Kyoto-born, Oslo-based artist Sienná returns with her seventh full album, EMA, out September 23rd via Anneis Records, her first new Norwegian release since 2023's Wa-Kei-Sei-Jyaku. True to the "East-meets-West," no-rules approach she's...
"Made Love", out September 11th, closes out the debut EP from Never Enough In Love, the Worthing-based project of songwriter and producer Neil Durrant. It's a song about the depth and complexity...
Carmelo Alfano's path to "Is This You?," out September 1st, has taken some genuinely unusual turns. The London-based, Sicilian-rooted artist spent two years studying voice in Modena with the teacher of Luciano...
Childhood can feel like a place we leave without realizing we are leaving it. The imagination remains, but the certainty that anything is possible slowly gives way to practicality, expectation, and time....
For Sergiy Bolotny, folklore becomes more than musical material; it becomes a way of connecting places, histories and identities. A Ukrainian-born violinist making his home in the Netherlands, Bolotny turns toward Dutch...
French chanson has always had a particular talent for making ordinary life feel cinematic. A street corner can become a memory; a passing encounter can become a lifetime. FRANCK’s “La Rengaine” draws...
PARADOXICAL CONFESSIONS
Exzenya’s “Till I’m Drunk & Confused” unfolds like a late-night admission wrapped in sunlight; a song that smiles even as it stings. Built on ukulele, acoustic guitar, and an easy rhythmic...
There’s a rare kind of songwriter who can take a simple moment—say, a lonely night drive on an icy highway—and turn it into something cinematic, spiritual, and achingly human. Tim Tye of...
There’s a moment in every life when the words we’ve held tight for years finally rise to the surface. Sometimes, they appear unexpectedly—quiet, trembling, insistent. And in Ken Holt’s case, they emerged...
Holiday songs in country music succeed when they balance familiarity with authenticity, and Robert Ross’s “Rockin’ Christmas” does exactly that. Rather than leaning on novelty or overproduction, Ross delivers a Christmas single...
FRAMES OF WHAT WE KEEP BECOMING
Eternal Tone’s Kodaks unfolds like a slow, steady brightening; a track that doesn’t demand attention so much as it gathers it, frame by frame, until its message...
THIS CHRISTMAS, WE HAVE A POLAR BEAR!
Ed Boxall’s new single drifts in like a gentle snowfall: soft at first, then suddenly luminous, as though a quiet corner of Hastings has slipped into...
THIS BEAT IS JUST REFUSING TO BEHAVE, AND WE’RE ABSOLUTELY GLAD IT ISN’T!
Merrymaking, the latest single from Brussels’ electro-punk duo Fierbinteanu, arrives like a flash of playful chaos. At just three minutes,...
NOT WHAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY EXPECT FROM POETRY!
Peter Haeder’s A Dream Within A Dream feels less like a single and more like a room you step into—a dim, humming chamber where Poe’s...
