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Block’s Love Crash does not treat a comeback like a clean victory lap. It sounds rowdy, bruised, funny in the wrong places, and too alive to sit quietly with its own damage. The New York anti-folk thread is still there, but it comes through in attitude first: a sad line can grin, a guitar can…
Victims of the New Math’s The Stories That You Weave opens with “The Run Up,” and the album starts like somebody shoving a blown-out amp into the room. A filtered distorted guitar fills the spectrum, heavy and fried, before the sample appears. It is a rough opening, but useful: it tells the record where the…
Dan Szyller’s “The Eyes of a Child” starts in soft light, guitar and atmospheric pads setting a brief calm before gritty distorted guitars take over. The switch is the point: the song does not ease into its heaviness, it drops the floor. Szyller, a singer-songwriter from Metz, is joined by Yanick Horner on guitar and…
karkinoma’s façades has the nervous energy of a record made after the polite version of life stopped working. Dimitri Turlotte made it alone in a home studio, writing, recording, producing, mixing, and mastering the album himself, and that solitude gives the music a strange pressure. Nothing here sounds social. Even the brighter songs seem to…
Lucija Grabovac’s Smile sounds close to the ground: guitars, vocal warmth, soft percussion, keys, and songs that move through love, healing, nature, and the quiet after a breakup. The Croatian singer-songwriter wrote the lyrics and music across the album, with Renato Babić handling arrangements and production, and that personal authorship matters. These songs do not…
Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard make “Travelin’ Heart” feel awake from the first bar. A pleasant guitar melody and acoustic percussion open the single with immediate impact, then the track pulls back just enough for Turner’s vocal to step in. That quick shift gives the song its shape early: motion, pause, return, release….
Lisa Lim’s “Out Of My Mind” wastes no time acting polite. It jumps in with rock’n’roll teeth already showing, guitars roughed up, drums stomping forward, the track moving with a greasy confidence that suits the title. There is no long fade into character, no careful setup, no attempt to dress the song in mystery. It…
Cries of Redemption, Ed Silva’s project from Bloomingdale, explores themes of modern isolation through a non-linear music approach. The album features tracks like “Impulse,” showcasing Italian vocalist Chiara A’s raw style alongside varied sonic shifts. With influences from hard rock to ambient sounds, it evokes a range of emotions and settings.
Soft as Hell is a Brighton project led by one person who wrote the track and played everything except the drums, which are handled by Jamie-Ray Scarratt. The stated reference points are Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, and western films, and the track leans into that mix through mood and movement. “I’d Rather Fly” opens with…
Lana Crow is a British singer-songwriter who was born in Kazakhstan and classically trained on piano from early childhood. She’s written about significant health challenges and a turbulent upbringing, plus a long break from music before getting back into writing after moving to the Spanish countryside. In Spirit is her third album, a seven-track set…