Loser Demon turn backyard chaos into a sharper statement on EP3
There’s something immediately appealing about a band that understands exactly where its rough edges belong. And on their new collection EP3, Riverside four-piece Loser Demon continue refining a sound that lives somewhere between wiry post-punk, fuzzed-up indie rock and the kind of early-2000s guitar music that once made nervous energy feelContinue Reading
Traquair finds romance in the wreckage on ‘Held the Pulse’
There’s something distinctly nocturnal about Held the Pulse. Throughout its runtime, Glasgow singer-songwriter Stewart Traquair seems drawn to the point where a city starts to empty out, conversations become looser, memories sharpen and optimism has to fight a little harder to survive. Across five tracks, Traquair moves between psychedelic colour, soul-inflectedContinue Reading
K Abby Jasper transforms modern pressure into a strange, spiritual escape on ‘Separate the Sage’
There’s something quietly subversive about the way K Abby Jasper approaches ‘Separate the Sage’. Instead of meeting stress, uncertainty and modern overload with outright anger, Joey Fasolino filters them through something more elusive that is part indie folk confession, part ambient experiment, and part private ritual. The title-track from hisContinue Reading
Witte find beauty in the cracks on ‘Glas und Steine’
There’s a quiet ache running through ‘Glas und Steine’. Here, Witte approach heartbreak as something slower and more difficult to name; capturing the gradual recognition that a relationship is changing while part of you still hopes it can be repaired. The northern German duo, formed by producer Marvin Burfeind andContinue Reading
Podge Lane lets the tide turn on the restless ‘The Coast’
There’s a hard-earned weariness running through ‘The Coast’. Podge Lane has spent much of the last year in motion, playing extensively across the United States before returning to Ireland, and his latest single sounds shaped by that same tension between leaving, returning and wondering whether either place still feels entirelyContinue Reading
motko turns ‘home’ into a quiet search for the self
There’s a patience to home that feels entirely deliberate. The nine-track album from motko, the solo project of musician Shorty, is a record focused on perspective. After years spent playing in bands including Millhouse, Symbiosis and IONS, he has stepped into a space that feels more private and self-directed, using the recordContinue Reading
Leo Sawikin looks beyond the familiar love song on ‘Burning Love’
It would have been easy for Leo Sawikin to write something straightforward with a title like ‘Burning Love’. A huge chorus. A declaration. Perhaps a little heartbreak around the edges. Instead, he gives us wolves. He gives us sparrows crying into the night, distant constellations, strangled flowers, vast oceans and figuresContinue Reading
Sim Simi reflects on online judgement with ‘Truckers and Trolls’
Sim Simi’s ‘Truckers and Trolls’ takes a relatively small real-world incident and uses it to examine a much larger feature of modern life: how quickly context can disappear once something reaches social media. The song was prompted by a TikTok clip showing a disagreement with a pallet delivery driver atContinue Reading
GOODTWIN lets an old idea bloom on the dreamy ‘Shortcuts’
There’s something fitting about a song called ‘Shortcuts’ taking years to find its final form. GOODTWIN’s new single began as a bedroom-written idea Augusta “Gus” Alexander once considered too slight to pursue. But instead of forcing it into shape, she left it alone. When the song eventually resurfaced, collaboration gaveContinue Reading
INTERVIEW: MirrorMouth
What if your dating app isn’t the only thing influencing who catches your eye? MirrorMouth is asking exactly that on new single ‘My Genes Are Shouting’, an upbeat alt-pop track that turns evolutionary biology, modern romance and human attraction into an unexpectedly catchy thought experiment. Behind the project is a Swiss songwriter withContinue Reading