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HJ Soul’s “Unbreakable” opens with piano that feels almost storybook at first, soft enough to suggest fantasy, but weighted enough to keep the song from floating away. The first seconds give the track a cinematic shape before the vocal even appears. Then a brass-like line comes in with a moody jazz-soul color, and the song…
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….
Lucian Lacewing’s “Land Of Enchantment” enters like a room already glowing in low light. The Bristol artist’s debut single does not need drums to create movement. It leans on atmosphere, voice, drone, trumpet, synth, and sitar, letting each sound blur at the edges until the track feels half-composed, half-summoned. The voices are central to that…
Jack Agdur’s Veiled States moves with the patience of someone comfortable leaving a question open. The EP is piano-led, quiet in its scale, and focused on emotional shades that never fully announce themselves. Agdur’s idea of feeling as a veil is a useful way into the record, because these pieces rarely push toward a clean…
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…
Pocket Lint is Mark Heffernan’s project, built around short songs as little exhibits. He’s using “Cyanometer” as a door into his next album, Wunderkammer, a cabinet-of-curiosities concept where each track is meant to feel like an object you stop in front of. Heffernan talks about Romantic-period poetry in the background of the larger idea, Shelley…
Mashal MN is a solo producer in Saitama, handling the writing, arrangement, and mix alone in Logic Pro. He talks about film-score scale and neo-classical influence in the same breath, pulling from names like Hans Zimmer, Ramin Djawadi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gustavo Santaolalla, and Erik Satie. The Solar Cycle Fragments 1 plays like a short set…
Eternal Mourning is a Montreal indie folk project that likes its songs dark and cinematic. “Working That Mine” is framed as a track about persistence and internal pressure, the grind part, not the glory part.It gets you in the mood from the first seconds. The intro feels like the opening shot of a southern film…
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.
SYLIANRUE is the solo project of Yuichi Nishikawa, a former industrial rock vocalist who shifted into composition after developing a vocal disorder. He’s written music for dozens of stage productions, including plays and contemporary dance, and has worked closely with director Kenta Fukasaku through the theater unit Fukasaku-gumi. He describes his music as a place…