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Skip Overcrowded Clubs for a Dance Hall Nostalgia with The New Citizen Kane’s “CAUSING A COMMOTION”

If you’ve ever missed the times when music used to be fun, carefree, and simply present, The New Citizen Kane brings that spirit back with a nostalgic, dance hall-ready EP CAUSING A COMMOTION. Kane Luke, known as The New Citizen Kane, is a singer-songwriter, producer, and visual artist from England. His works not only reflect […]

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Circle the Dream Shows Nom de Plume Truly Comfortable With Restlessness Itself

There’s something inherently funny about an album trying to be both sprawling and intimate. Like, imagine someone handing you a shoebox filled with postcards and saying, “This is the Odyssey.” That’s Circle the Dream. It wants to be a folk record, a prog record, and a diary all at once, and instead of collapsing under

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Leazes’ “Melissa In Action” Is A Late Summer Drive With No Destination In Mind

It only needs jangly guitars, pounding drum hits, and stimulating vocals to spark an ignition of late teenage summer. And when it hits you, it’s impossible to ignore. Leazes overflows with that unfiltered energy in their latest single, “Melissa In Action”. Hailing from the UK, Leazes have been making waves in the alternative/indie scene since

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If Music Were Recorded For Authenticity Over Perfection, It Would Be A WOLF LIKE ME’s “Driving With Lilly”

If a song was recorded more for the feeling and authenticity than for perfection, it would’ve been A WOLF LIKE ME’s Driving With Lilly. You’ll get no spectacle, no unnecessary layers, only an embrace to imperfection that’s endlessly replayable. Aaron Reiter’s brainchild, A WOLF LIKE ME is back with the summer’s indie rock anthem Driving

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LARJIMAR’s Metro Subterráneo Understands That Melancholy Doesn’t Have to Be Suffocating

LARJIMAR’s Metro Subterráneo is the sort of album that sounds like it should have been just another half-baked SoundCloud experiment. It’s the kind of thing you click on, hear a half-finished beat and some vague crooning, and never return to again. Instead, it lands as a surprisingly coherent, strangely hypnotic project. It takes Afrobeat grooves,

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Michellar’s “September” is a Soft Farewell to Changing Seasons

Days growing shorter, flowers withering away, and the warmth of summer fading slowly. This is how Michellar sings a farewell from one season to another with a stand-out track “September”. Recorded in San Francisco with final touches in Staffordshire, Michellar collaborated with Helen Walford to deliver an emotionally rich track for the inevitable unfolding of

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Codemachia’s “Gladius Æternus” Is Not Just A Concept, It’s A Vision

Do you ever wonder what happens when a musician perfectly executes an idea into an art? Like it just leaves you in awe, wondering how it’s possible to turn a mere idea into something so vast, grand, and epic? Codemachia’s Gladius Æternus is the exact manifestation of that. Gladius Æternus is more than an album,

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Throughout a Different Kind, Social Gravy Pulls Off a Pretty Remarkable Trick

Look, it’s rare that music manages to feel both intensely personal and universally relatable, but A Different Kind from Social Gravy? That’s exactly what it does in spades. This isn’t just an EP; it’s a journey that zigzags between the personal and the grand, the emotional fireworks and the quiet introspection, and it does it

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