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Night Wolf comes out of the cinematic side of electronic music, the kind that already lives half in trailers and title sequences. For Lost My Way Home he pulls Norfolk singer Lois Powell into that world, and her voice turns one of his darker instrumentals into something more direct and emotional, still moody but now…
The Iddy Biddies started out at Berklee chasing a pretty specific lane: hooky indie songs with a folk/Americana backbone and story-driven lyrics. On The World Inside, they lean into that idea. The songs feel like pages from the same notebook, all circling the way people act in public versus what’s going on in their heads….
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. The album pulls ideas from minimalist classical music, electroacoustic pieces, and modern opera, but it feels closer to a single long mood study:…
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. The record plays like a private notebook, a four-year return to sound after silence, written in short…
Artomático makes electronic music like a percussionist who got lost in a lab. The Spanish composer and drummer builds tracks from small repeating details, treating rhythm, texture, and sound design as the main characters. CICLOS, his fourth album, feels like a full statement of that approach, folding ambient, post-classical and beat music into something that…
Map of the Woulds treat “rock band” like a loose suggestion. The Seattle trio of Woody Frank, Andrew Woods, and Adrian Woods write songs that feel like they started as straight guitar music and then got pulled sideways by every strange idea in the room. Their releases move between psych, art-rock, and jangly indie, but…