Single: Lancre – Brume
heir single is one of those songs where I was able to feel everything before understanding the meaning, and it held that way through the whole duration.
Anthony Perez
Single: Delilah Wood – take my hand
Wood’s vocals took me off guard in the best way possible; her vulnerability in her delivery makes it clear that this is personal to her from the heart, and you can truly hear her longing. “take my hand” creates a quiet suspense around you, the listener pulled into her longing, waiting alongside her while you hope she gets what she wants from that person and herself.
Single: Silver Firs x no phase – Vacation in Spain
Stemming from a track from decades ago, Silver Firs taps no phase singer Flurina Häberli to dish against the dominance of men in the scene.
Single: Nina Gi – 500 days of summer
Nina Gi’s new single “500 days of summer” is set to be released on August
Single: Irrevocable – Email
I thought it was undeniably Paramora adjacent in the DNA- that same razor-sharp alt pop propulsion- but Irrevocable have their own thing going that is simply theirs.
Single: Stella Stella – Pure air
“Pure air” is the kind of track where the production of the statement is as much part of the statement as the lyrics themselves.
Single: waltzerr – ciggy b
“ciggy b” is a song about longing for someone after a relationship ends, and what makes it so well is how specific she is with her lyricism.
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: 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: Absolutely Yours – Margaret
Collins voice is soft and deliberate, and the way she articulates her words sounds great on the brain.
Single: Count The Clock – Ballerina Song
. For a project that draws from shoegaze, baroque pop, and outsider music, there is a lot of interesting sonic territory to explore, and “Ballerina Song” hints at the potential without fully stepping into it.
EP: The Infinite Daisy Chains – Novi Sun | Rose Without a Thorn
The fact that this was made independently and in a bedroom context, it’s genuinely hard to fathom such creativity coming out of that environment.
Single: Evil Little Thing – Unusual
Evil Little Thing’s new single carries a whimsical energy, and is infectious; it hooks you once you hear it.
Single: Legit Smitty – Picture In My Wallet
“Picture In My Wallet” is a song about unchanging love alongside unchanging faults, the kind of honest self-awareness that is harder to pull off than it sounds.
Single: atmos bloom – It’s Enough
atmos bloom, the London-based duo of Tilda Gratton and Curtis Paterson, release “It’s Enough” on
Single: Twin Bloom – Summer’s Gone
Where the band shines the most is in how they handle their instruments collectively; there’s a patience to the arrangement and a genuine chemistry between the four of them that comes through on this track.
Single: SIKADE – greedy heart
This song truly showcases Vestre’s talent sonically and instrumentally, it’s rare we see an artist sing and do their own instrumentals, and with that im excited to see what she has out next.