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In an era where many debut releases are designed to establish an instantly recognisable brand, Sakai have chosen a more challenging path. Do You Like Me Now? introduces the band not through stylistic certainty but through curiosity, emotional openness and a willingness to embrace contradiction. Across four carefully crafted tracks, the California based group demonstrate […]
There is something refreshing about an artist who understands that loving the history of rock music does not mean being trapped inside it. Atticus Roness’ Rock ‘N’ Roll Hit Parade takes its cues from the greats while maintaining enough personality to stand on its own. The result is a colorful, ambitious album that treats melody, […]
There is something refreshingly physical about Fate Envoy’s The Tower. For all the album’s mystical ideas and Tarot symbolism, this is fundamentally a guitar record, powered by urgent riffs, cathartic vocals and a rhythm section that keeps the songs moving forward even when their subject matter becomes increasingly introspective. Across nine tracks, the Hudson Valley […]
There is something inherently compelling about chasing something you are not entirely sure exists, and that uncertainty sits at the centre of Max Macready’s new single “The Hunt.” The UK duo transforms pursuit into a metaphor for modern connection, examining what happens when attraction, technology and imagination begin to overlap. The track is wrapped in […]
With February, Elizabeth Perran delivers a debut album that is as remarkable for its compositional ambition as it is for its songwriting. This is not a collection built around a single obvious sound or production formula. Instead, Perran draws from British folk, art rock, experimental music and orchestral songwriting, combining those influences into arrangements that […]
There is a refreshing lack of subtlety in Red Head Redemption’s Sunny With A Chance Of Fallout. The New Jersey five-piece has embraced the idea that when contemporary life becomes increasingly surreal, the appropriate response might be to turn up the guitars and laugh at the absurdity. Across four tracks, the band develops its “End […]
“The Intangible Man” finds Melody Briar operating at the intersection of intimate singer-songwriter confession and expansive alternative production. The new single is built around a deceptively simple emotional question: what happens to someone’s identity after death becomes memory? Briar explores the gradual movement from physical presence to recollection, examining how the people we lose can […]
“Love Me Not” is Atticus Kane at his most immediate, taking a deeply personal subject and giving it the speed, energy and melodic urgency of a modern indie-rock song. The Brooklyn-based songwriter, originally from Budapest, begins with an unlikely source of inspiration: repeated political robocalls from Florida. Yet what could have remained an amusing anecdote […]
With HOW TO GET YOUR LIFE RIGHT WITH WHAT’S LEFT, Australian outfit Scizzorman return from a post-pandemic hiatus with a seven-track album that embraces musical excess while maintaining an unexpectedly disciplined running time. At just over 30 minutes, the record moves rapidly through funk-rock, glam pop, psychedelia, stoner rock, swamp blues and ambient textures, creating […]
There is something almost confrontational about the question at the center of X&ND’s WHO’S DANCING? because it refuses to let the listener remain anonymous. “Who’s dancing?” is not simply a title. It is a challenge, an invitation and a demand for participation. For X&ND, funk and disco are not museum pieces to be admired from […]