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Eoin Shannon is an Irish singer-songwriter building Every Drunk’s Gotta Story around a late-night lounge bar setting. He records his vocals at home, then brings in session musicians and a rotating cast of backing vocalists. The influence list is straight bar-room canon: Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Mick Flannery, Bing Crosby. The whole album plays like…
Giuseppe Cucé is a songwriter from Catania who made 21grammi with producer Riccardo Samperi and a big cast of players. The album leans on real instruments and real room sound: Hammond organ, piano, bass, drums and percussion, keys and programming, vocal harmonies, plus a studio orchestra and horn section. Cucé’s concept is the “21 grams”…
Chris Ami is a UK-based electronic producer, and Temperament is his debut album. The record is built around single-word track titles pulled from emotional and psychological territory, and it leans on a hybrid palette, electronic production with piano and orchestral textures in the frame. “Hubris” sets the concept plainly by opening with a licensed Alan…
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…
Robbie Rapids is a Gen X guitar guy who treats classic rock as the base but pulls in pop, folk, alt-country, and metal ideas under the Class 2 Rapids name. He writes with a rotating crew of co-writers and players, but the voice stays consistent across the record. The songs read like separate scenes collected…
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…
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….
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…