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Chris Ami is a UK-based electronic producer, and Temperament is his debut album. The record is built around single-word track titles pulled from emotional and psychological territory, and it leans on a hybrid palette, electronic production with piano and orchestral textures in the frame. “Hubris” sets the concept plainly by opening with a licensed Alan…
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…
Zachary Mason is a Guildford, UK artist who records at home and releases music at a steady clip. He’s built a big backlog of demos since getting a recording kit from a relative, and he’s already well into double digits on singles. For “Sweetheart,” he brought in drummer Nate Barnes of Rose Hill Drive and…
Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights plays like a soundtrack that refuses to act like wallpaper. It’s built around strings that grind, drones that sit under everything, and production choices that keep interrupting the easy satisfaction you expect from a pop writer this good. The hooks are still there. They do not arrive as relief. They arrive…
Cazzjezter makes quiet, interior pop from a very small space: a kitchen at 2 a.m., everything played, recorded, mixed, and mastered alone while muted Kyrie Irving highlights roll on a screen. His songs circle faith, mental health, and the weirdness of modern life, but they do it in a way that feels like private reflection…
Giardini Oort is a solo project out of Ravenna, built around one person doing everything himself: modular patches, guitars, bass, voice, production. Zero Point is the latest slice from that world, a track that leans into industrial feel and detailed electronic sound design. The song opens on a choral pad and a heavy low end,…
Ashot Danielyan is a pianist and improviser who treats the instrument like his home base, even while his catalogue moves through classical, ambient, new age and experimental corners. Awards from songwriting competitions and the Independent Music Awards are on the CV, but the strongest calling card is still how naturally he shapes a melody at…
Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää on a grey December day, thinking about couples who fell in love and then watched war rearrange…
Thickshake is a one-person pop project out of Rockhampton, a multi-instrumentalist who decided to stop waiting for the “right time” and just make the songs himself. He writes, records, mixes, and masters in a downstairs music room, pulling from YouTube-era indie pop like Blanks and turning very ordinary mornings – driving to work, wishing he…
A Violet In Youth are a Los Angeles band who treat songs like collages: guitar loops, stacked vocals, and pockets of space stitched together by guitarist-songwriter Daniella Lollie with bandmates Lisa Yan, Amanda Erwin, Kelly Kuhn and Garrett Zeile. Their records live in that crossing point between indie rock and weirder, more experimental sounds, where…