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Áyal is a queer singer-songwriter working out of New York, somewhere between musical theatre and indie rock. Their songs lean into big-feeling melodies but stay tied to very specific, modern anxieties: apps, isolation, the ways tech gets into your head and rewires what intimacy even means. “Pixelated Perfidy” goes straight at that. It opens like…
Pennan Brae is a Vancouver songwriter who writes like someone raised on seventies radio and worn cassettes. His records have always circled classic rock, but Paint leans all the way in, helped by Steve Ferrone on drums and a tight small-band feel tracked at Blue Light Studio. “It Ain’t Perfect But It’s Free” opens with…
Soek is the outlet for composer Grant Borland when he steps away from briefs and trailer work and writes for himself. Under his own name he scores ads, films and TV, but with Soek he pares things down to piano, a few electronic touches, and live strings from players in Croatia, giving him a small…
Bastion’s Wake come out of Delaware with a mix that doesn’t quite sit in one lane: part melodic death, part doom, part symphonic metal, all built around Sami’s vocal and Ray’s guitar writing. What started as a duo playing with programmed backlines has grown into a full band, but the songs still feel like they…
Nicolas Zappa makes electronic music that feels closer to a mood study than a set of tracks. Working alone in his home studio, he writes, performs, and processes everything himself, pulling from years of listening to Reznor, Eno, Vangelis and the rest. His previous work scoring the horror film Rauma, 1968 already showed he could…
Misteriseparli make electronic music that feels like it started with a film scene first and the chords second. The duo’s work has always leaned toward mood over genre rules, and Mondo Exotico pushes that even further, treating each of its six tracks like a short, self-contained story. “Big Tail” opens on seagulls and shoreline noise…
Katherine Christie Evans works alone but thinks big. The Romford born, queer, nonbinary producer and sound engineer writes, sings, records and mixes everything herself, pulling ideas from Medieval and Renaissance music, IDM, shoegaze and alt rock. “Lucente Stella” might be her clearest statement of that mix so far, a love song pulled out of a…
A.D.A.M. Music Project build songs the way some studios build game worlds. The collective, led by Adam DeGraide with long-time collaborator Dameon Aranda, writes rock tracks around characters and settings pulled from classic and modern video games. Different singers step in depending on the story. On “They Are Here,” that role belongs to Lacy Saunders,…
Steel & Velvet build their world from very simple tools: one deep voice, two guitars, and a lot of air around them. Formed by singer Johann Le Roux and guitarist Romuald Ballet-Baz and later joined by Jean-Alain Larreur, they treat American folk and rock standards like campfire stories told in a stone chapel. Everything is…
Billy Bobak writes like someone catching memories in real time. Based in London and holding down a full-time job as a doctor, he’s building a parallel life as a songwriter, folding classic British alt-rock DNA into something more loose, personal, and slightly crooked at the edges. Billy Wakes Up is his first full-length, the opening…