Single: Albert Hertz – DWY
“DWY” treats the end of the world like a love song,with loud drums, hopeful guitars, and a vocal delay that makes it feel like it’s echoing out from the middle of the collapse itself.
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Single: Very Many Horses – Amelia/Emelio
A cute little song about a pet snake with no known gender turns into something surprisingly intimate with warm guitars and close, breathy vocals carrying way more feeling than the subject suggests.
Single: Cindr – Faded
“Faded” floats somewhere between sleep and memory, chasing something it already knows it can’t reach.
Single: Faker – Nightmare’s Coming Back
“Nightmare’s Coming Back” opens up quietly and turns into a chaotic ride that announces Faker still has plenty left to say.
Single: Asha Wells – Gift Horse
“Gift Horse” refuses to sit still, drifting through slow, jazzy psychedelia before snapping into fast drums, then drifting right back again, and somehow it all feels like one seamless thought.
Single: Chasing Dreams – Back Home
“Back Home” starts with fast drums and gritty guitars, bringing plenty of energy from the start. Underneath it all, there’s a sense of home and longing that gives the song its emotional pull.
Single: Randle Browning – Love You/Hate This
Raw, unpolished vocals and a simple acoustic guitar carry “Love You/Hate This” a song about loving someone while feeling like you can’t fully be yourself around them.
Single: ELROD – Howl
ELROD’s “Howl” grabs you fast with gritty guitars playing lush chords that connect right away, paired with clever little arpeggios that give the song extra texture. The vocals are the real standout here, clear, crisp, and almost raw sounding, like you’re hearing them live. They’re bold and full of personality, driving the song up and down, getting louder and more powerful in intense moments, then pulling back to something softer and more intimate right after.
Lyrically, the song feels like someone that’s caught between fear and honesty, falling down, begging to stay, and realizing they’re chasing something that was never meant for them, like howling at a moon that isn’t theirs. That mix of hope and hurt matches the way the vocals move through the song.
The drums stay slow and steady, keeping the whole track grounded while everything else builds around it. The song also moves through different sections, giving the song its own sense of flow and movement instead of being rigid.
The best part is the guitar solo near the end. Everything gets more intense right there, and the background vocals join in, wrapped in reverb and other effects, giving that moment a huge, almost otherworldly feeling. The engineering of the vocals and instrumentals throughout the mix is excellent, with delay and reverb used in all the right spots.
“Howl” is a bold, emotional and unique song that keeps building until it gets to it’s peak.
Single: muti – blood
Heavy distorted guitars and tight, catchy drums drive “Blood,” while soft, dreamlike vocals float above the noise, creating a sound that feels both beautiful and unsettling.
Single: Western Jaguar – Love Your Country
Hypnotic guitars and gritty vocals drive “Love Your Country” from start to finish, a nostalgic sounding indie pop song hiding a darker message underneath.
Single: Bending Backwards – Bend You Out of Shape
A restless, high energy song that sounds like a summer memory moving too fast to hold onto.
Single: Jordan Hunter Hyland – See You Around
Recorded alone at home with nothing but soft guitars and a voice that sounds like it’s right there in the room with you, “See You Around” trades perfection for something more intimate and raw.
Single: Axel Holmström – In time
Fast paced drums and hypnotic, delay soaked vocals makes “In Time” feel like it’s floating outside of time itself, simple in structure but hard to shake off.
Single: Old Friends – Backburner
Simple guitars and raw, breathy vocals carry “Backburner” from quiet frustration to an emotional peak, showing that music doesn’t need to be complicated to hit hard.
Single: Makeout Point – $50
A two minute blast of distorted guitars and punky drums that grabs you from the first radio static crackle and doesn’t let go.
Single: SLEEP CLUB – Weight of Ease
Grimy guitars and breathy voice really shouldn’t work this well together but that pull between grit and quiet ends up being the best part of “Weight of Ease.”
Single: George Dillon – Beautiful
It opens with just a few seconds of percussion, like it’s clearing its throat, and then it settles into this warm, dreamy little world and doesn’t let go.
Single: Murphy’s Medicine – Feathers
“Feathers” captures falling in love early on, when everything still feels new and a little unreal; that feeling comes through clearly in the bright and dreamy sound.
Single: Lana Leone – Starshine
Lana Leone’s new song “Starshine” doesn’t try to hide its edges, and that’s what makes it
Single: secret sibling – abducted (by aliens)
Strange chords and spacey sounds wrap around a voice that feels like it’s right next to you. A weird and beautiful little trip of a song.