgynous vocalist Medella Kingston and producer/guitarist M2 treats rock history like a toy box: Zappa, new wave, MTV-era excess, and prog theatrics all thrown together and wired for 2026. For their take on Frank Zappa’s “Dirty Love,” they double down on…
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. The album pulls ideas from minimalist classical music, electroacoustic pieces, and modern opera, but it feels closer to a single long mood study:…
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. The record plays like a private notebook, a four-year return to sound after silence, written in short…
Artomático makes electronic music like a percussionist who got lost in a lab. The Spanish composer and drummer builds tracks from small repeating details, treating rhythm, texture, and sound design as the main characters. CICLOS, his fourth album, feels like a full statement of that approach, folding ambient, post-classical and beat music into something that…
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and then got pulled sideways by every strange idea in the room. Their releases move between psych, art-rock, and jangly indie, but…
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around melody. “Soaring On” was recorded out on the North Yorkshire Moors, and you can hear that in the way it stretches out: no rush,…