Reviews

One of the most shocking of the joint struggles by Mogal and Teck-Zilla, Away With Words, finds the Cornwall-based rapper just as assured and technically assured as possible in his solo song, Click Clack. This song is ticking with energy that is electric and it picks your attention in the...

Challenge is a rarest energy when the artist prefers to extract fuel out of a struggle, and this is what Big Zaddy Hev embodies in the track to create a perfect capture of that fuel on the song Wurrd (Can I Get A). It is not simply a song, it...

The Quiet North has something about its song, Carry The Quiet, which feels so reassuring that I did not anticipate at the time I hit the play button. Fredrik Kristiansen has made it look as though he took a hand, in the middle of the commotion–this is what we have...

Liquid Reality by Anupam Shobhakar is as revelational as it is classical and dystopian–a sound experience that is both archaic and cybernetic. The revelation that he had made to the interpretation of Indian classic music with fretless guitar, I was at once tempted to know how he would expand upon...

A certain magic is present when an artist manages to capture the fleeting sense of movement, and that is precisely what Michellar does with September. Here, the San Francisco-based artist has created something truly beautiful–a folk meditation that is timeless and incredibly intimate at the same time. The DNA of...

I was absolutely surprised with Butterfly Heart by The Music Of Sound in the most good way possible. I wasn’t anticipating much when I first pressed play but within a few seconds I was already glued to those gorgeous shimmering synths that in an instant transported me back to the...

Knock Knock by K Frxsty is pounding you like a freight train during the first few seconds, and frankly speaking, that is what you want in underground hip-hop. This is not music to listen to when you are in weak health because it is raw, pure street energy that makes...

Brand New Day by The Muster Point Project is a song that takes a bit of time to settle on your skin. But when it does, the truth is that it embeds like few songs can. In an age where music is churned out for clickbait reactions, the organic feel...

There is a certain irresistible power in music that turns a mundane train ride into the epic tale of redemption and Tom Minor captures that power in his “Next Stop Brixton” with the energy and emotional depth that are altogether surprising. This songwriter/singer has created an upbeat indie rock song...

CAUSING A COMMOTION by The New Citizen Kane is one of those releases that creep upon you. What at first seems to be yet another electronic collection soon turns out to be something much more than that- an emotional rollercoaster that is somehow introspective and at the same time impossible...

Los Angeles duo Social Gravy are something special indeed, and the EP A Different Kind proves that, and shows why Brad Kohn and Vee Bordukov have deserved their reputation as romantic rockin-rollers with content. The four songs of this release portray their capability to walk the line between commercial and...

Not To Be Taken is an uncomfortable trip through some of the darker recesses of the human mind, as well as being as confrontational as you might expect of someone who cites Dolly Parton and Slipknot as influences. This Barry-based artist has come up with something truly disturbing in the...

Melbourne trio Remit has produced something truly unnerving with their debut album Questions Unanswered and I mean that in the best way possible. This is not music that tries to soothe, it is art that wants you to face the uneasy truths of our divided world. The album was Written...

There is a certain captivating quality to an artist who comes out of the gate with a fully-formed debut album and Amara-Fe does just that with her album Reborn. This is not a tentative start of a novice, this is the surefooted step of someone who knows her voice and...

Consequential has produced something truly special with Cravin’- a track that manages to embrace everything that is great about liquid drum and bass whilst exploring beyond the boundaries with the influences of trance and dub. Originally from Bury St. Edmunds, this gifted musician has produced a slice of electronic music...

The new single, Circles, is a strong exploration of the turbulent waters of the unhealthy relationship that demonstrates the further development of the UK artist. With the foundations of his midlands background and several years of genre exploration, Solum has created something truly powerful here, a track that is at...

There is an infectious element to music that does not take itself too seriously but still manages to provide a sincere entertainment value and zukrassverliebt has nailed that with Way Too Hot. This father-son German duo has made a pop song that is easy to dance to that also uses...

There is something heartbreakingly beautiful about music that accepts the impermanence of life and does not dwell upon it and Shelita has done that with her song Fade. This Seattle-based artist has created a reflection on momentary relationships that is both intimate and truly universal. The performance of the vocals...

There is something very touching about an artist reinterpreting their own work with decades of time under their belt, and Ferdinand Rennie has captured that in his version of Someone to Remember Me. It is not just a remaster or slight update but a reimagination of a song that obviously...

There are those times when you find a song that just takes you to another world in the first few notes of the song, and this is certainly the case with this song, the first notes of the vibrating analog synthesizer take you to another world. This London based project...