Back in February, Matt DeAngelis’ “In This World” looked outward, widening the frame from the individual to the shared experience of simply being human. It was a song about compassion, unity, and finding a steadier moral compass amid the noise of everyday life. “Playing God” picks up that same conversation but turns the mirror in a different direction, as the new track asks what happens when we become too convinced that we can control everything around us. It gives an intrigu

Some artists spend their careers trying to outrun the past. Steve Montgomery seems perfectly happy to take the past, plug it into an amplifier, and turn it up. With "Living The Dream Right Now", he makes a compelling case for the enduring power of guitar music, connecting the unfussy spirit of classic rock with the hooks of power pop and the rougher edges of indie rock. It is a record that feels refreshingly unconcerned with whatever happens to be fashionable, because Montgom

There’s a particular pleasure in hearing an artist revisit an older song and discover that the version living in their head was actually louder, stranger, sharper, and more fun than the first recording. That is exactly what happens with the album version of “Sing-Along Songs”, the 2026 reimagining of Arne Floryd’s 2024 indie-pop oddity. It doesn’t feel like a cosmetic rerecording or a desperate attempt to make an old track relevant again. Instead, Floryd and co-producer David

After guiding us through the beautifully tangled emotions of adolescence in "Clumsy Girl" last time, Kelsie Kimberlin returns with a striking shift in perspective. The uncertainty is still there, but it no longer takes centre stage. Where her previous single searched for confidence beneath insecurity, "Everything's Better" wears confidence unapologetically, turning self-belief into its loudest hook. Yet the artistic thread connecting the two songs remains unmistakable. Kimber

About a year ago, when we last reviewed, Harry Kappen turned his gaze outward with "Break These Chains," a song that challenged complacency with urgent guitars and fearless conviction. It was protest rock with its sleeves rolled up, confronting fractured societies head-on and asking listeners not merely to observe the world, but to question it. Now, with "Distant Shore," he takes another remarkable step in that artistic evolution. The anger softens into empathy, the protest b

The tracks from the album "9 DREAMS" by the California-based artist Johnny Reed invite us all to wander through dreamscapes where memory, intuition, and imagination blur into one another. His songwriting often felt less concerned with arriving at answers than with exploring the questions themselves. With "Floating Within," our favorite off the album, that journey seems to reach a fascinating new crossroads. Instead of looking outward toward the shifting horizon between dreams

Last month, Kelsie Kimberlin’s “Champ” felt like a clenched fist wrapped in melody, a song that stood shoulder to shoulder with resilience and refused to blink in the face of chaos. Now with “Lady Liberty”, Kimberlin takes that same thread and pulls it somewhere even more delicate. Instead of writing about survival in the middle of the storm, she turns toward the symbol that once promised shelter from it. And as this new single begins to transpire, it becomes clear she is no

Last month, Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends gave us “Vagnar av guld,” a song that felt like a golden thread stitched through memory, carrying childhood, legacy, and quiet wisdom in its original Swedish form. It was intimate in a way that did not need translation, because the emotion itself was already speaking fluently. Now Arne Floryd returns to that same song from a different doorway, and instead of simply rewriting it in English, he reveals another side of

Back in June 2023, when we last wrote about her music, Izira Burley didn’t just arrive, she lingered. With “I Only Have the World,” she carved out a space defined by hushed intensity and haunting vocal precision, the kind of debut that didn’t need to shout to be heard. It felt intimate, immediate, and quietly assured, like an artist already fluent in the language of emotional restraint. Now, with “In The Dark,” Burley doesn’t abandon that world, she deepens it. There’s a p

When we last stepped into the imaginative world of Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends in July last year, the journey unfolded through the sprawling, candlelit atmosphere of the album “17 Birds at the Summer’s Gate.” It felt like wandering through Arne Floryd ’s inner cosmos, where folk-rock shimmered, psych-tinged melodies drifted like lanterns in the dark, and introspection replaced the playful neon wink of his earlier work. That double-album landscape suggest

When we last heard from Zachary Mason , he was funking through the cosmos with “The Funky Martians” , a tongue-in-cheek burst of sci-fi...

I’m really excited to listen to The Fades ' latest release, “This Scene is Over” . The post-punk/garage indie band from London, UK,...

Exactly one year ago, we found ourselves drawn into Love Ghost ’s world with “2Young4U” , which is a bilingual collaboration that...

Alex Wellkers , the German-Swiss musician, with his latest album “ Reach the Stars ” , doesn’t just aim high, but he constructs a...

Back in May, we called Zachary Mason an “emotional shapeshifter” , a songwriter who could drift through chaos like mist in "Madness...

When we last checked in with Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends back in May, “Sing-Along Songs” had us hooked with its...

Sometimes the songs that hit hardest don’t arrive with fireworks, they slip in quietly, strike a chord, and linger long after the last...

La Need Machine returns with " Pourquoi? C’est L’Amour!" , a genre-blurring, heart-bursting collection that reads like a love letter to...

Back in 2022, we first tuned into the cosmic transmissions of Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends with “Cities Above”, a...

After urging us to pause and reflect with last year’s “Where the volcano is awake”, Harry Kappen returns, not quieter, but bolder,...