Review

Okayden’s collaboration with Polybit takes the original “Sugar Water” track and completely flips it on its head. The original featured VRDA’s vocals from Sydney, which Okayden had already chopped up and twisted around in his Melbourne studio. Then Polybit got his hands on it and decided to mess with those vocals even more. The whole …

Reina Mora’s new “Cielo” EP is basically two songs about completely different types of love, and honestly, both hit hard. This Puerto Rican artist living in LA just gets it when it comes to messy emotions. “Adicción” is straight-up about lust and all the bad decisions that come with it. Reina sings like she’s been …

LED’s sophomore single “Goodbye Eric” hits hard right from the start. This LA trio knows how to write a hook, and they’re not shy about it. Layne Olivia, Lockett Pence, and Edie Yvonne have been grinding since they met at film camp, and you can hear that chemistry throughout the entire track. The guitars are …

Julianna Joy’s debut album sounds like the friend who shows up to your boring dinner party and convinces everyone to go dancing instead. Her alternative pop approach skips the usual predictable moves and goes straight for the unexpected turns that keep you paying attention. The three singles that have been floating around LA – “Goldstar”, …

Ava Valianti just dropped “Buttercups” and honestly, this 15-year-old gets it. The song starts quiet with just piano and guitar, then builds into this satisfying rock moment that doesn’t feel forced or overdone. Her voice carries real weight here. When she sings about those specific memories – the cinnamon smell, creaky doors – you believe …

Julia DeSimone writes about love the way most people talk about it – without the fancy packaging. Her latest single as Monster Planet tackles that moment when the right person shows up and everything else becomes background noise. The Kansas City musician has released great singles before this, and “Evergreen” continues her knack for turning …

DrewJam builds “Holding Fast” like he’s assembling a puzzle. Piano notes drift in first, almost hesitant, then other instruments join the conversation. By the time Ross Gardner’s drums arrive, you realize you’ve been pulled into something bigger without noticing. The Baldock musician sings with a voice that sounds lived-in, not polished for radio. His words …

Cali Tucker’s new single “Last Name” goes in a completely different direction than you’d expect. Most artists from famous families would milk that connection, but Cali does the opposite. She’s talking about what happens when you don’t have anyone to fall back on. The song gets real about feeling isolated when you’re trying to make …

Max Chaos crawls out of Canada’s frozen wasteland with a debut single that’ll rearrange your face. Released on Friday the 13th because why not lean into the chaos, this track captures all the rage you’ve been bottling up about life’s daily nonsense. Max’s voice is the real deal here – he can growl like a …

The Celtic folk duo’s second single hits you with immediate warmth. Jocelyn’s fiddle and Ellen’s cello create this conversation that feels like eavesdropping on old friends catching up. The track comes from their new album of the same name, and it shows how much they’ve grown since their debut. Jocelyn wrote the lyrics about finding …

Silver Lake’s latest single feels like that exact moment when you realize winter is actually over. Marleen Hoebe sings with the kind of voice that makes you stop scrolling and pay attention, while Jesse Koch builds these arrangements that somehow sound both cozy and wide open. The song came from their experience at Best Kept …

Brothers Oisín and Cian Walsh are making a proper racket in their Trim studio, and honestly, we’re here for it. This four-track EP bounces between hardcore brutality and unexpected sweetness like a sugar-rushed kid in a candy store. The title track comes out swinging hard – think getting tackled by a very enthusiastic golden retriever. …

GatiS just dropped a single that actually worth hearing and you must add it to your daily playlist. The Latvian artist recorded this track at his home studio in Sigulda, and you can tell he’s not trying to impress anyone with fancy production tricks. The message is pretty straightforward: be yourself, help people who need …

French sound artist Bastien Pons has made his debut album, and it’s weird in all the right ways. “BLINDED” runs seven tracks across 49 minutes of industrial ambience that sounds like someone left a microphone running in a haunted factory. Pons studied musique concrète under Bernard Fort, and you can hear that training in how …

Izabela Kałdońska’s fourth album started as music for a theater piece that never got finished. When the pandemic killed the original project halfway through, she took those violin recordings and turned them into something entirely different – a solo album that actually works. The whole thing runs on a pretty simple setup: violin, some basic …

Blunt Blade’s second album shows a guy who clearly doesn’t give a damn about staying in one lane. “Forgiveness” throws together electronic beats, rock riffs, and classical bits in ways that probably shouldn’t work but somehow do. The Abbey Road connection isn’t just name-dropping – Gordon Davidson’s mixing and Alex Wharton’s mastering actually matter here. …

Larry Karpenko flips the script on “Believe the Promise” by starting with the chorus instead of building up to it. It’s an unusual move that works because it gets straight to the heart of the song without any fluff. The track was written for the International Pathfinder Camporee, a massive gathering of Seventh-day Adventist youth …

Exzenya’s “Drunk Texting” starts with her son face-planting through a Miami hotel door after a wild night, and somehow becomes the most relatable song you’ll hear all year. Recording in a homemade booth built from PVC pipes and blankets, she turns this family drama into something that feels both hilarious and heartbreaking. Her voice switches …