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Fish And Scale is the songwriting name of Roland Wälzlein, a German artist who leans hard into story and atmosphere. He’s open about where that comes from. As a child growing up in Franconia, he survived a serious heart operation, and that early brush with life-or-death questions sits behind his writing. He also points to…
Jex Ayla is a Swiss-based singer-songwriter linking with German producer Michel Jaensch on “Battlefront,” a self-released single built on dark electronic pop with cinematic weight. The vocal was recorded at Heaven Recording Studio in Massagno, with mixing and mastering handled by Roberto Colombo. Ayla frames the writing as a breakup aftermath piece split between two…
Lois Powell and Night Wolf return with “The Laws Of Life,” their fourth track together, sitting in dark pop and trip hop territory with a cinematic edge. It’s built on a simple idea, let the mood come in immediately, then tighten the screws as it goes. The opening is all plucked pizzicato strings, with backing…
David Goundry is a London singer-songwriter and guitarist leaning into 60s psychedelia on “Lucy (Remix 2026).” He’s backed by Joanna Griggs on vocals and worked with producer Nick Sykes, whose credits include Average White Band and Go West. Goundry also points to the Beatles, Small Faces, and ELO as reference points for where he’s pushing…
DJThriller is a Los Angeles artist working in hip-hop with MOZS on “Locked N Loaded.” The track comes with a long music video that plays like a short film, with an opening skit written by Darrell K. Horn and the visual produced by OnslaughtStudios LLC. The backstory is as homegrown as it gets: built during…
Apstara is the Los Angeles project of singer, songwriter, and composer Juliet Lyons. She’s worked professionally for years as a vocalist, and she also has a parallel career writing for film and television under her given name. This cover launches her Etherealized Series, a set of reworks built around voice layering and atmosphere. She also…
Michael Servus Mariae is a songwriter and author who also publishes daily gospel prayer journals. “Unity” starts from an online prayer text that he says hit him instantly, the kind of words that already carry their own melody. He spent months working the piece, revising it with professional feedback, aiming for hymn-writing that can actually…
William Kalmer is a Johannesburg artist who made “Graceland” as a real collaboration with Audrey Karrasch and producer Edward George King. Karrasch, a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who previously appeared on The Voice USA, shares the writing and carries the vocal. King, a South African film composer and founder of King Music, produces the track. “Graceland”…
Pat Piperni is a Montreal musician making solo piano music he writes, performs, records, and masters himself in a home studio. He points to a wide range of listening, and names Debussy and Chopin alongside modern piano composers like Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, and Joseph Nimoh. “Quiet Storm” comes from a specific headspace he describes as…
Adam Wedd is a London songwriter working in acoustic folk and country, writing in a direct, story-first mode. For this single he brought in Georgina Leach for the string arrangements and performance, with Marek Deml handling guitar and vocal engineering, Ken Abel mixing, and Tom Hall mastering. Wedd has name-checked Tom Waits, Ben Folds, and…