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Televised Mind are a Lincoln rock band built around Ste’s songwriting and a taste for loud, sharp guitars rather than polite indie feel. Their records so far have moved between scrappy hooks and heavier moments, and “Word to the Wise” lands firmly on the rowdier side, helped along by production from Billy Lunn of The…
James Shumway writes the kind of piano music that still believes in big feelings. A classically trained player who started young and stuck with it, he leans toward the Romantic side of the spectrum, chasing long lines and clear emotion. His recent work has moved from solo pieces into more arranged material, and “So Glad…
Kimi Nickerson moves between studio, stage, and sound desk. As a singer and producer, and as an Offie-nominated theatre sound designer and co-founder of KG Records, she treats songs like scenes: built around a central voice, then lit from every side with detail. Her past singles have already picked up support from BBC Introducing and…
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…