This week leans into atmosphere and restraint, with alt-pop cuts that favour space, tone and slow-building emotion. There is a reflective edge throughout, with artists letting mood and texture lead. Daniel de Boer – The Way Daniel de Boer delivers a wonderfully restrained, atmospheric alt-pop track that lets…
A brilliant week for indie rock. A Welsh post-punk band with members on three continents, a Stockholm songwriter navigating urban paranoia, a Colorado basement auteur on his sixth album, and a New York anti-folk legend back with something very moving indeed. What a combo. Blindness & Light -…
Two tracks this week that both know exactly what they are for, making you feel good and making you move. One from a London vocalist teaming up with a Dutch producer, one from a Philadelphia attorney who moonlights as a prolific EDM producer ☀️ Jules Davidson – Find…
We’ve got beautifully crafted folk tracks today. A London multi-instrumentalist who made percussion from household objects, a Florida songwriter finding parallels between human migration and ducks, and a Sydney artist making self-deprecating folk-pop about never getting anything right. James Garland – It’s love James Garland’s ‘It’s love’ is…
Three very different corners of hip-hop and R&B. A theatrical Manchester artist building a track around EMDR therapy and lucid dreaming, a Lafayette musician who caught a 7am flight without sleeping, and a Long Beach artist turning adversity into a self-affirmation anthem. Three absolute bops 🕺 JESUS THE…
Five synth pop tracks this week from every corner of the genre. From a Sydney-LA electropop artist on situationships to cinematic 80s synths and a 16-year-old Romanian bedroom producer. Let’s go! Jeffrey Chan – Rebound Boy Jeffrey Chan’s Rebound Boy is a stunning, sleek electropop cut about being…
One standout track this week from Cruel Ploy’s album EVOL. This is a stunner and You’re Offended By Your Shadow is the best way in. ✨ Cruel Ploy – You’re Offended By Your Shadow Cruel Ploy channel glitching distortion and live-wire guitars into one of the sharpest moments…
Two deep house tracks this week at opposite ends of the day. A Dutch chillout producer drifting toward a sunset, and a Romanian veteran linking with vocalist SBSTN for a late-night groove that straddles underground and mainstream. ✨ Psyborg – Daydreaming Psyborg drifts you away from reality with…
Three different angles on pop this week – orchestral depth from a Dundee composer, upbeat bedroom pop from Denmark, and a proper love letter to the dancefloor from a Hastings DJ. Brilliant stuff. ✨ Marley Davidson – Fragile Marley Davidson delivers wonderfully atmospheric cinematic pop with a story…