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On their third album, Mountain, East Nashville quartet MIDTONES lean fully into the space between collapse and carry-on, with the everyday “midtones” where most of real life actually happens. With Daniel Brown’s raw, worn-in vocals up front and the band wrapping him in gentle piano, moody guitars, and atmospheric synths,…

Cosmic Madness kicks the door down. On Love in an Existential Crux, the Barcelona-based project turns nihilism, anxiety, and sensitive bonds into a fierce alternative rock statement for people with “too much noise” in their heads. Written in isolation like a one-person therapy session, the album keeps circling one nerve-wracking…

Dublin post-punk/synthpop outfit Gravité Fresq crank the neon paranoia all the way up on “Reality Is Premium,” a glossy 80s-flavoured anthem for the subscription age. Sitting somewhere between Pet Shop Boys’ icy poise and New Order’s driving melancholy, with a dash of LCD-style media anxiety, the track dives headfirst into…

Los Angeles’ masked storyteller, The Vigilante, keeps building his neon-noir universe, and “Get You Through” might be his most human chapter yet. On this synth-rock / new wave single, he zooms in on one simple, aching question, how do you actually reach someone you love when they’re drowning in their…

Chicago’s No Lonesome has always lived in that hazy borderland where country twang, folk warmth, and indie-rock shrug all share the same cigarette. With Am I What I’m Not? Probably Not. Wait! the DIY project of musician-producer Jeb Backe tightens the screws a bit, nudging that laid-back smugness into punchier,…

Kat Kikta drops a whole visitation. “Are You Worthy?” is a message beamed in from somewhere between a Victorian séance and a 1950s sci-fi landing site. Kat steps out of the metaphorical flying saucer, cloak of avant-pop and sound art around her shoulders, to ask the one question we spend…

Hamburg-based singer-songwriter Sabrina Nejmah might have been born in 2008, but on “I Can’t Love You” she’s already writing like someone who’s seen the internet at its ugliest and refuses to shrug it off. Following her 2025 debut “Deep End,” this new 2026 single tackles a very modern horror story…

Cleveland alt-indie outfit Empty Kodiak zoom back into orbit with “we’re gonna be ok,” a defiant slice of heart-on-sleeve stargazing from their year-long Flighty project. The song was born on a fraught Thanksgiving, out of a broken-down car, a newborn in arms, parents stranded an hour and a half away,…

Carla Patullo doubles down on a GRAMMY win. Fresh off back-to-back trophies, she closes her new album NOMADICA with the devastating “Fly Under,” a collaboration with Martha Wainwright that comes like a final exhale after a long, hard journey through grief. The record itself is built from the shock of…

Mechelen, Belgium-based artist Berang is back with his latest Does It Ever Get Better? An emotionally driven album that should just be right up your alley if you are into anything like The Weakerthans and Bob Dylan. Released on the 30th of January, the Belgian singer-songwriter, Bert Janssens, is already…