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Kyoto-born, Oslo-based experimental electronic artist SIENNÁ returns with EMA, a nine-track journey where sound becomes a way of sketching the unseen. Drawing inspiration from solitary walks through Kyoto’s Kibune valley and Ischia island, the album explores interconnectedness, spirituality and the natural world through an adventurous East-meets-West palette. The album opens…

On “Christ Shaken,” the UK-based Christian pop artist, Michael Jei, turns his born-again testimony into a lively burst of groove, funk and contemporary pop, creating an invitation to move. The track immediately gets its energy from catchy funky horns, thumping beats and sparkling percussion, while the bass-led groove gives everything…

There is something inherently cinematic about standing on a train platform and watching the tracks disappear into the distance, not knowing when the next arrival will come. FOR YOU BROTHER turns that feeling of uncertainty into a faith-driven rock song with “Waiting on The Train,” bringing together the musical backgrounds…

At just 16, Moscow singer-songwriter Vladimir Buyakov is already turning everyday pressure into bright, groove-heavy pop. Всё получилось (“It All Worked Out”), his fourth original single, swaps the usual autumn gloom for disco sparkle and pop-funk swagger, built around the deceptively simple idea of letting go when life refuses to…

Jinishi turns personal adversity into something quietly searching on “Broken People, Break People,” an introspective single about the ways unresolved hurt can travel from one relationship into another. Drawing from an interest in sociology and psychology, the Chicago artist approaches emotional damage as a simple tragedy and more as something…

Maxwell Knowles turns personal transformation into a cinematic indie-pop odyssey on A Hero’s Journey, a 12-track sophomore album that maps a year of self-exploration onto Joseph Campbell’s famed monomyth. Following his Earmilk-praised debut Daydreaming In the Dark, Knowles returns with a record concerned with pain, uncertainty, self-discovery and, ultimately, the…

Meas & Riddie are stepping into the scene with the youthful energy that refuses to stand still. The two brothers are carving out their own approach to electronic music, mixing the familiar punch of old-school 909 sounds with newer synth textures to create something rooted in club culture and ready…

Lyons Lane arrives on You’ll Talk About It! sounding like a band that has one foot planted in the smoky bars of another era and the other kicking down the door of modern alternative rock. The Detroit five-piece pulls rockabilly, doo-wop and mid-century Americana into a rougher contemporary frame, creating…

Ektā, meaning “oneness” in Sanskrit, arrives as more than a New Age and Ambient album—it is a meditation on connection. Created by Cafe De Anatolia alongside Antaeus, Madame Gandhi, Amani Sol, and an international ensemble of musicians, the album brings together traditions from the Balkans, Mediterranean, Middle East, India, and…

Agneu belongs firmly in the latter camp, a lifelong musician and photographer, approaches songwriting much like he approaches a photograph, observing, circling a subject, adjusting the focus and waiting until the details reveal a story. Air and Twigs, his album of eight songs drawn from lived experience, is the result…