Reviews

Larry Karpenko steps into the holiday season with Celebrate the King, a richly layered Christmas album, reverent and joyfully alive. He merges jazz, gospel, pop, and cinematic storytelling and turns it into a cohesive celebration of faith, family, and wonder. Sparked by the realization that he’d never released a full…

UK-based project The Creaking Floorboards return with Falling Out Of Your World, a blues-rock album. Built from decades of observation, frustration, and reflection, the record carries the weight of long-held stories finally allowed to breathe. For Jeff, the lyricist at the heart of the project, this album brings a moment…

The Transits, the powerhouse New Zealand–South African trio, return swinging bigger, bolder, and more emotionally charged than anything in their catalogue so far, with Bleed Hope, a 15-track album. Released as their most ambitious statement yet, the record captures a band fully in their stride, balancing widescreen indie drama with…

Cavan’s alt-rock underground gets a serious jolt of electricity with Little White Hair, the debut album from Muddshovel, released on November 28, 2025. The record arrives as a full-throated introduction to a band that thrives on grit, volume, and lived-in storytelling. Built from snarling guitars, bruising rhythms, and lyrics that…

Emerging from more than a decade of underground work, Daedric Death steps fully into the shadows with Dark Templars, an EP that feels less like a debut and more like the unveiling of a long-buried grimoire. Rooted in the artist’s former Spanish black metal project Conjuro Nuclear, this release draws…

With Watching The World Go By, Jernej Zoran delivers a quietly confident milestone in an already prolific career. Released on November 28, 2025, the record is his seventh studio album and, notably, his first written entirely in English, marking a natural widening of perspective rather than a reinvention. Known across…

New York–born, London-based singer-songwriter Lola Consuelos steps into the spotlight with her debut EP Sorry, it’s all about me, a bold, self-aware, diaristic and sharply produced introduction. Having honed her craft at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute and built early momentum with hundreds of thousands of streams on her debut single,…

23 Fields step into a powerful lane with their new single “You’re Alright,” through empathy, restraint, and emotional clarity. Known for crafting genre-blurring songs that sit somewhere between alternative rock, indie, and cinematic folk, 23 Fields continue to refine a sound, as a gentle counterweight to an anxious world, built…

Virginia-based hard rock outfit KuF digs deep into the tension between collapse and survival as they return with “Quicksand Serenade,” sounding like a band very aware of what it wants to say and how loudly it wants to say it. Originally formed in the early 2000s and reborn years later…

Steam Lizard, the creative project of Fleetwood, Lancashire songwriter and producer Steve Bonham, continues his quietly confident comeback with “Sloth Mode On (aka Slothing It Song),” a playful and oddly timely single that leans into rest as rebellion. After years moving between solo success, club-focused projects, and a long pause…