Single: ok jolson – sooner or later 
Single: Delilah Wood – of the pines 
Single: RED RED SUN – Paper Swan 
Single: ok jolson – sooner or later
sooner or later drips with a sly, playful swagger, and has melodic ideas you can really sink your teeth into.
Single: Delilah Wood – of the pines
To me, “of the pines” explores attachment and blame with a tenderness that never tips into self-pity. Lines like “you must treat me kinder than other men, the ones who followed me into the wood” are vivid and specific, pulled from somewhere personal.
Single: RED RED SUN – Paper Swan
“Paper Swan” is a pretty, hazy track that opens gently before building into something emotional. West’s voice is soft on the track, and the atmospheric guitars sit behind her vocals well and add character to it.
Single: Levi Taschuk – Closed I’s
The lyricism on “Closed I’s” is special. Taschuk has a way of asking questions that carries a weight that many articles struggle to do
Single: running empty x i talk about you all the time – we don’t belong
This song combines retro synths, cassette recordings, and buried vocals to manufacture a pitch-perfect slow core anthem.
Single: eli’s ladder – Summer 3000
Lyrically, “Summer 3000” explores the fleeting nature of childhood and the desire to hold onto the imagination that once made everything feel possible.
Single: Matthew Peach – Kurt H.
Short, sweet, and hook-laden from start to finish, “Kurt H.” is built for the replay button.
Single: muuk – starfish
“starfish” is a beautiful effervescent song with a real emotional depth underneath it.
Single: Club 8 – The Sweetness of Honey
Club 8 navigates a bittersweet feeling in their lyrics so well, the way it describes a push and pull between sweetness and a bitter aftertaste, closeness and distance capture that feeling of something good slowly fading out.
Single: Hera Lind – Finsbury Park
From the first word, there is a delicate tone and a fragile character to Hera’s voice that is so captivating.
Single: Martha Hill – Granite Feet
Fingerstyle guitar unspools with the delicacy of Sufjan Stevens, while Hill’s trademark vocal presence calls to mind Marry Me-era St. Vincent in its hushed intimacy.
Single: eilonwy – piggy
A certified nighttime drive banger. It pairs well with any tunnel’s blinding fluorescent beams.
Single: The Skints – Home
The vocal melody sinks its hooks into you and pulls you in. The vocals are excellent, the rhythm is phenomenal. There are absolutely no complaints with this song.
Single: Dagwood – Time Goes By
Dagwood thrills fans ahead of their upcoming album with stellar track ‘Time Goes By’.
Album: sam hirst – Defenseless, good
Made entirely by himself, the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalists 8th album is a fine mixture of musical ambition and impressive singular vision.
Album: The Summerlands – Bonfante Gardens Forever
In the new indie punk symphony, songwriter Grant Simmons ruminates on how to grapple with an increasingly inhospitable hometown and more unwelcoming world.
Single: Charlie Gearon – Need You More
Charlie delivers a low-key masterpiece; a love song shrouded in self-doubt, hesitation, and heartbreaking longing that takes us into a spiritualized other dimension.
EP: Eyes and Legs – Gravel
Eyes and Legs’ hits with the weight of a band twice its size, and for a sophomore EP, ‘Gravel’ feels incredibly mature.
Single: Absolutely Yours – Margaret
Collins voice is soft and deliberate, and the way she articulates her words sounds great on the brain.
Single: Doc Turbo – Criminal
Crisp horns and fun narrative storytelling with the vocals. This is a song about falling in love in a spin on the storytelling of The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” where the story tells of a series of dates and every night the protagonist feels a little more in love”.
