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Joseph “Josi” Costi has spent years as a pianist, composer, and collaborator moving between jazz, world music, and experimental projects. His resume is long and eclectic, but Joya is the first release where he steps forward simply as a songwriter with a guitar in hand. Recorded in Richmond, UK, while house-sitting for his sister in…
Dark City Kings have been shaping their sound in a weathered homestead outside Black Mountain, North Carolina. The six-piece: Colleen Rose, Merlin Armstrong, Kyrie Antoinette, Bayla Ostrich, Craig Rumney, and JP Kennedy, pull from bands like The Waterboys, Blondie, and The Cure, but the results don’t feel secondhand. They’ve built something that leans on new…
Carla Patullo has made a name scoring for film and television, but her solo records come from a more personal place. Her 2024 album “So She Howls” was born from a near-death experience and won a Grammy for its blend of ambient textures and raw emotion. On Nomadica, she goes somewhere even harder to reach:…
Ferdinand Rennie recorded Someone to Remember Me in 2010. Fifteen years later, he returns to it with the same producer, Alan Vukelic, and no major structural changes. The song, written by Wayne Hector and Steve Robson, still plays as a widescreen ballad: slow tempo, orchestral backing, and a vocal pushed to the front. The difference…
Dez Rocket has spent years in alt-synth rock, stacking sounds and dialing in details. Akashic Walker cuts most of that out. It’s a quiet track built on a few choices: soft guitar, muted keys, steady rhythm, and a vocal that stays close. It’s his first love song, and you can tell. The line “So I…
The first thing you notice with A Different Kind is how familiar it sounds – not in a recycled way, but in how it settles in instantly, like a song you forgot you already knew. It’s been five years since Social Gravy released the EP, and the reissue lands at the right time. “Happening Now”…
Karen Salicath Jamali didn’t set out to become a composer. The piano entered her life after a head injury in 2012, when she started hearing music in dreams and decided to follow it. She had never played before. By 2015, she was recording what she heard. Now there are eight albums and thousands of pieces….
Amanda Emblem doesn’t write albums so much as she accumulates them. She works through songs like they’re assignments, letting them pile up until something has to be done. That process drives The Wood, a collection written off-grid in a beach town. The album sounds more shaped by time spent off-grid than by any concern for…
Glenn Thomas has been working under the radar for a while now, writing clean, emotionally honest songs that move somewhere between folk, alt-country, and quiet pop. His second album, Inevitables, doesn’t break that mold, but it doesn’t really need to. It plays like a document of a songwriter refining his habits, turning inwards, and learning…
Nanashi is a two-person project based in Glasgow. One handles the music, the other comes from the local club scene. They keep their names out of it. No press photos, no front-facing identity. Just music. False Horizons is their first track. It’s fully instrumental: electric guitar and acoustic drums. It starts slow and steady, with…