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Karen Salicath Jamali’s newest offering, Wings of Gabriel, arrives November 21, 2025, as another luminous chapter in her angelic catalogue, with a dream-born, spiritually attuned piano album guided, as she describes it, by the presence of Archangel Gabriel. Composed entirely through visions received in sleep and recorded in the early…

Still Ruins’ Our Penance arrives as a shimmering slice of modern sophistipop that reaches back toward the elegance of Tears for Fears and Prefab Sprout while confidently sketching its own contemporary emotional terrain. The band leans into lush guitars, breathy aching vocals, and atmospheric synth textures, crafting a sound that…

Brisbane’s Massy, freshly 18 and fresh out of high school, arrives with a debut album that feels anything but beginner. Jet 5, his 14-track introduction to the wider rap world, builds on the SoundCloud buzz he’s been nurturing since 2023 and stamps him as one of the sharpest young voices…

LUISA’s new EP RISE arrives as a compact but richly layered three-track journey through geography, memory, protest, and rebirth. Released on December 5th, the project pulls together influences from Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine, as emotional landscapes shaped by history and personal experience. Each track is a place and a moment…

The Idiot Kids return with Instants, a blistering indie-punk document of urgency, anxiety, and self-reckoning shaped entirely by frontperson Jon-Mikal, who performs every instrument for the first time in the band’s history. With rehearsal time shrinking and life stretching everyone thin, the project naturally evolved into a solo-recording endeavor, while…

Amurrayz returns with “This Time of Year,” a reflective holiday release that steps far beyond the glitter and glow we usually associate with the season. Built around the emotional contradictions of Christmas and New Year, as joy braided with ache, celebration shadowed by memory, the song pulls together everything we…

Toronto duo June The Destroyer return with “Find Me In The Morning,” the fourth single leading into their debut album Hurry! arriving in early 2026, hits uncomfortably close to home in our screen-soaked era. Written in lockdown and reshaped in the world that came after, the song captures the daily…

Latchkey’s Where We Come From feels like someone dusted off the warm glow of 70s AM radio, stirred in country-soul harmonies, and ran it all through a punk-tinted filter until it snapped with attitude and tenderness at the same time. The Northern California five-piece — led by Jen Martell’s smoky…

Head Bitch Music returns with a louder, prouder, and far-more-sparkly sequel: Sleigh the Holidays, Volume II, released November 4th, 2025. Following the success of last year’s inaugural compilation, this edition doubles down on what made the first so special, with a lineup of women, non-binary, and queer artists who reshape…

With “Alicante”, SHASAU transforms a pixelated micro-film into a dreamy emotional voyage. Released via OMNINORM Records, the single continues the namesake EP’s theme of nostalgia and delicate surrealism, turning a retro-game aesthetic into a touching, emotional cinematic piece. The track opens in a haze as ambient textures slowly materialize while…