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Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen has been building a catalog about distance, memory and home. After more than twenty years away from the island she finally started calling herself part of the diaspora, and her recent work leans straight into that realization. Mi Sangre Baila is the point where all of that…
Omnesia call their thing “future vintage,” and it fits. The Oakland project built around androgynous vocalist Medella Kingston and producer/guitarist M2 treats rock history like a toy box: Zappa, new wave, MTV-era excess, and prog theatrics all thrown together and wired for 2026. For their take on Frank Zappa’s “Dirty Love,” they double down on…
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and then got pulled sideways by every strange idea in the room. Their releases move between psych, art-rock, and jangly indie, but…
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around melody. “Soaring On” was recorded out on the North Yorkshire Moors, and you can hear that in the way it stretches out: no rush,…
Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes. “In A Haze,” recorded back near her childhood home and tied to a new strand of work about memory and identity, feels…
The Ghostly Pulse is the project of Cologne-based musician Nik Nova, who’s been building a lane around slow, shadowy tracks that blend trip-hop, post-punk and film-score mood. “Oh Heavy Rain” is a good snapshot of that approach: tightly controlled, full of small details, and completely locked in on atmosphere. The song comes in on a…
“Sentimental Magic Cape – Live” drops you straight into its pocket. The bass comes in first, springy and upbeat, with a clear funk streak that instantly gives the track motion and a bit of swagger. Once the electric guitar joins, the song tilts into a loose, American-leaning rock feel. There is a streak of punk…
FJELIZI is a Valencia based composer, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and sound designer who handles every stage of her work herself. Good luck is a dark pop single with a cinematic, electronic frame and a clear R&B influence in the groove. The track opens on a grainy, high pitched pad that immediately sets a tense, slightly…
The Infernal Legion Ensemble writes the kind of orchestral music that sounds like it already belongs to a franchise. You can hear the Two Steps From Hell and modern trailer DNA in there, but the project sticks to old-school orchestration: full strings, brass, choir, and live-feeling drums, built like something that started on paper before…
Mr Briggs has stepped away from bands and volume into something much smaller and more private. Working alone in his Devon studio, sharing space with his painter wife and two chaotic dogs, he’s chasing the kind of music that feels like it was recorded late at night for no-one in particular. The touchstones he mentions,…