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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…
Hovercraft’s Blown Away closes out the Bond-themed trilogy on the rawest note. Where the earlier records leaned into cleaner reinterpretation, this one keeps its hands dirty with jagged indie punk edges and early ideas left with their seams visible. Opener Indie Kid lands like a cult sitcom or indie drama theme, with a close female…
Jánnos Eolou’s Night Beyond is a 13 track album for string orchestra, piano and qanun. It sits squarely in the space between modern film music and Mediterranean chamber writing, built around clear melodies and steady, song length nocturnes. Unwatched Stars lays out the core language. A soft piano arpeggio ticks in the background while low…
Our Bones is the long running project of Hudson Valley musician and producer Benjamin Durland. cash considerations, written and recorded largely solo at The Studio at Old Ridge, gathers a decade of songs into a tight, emotionally heavy rock record. no home opens the album quietly, with soft guitar picking and a close vocal before…
Under the name Michellar, San Francisco songwriter Michelle Bond is basically starting a second life in music. After years focused on work, family and visual art, she’s come back to the guitar and started writing like she’s making up for lost time. REVERIE …FROM THEN TILL NOW pulls together those late-night songs with help from…
Shani Weiss has been slowly building her name in Melbourne as a songwriter who writes about everyday relationships without dressing them up. Her songs sit in that space between folk, light indie rock and TV-ready pop, with arrangements that feel built for real players in a room. All About Life is her new six-track EP,…
Ceyeo’s stuff lands in a funny spot where “alt-rock” doesn’t mean big choruses and denim, it means someone treating guitars, drums, and a few left turns like a delivery system for actual thoughts. On Together They Were Nothing, he’s backed by a proper band, Ryan Streeter on guitar, Luca Giachi on bass, Fede Gucciardo on…