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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…
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…
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…
A.D.A.M. Music Project build songs the way some studios build game worlds. The collective, led by Adam DeGraide with long-time collaborator Dameon Aranda, writes rock tracks around characters and settings pulled from classic and modern video games. Different singers step in depending on the story. On “They Are Here,” that role belongs to Lacy Saunders,…
Stevie Hawkins has spent decades inside American roots music — drumming for Albert King and John Lee Hooker, fronting his own bands, producing other people’s records, stacking awards. He’s one of those lifer musicians who can move between blues, soul, jazz, and country without sounding like he’s trying on costumes. So when he picks up…
James Laurent comes out of Milwaukee by way of Los Angeles, where he splits his time between building high-end sound for other people and chasing his own. He’s 25, already sitting on an RIAA Gold credit, and has engineered for major rappers and TV shows while designing Dolby Atmos rooms for studios. He’s done technical…
Christchurch-based composer and pianist Mark Sutton builds his music around tone, balance, and atmosphere. Odyssey opens with a soft piano figure that sets the scene in a quiet, open space. As strings rise around it, the sound widens and deepens. A low choir moves in slowly, adding weight and dimension without overpowering the piano. Sutton…
Lost Velvet are a UK duo made up of Robert Butcher and Melissa Morris. Their earlier singles, Endless and Wasted, earned BBC Introducing support and set a tone for what they do best: dark, slow-moving rock with a cinematic streak. Their new single, Make It Alright, opens in near silence — just a soft guitar…
Verticoli have been shaping Tasmania’s alt-rock scene for years. The trio built their name on direct songwriting and the kind of unpolished precision that comes from time on stage. They’ve toured across Australia, sharing bills with Cog, DZ Deathrays, Kingswood, and British India, and their live reputation feeds straight into how they record — loud,…