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Michael Giacchino’s latest release, Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen Vol. 2, is anything but a standard compilation. The Oscar-winning composer revisits some of his most well-known work – from Up and Inside Out to The Batman and Rogue One – and runs it through a playful, unexpected filter: Exotica. Released by Mutant, the album…
There’s something about AMBASADORIA that doesn’t ask to be understood immediately. It plays like an audio notebook from a parallel world: fragments of memory, shifting moods, and untamed musical conversations stitched into eight tracks. The project is led by Tomasz Kowalczyk, with four standout duets shaped by co-writer and musical interpreter Seif Limami, whose thoughtful…
Jakob The Liar’s debut EP feels like the start of a movement. ‘Wake Up Mr. Kupferberg’ lands with the force of someone who’s been through too much to say anything half-hearted. It’s personal, but not just for the sake of therapy. These are songs that look the listener in the eye and dare them to…
MrMessy’s I Want to Make Her Happy EP feels like it crawled out from the wreckage of old drives and unfinished ideas, only to arrive sounding entirely current. Built from glitches, vocoders, sharp edges and warped grooves, these three tracks come out swinging — not in volume, but in personality. The title track, I Want…
Kat Koan’s new six-track EP The Night Circus is as unfiltered and playful as it is theatrical. Billed by Koan herself as a “carefully crafted hot mess,” this is a record that throws out the rulebook in favour of bold choices, unexpected shifts, and a whole lot of personality. The opener, Recipe for Disaster, kicks…
Globally celebrated violinist Bernadett Nyari introduces a new chapter in her career with Heart of Diamonds, a project that draws deeply from her own life while opening up new creative territory. Known for her classical mastery and international performances, Bernadett shifts her focus here to original compositions, expanding beyond tradition without letting go of it….
The third release from Ōtautahi-based quartet Darren Pickering Small Worlds builds on the thoughtful foundations laid by their previous two albums. THREE presents a refined evolution in their sound—balancing structure and improvisation while integrating modular synthesis in subtle, considered ways. The result is a jazz-forward album that’s exploratory without being meandering, and textured without relying…
Memphis duo Light and Shade return with their second album, This Is Water, a rock record steeped in memory, loss, and the kind of personal clarity that only comes from living through real things. The group, Jeff Williams and Josh Aguilar, pull together decades of experience, both musically and personally, to deliver a tightly recorded…
Raynald Grenier, a composer based in Quebec, has released The Compilation Album, a selection of orchestral pieces pulled from across his catalog. It’s a focused release, with each track reflecting the style Grenier has built over the years—melodic, expressive, and shaped with a strong sense of structure. Before stepping into composition full-time, Grenier worked with…
DBsock doesn’t make passive music. Her debut EP, The Journey, plays like a surreal myth carved into five distinct movements. Each track is a chapter in a transformation story—an outsider goddess navigating the struggle between divinity and humanity, falling to rise, and using sound as both a map and a mirror. It’s full of tension,…