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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’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…
Rellyo Bambini is an artist from Knoxville, Tennessee, building a full album around identity, technology, and what “humanity” looks like in a world obsessed with replication. The title, Cloned & Upgraded, Insert Soul Here (Rebirth Edition), lays the concept out in plain language: people get copied, upgraded, replaced, and the emotional cost still shows up…
Ivelisse del Carmen is a Puerto Rican songwriter and trained singer based in London. She frames “Illusion” through bolero and jazz, with Sylvia Rexach named as a lyrical reference point and Billie Holiday named as a vocal touchstone. She also documents process and identity on her Substack, Letters in Melody, and is releasing the track…
Patti Zlaket is a Tucson, Arizona songwriter and pianist with a long résumé outside the usual album cycle. She started playing piano young, wrote songs as a teenager, studied theatre at USC, and recorded early work in Los Angeles before time in Nashville and a return to Southern California. She toured the U.S. and U.K.,…
A’shon Galaxy is an R&B and soul songwriter from Vallejo, California, releasing his own music and building toward a larger project. “More Than Only Friends” is written from the angle of someone stuck in a friendship that will not move forward, pushing for a deeper connection. The track opens with short, Rhodes-style chord stabs. The…
Block has been around long enough that his catalog is getting the full resurrection treatment while a new wave of listeners finds him through playlists. Meridian’s four-part deluxe reissues have pulled old records back into view, he’s picked up fresh press and streams, and his New York residency at KGB’s Red Room has rebuilt him…
Two-time Grammy–winning composer Carla Patullo is in the rare position of watching the same record open up twice. Last year Nomadica introduced itself as a dense, grief-struck collage for strings, choir, and voice, written in memory of her mother. Shortly after it picked up the Grammy for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album, she…
Cazzjezter makes quiet, interior pop from a very small space: a kitchen at 2 a.m., everything played, recorded, mixed, and mastered alone while muted Kyrie Irving highlights roll on a screen. His songs circle faith, mental health, and the weirdness of modern life, but they do it in a way that feels like private reflection…
Sometimes Julie have spent five records working as a full band, folding classic and alternative rock into a tight live setup. On Transition, singer-songwriter duo Monica Sorenson and Rick Walker zoom in on the most direct parts of that project: piano, voice, and a small circle of players from their San Diego orbit. It’s their…