Sara Leanne's 'Song From Your Daughter' is a quietly devastating piano ballad, built from grief and delivered with remarkable restraint Written after the loss of her father, the track sits in a space between blues, soul and classic singer-songwriter tradition - warm and jazz-tinged, without ever settling neatly into a single genre. The song was born out of necessity as much as craft. Sara has described the writing process as a form of therapy, a way of working through the hel

Arturia MiniFreak. Arturia DrumBrute. Korg Volca Keys. Korg Volca FM. That is the new line-up in Alimba's studio, and it goes a long way towards explaining the year he has had. I keep returning to one detail in Alimba's story. His first EP, 'Beyond Milky Way', released in 2010 through Divaani Records, featured two original Experimental Techno tracks and two remixes of them. Sixteen years later, he is releasing a techno single called 'Refracted Echoes'. It is interesting to se

A lone piano note hangs in the air before the rest of the arrangement arrives, and it belongs entirely to Grégory Privat. Every layer beneath it, every texture around it, is his too. 'Darling', the title track from the Martinique-born pianist's third solo album, is a record built by one pair of hands, and this premiere marks its wider introduction to listeners beyond his native jazz circles. "I'm playing this piece alone, but I wanted it to sound as if there were many musicia

Love songs about the early rush are everywhere. Songs about staying are harder to find. Karabo's 'Only 4 U' belongs to the second group. He describes it as a song about loyalty and about the commitment he and his partner have established over time. There is no performance of mystery in it. The idea is to give someone all of you and let them see it. Built on electronic production featuring digital drums, keys, strings and bass, 'Only 4 U' sits within a New Age TrapSoul R&B moo

I keep coming back to how little Daniela seems to need anyone's permission... Looking across her run, from 'Bésame' (the one that got her compared to Karol G, Camila Cabello and Kali Uchis) to 'One Voice' and 'Dance Alone', the same instinct holds everything together: choose yourself, go after what you want, and make it catchy enough that people sing it back. '3RD EYE' is the latest proof that this isn't a phase. INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY "3RD EYE" is sexy, sassy pop with

A Review of Blue Capricorn & LOREN KOLE’s Latest Collaboration - 'honest' #BlueCapricorn #LatinExperimental #IndiePop

Let's talk about what it actually costs to choose yourself… Not in the motivational-poster sense, not in the way that self-help language has smoothed the edges off something genuinely difficult, but in the specific, material, years-of-your-life sense. Ari Lee spent ten years neglecting her passions. She has said so plainly, without softening the number or qualifying what she means by it. Every distraction felt like a test. Every vice was a question she kept failing to answer

Goldie Luxe - ‘Touch the Sky’ #GoldieLuxe #TransPop #PopTheater

Pull up anyone's social media profile and you can watch a relationship being performed for an audience that does not know it is watching a performance… The holidays with the perfect captions. The anniversary celebrations. The carefully composed images of two people who look, from outside, like they have figured something out that everyone else is still working on. What you cannot see, because it cannot be documented and shared and optimised for engagement, is the gap between

#Sahej #AltIndie #EmotionalPop

Error 404. User not found. The digital vocabulary of a broken link has become, in the hands of producer and composer Manzur Iqbal, something considerably more haunting than any technical failure. The title of Futurecop!'s newest single points toward an experience that the internet age has given us a new language for while making the underlying feeling considerably older and considerably more universal: the strange grief of reaching for something that used to be there and find

A Review of Eon ReZ’s Beginning – 'Strings of Connection' #EonReZ #SoulBlues #PhilosophicalRock